Meditation Informs Healing Facilitation

I am writing this post because I am very curious about how far we have gotten from slowing down, sitting around a fire place, taking time to be with our inner rhythms. The Winter Solstice used to be a time of contemplation, of down time, of being with our shadows – to prepare the way for the coming light!

On Saturday, I am planning to take some me-time. Some time to contemplate, to review this past year. One intention I had for 2019 was to fill my container, to patch the leaks in it. That is fill my body with loving-kindness, clarity and potency. I came close. Honestly though (full disclosure), I think I am now much more aware of the amount of leaks I had. I was giving some of my energy to Doing, rather than Being. I was giving some energy to pleasing and placating others. I was distracting myself from feeling deeper emotions. I am now much more clear about how much time I need to spend doing loving-kindness practices with myself – Metta, saying Baby Messages to my little one (from Birth Process Work / Pre- and Perinatal Psychology), visualizing healing light moving through my body, etc.

And I am going to continue that in 2020. Loving myself. 2020 is the year of Kirby. My needs come first. I am going to spend time being, being in the flow, and less time worrying about others, others’ needs, and less time doing, less time staying busy. Doing (things for the sake of being busy) and staying busy distract me from feeling what is just below the surface. And I want to feel that, to heal that.

I am planning to ponder what I want from 2020. Yes to continue deepening this theme of filling my container with health and appropriate altruism – loving myself as much as everyone else. I want to continue chewing on these various projects I have going. What brings me the most joy? What stretches me?

Oh and also, how is it that the ramping up to Christmas has become such a cluster F&#K? Pardon my language, but people have been driving crazy these past couple of weeks. Stores are underhanded – stress abounds this time of year! Why? Is this necessary? Either back off of the gift giving – yes get something special for your closest loved ones – Or start planning much earlier.

But on Saturday, the longest night, the shortest day, the Winter Solstice, take some time. Slow down. Be with your breath. Spend time with presence. Let the presents go for a day. Find a good yoga video – spend at least 20 – 30 minutes doing that. Go for a walk. Nature loves to sooth angst-filled-hearts.

Here are some suggestions of things to do on this upcoming Winter Solstice:

1. Go back over this past year in your mind, did you accomplish your goals? Did you come close to your intention?
2. What were my accomplishments this past year?
3. What do you want to work on next year? What is your intention for the New Year? Is it do-able, is it kind, is it provocative?
4. Spend time meditating – what practices / lifestyle changes / behaviors do you want to adopt in this new year? Start now!
5. Slow down
6. Spend time in nature
7. Take a bath by candle light
8. Take time with your closest loved ones, read a nice story, take it easy, less to do, and more sharing time and presence with each other
9. Find a prayer that touches you and do a little ritual around that – light a candle at least
10. Go see a play – theater that is
11. Turn off the TV, the social media, the computer games
12. Spend time in good company
13. Find a retreat that you enjoy – whether meditation, or Christian getaway, or Buddhist, the ManKind Project retreats, etc.

Good luck rekindling our heart’s desire for renewal and rebirth! Take time to digest how this past year has been for you. What do you want to continue? What do you want to do differently?

May all beings find restoration and rejuvenation!

Thank you for reading,

Kirby Moore

Konchog Chakchen

You can visit Kirby’s website at http://www.mkirbymoore.com, there you will find the bodywork and astrology services which he offers. If you are interested, you can sign up for the Astrology Newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/dsiMwj

Hello my dear readers,

Just wanted to post a last minute gift idea! If you are looking for a meaningful, insight-filled gift, look no further!

I am offering a full 90-minute astrology interpretation / counseling session for $125. I usually charge $175 for this. Save $50!! Or I am offering an hour session for $95 – save $30!

There are several days and times available in January to set this up. Let me know if you are interested! I can send you an E-Gift-Certificate.

Wishing all beings well,

Kirby Moore

Konchog chakchen

Sorry to say this, my dear readers… As I am slowly creating these videos, I am aware of my plan to take a bit of a sabbatical. From February to May of 2020, I am going to be recharging my batteries, away from screen time, no clients – just me and glorious luminous self care! I will be among of group of heart-centered practitioners so there will be plenty of yummy support. ❤

Therefore I have decided it is best to hold onto these few videos and post them in June of 2020 when I return. Hope I didn’t get your hopes up too much! But this way I will be passionate and charged up in May and June so I can flow into teaching and sharing this info with ease and grace.

It is my intention to go into Trauma-Informed Astrology (looking at the Autonomic Nervous System and where trauma resolution meets Western Astrology) and Pre- and Perinatal Astrology – where Pre- and Perinatal Psychology intersects with Western Astrology! So far, I have rarely seen anything like this (ever), so look forward to this leading edge material!

And we will have to wait. Just a few months. It has been an interesting fall (of 2019) as I saw my bodywork practice grow and get busier, and then telling my regular clients that I am about to take 3 months off. Quite a juxtaposition to be sure!

Wish me luck as I navigate these realms of marketing myself, taking time for self care and continuing to offer quality healing facilitation to clients!

Thank you for reading,

Kirby Moore

Konchog Chakchen

This is simply a link to a profound and edifying Dharma talk by Tara Choying Lhamo. She is being interviewed in Australia – so she covers quite a bit of material. I love how succinct yet knowledgeable she is! And not to mention full of humility and subtle vajra pride – quite a rare combination of qualities.

https://archive.org/details/ContemplaryTalksTaraInMelbourne2017

Hope you enjoy and receive some benefit from it!

<3,

Kirby

This is a post about a significant bodywork treatment I just received. But first, a little update on how things have been.

I have had an up and down few weeks. For a while there, I couldn’t access the login page for this blog (it would just freeze), hence my lack of posts….

I still have obstacles to my forward progress regarding my business (bodywork / Somatic Experiencing / Craniosacral Therapy) – as in I cringe when I think about promoting myself. I hope that changes really soon. Nothing like being a competent practitioner who has problems marketing himself!

And I taught an awesome Craniosacral class at the spa where I work. That went really well with 10 students completing it. I learned quite a bit during that process and I am using that class to get certified as an Approved Provider so I can offer continuing education credits in the future! Yay!

It is my intention to begin offering regular classes in June of 2020. Let me know if this interests you!

And my relationship is going well. In fact, I am headed down to meet her father for the first time this coming weekend. (Wish me luck!) ❤

The reason I am posting this however, is to discuss a multiple hands bodywork session I received this morning. Multiple hands means that more than one person worked on me at a time – in this case it was three people.

In the session, I leaned into a resource – in this case a potent psycho-spiritual resource – of Vajrayogini, an imposing wrathful fiery wisdom being in the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. In particular, I felt myself come into alignment when I imagined wearing her divine armor, visualizing certain colored lights at each chakra. [This is quite an advanced practice, beginners should seek out a qualified teacher and start with basic meditation.]

My intention in the session was to work with my little 3 or 4 year old part, the part of me who has trouble connecting with others due to the mistaken belief that to connect means he has to take care of the person. 😦

So telling him that we can throw that belief down the river (the healing studio is near the Rivanna River) brought up curious uncomfortable feelings in my belly. Challenging an ancient double bind will often bring up discomfort. And upon feeling into these sensations, I realized that it was terror coming out of deep frozen unconscious places and becoming conscious and more malleable.

Terror is fun to work with. (Not usually, this is a joke.) It feels like moving through frozen sludge. Although I have become quite proficient in doing so by now. But this morning something was different.

When I felt that I was wearing Vajrayogini’s armor, the terror did something really wild. It melted because light was shining through so vehemently from within me. Whether it was red light, or blue, or yellow, etc, the terror melted away along my mid-line. Then I had to use some tools and techniques from Somatic Experiencing (a trauma-resolution modality) to move the freeze / terror out of my legs and arms.

The practitioner running my session asked me about the sensations and what was happening inside me. I said, “The terror is and has always been light, I was just confused about it.” Confusion dawns as wisdom.

Then we talked further and I surprised myself by saying, “my little one just needs to remember that he is a child of Vajravarahi [Vajrayogini’s similar wrathful female yidam]. He merely needs to lean into her wisdom fire. There is no need to worry about self and other at that point.” Wow! What did I just say?

Boundaries are only a problem when we are thinking we are separate from others. When I was wearing her divine armor, the separation between self and other lessened.

After this session, I needed a significant nap – I slept for several hours and woke up feeling quite altered still. And now I am back to my obscured, confused self 🙂 Having multiple hands on, from quality practitioners who wish us well is something valuable and special and unique. And powerful!

Just for context, I have been doing personal growth work through Craniosacral Therapy and other emotional-process-oriented-bodywork modalities, including Somatic Experiencing and PPN / birth process work for 15 years. Along with maintaining a dedicated meditation practice through Tibetan Buddhism since 2005. These types of profound sessions / transformations are possible, but I believe it requires at least a decent foundation to be laid. And to develop trust with your practitioner(s). Suffering can be transformed when we stick with it.

Let me know if you want to sign up for a treatment, whether in person (in Charlottesville VA) or over distance. You can email me at kirby [at] mkirbymoore [dot] com for more info.

I have been pleasantly surprised by the modality known as Somatic Experiencing (SE). Peter Levine, PhD, the founder of S.E., began looking at why animals in the wild do not exhibit symptoms of trauma (because they don’t hold on to it). Why do animals in captivity experience trauma consequences and responses, along with us humans? Then he began to look at the nervous system and different interventions and techniques for resourcing the autonomic nervous system. Where do people get stuck? How can we free up that stuck energy? How can we do just enough so the nervous system can digest the work in a couple days and move forward gradually? It is a marvelous system! It can be used as a stand-alone modality or it can supplement many other modalities quite supportively.

Somatic Experiencing starts out quite innocuously, working with body sensation, memories, emotions, going very slow and gradually, looking at the client’s autonomic nervous system. Yet over time, it builds on previous work. Intending to only do little bite size, digestible-for-the-nervous-system pieces, it can lead to profound transformation over time. And on several occasions now, it has proved to be an incredibly powerful tool for healing facilitation.

When clients are devoted to their healing process, often they have access to wisdom company (angels, guides, guardians, protectors, deities, Bodhisattvas, or animal totems, etc), and after we have worked together for a while, to develop trust in the process, like seven to ten sessions or more, some incredible realizations and visions plus nervous system healing can occur. And all while a person is completely conscious – yes they are in a slightly altered state – but they will remember the entire session when we do our recap at the end.

Everything I do with clients is obviously confidential. But I am beginning to see phenomenal results with a few clients who are devoted, who have worked with me for a while, who have access to an inner spiritual compass – call it a guide, angel, deity, etc. It is a wild journey to be on. When we start a session, I have no idea where we are going to end up. However, Somatic Experiencing provides healthy and supportive guard rails to keep us on track (there are many possible ways forward, the client’s intention and experience and responses determine which path we choose). And I am still learning the material! Wow – you mean it will get even clearer and efficacious from here on out? I like the sound of that.

Fortunately the years of experience as a Craniosacral Therapist, having been studying how to work with the Polyvagal System (Vagus nerve resourcing work), and gone through Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Birth Process Work training… I have much more experience and tools than you average SE student. So I am loving the fusion of all these exquisite and potent modalities.

All rivers lead to the same ocean. All waves dissolve back into the same ocean. The ground substance is love, light, life; it is Health which is Never Lost. Join me there.

Thank you for reading!

Kirby Moore

Konchog Chakchen

I have been working and learning from Myrna Martin (Birth Process Work / Pre- and Perinatal Psychology) and others since 2013, and other modalities for much longer than that. The combination of Birth Process work, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Polyvagal / Somatic Experiencing (nervous system resourcing, resilience building, trauma resolution) work is a rare and phenomenal set of modalities. It gives the practitioner a vast amount of resources to tap into when working with someone in their healing process.

I have been assisting in Womb Surround Birth Process workshops for the past two years and I love it. The deep organic (slower) healing rhythms we re-gain access to are almost beyond words. Baby time, baby pacing, baby awareness is so precious, so tender. Taking care of my little one is about the kindest thing I can possibly do for myself.

And it was during my Pre- and Perinatal training in Canada where I discovered a beautiful song: here is the link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1NvenYjiCY

It is time to return to alignment. Alignment with Mother Earth, alignment within – Head to Heart to Pelvis, alignment of body speech AND mind, and even more ambitiously, alignment of body mind and spirit. In alignment is our deepest purpose, our blueprint, the divine creative intention. Returning to alignment takes a deep commitment to heal and repair old wounds (for most people). And it is so worth the effort!

Thank you for reading!

Kirby Moore

Konchog Chakchen