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Shiatsu and Craniosacral Therapy can help us to re-connect to our physical, emotional, mental and even spiritual selves, reminding us of how good we can feel when able to link back into a more embodied sense of who we are. Such treatments clear us on an energetic level and help settle and calm our emotional field. Feeling this peace we are able to connect to something greater – the natural world around us. It is interesting to note that that each classic Chinese meridian ends or begins at either a finger or a toe so that in effect clearing the internal channels is also opening us up into the space that we inhabit. This is why a client often does feel more open after a session. What is happening is that they are now able to sense the field that surrounds them and reconnect (if in the countryside) with the living breathing landscape around them. How can we link into nature? Firstly make the time to do so. Jumbled thoughts and worries can ease away if you just sit down for a while where there are trees and grass. Einstein once stated “Look deeply into nature and you will understand everything better”. A better word in my opinion would have been listen. Find a tree that is drawing your attention. Ask for permission to approach it and feel for a response. Just with the intention of opening up communication, greet it either in your mind or verbally. You might feel you would like to hug it for a while (if no-one is looking!) but remember to always wait for the tree’s response. This could be an inner knowing, a sense of heart connection, a leaf falling into your hand, a sudden breeze - you will know. Another way of connecting is to sit with your back against the tree. Slow down your breathing and visualise roots coming down from your pelvis/base chakra to mingle with the roots of the tree. Once established you may feel an energy that can be seen as white light. Breathing slowly, take the light into your dantien or belly area, then up the spine to the heart, throat, forehead and crown areas so that it emerges like a fountain to fall back into the earth. Keep this flow going for a while and finish by reversing it and sending the energy down the spine, through the roots and back into the earth once again. No hurry and again, feel the connection. Always thank and gift the tree before leaving – a song, a stroke, a hug, something of yourself. By giving yourself and Nature time you will be surprised what you can learn. Trees are the heart of Nature and linking with them can be an ongoing and profound healing for the spirit and soul. It is therefore perhaps not entirely coincidental that the Japanese, who developed shiatsu, are notably very keen on what they call shinrin yoku or “forest bathing”