The Grove Suite   The Winter Gardens   Weston-super-Mare

Saturday 28th November 2009 1 - 5pm.  £35 per person

A handsome certificate will be awarded to all participants & there are CPD points available if required:-

Colour dominates our senses.  We learn at an early age to interpret our environment as much as by colour as by shapes or sound.  We make statements about our mood with the colours we wear, and we can read how our friends feel too, through their colour statement.  The colours we see around us can noticeably affect our state of mind and our feelings.

Ancient Egyptians and Greeks used coloured minerals, stones, crystals, salves, and dyes as remedies, and painted treatment sanctuaries in various shades of colour.

In ancient Greece colour was intrinsic to healing, which involved restoring the balance.  Coloured garments, oils, plasters, ointments and salves were used to treat disease.

Investigations into the therapeutic use of colour were carried out in Europe during the early 20^th century, notably by Rudolph Steiner, who related colour to form, shape, and sound.  He suggested that the vibrational quality of certain colours is amplified by some forms, and that certain combinations of colour and shape have either destructive or regenerative effects on living organisms.  In the schools inspired by Steiner's work, classrooms are painted and textured to correspond to the mood of children at various stages of their development.

From as far back as the days of the legendary lost city of Atlantis, through the ancient Mayan and Hebrew civilizations, and including Far Eastern and Native American cultures, crystals and gemstones have been used both in spiritual rituals and as aids to physical healing.

Today the practice of using stones and crystals continues. Not only with the aboriginal shamans of Australia who use stones to commune with spirits, but with ordinary people across the world who claim extraordinary results.

How do crystals work? No one seems to know for sure. Tales tell that they were first used in Atlantis. Crystals became important to the people of that civilization who believed in their capacity to store and amplify any power source fed into them - physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. Practitioners of modern-day crystal therapy believe that the stones' ability to work as conductors allow them to focus energy via a person's thoughts to stimulate healing - both physical and non-physical.

Come along to this workshop and find out much more and try everything out for yourself.

Book online on http://www.healingstonesamulets.com/