It was in the year of 1896, an unknown travel writer, a young John Millington Synge, wrote to William Butler Yeats in search of council. Synge’s hearts longing was to deepen his gift of writing. To Yeats he turned to, to learn how to develop his gift.
Synge, at the time was preparing to move to France, to learn from the greats and was expecting Yeats to agree with his plan. Yeat’s advice, for Synge to forget France and instead to move to the Islands of Aran and the Blaskets. Learn the ways and the language of the people there, learn their ways of living and ways of being.
At the same time, in 1896, some 3,000 miles across the Atlantic west, William Garner Sutherland, was a student of Andrew T Still at the Kirksville school of Osteopathy.
Sutherland remarked of his foremost teachers work;
‘You might say that (Dr Still) was like the X-ray: He could look right through you and see things, and tell you things, without putting his hands upon the body. I have seen him do that! Time and time again. When some of the early teachers had a clinic up before class, hunting for the lesion, in would come the Old Doctor from the rear. “Here’s your lesion”
"How did he do that?".
The teacher, guiding the student to an essence. Innate and ancient in nature.
In our journey to personal-development and self-mastery, a constant companion is a feeling that we need to develop more and more tools and techniques.
Yet what is necessary is to connect to that which has always been there, that which in within and that which your ancestors may hold the key.
In 1896 J.M. Synge elected to take Yeats' advice and spent the next years of his life between the Aran Islands, West Kerry and the Blaskets.
He was to become one of Irelands most notable play writes, His time with the people influencing his lifes offerings.
Sutherland, formulated his theories and life’s work to which craniosacral work was born. The foundations laid by his observations of Still at work.
I recently presented a webinar presentation to the Irish association of craniosacral therapists (IACST) titled ;
Visionary craniosacral work; Origins and ancestors.
In this I briefly explore this relationship with ancestors, culture, healing, nature. An enquiry of what our elders guide us to learn from. To take forward into our practices and daily lives.
I offer this recording, for you to listen and learn about these ways and interrelationships.
In joy and curiousity,
Daithi
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