To each of us our concept of Freedom is different and we each have our unique set of bars and perimeters that prevent us from experiencing our true nature and freedom to live our lives as we were meant to.

For many of us we do not realise that we are being held captive by our own belief systems and our limited understanding of what is actually possible.

I have been very blessed in many ways throughout my life but I did not realise that I was still being my own gaoler, that my beliefs were creating bars and walls to prevent me from moving through life with ease and grace.

Through working with some wonderful teachers both human and animal I have begun to realise and experience living in a whole new way.

I am delighted that I have the opportunity to share with you both the HelioSol Technique and AgapeMind; two courses that meld together to give you the tools to change your perspective and experience the world from a place of love, compassion, understanding and non-judgement.

www.slievenamonholistictherapy/courses 


For Freedom - John O'Donohue
As a bird soars high
In the free holding of the wind,
Clear of the certainty of the ground,
Opening the imagination of wings
Into the grace of emptiness
​To fulfil new voyagings,
May your life awaken
To the call of its freedom


As the ocean absolves itself
Of the expectation of land,
Approaching only
In the form of waves
That fill and pleat and fall
With such gradual elegance
As to make of the limit
A sonorous threshold
Whose music echoes back along
The give and strain of memory,
Thus may your heart know the patience
That can draw infinity from limitation
As the embrace of the earth
Welcomes what we call death,
Taking deep into itself
The tight solitude of a seed,
Allowing it time
To shed the grip of former form
And give way to a deeper generosity
That will one day send it forth,
A tree into springtime,
May all that holds you
Fall from its hungry ledge
Into the fecund surge of your heart.

​In whatever field one works in there is a fine line between helping and hindering a client, whatever species they happen to be and whatever the modality may be.


As therapists we also have the same obligations to ‘do no harm’. This is not always an easy distinction to make - when to stop and say enough is enough. It is easy to call when you are whipping cream, you can see when to stop as the cream starts to turn to butter. It is visual and so many of us now only rely on our visual sense that we forget to trust the gut instinct, ending up over egging the pudding as it were so that there is no space for healing to occur.


We also have to remember that we are not actually ‘doing’ anything just allowing the client to create within themselves the optimum environment for healing themselves. How we achieve that is down to each in their own way but one must always be aware that we cannot heal anything, we are just there to help the client.


That help may be practical, providing food and water, a place of safety; it may be emotional support or the environment where the client can express and release all the built up stress and tension held in the body; it may also be providing a quiet observation of the situation so that the elements that are required to heal are slotted into place. To keep the cooking analogy going, our job is to put out all the ingredients that may be required to bake a cake, the tins, the utensils that will be needed but then we hand it all over to the chef/baker (client) to do the creating; how it turns out is none of our concern but we are there to help not hinder.


It is a hazard that is easy to get caught up in ‘ the need to DO something’ sometimes doing nothing is a greatest gift that we can give. Other times the ego demands that we do something as the ego forgets that whatever technique we use it is down to the client to heal themselves. I have seen Drs and vets inject joints to relive pain, it works for a short period of time or may have a long term effect, in my opinion it is not the Dr, the vet or the drug per se, it is the time that the affected area requires to heal itself once it is given a helping hand to get over the initial issue - if the client is in the environment to heal then they will, however this in not always the case due to the fact that the ‘environment’ of the body may be compromised, the living conditions may not be suitable, the mental/emotional issues at that time may not be conducive to healing.


By always being there for a client we may also be hindering their recovery as they become reliant on us ‘healing’ them not being fully aware that we are just there to help and it is down to them to heal themselves, there is no silver bullet. By doing sessions on demand we are are not respecting their space or respecting ourselves, sometimes stepping back and giving them the time and space that they need is the hardest thing to do especially if you have a limited book of clients. At the end of the day though by acting with respect and integrity saying ‘enough is enough’ their body may get the opportunity to do what it needs to do. We just have to learn to remove ourselves from the equation - it was never our issue to begin with and there is no reason why we need to have ownership of the outcome.


When we observe this from the philosophical perspective it is a case of Wu Wei - without doing, causing, or making ie letting things happen with no egotistical effort or input; we let the body work with its own inner wisdom, the natural order of things and since the natural world does not make mistakes, whatever is meant to unfold will unfold in its own perfect time.

I am delighted to announce that I have qualified as a HelioSol Technique Instructor and I am looking forward to bringing this new modality to clients, friends and new students in the future. 
Working with the HelioSol System is a wonderful new modality that melds wonderfully with the BioGeometry tools and techniques that I have used for the last number of years. I look forward to being able to continue my work as a BioGeometry Environmental Home Solutions practitioner when the current restrictions are lifted, until then please do no hesitate to contact me for advice / to book an appointment.

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So after what was a very busy spring here at Slievenamon Holistic Therapy we have finally had three days of peace and quiet to attempt to catch up with ourselves before the next wave of activity.

February saw Fundamentals training here, followed by SNOW... everything ground to a halt for four days as the country was blanketed by the white stuff.
March - Advanced BioGeometry - this saw students having to navigate through, wind, rain and snow to get to class - everything mother nature could throw at us she did.
April was a Linking Awareness Journey here - the animal inhabitants excelled themselves helping guide students to where they needed to be.
May - off to the UK to facilitate a Linking Awareness Journey in Leicestershire - an amazing weekend; also the start of guests arriving here to avail of Garden Grove  https://www.airbnb.ie/rooms/24556762?s=51 or www.gardengrove.ie

All that hard work in January is starting to pay off slowly.

So June has been a little quieter, catching up with study, clients and correspondence. July looks like being busy so taking advantage of some space now. August - time to stretch the grey cells again with practitioner training for BioGeometry before heading to UK in Sept and having another class here before the winter.

Hope you have a wonderful summer - take time for yourselves, relax and enjoy the quiet moments when you can get them.

Starting something new can be a daunting task and some 'gurus' suggest creating a vision board and 'manifesting' what you see the project unfolding into.
This method can have mixed results - more often as not nothing happens. You then get despondent and start to believe that you are unable to achieve anything even when you create the most imaginative and dynamic vision boards.

I am speaking from experience here; two years ago I came across this phenomena through a very inspirational lady and then somehow I was being bombarded by life coaches promoting this method of moving forward. For want of something better to do I decided to give it a go, my clinic was taking time to get off the ground, I had been made redundant and I had to get things happening.

Well - I visualised, and I MindScaped but still nothing was changing as far as I could tell, if anything things were slowing down. This was not part of the plan. 

Roll on 6 months or so and I started to work more from my heart using my Linking Awareness tools; my perspective began to alter slightly but the whole vision board thing was still bothering me. I then learnt the next step though Tosha Silver - surrender. I got it wrong for the first bit, I thought that this was a great plan, just sit back and let it all happen no vision boards just surrender and if Divine means it to happen, it will. 

I was still missing the point here, yes Surrender but you also have to get off your backside and DO something to get things moving.

A great friend of mine called in to see me at the start of January and gave me an idea, something that I had been dead set against for the past 5 years, however this time I thought 'why not give it a go?'

So, I have weeded, cleaned gutters, moved 9yrs worth of rubbish (old builders materials), whitewashed raised beds, painted doors, laid new gravel, re-hung gates, put up post and rail fencing, taken trees out, cleaned a stream out, strimmed, mown the lawn. I have had a little help for which I am very thankful but I had to get the ball rolling.

So since starting this little project my clinic has got busier; international classes are filling up steadily. I am not sure where it is going to end up but it feels good to have actually got outside, got mucky and DONE something. I now have a pleasing vista out from my house and clinic if nothing else and hopefully it will be easier to keep clean and tidy.

Some of my vision board has materialised, upon reflection not sure I still want some of the things I thought I did. Take a look at www.gardengrove.ie it is a work in progress :-)

This was one of the best articles that I have read in a while so feel that I have to share it here: 
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Please take the time to read it - it is well worth it.