Be In Touch/ Holistic Massage

22/12/2020

Considering expanding my massage practice 🤔😁🐕🧡

08/10/2020

Seven amazing things about our sense of touch.
From the latest BBC Radio 4 series " Anatomy of Touch".

Claudia Hammond reveals the many aspects of touch and explores why it's important.

04/10/2020

Last week I attended another great workshop with Sarah H***e Hypnotherapy & Massage 🙌⭐at Bristol College of Massage & Bodywork
It was great to be able to learn so many new techniques, practice and connect with other fantastic therapists. 🙏

26/09/2020

Great weekend developing my massage skills 💃

As you can see on Adam 🙃 C19 rules apply.

19/09/2020

🙌

03/03/2020

Touch

TOUCH

is what we desire in one form or another, even if we find it through being alone, through the agency of silence or through the felt need to walk at a distance: the meeting with something or someone other than ourselves, the light brush of grass on the skin, the ruffling breeze, the actual touch of another’s hand; even the gentle first touch of an understanding which until now, we were formally afraid to hold.

Whether we touch only what we see or the mystery of what lies beneath the veil of what we see, we are made for unending meeting and exchange, while having to hold a coherent mind and body, physically or imaginatively, which in turn can be found and touched itself. We are something for the world to run up against and rub up against: through the trials of love, through pain, through happiness, through our simple everyday movement through the world.

And the world touches us in many ways, some of which are violations of the body or our hopes for safety: through natural disaster, through heartbreak, through illness, through death itself. In the ancient world the touch of a God was seen as both a blessing and a violation - at one and the same time. Being alive in the world means being found by the world and sometimes touched to the core in ways we would rather not experience. Growing with our bodies, all of us find ourselves at one time violated or wounded by this world in difficult ways, and still we live and breathe in this touchable, sensual world, and through trauma, through grief, through recovery, we heal in order to be touched again in the right way, as the physical consecration of a mutual, trusted invitation.

Nothing stops the body’s arrival in each new present, except death itself, which is intuited in all cultures as another, ultimate, intimate form of meeting. Nothing stops our ageing nor our witness to time, asking us again and again to be present to each different present, to be touchable and findable, to be one who is living up to the very fierce consequences of being bodily present in the world.

To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstanding of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.

…

‘TOUCH’
In ‘CONSOLATIONS’:
The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.
© David Whyte & Many Rivers Press 2015

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One of the many traumas around the fear of contagion with the Coronavirus is the sudden fear of touch. Something absolutely necessary for human beings becomes something that brings not promise or solace or condolence but a possible closeness to illness and death. Touch is a hallmark and a necessity for us all, it is a sign of our own gifted vulnerability, and a sign of loyalty when touch is required with a close loved one - irrespective of danger – few parents will leave their child untouched in their misery, no matter the possible dangers. All the more important then, to remember through this temporary and necessary distancing that this societal contagion requires, what a privilege we have in touch; how important it is for each of us, and how much need there will be to restore our many, daily, sometimes tiny but necessary forms of reaching out as soon as we possibly can. DW

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Walking Together.
Photo © David Whyte
Asilomar Beach, Monterey Bay. CA
January 12th 2018

27/01/2020

Today I spent the day learning and appreciating that less is more 👐That slowing down can very often be the only thing we need to notice some incredible changes. In massage and in life.

Thank you Sarah H***e Hypnotherapy & Massage 🙏💚 Great day, as always.

27/10/2019

🙏🖤

START CLOSE IN

Start close in,
don’t take
the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take.

Start with
the ground
you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own
way to begin
the conversation.

Start with your own
question,
give up on other
people’s questions,
don’t let them
smother something
simple.

To hear
another’s voice,
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice

becomes an
intimate
private ear
that can
really listen
to another.

Start right now
take a small step
you can call your own
don’t follow
someone else’s
heroics, be humble
and focused,
start close in,
don’t mistake
that other
for your own.

Start close in,
don’t take
the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take.

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START CLOSE IN
in River Flow
New & Selected Poems
Many Rivers Press © David Whyte

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This piece was inspired by the first lines of Dante's Comedia written in despair in the midst of exile from his beloved Florence. It reflects the difficult act we all experience, of trying to make a home in the world again when everything has been taken away; the necessity of stepping bravely again, into what looks now like a dark wood, when the outer world as we know it has disappeared, when the world has to be met and in some ways made again from no outer ground but from the very center of our being. The temptation is to take the second or third step, not the first, to ignore the invitation into the center of our own body, into our grief, to attempt to finesse the raw vulnerability and the absolutely necessary understanding at the core of the pattern, to forgo the radical and almost miraculous simplification into which we are being invited. Start close in.
..

Woman Walking
Yorkshire Dales
Photo © David Whyte
December 2015

03/10/2019

T representing Be In Touch/ Holistic Massage in California 🙂🖤

25/09/2019

Im on holiday at the moment recharging with good food, friends, sunshine and live music ❤

Back to work next week.
Appoitments available on Thursday the 3rd October at 7pm & at 9pm. 🤲

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