dates, music and messages to mill about

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Fiona's Art with Heart photo collage, artwork by Fiona McIlwain + Anne Green .
Monday evening 23 May I will be leading an introduction to Wholebody Focusing at The (amazing and enduring - 42 years strong!) Relaxation Centre of Queensland in Alderley. Bookings through the Relaxation Centre website or office on 3856 3733 .

Also! Our last CHANGES Group for this semester is coming up on Sun arvo 5 June at the Quakers in Kelvin Grove. I plan to offer an exploration of the H.O.W. We Heal Community Wellness model of Focusing, as taught by Suzanne L. Noel, founder of Recovery Focusing. Entry by donation, all welcome.

On Easter Sunday I was blessed to be amongst the 16 musicians that launched the Piano Mill - a mind~eye~ear boggling structure in the bush outside Stanthorpe - with the premiere of composer Erik Griswold's piece 'All's Grist that Comes to the Mill'.

The realization of a dream by architect Bruce Wolfe, the Piano Mill is a copper-clad tower that houses 16 unrestored vintage pianos (2 pianos x 4 walls x 2 storeys, connected by a chute with ladder). The audience is situated outside and all around this mysterious new venue/instrument. Erik's piece is in turn mesmerising, mechanical, nostalgic and amusing.
To listen: click here (or go via the ABC Classic FM page here) .
To see: visit The Piano Mill on Facebook.

Recently I've been presenting at Fiona's Art with Heart 'My Time' morning art classes for women at Mt Gravatt East. I've been providing a body-centred 'warm-in' to the art making activities (so far, a short form of my Wholebody Wheel of Healing practice) and also playing music-to-make-art-by on the studio's resident piano. I will be presenting at 'My Time' again on Tuesday 24 May and Friday 17 June. Contact Fiona about 'My Time' casual or term attendance, or her holiday and afterschool workshops for children.

I have had poems to write and music to play this last fortnight, and while I have more to say about plans for Foundational and Advanced trainings in Wholebody Focusing, the deets are still forming! In the interim, please make contact if you'd like to discuss these - or other ways we might work together, including one-to-one guided Wholebody Focusing sessions in person or on Skype. With care, Lynette

Image from my 'Artistry of Time' project-in-development.

The growing darkness of this time of year somehow heightens a message which I received seasons ago from intuitive healer and masseuse Jackie at Koru Hub, Island Bay.

I hear her say: 'You can easily access your soul. You breathe and you're there straight away. Feel your soul, that is you'.

I feel: soft breathing, like an angel breathing me.

She says: 'The mind is an unsafe place to be. It thinks it's the boss. That is a scary place to be. The soul is always loving, always encouraging, it is your best mate, it is always with you, guiding you...I like the way your energy is flowing now, it is very nice. How does it feel?'

I sense: Deep green blue peaceful wise. Like a presence far beyond mind is illuminating and breathing me.

I hear: 'Good. That is how it is when your soul is in charge. When someone is in their soul they never stand still, they are always moving. The soul always wants something new, it is always learning, doing, growing. I stay in my soul and I am in the right place doing what is mine to do next. Remember this, then it becomes impossible to be popping in and out all the time. You stay in your soul.'