Matthew Sweigart Healing Arts

12/09/2024

There you go… nostalgia… as it moves through me this morning…

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10/22/2024

We explored the “Five Aspects of Soul” in our Qi practice this morning! Comment if you’d like more details!

10/17/2024

Clearer and clearer to me arises the important concept of healthy interpersonal bridges. These are to be established with our important relations with those dear to us. For far too many of the persons I have known and worked with the early childhood interpersonal connections were either less than healthy, or downright toxic. It is my honor to support people to heal these past conditions that left such a deep and lasting imprint, and to help them to build and trust healthy interpersonal relational bridges once more. This is no small work, and each of us may reflect deeply upon the nature of our interpersonal connections with others and practice at the deepest level we are capable of to keep those relations clear and healthy. Of particular help in this endeavor can arise the awareness of the vertical and horizontal axis in life. Our vertical is our ability to align with the above and below, up through the crown to the stars in the galaxies above, and down through the root to the core of the Earth. Depending on your sensitivity, you might call this the “divine” or “eternal” axis. This vertical axis is ultimately the personal responsibility of each and everyone of us. The interpersonal connections we have with others then can be seen to reside in the horizontal, or “Earthly” plane. In this plane, we extend our love, care, and empathy to those around us, near and far. A healthy horizontal bridge can be built and maintained when the vertical is sound. Like the pillars on either side of a gated entry, they must be plum and upright so that the gate can naturally swing open and closed to allow for easy and uneventful entry and exit. Or for guarding that flow of commerce with the world. When someone takes advantage of the gateway, the interaction becomes toxic, and repair is required. Of course, in a healthy relationship, sometimes our vertical sensibility is compromised and we lean on our partner. This can go both ways. When we feel weak, our partner can lend us strength for a time. Yet we ultimately take back our power and reclaim our vertical in a healthy way, with gratitude for the support. If you find yourself leaning on someone whose vertical is not secure, or that others are leaning on you when you do not feel stable, then we enter an extremely slippery slope. My hope is that you may see many applications for these concepts on your life, and that you may take pains to build and maintain your vertical and extend healthy horizontal bridges in all your interpersonal relations.

10/03/2024

Up for a little jaunt through the vortex?

09/21/2024

Do you always feel safe and protected in this world?
What strategies do you use when you don't?

09/20/2024

08/20/2024

What if you could turn off your self-judgment and inner critic and just sit down with a musical instrument and start playing — joyously, exuberantly, and without inhibition…

… every note perfect in the moment, allowing your soul to sing its own song and express its greatest longings?

Finding a Higher Purpose With Improvisational Native American-Style Flute: Shift Your Mind From Self-Judgment to a Creative Flow State for Deep Soul Expression

In a free online event, music therapist Christine Stevens shared that when we express ourselves freely and creatively, there are no missteps…

… only discoveries that make us more awake, more inventive, and more resilient in taking on the unknown and unexpected. "Playing improvisationally," Christine says, "liberates your imagination and enables you to find what’s really true for you, peeling away layers of self-limitation — and maybe even uncovering your higher purpose."

During this event, Christine will guide you through the five notes of the pentatonic scale, giving you an opportunity to feel the emotional content of each note and the energy traveling up your spine as you journey up and down the scale.

She’ll also provide you with an animal spirit prompt — the medicine of the Eagle — to sing or play with. It symbolizes the unrestricted aspect of the natural world, and the power of freedom in literally “winging it.”

This isn’t just about music! You may be surprised to know how creating and playing improvisationally can open a doorway into new states of consciousness that can transform how you live your entire life.

Finding a Higher Purpose With Improvisational Native American-Style Flute: Shift Your Mind From Self-Judgment to a Creative Flow State for Deep Soul Expression

In this one-hour online musical event, you’ll:

• Discover an “earthing” practice with sound — to ground you into nature and then uplift you
• Practice improvisation with voice or flute based on the 5-note scale, and discover each note’s purpose and energetic gift
• Be infused by a healing improvisation with Christine’s branch flute in the key of E
• Experience the inspiration and cultural significance of combining drum, rattle and flute — the three sounds of creation in the Mexican tradition
• Work with the medicine of the Eagle whose wings remind us of “winging it” and the connection of flute and birds, for a sense of freedom that may alter the way you live your life
You can RSVP for free here: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/hpf/a19497

Join Christine in an inspiring free online event in which she’ll take you on an improvisational music journey with the Native American-style flute (or by simply using your voice).

Christine says that this flute is one of the easiest and most fulfilling instruments to learn, because it’s crafted in the five notes of the pentatonic scale…

… and no matter how you combine them, it’s impossible to make a mistake. There are no wrong notes!

A Free Video Event With Speaker, Author & Music Therapist Christine Stevens

08/12/2024

Enjoying the idea that tonight's webinar is a party, where I get to share with you all the power and beauty of the Five Elements as they relate to breaking out of the echo chamber of past challenges, and into a bright future of personal discovery and self love!
Zoom room opens this evening... 7pm... Five Elements and Recovery from Past Trauma... Come dance into the dance of Five Elements with us... DM for details!

08/10/2024

Trauma Spectrum Response: Free Webinar, Monday, August 12, 7-9pm US-PDT, DM for details!

08/09/2024

Qigong Lunch Break! ... Lion's Gate Invitation... today at 11am... Matthew Sweigart is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Friday Meridian Qigong
11am- Noon - US/PDT

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3436964211

Meeting ID: 343 696 4211

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07/30/2024

A reverie: So… the quieting… the connection… the promise and possibility of communion. My own mother, by the time I knew her, seemed very distant and stoic. Any juice she may have had she derived from her connection to the church, through communion and prayer. She was older when I was born, forty five to be exact. By the time I was a young professional, she was already in her 70s. She had effectively retreated to her big comfortable chair and spent her days behind a crossword puzzle and a rosary.

I float in this nether world of disconnection. Craving the interior linking that would satisfy a deep longing. Deeper than deep, impossibly deep, like a drowning or dunking that only the great ocean can accommodate. Waves crashing upon the shore, rolling out in the great currents, kelp and otters and whales and dolphins and octopuses in the crevices and chasms that open to the other side of the world. Open to a place of pure imagination and fantasy of connection. Longing driven from within, unquenchable thirst, a roaring forest fire to immolate all consciousness, leaving one obliterated on the rocks of solitude.

This my church, my communion, my prayer… a distant ungraspable feeling. A disembodied Godhead… felt sense flat of affect, for it burns beyond imagining, searing the flesh with invisible tongues of isolation.

Honoring the hundreds of people involved in this journey to heal the lingering effects of traumatic stress.

07/30/2024

so... I am looking for a few Somatic Therapists, to work with closely to go deeper in healing their own trauma and assisting their clients to do the same, over the next three months.

You’ll also gain the skills to experience post traumatic growth, with ongoing support.

So, if you are ready to go deeper and heal more deeply,
And are capable of handling being honest and vulnerable,
Are 100% committed to doing the work and…
You are coachable…

Then this might be for you…

Drop the words "Joyful Healing" below and I’ll send you the next steps….