A Place For Deep Healing
Hello Dear Readers!
I am offering a class now called “Yoga for Deep Healing”. We do a lot of imagery, along with some very gentle yoga and a long deep relaxation. The imagery we do takes place in the physical space of the room where I teach …but deeper than that, the students go into a place inside, an inner place of healing, unique and personalized exactly for them and what they need. I do what I can to prepare the outer physical space of the room… it is clean, I fill it with my prayers, I lay out a mat for each student and put a chair beside their mat, acknowledging the place as a space of healing and blessing it.
This is a six week course, and the imagery expands each week, but the foundation is the Place for deep Healing.
Throughout the world, there are “sites”..places of pilgrimage, places people go to heal. Lourdes comes to mind, Chimayo, and the Warm Mineral Springs, biblical Bethesda. There are many many places on this earth that are known for healing energy..places where people have left their illness behind and walked away. Earth and water are often part of this. Jesus sometimes healed with earth, wetting it, placing it upon another.
In Imagery, I invite my students to relax deeply and call forth a place of deep healing from within. This might be a familiar place, but maybe not. I ask them to allow it to come to them, from the deep place of imagery where Spirit and body and soul are together. Students have described the warm blue green sea lapping against white sand, the woods and trees around clear flowing streams, forested paths where sure footed horses carry them, warm sand where round sunbaked stones are used to heal.,…a childhood bedroom where the love of grandmother and grandfather are ever present…..Giant buddhas on land where a body can lay on the ground before them.
Imagery is as different as the people who hold it. This is the place where deep healing can happen…where a person can feel safe and relaxed, letting guard down, opening to the remembrance of Self and wholeness in every cell.
In class, we work from this place week by week, calling forth an inner healer, gathering the lost cells as Jesus gathered the lost sheep, affirming health, asking the cells that are most in need of healing to open to Gods love, talking with the cells, removing blockages in energy flow using sound, color and images…asking the inner healer what needs to happen, allowing this.
Here is a sample recipe to use in working with a place of deep healing. Work gently and lovingly, making a physical space where you can work with your imagery. If you are ill, do this imagery often. I suggest three times daily, morning noon and night. May your journeys to this place of deep Healing within you be richly blessed. In Healing Light,
Jenny Garrison, Wellsboro PA Nov. 8, 2008
Imagery: A Place For Deep Healing
1. Protect the space. Pray.
2. Quiet your mind; relax your body (earth-air-breath-body).
3. Imagine yourself in a place that feels safe and good, a place where you
love to be, where you can “let go your burdens”…a place for deep healing.
4. Open your inner senses to the world of your imagery with questions
such as these:
- Are you aware of sounds?
- Are you aware of color?
- What time of day or night is it?
- What is the temperature of the air?
- What kind of feelings are you experiencing here?
- Where do you see yourself in this scene? Where would you like to be?
(Go ahead and move to where you’d like to be.)
5. Allow gratitude to move out to the healing place. Thank the place for
revealing itself to you.
6. Ask whether this place has a message for you.
7. Does this place need anything from you? Ask.
8. How do you feel in this place? Is there more for you to know about
this feeling?
9. Does anything need to happen here? (Options may include removing blockages to the flow of healing energy, a visit with the Inner healer, work with color, sound, images…gathering the cells that are most in need of healing and asking them to let in the love of God and remember who they are, their function and wholeness.
10. Is there a gift from this place that you’d like to bring out into your life with you? Stay here, rest here a while, soak in the energy of this place.
11. Thank the place and say good-bye in a way that feels appropriate for
you. (If further imagery is taking place, such as inquiries about
decisions or invitations for other beings to be present, just continue
with what comes next and thank the place for coming when the
imagery is closing.)
12. Take time to fully adjust to the outer world (breath-body, earth, sky).
13. Record your journey.
14. Create ways to integrate your journey. (see chap. 8, “Imagery In You”)
Jenny Garrison (Nov 8, 2008)