THE HEALER'S TOOLBOX COLLECTION

The Healers Toolbox is a collection of Flower Essences made during my return journey to the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain in the summer of 2009. After my dramatic journey the previous summer and because of the precious cargo of Flower Essences that returned with me, I knew this new Camino journey would have a flow and purpose all its own. I suspected new Essences collected during this return journey would tell me a whole new story, share unexpected gifts, and reveal the way forward, but I must admit that at the beginning, as I waited to start up the Pyrenees mountains, I had absolutely no clue what they would say.

What resulted was a collection of fifteen combination Flower Essences that unfolded like slow blooms, at times mysterious and often much more profound than they appeared at first glance. In connecting with the Devas of the flowers and the soul of the trail, I drew on my roots as a dancer, my extensive training in bodywork, and my all around adoration for the human body and its astounding anatomy. As I moved each day, connecting with the land and others, I felt the Essences carried the vibrant energetic blend of deep soul work and dynamic care of the body. This became clearer when I discovered the central message of the collection was the growing importance for all of us to integrate healing work into our physical bodies.

The Camino is a spiritual healing journey with ancient roots. It is also a consuming and humbling physical path. Your spirit may be charged and ready to get on the trail, but it is your body that has to get on board for the 800 kilometers. Without your body, your healing journey will not take flight. In such a walking life where I depended intensely on my body, its bones and muscles, breath and blood, balance and endurance, I could not ignore that we were a team, a team so linked and intertwined that the healing and growth would be a physical experience akin to those years of adolescence where you are tumbling into adulthood and your body is growing like a weed. As I walked, change ripped though both my body and soul. As a consequence, a language of listening had to develop. From this listening I learned how I could evolve forward into an even more loving and integrated view of the body/soul connection. I have always loved movement. It is the root through which I understand myself, the currents of my internal life, and the way I connect to the people around me. But often, I forgot how to care for my body, how to listen. So on this return journey, I went slowly and listened.

Often we forget how much the forward journey of our souls is deeply rooted in both our energetic and physical bodies and these Essences are a strong reminder of this essential truth. For healers, the body is our realm- the barometer on which inner change is revealed, but it is also the medium through which we connect. This collection of Essences aids us in both kinds of work: the solo healing practice and work with others.

Though this collection is called the Healer’s Tool Box and the idea of a set of Essences for healers seems to be the straight-forward description of the collection, I feel I should back up a few steps and explain what I consider the range and realm of healers. Yes, there are people who work specifically with the healing arts, some practicing under a traditional format, and now more and more people working with ancient arts, holistic practices, bodywork, and our energetic field.

Our view of healers is changing. Even animals are now being given a chance to experience amazing new modalities of healing work. Though these are the obvious areas in our culture where we recognize people as healers, this collection calls us to think more creatively about the definition of healing work and to understand a healer to be anyone who works, connects, gives support, and devotes heartfelt time and energy to another living creature. Your dog is certainly a healer when he comforts you during a rough stretch in your life, and you are a healer in how you care for your children, your neighbors, your students, your animal companions, and your friends. And you are a healer in your interactions with yourself. It is not who or what we do when we engage in this healing work; it is the energy and intention behind our words and actions. These essences support us to bring more light through in all the healing interactions that fill our lives.

Click on the essence name to read a full description:

The Thread of Change - embodied by the sternum

The Architecture of Balance - embodied by the ribs

The Wing Span of the Senses - embodied by the skin

The Evolution of Ever Forward Motion - embodied by the eyes

The Vocabulary of Cleansing - embodied by the ears

The Lay Lines of Trust - embodied by the joints and legs

The Healer’s Keystone - embodied by the pelvis

The Kindness of Untangling - embodied by the internal organs and digestive tract

The Structure of Roots - embodied by the bones

The Empath's Axis - embodied by the muscles

The Narrative of Release - embodied by the skull

The Rhythm of Growth - embodied by the spine and shoulder girdle

The Truth of Touch - embodied by the hands and supports healing from a place of wholeness

The Plumb Line of Energy - embodied by the feet

The Gravity of Beauty - embodied by the heart and was made in the magic forests of Galicia

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