I use a pro­gram called ‘Long Tail Chart’ to see how peo­ple get to my site — what terms they search on. I found a link to a social net­work­ing site called tribe.net, and one of the ‘tribes’ was about chakras. A sub­sec­tion has to do with Root Chakra issues, and some­one linked to one of my Body­work pages.

Here’s a cou­ple of para­graphs, plus the link to the whole article:

Hi there,

I want to thank Nahema for the link to our site (chakra intro) I use this odd lit­tle frag­ment of code that lets me see how peo­ple get to us, and that’s how I found ‘chakra­tribe.” (and joined, obviously.)

I don’t want to write a huge arti­cle here, but rather want to note where we “come from.”

I received a rather tra­di­tional train­ing in Human­is­tic and Transper­sonal Psy­chother­apy back in the 80’s. I spent some years doing talk ther­apy, and con­fined my stud­ies of what I now call “Zen Body­work” to per­sonal explo­ration. In the mid-nineties I had a phys­i­cal burn-out, and ended up doing a 25-day train­ing pro­gram at The Haven in B.C. (haven.ca) The founders (now retired) com­bined psy­chother­apy with east­ern and West­ern approaches to Body­work that matched my own think­ing. I began to offer Body­work to clients in 1996.

A client said, about this:

“To me, Body­work com­bines phys­i­cal, emo­tional and spir­i­tual factors.

To expe­ri­ence the knots release from the mus­cles is to expe­ri­ence a release of emo­tions (blocked emo­tions, emo­tions that for some rea­son were stopped dead in their tracks.) The knots can rep­re­sent anger joy or sor­row — but they need not have a label — they are just there. How much bet­ter our body func­tions when the knots are gone. Our energy, our chi, can flow through our bod­ies from head to toe, flu­idly through the chakras, ground­ing us to the earth, yet reach­ing to the uni­verse. How much eas­ier we flow through our lives, how much eas­ier we com­mu­ni­cate, how much eas­ier we can under­stand our­selves after Bodywork.

I have learned from Body­work that the human body and human touch are not related to sex­u­al­ity, unless you choose it to be. The com­fort of being held in someone’s arms, cud­dling on someone’s lap, or in a close embrace can be so phys­i­cally, emo­tion­ally and spir­i­tu­ally sat­is­fy­ing if the judg­ment fac­tor of sex (or any­thing else for that mat­ter) is deleted from the equation.

read the rest on tribe.net