Articles, Classes and Workshops
Winter and Spring, 2008

Article: Sweet Darkness (Yin Tips at the end of Article)
Workshops: The Business of Metaphysics
and the Healing Arts (Visit link for full details)
Training: Hand Analysis Intensive, Alameda, March 7-9
(See description below)

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Sweet Darkness
(See Yin Tips at the end of article)
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision is gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
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Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of our aloneness to learn
Anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
Is too small for you.

~ David Whyte, 1996

In Winter we experience the longest nights and shortest days. It is the most Yin time of the year. Yin is the receptive, feminine principle calling us to learn more about receiving, resting, imagining, going inward….

In hands I look at the fleshy Moon section of the palms to discover how the Yin aspects of your life are doing. This area is the one place the Thumb, the chief of doing and results, can’t get to. How do you think you are doing? Read on.

Ironic that at the darkest, most Yin time of the year, most of us are out crazed by Yang activity, especially around the holidays. Yang energy includes the doing, giving, checking off lists, budgeting for the new year, traveling, you name it. Wonder why many of us get sick this time of year? It is not just the change in temperature. So light a candle to celebrate the darkness. You get to choose some receiving time.

Many of my clients are driven by doing and giving. Sound familiar? Working with you to balance the doing with some more being can be the key in helping you recalibrate your life ~ as David Whyte says, to bring you alive.

Here are just a few ideas to ponder as you learn to embrace your Yin side. Only a few, because I need more quiet time. The lesson I learned during this season is not to be so obsessed about getting my newsletter out on the Solstice, thus the month delay. I had to do a lot of surrendering, another winner Yin word!

TIPS FROM THE YIN SIDE:

1. Spend more time in the dark – nap, go to bed at least an hour before 11 (most quality Yin sleep time), ponder your dreams, allow your brain to wonder from your lists to your imagining.
2. Cry a little, laugh a little, dance a little, sing a little…this is good Yin Therapy.
3. Accept a compliment with grace and pleasure.
4. Ask for some help…and really allow it.
5. Go for a wander and note every sense. What do you smell, hear, see, feel, taste ~ the breeze, the stillness? Can your doingness and brain shut off just for a minute?
6. Spend time envisioning what you want and believe that you will have help in realizing it. Celebrate the principles of the Law of Attraction in operation. Name it, pay attention to it and allow it. All so very Yin and receiving!
   

I hope you view the long nights and snowy/rainy days a little differently now. They beckon you to just be with yourself, quietly and consciously.

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Hand Analysis
Intensive Course
With Janet Savage, Master Hand Analyst
Alameda, CA March 7-9, 2008

This Intensive introduces you to the groundbreaking Fingerprint Analysis system researched and developed at the International Institute of Hand Analysis in Tiburon, CA.

Following this weekend you can:

Interpret anyone’s “reason for being”
Know your own Life Purpose/Life Lesson map
and the vehicle for learning to live it
Immediately apply the information to do
practical and meaningful readings for others

The tuition includes: 19 hours of instruction; an extensive workbook with extra information not covered during class, and private tutoring.

Tuition: $575 (financing available) MFT, LCSW CE Units, 20 hours

Comments from Grads:

“This weekend was an extra ordinary experience for me. It helped me tap into some areas of my life in ways that I had not discovered and I learned from each one of the participants.”
G.Z., Massage Therapist. Bay Area, CA

"This information is so powerful. It was fun to read all of my family's hands. Now I am ready to bring it into my practice. Thanks, Janet."
J.S., Occupational
Therapist/Hand
Specialist, Vermont