Yesterday evening, I did distant meditation/healing with my friend, Sara, from Italy, for Anna who has recently passed away.
I became friends with Sara during the craniosacral therapy course I took in Italy in 2017.
It was my first time in Italy other than as a tourist, and I was nervous at first.
Sara, sitting next to me, kindly spoke to me, but I couldn't speak Italian, and she could barely speak English, so the conversation didn't continue.
Then, Anna, an Italian Aura-Soma teacher who spoke fluent English, helped us communicate.
Sara and Anna had attended courses together in various parts of Italy, and they seemed to have a bond that went beyond that of teacher and student.
Anna invited me to have lunch with Sara. It didn't take long for me to feel that Sara and I could become good friends even by communication using broken words.
Since then, we had occasionally contacted with each other by email, and it was last June I wanted to send Sara an email to say happy birthday but her email address was no longer used.
I contacted Anna and she let me know Sara's new email address.
Then I found out that Sara was in the middle of difficult situations.
As I was also in the difficulty, being about to have surgery for breast cancer, I suggested sending each other healing in distance.
I told Anna about our healing project and asked her to join us. She replied, "Both you and Sara are with me in my heart."
According to Sara, Anna had been ill for about a year, so Anna must have been feeling unwell at the time of the healing six months ago, but she said nothing about herself.
Then it was Christmas time when I got contact with Sara, and I was informed of the news of Anna. Sara was very shocked, and I suggested another distant healing we did yesterday.
Soon after starting the meditation with my dog yesterday, I felt the presence of Sara and Anna nearby. I realized that Sara also started.
Then I felt a great energy surrounding Sara, Anna, me, and my dog, as if we had been in a very loving and spacious space.
There was something that had been bothering me all day yesterday, but the energy of love was so big and all-encompassing that I forgot about it.
I felt that my range of perception and awareness, was broadened, and that both Anna and Sara were of big love.
Then, I felt my gratitude towards Anna was rising from my heart and thought that love and gratitude were essentially the same energy.
Craniosacral therapy relieves tension in the brain and sacrum, regulating the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the spine.
During the meditation, I recalled that some long-standing stagnation in my life was resolved after taking the course in Italy.
By receiving sessions of the craniosacral therapy, I was able to clear the past, reset my life, and move forward.
Finally, I would like to mention that taking a course always luckily occurs by chance.
I did my level 1 course of the craniosacral therapy in Australia in 2016, looking forward to joining level 2 course in the next year, which was unexpectedly cancelled at the beginning of the year 2017.
Then my teacher Maria let me know that level 2 course would be held in the same year in Italy, and I decided to travel to Italy.
When I did the course in Italy in 2017, all the students were looking forward to level 3 course being held, but it never happened since Aura-Soma system changed in 2018.
I gradually came to accept that I would no longer be able to learn craniosacral therapy from Maria, but my desire to learn it again never faded.
New opportunity has suddenly come to me to learn from Sarah whom I once learnt Aura-Soma from in Tasmania in 2019.
Although the craniosacral therapy she is teaching is not the same as the one I learnt from Maria, I wanted to learn from her for brush-up of my skills.
I had been waiting for a long time, and finally last year, I received a message from Sarah that the course would be held in March 2025.
During the time I did distant healing with Sara yesterday, I reflected on my journey since I started to learn this therapy.
I feel fortunate to have joined the courses in Australia and Italy, and to attend the new course held in Tasmania this March.
I am grateful to Sara in Italy, Anna in heaven, Maria and Sarah, my two teachers of craniosacral therapy, and all people I met during my journey so far.
I hope to keep practicing craniosacral therapy, deepening my learning, and updating my sessions this year.