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