Newsletter

From the Editor
Erica Connolly

It seems we’re being called on at this time to be ‘authentic’, to be our ‘true selves’, to get clear about who we are and what we’re about. I know this came up for Colourworks as a whole recently, and it seems to be a theme for many Colourworks teachers and practitioners I’m speaking with. And along with that come some questions. What is our role as teachers, as healers, as therapists? What are our strengths and our skills and how can we best use those? What are the aspects of our work that fill us with joy? And what are those that challenge us? Who are our clients and students and how can we best serve them? What sort of assistance can we best give them while empowering them to find their own answers?

Colourworks holds up a mirror to our deepest subconscious, and whether we look in that mirror is, of course, up to us. But if we’re to work with this system authentically then we are continually asked to be brave enough to do just that. And often times once we’ve recognised the face we see there and said hello to it, welcomed it – even if it appears to be pretty ugly on the surface – it begins to show us its beauty. We see how it has been serving us. We see how it is offering us an opportunity to heal old wounds and grow and learn. We see how it shows us where we do not want to go any more and opens the door to a new pathway.

And as we do this we learn how, and then we can teach others. We need to have walked the path ourselves before we can guide another along it. So part of living authentic lives, and part of being an authentic teacher or therapist, is to be with our ‘stuff’ as it comes along. It needn’t be all hard work. It can even become quite funny at times, recognising the old faces leering at us in the mirror (if we don’t take ourselves or them too seriously). We can then smile at them and say ‘oh hello old friend, what are you doing back here? Something more to offer me? OK then, bring it on’. We invariably find then that it’s much simpler and quicker to look unflinchingly and accept what is, and to allow and accept rather than resist and fight. Then it gives way with rather more grace and we are able to move ahead lighter than before.

Enjoy this issue and as always we welcome your feedback and comments.

With love and blessings
Erica

The True Purpose of Colourworks
Melissie Jolly

In a four-way conversation with the teacher trainers in England (Moira, Erica and Amanda) the question arose as to what are we really about in the world. I went to my Mayan Oracle and drew a card. The question was "What is the role of Colourworks in the world?"

I was rather shocked to draw the card Cauac (pronounced Ka wak). It spoke about an "initiation by fire" and described so exactly how everyone was feeling that I thought it would be helpful to share some of its information in the newsletter.

The qualities of Cauac are:

Purification
Transformation
Reunion
Activation for ascension
Initiation by fire
Ecstasy of freedom

Take a moment to just feel those words and you will see how important what we are doing is. We are not practising baby spirituality. This is the real thing and it is about transformation. And what is being transformed are all our old patterns. And it’s not just the stuff we picked up as children in this lifetime, it’s from every lifetime that led up to this one. Right now everything is accelerating at such a level that it is not surprising that things are not always easy and flowing. Every bit of a block in our psyches is now coming to the fore so that it can be dealt with before we go through the gate.

Our bodies are literally being changed so that they can hold more light so that we will not be fried by the higher frequencies. And because it does not feel like anything we are accustomed to, we then go "I feel strange" and the body creates the event so that it can explain the strangeness. So you might have a sudden crisis - health, emotional or financial - so that your body can feel safe with what it is experiencing. "I feel terrible because I had a fight with my partner" feels much safer to your body, than "I feel terrible because my vibration is changing." An argument is an argument, but to the body a vibration changing could be death…

As our bodies are being prepared for this new energy we are going through what feels like body shock after body shock. You might suddenly have huge amounts of excess energy or be bone tired for no reason. You might have unexplained aches and pains and strange electrical tingles in your head as your light-sensitive pineal and pituitary glands are being activated. Try not to label them as pain and try not to resist.

According to the Mayan Calendar we are coming to the end of a twenty-six -thousand-year cycle. And this ends in 2012, in just 5 years time, and we chose to be here now.... We have chosen to participate in a miracle - the ascension of the planet - in our lifetime.

So how does Colourworks fit into any of this?

What we have is an amazing implement that lifts the vibration without scaring the body. It is a tangible thing that can be felt, smelt and experienced and it supports the lifting of the vibration to the next level. It allows the body to feel safe while the frequencies are shifting. It is a physical tool to activate the light body. And it does it as gently as you will allow. If your belief is that life is hard, you will still experience the tough side, but you are now so evolved that you can choose to feel pain or experience pressure. You are labelling your experiences and then getting to feel the label.

Colour is an integral part of this journey. Allow your knowing of colour to move you forward and support you on your journey to your authentic self. Trust and develop this ancient sacred language. It is encoded in your cells and if you allow it, it will give you a sense of union, transcendence and expanded perception. Into your hand you were given a gift that is here to help you activate your Divine Self. The water fraction washes away the old patterns and the oil smoothes the journey forward.

Metatronic Healing
Pippa Merivale

It’s young, it’s ancient, it’s radical, it’s powerful. It really does seem to be changing lives at a depth that most of us hadn’t believed possible. This new healing gift from Metatron removes ancient traumas, destructive emotions, limiting beliefs, from deep inside the cellular memory – which means from right inside the body. It digs issues out by the roots: if that sounds rough, it’s not. The Metatronic ‘team’, a group of seven energies – opalescent, iridescent, pastel, fabulously supported by the new Colourworks Metatron set – does the whole thing with amazing gentleness and grace. The feedback is unanimous: Metatron has given us a method of release that goes deeper than anything we’ve previously experienced; and the evidence so far is that clearance is permanent.

Level One of the practitioner training is for deep cellular release; Level Two is to nourish and fill the spaces that have been cleared, restoring the blueprint, pumping up the vital force. More details and a new diary of Metatron-related events will soon be available on: www.Color4Power.com. There are numerous practitioners now in the UK. For a listing please visit Pippa’s website www.Color4Power.com

Metatronic Practitioner Training
Erica Connolly

Having just experienced two weekend workshops to complete Level One of the practitioner training I can tell you Metatronic Healing is something else. It does what it says on the packet. It’s a way of working with people that seems to complete something we didn’t even know we were missing. And I love how seamlessly it interweaves with Colourworks, which is, after all, my true passion. The depth of clearing experienced by those on the course and the beauty and power of the ‘transmissions’ from the energies was profound. For myself and for the clients I’ve worked with I’ve found it to be swift, deep and most of all freeing. Mostly what gets cleared out of our bodies during this process is ancient and the after-effects of letting go of something that’s been part of our beings for eons can be quite something. But with the use of the wonderful new Metatronic colour essences the body can be released from any shock that may occur and the process itself ensures we are held and supported through the release.

Metatron: Divine Blueprint
Melissie Jolly

In working with the Metatron essence you are aligning with your soul star which is the Magenta energy centre above your head. That is the bit that holds your spiritual blueprint. In your spiritual blueprint is the perfection your soul set up for this lifetime's journey. The moment you align with the frequency of Metatron, you are linked up to the basic frequency that restores the pattern of perfection in your life.

In a meditation we do with the Wood essence to connect with your body elemental, we basically do the same thing. We align with the pattern of perfection that is held in the blueprint of the physical. As the Wood essence is olive green which is the complementary colour of the Magenta we are then back to the body's inability to recognise the difference between the two. So Wood or Metatron will both activate the frequency of perfection. There is more and more information that is proving that our physical and spiritual bodies are different frequencies of the same thing just as the magenta and the olive are different frequencies of the same thing.

Midsummer Madness
Amanda Bradbury, Astrologer

The recent flooding in Yorkshire and Cornwall in the UK may seem extraordinary given that it happened in the middle of June, but there is an astrological explanation! Not only did this happen shortly after the summer solstice, but also June 25th marked the third and final clash between Neptune God of the sea, and Saturn, representing earthbound matter. Literally this is about washing away defences and releasing what is restricting us or holding us back. This combination can also be interpreted as the marriage of spirit and matter or bringing heaven to earth.

Some of you may have received the e-mail from Patricia Cota-Robles and Shelley Yates describing July 17th as a day of cosmic opportunity. Astrologically this is because it represents the second time that Pluto, planet of evolution, passes over a point called the galactic centre. Though recently demoted from being a planet, Pluto is no less powerful and this represents a time of profound cosmic significance. The long journey of Pluto through Sagittarius has brought up issues to do with truth, power, religion, spirituality and education in a particularly intense and transformational way. This is a pivotal time in terms of getting to the heart of issues that affect us all on a global and universal level and we are invited to place our focus on peace, oneness and healing.

Shelley requests that people meditate for one hour on July 17th at 11.11 am GMT (4.11 am PDT, 7.11 am EDT) and I recommend reading her amazing story on www.firethegrid.org. She talks of humanity as being finally in a position to connect ourselves back to the collective grid that will unite the Divinity within every man, woman and child and reconnect humanity directly with our Source, All That Is.

“This plan involves only one hour from each of us. Our combined energies will work to direct energy to the Earth and to each other. I ask you to choose the way in which you deliver your intention. For those of you that pray, then pray for the hour asking for the faith and power to accomplish this tremendous task. Those of you who meditate, meditate and see the intention of your thoughts swirling deep inside our Earth, delivering the love and healing.

Those of you who have no ritual of faith may simply develop one that works for you. You may sit quietly and repeat a phrase of your intention, such as `I offer you my energy to heal this world and its people.’ Any positive words of hope, love and desire for change will manifest these thoughts as reality – our new reality.

If possible gather with others during this hour. I have found that the intensity of meditation heightens when I am sharing the experience with other people.”

If I had to suggest Colourworks bottles to use during this time it would be 36, the Gateway bottle, that is so much about our process during 2007; 6 Venus that represents the love that lies at the centre of everything; and C12 the new heart chakra bottle that combines the lilac of 36 and the pink of 6 and brings us into oneness and an acceptance of all that is.

Pluto makes its third and final connection to the galactic centre on the 27th October. This is a time of completion for this cycle, although the effects will ripple out for months, years, maybe eons beyond this.

Coral: The Colour of True Love
Elizabeth Morgan

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." — Buddha

I teach classes on a wide variety of subjects and regardless of the topic, I usually begin by having students select and use a Colourworks spray. I then explain the bottle’s meaning so they understand their choice.

As Amanda pointed out above, astrologically a lot of things have been stirring people up to prod change, so I’ve been a little surprised to find my students overwhelmingly reaching for the coral sprays. Usually in periods of transformation people reach for pink (comfort) or green (anxiety relief and space), but this season, coral makes perfect sense.

With the Saturn-Neptune opposition forcing people to look beneath their illusions and ask what is real in their life, coral is beneficial for easing the grip on how we distract ourselves by eating too much, drinking, shopping, watching too much TV, complaining, etc. Coral brings the support, comfort and wholeness that says you don’t need something outside yourself to feel good.

The key to coral’s popularity this season lies within the message of Juno, the coral Unicorn. The colour coral heals unrequited love, but the worst heartbreak is usually self-inflicted. We judge, criticise, belittle and under-value ourselves worse than anyone else ever could. Juno reminds us that if God is perfect then we must be perfect exactly as we are for we are God’s creations. Even our so-called flaws are perfect because they teach us resilience, compassion, etc.

“Not good enough” is one of the core wounds hiding in the subconscious of most people, but it is as much of a lie as “the earth is flat.” Coral in all its forms can help heal the primal wound of abandonment and separation that comes with taking on these earthly bodies. Its gentle wisdom can wash away our attachment to seeing ourselves as unworthy and damaged. Too often we seek validation through the approval of others. Allow coral to help you love and approve of yourself, and you will naturally begin to connect with others who will appreciate your magnificence.

Summer is the season to have fun, so embracing the playfulness of the Coral Angel can help you lighten up and enjoy life, in addition to coral’s other benefits. Juno will help you release judgement and heal on a soul level. As Marianne Williamson writes, “As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Revel in the lusciousness of coral and fall in love with yourself!

Colourworks in Slovenia
Moira Bush

Barbara Piškur runs a shop called Star Elysium in the heart of the old town in Slovenia’s capital city of Ljubljana. In May Barbara invited Colourworks to present the Colour 1 & 2 courses and to establish a centre for bottle distribution for Slovenia and Croatia.

There were 8 students, a mixture of scientists, doctors, chemists, professors and alternative practitioners. Metka our interpreter was also the translator of the Colour Works book into Slovenian language – an experience she said led to huge processing as she recognised aspects of her life in the language of colour.

On our first day bottle 5’s top fraction (green) turned pale blue/turquoise. So I set aside this bottle, placing a new bottle 5 in the row of teaching bottles. On the last day of training this bottle also turned its top fraction into pale blue/turquoise. So we ended up with two bottles that looked like bottle 35, the Korean bottle. Participants had bottles 32 and 35 in common during their readings. When Tadeja explained the history of Slovenia I realised it was just like the story of South Korea. The conscious green (top fraction) became pale blue/turquoise which is the healing and bringing in of the peace, trust and ending the cycles of sibling rivalry and persecution. On my day off, Leja and her husband Thomas drove Barbara and I to a town called Bled. It has a huge green lake, forests and a castle.. There we all realised that the colours being reflected to us were bottle 35. So Barbara and Leja decided to bath in the converted bottles 5 that night.

Before I left the UK I selected a card from Doreen Virtue’s Ascended Masters pack for Slovenia and ‘White Buffalo Calf Woman’, the Peace Offering card came up. This card is about world peace and bringing heaven and earth together. All was confirmed when on my arrival Barbara said she had a special candle to burn called White Buffalo Woman and when Leja arrived she spoke about an event she had organised for a world peace meditation on the 20th of May and how she felt it was driven by White Buffalo Woman! I joined some of the students on the 20th during our lunch break to attend this meditation in Tivoli Park. So bottle 5/35 and White Buffalo Woman clearly indicated a new era of peace.

During my visit I was introduced to Branka, a scientist running the Bion Institute in Slovenia. Branka is going to create water crystals of pink and yellow from the Colourworks system some time in the future. We do not know whether this will work or what colour water crystals will look like, but as soon as we have the pictures we will let everyone know. Branka’s institute has created man-made synthetic materials that hold information like water. For example to stop smoking there is a device called a ‘Tul’ that you breathe air instead of smoke through and a ‘Peace Stone’ that when you touch it helps to calm you. Visit website: www.bioval.si

Blue and Green Bottles for a Blue and Green Planet
Melissie Jolly

All around the planet, it seems, green Colourworks bottles are turning blue. Anna, my helper, when I told her this, said "Maybe they are talking to one another around the world." Interesting that the green of the heart is turning blue, the colour of communication. The throat is opening like a chalice so that the energy coming in can reach the heart. The light is poured in through a funnel shape into the heart and then moves outward from the heart through the throat. Communication then comes from such a heartfelt space that it creates loving manifestation.

There is a quality of sound here as what was hidden in the heart has the opportunity to be brought out in the open through the throat and sound creates a resonance. If you sound a tuning fork all the others of the same resonance will begin to vibrate - Anna was right, they are talking to each other. And what they are doing is working towards peace in our green space. The essence of information is not its content but its resonance. And we can only take it in if we are in the same resonance. Truth rings. And your body gets it if the resonance is in tune. So for the green to turn blue it has to remove the yellow - so less confusion and fear - less "My will" and more "Thy will". And as it is the top fractions changing – the conscious fractions – therefore we can hold more peace in our consciousness. So everything is moving towards a resonant field of peace as our bottles keep chatting to one another around the planet.

As we are moving closer to 2012 we are going to see more and more strange things. We are moving to a time that was predicted 26 000 years ago and we are almost there. What I think is going to happen is that it might be like 1987, which was when the Harmonic Convergence happened. Many people knew about it and expected all sorts of weird and wonderful things to happen. It seemed as if that day came and went and nothing changed. But looking back, many of the first channelled books were published in 1988. So much information came pouring in from that time onwards that it is obvious that a huge gateway opened and everything changed. We are now moving towards something much, much bigger and we are in the most fortunate position that we have front row seats. In our connection to the colours we are able to see what is happening very visibly. So notice what your bottles are doing. The green turning blue is just the beginning.

I have so often asked myself "What am I doing here?" and now there is a little bubble in my solar plexus that feels as if it is saying, "Just wait and see what you have been part of. Just watch what you have had the grace to come and experience". This is a time of signs and symbols for those that can interpret them and colour is a huge - in fact the most visible - of the signs, and we are part of that. What a gift and what a joy to be part of this community of souls that came to be the interpreters of the rest of the journey.

Movement and Stillness: Colour and Chi Kung
Clara Apollo and Erica Connolly

The connections between colour and Chi Kung may not be immediately obvious but having run three separate workshop days combining these two ancient systems we have been amazed at how beautifully they have blended. Both are forms of energy work which impact our senses, our bodies, our emotions and our spirits. Both bring awareness at deeper levels which can be sometimes subtle and sometimes decidedly powerful. Both encourage flow. And the interplay between them brings something quite unique: movement and stillness working together from within and without.
Chi Kung (pronounced chee gung) has its roots in ancient China. As part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the emphasis is on natural body movements to de-stress the body and bring you and your body into natural alignment. This allows you to connect with your centre of true energy and gives the opportunity for the Chi/Qi to flow.

Chi Kung is a whole system which can be used and learned to underpin anything you want to do in life. Chi/Qi is universal healing energy, not the sort you strive for, rather the kind that is just there if you give yourself the time and space to allow it. Chi flow is impeded in a tense body, so the movements, such as shaking and circling the joints, begin to open up a new space to bring you into the here and now. And this is where we bring in the colour…

Chi Kung prepares the mind/body/spirit for colour energies to flow. We move, we release, and then we are still; standing or sitting to gather and notice the subtler movements that are occurring within us. The combination of colour meditations and active energy movement balances the physical with the spiritual.

Colour is like a key or trigger to the mind/body/spirit. It opens areas which may not have felt safe before, it helps with deeper blockages which when unblocked can transform. And it then allows in refreshing Chi to heal and energise, bringing us into a truer relationship with ourselves.
Each of the workshops has a theme, inspired by the season we are in and its corresponding element. So in spring we worked with the Wood element and the colour green, and hence the Wood bottle and other green coloured bottles. The latest workshop centred around summer, fire and the colours red/orange/gold. The workshop room is set up to reflect the appropriate colours for the element and the season.

(Fire Element Workshop set-up)

What happens as we combine these beautiful and powerful systems is that we begin to remember. We have memories of how colour makes us feel, and how certain movements seem just right, as if some long ago ancient knowledge within has been given the light of day. Participants on the workshops often have deep revelations about themselves, and as the day unfolds this new/old knowledge can begin to become integrated into their realities. Integrating the work into the body lets it resonate on a cellular level, something we really got when working with the Wood element, doing twisting movements, using the Wood essence and running the Wood meditation. In one exercise we did some self healing by beaming energy into the liver with our hands. We then sprayed the Wood essence into our palms and noticed how this changed and amplified the healing experience.

Colour heightens our awareness, gives us insights and information. Chi Kung encourages the flow to where it is needed and carries the colour deeper and faster than might otherwise be the case. And quite apart from anything else, connecting with outrageously gorgeous colours while moving our bodies in ways that are natural and harmonious is simply a lovely way to spend a day!
The next workshop on 1 September will focus on the Earth element. Contact Erica or Clara to find out more (erica@ericonnect.co.uk or claraapollo@mac.com)

What God Wants, Neale Donald Walsh
Book Review by Moira Bush

In this thought-provoking read, Neale uses his trademark style so that anyone who loved the “Conversations with God” books will enjoy this one too. He uses humour and brings in the unexpected, and always the message is simple to read and understand. I have lately been asking God in my conversations: “So what do I do next? What is expected of me?” So of course this book came into my life at the right time. What if what we think God wants and what is truth are two different things? Neale explores the origins of our concept of God and challenges them, every single one of them, even the one about Thy Will versus My Will. Some might find the beginning of the book a little boring as it revisits the many reasons most of us left our religious indoctrination behind and moved into a new spiritual awareness, but persevere, it is simply setting the stage for the second half of the book which is very clever. Neale will have you seriously thinking about your ideas of who God is and your purpose in life. Highly recommended and especially good to read while bathing in bottle 11, the bottle most accurately reflecting God’s colours in the Colourworks system.