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October 15, 2004
The yay continues
Quote of the day: "The planning is indispensible. The plan is disposable." - Mikhael Smith, of Movement Magic
Love it.
Movement Magic II was great! It was nice to work a second time with the same people. I can't say any emotional issues came up, but foundation/Kidney stuff did, mostly surrounding my joints and ankles. It's easier to see how that's a foundation issue, but not necessarily easy to connect that to Kidneys... but in TCM they're pretty much the same, as our Kidneys are considered our energetic foundation. They also rule the joints and bones, and the deepest (most yin) parts of our bodies. The ankles are special... lots of Kidney points around our medial malleoli
So most people in America have Kidney issues as well as Liver/Gallbladder stuff goin' on.
I got to borrow some CDs from Mikhael. Great stuff that's new to me, including Taarka, Atman, and Tulku. Never heard of them before!
So chair massage went well. I wish I could say it went great, but it was kind of lackluster in some senses.
It was intended for incoming intensive students (deep tissue intensive starts next week), but most of our chair massage guinea pigs were staff and students. As much as I like the people here, I was really looking forward to interacting with strangers. Well, I got two at least, and one is even an intensive student.
I guess the Redwoods Marathon on Sunday will really be the thing to satisfy me :-)
I ordered next quarter's books. Getting them at least a bit cheaper than I would buying them at the store here. Shipping on most ended up being free, and on one I'm still saving $12 even after shipping. Yay. I had some success with BookFinder, but mostly I used Best Web Buys. I like to start there because it gives me so much good information about a book (e.g. ISBN, price comparison) in an easy layout, and then I like to delve deeper with BookFinder, Amazon, eBay, etc and see if I can't find an even better deal.
Did laundry today. First time in Humboldt county! First half of the quarter I was traveling so much I did it in SF or Sac. The prospect of using coin-op machines was so traumatic that I had to lure myself there with ice cream. Along with laundry soap, I bought mint chocolate chip, at Peter's suggestion, and used it to lure a companion (Kala) to the laundry room.
The ice cream was also a first for me in Humboldt County, as I haven't been consuming any at Heartwood. There are some people here who eat at least a pint a week, along with chocolate, chips, carbonated drinks, etc. Yeah, sure, the ingredients are organic, the oils are higher quality, and there's no corn syrup, etc... but it's still junk food when consumed that way. Chips are probably junk food no matter what.
I enjoy using ice cream as a treat (or as laundry anaesthetic), but chocolate I prefer to use therapeutically. Good quality dark chocolate can be very relaxing (hence the chocolate bar sold by Intelligent Nutrients).
Anyway, laundry's done, and I once again have clean socks.
Next weekend is an Ortho-bionomy workshop I'm really excited about. I do need to find out if it's experiential or just informational, though. Lots of great resources and extra avenues of learning going on around here though. Let's hope my pleasure continues into the week :-)
Posted by Josh A. at October 15, 2004 09:47 PM
Comments
the chocolate looks amazing Josh... have you tried Valrhona?
Ramsey (former member of the Chocolate Society)
Posted by: Ramsey at October 16, 2004 10:01 AM