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![]() ![]() In the '1st World of Awareness/Reality' MA-URI® is a craft that uses massage as the tool to promote and enhance health within our physical body as well as within our physical environment. Within this realm the focus is on becoming AWARE of and understanding our body as well as the elements of our physical environment. Only then will we begin to discover who we are as physical beings living in a physical world. Bearing the ultimate goal of Freedom in mind, MA-URI® as a tool is used to identify and relieve dis-ease, imbalance and tension through a process of cleansing, energising and harmonising the body. The very first syllable of MA-URI draws attention to these key concepts. In Maori 'ma' means pure and free a.o., indicating that in order to promote and enhance health, a cleansing needs to take place; and what is called for, also, is a process of freeing your body and physical environment of pollution /toxins, dependencies, stress and pain in order to vitalise and harmonise your state of being, your state of reality. Primarily, MA-URI® Massage will facilitate this process within the physical body through a dynamic combination and alignment of the following elements: Touch, movement, rhythm, sound, placement, position, timing, focus and awareness. The focus and energy of the Basic MA-URI® Massage System has been developed for this purpose and is particularly effective in this respect. Within the realms of the 1st World of Reality, the basic MA-URI® Massage is concerned with the physical body, pushing blood and lymph through the body to vitalise, cleanse and energise it. In this realm the focus is on what blockages, stress and impurities are locked within the muscles of the body. All focus and awareness is on reading the signs and messages of the body through your physical senses, i.e. hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste. You listen for the sounds, the sighs, the moans and groans etc., indicating that tension, stress and memories are being released and the body is going through its cleansing. You look for movements, skin colour, texture, sweat and you read the body in fine detail to determine where and how the imbalance, the stress, the restriction or pain is expressed. As your arms sweep over the body you feel all the different textures and where the body is hard or soft and where it is warm or cold. Action energy (= male energy) is used to activate change and relief. Continuous, long sweeping movements designed to cover large areas of the body follow the rhythm of the music and create a cleansing and harmonising effect within the body. The basic MA-URI® Massage has the ability to leave the body refreshed, vitalised, cleansed and harmonised and it is used for that purpose. The basic massage system approaches the body as the doorway that opens up to the mind, the psyche and to the spirit. Furthermore, when a person wishes to deal with his or her physical environment, MA-URI® becomes a tool to promote and enhance health, harmony and prosperity within those areas of life – like f.inst. the person's financial situation, employment, residence etc. This is done by activating locked up resources, creativity and courage, and thus creating a new awareness & understanding of what, how, when and why. When this happens, then action and realignment can take place, which will lead to personal freedom and harmony in relationships on all levels - our relationship with other people, with money, our job, our home etc. and with Nature. Just like the physical alignment of the body and the emotional alignment of the psyche bring harmony within those realms, the same principle is applied to the environment as well. The focus is here to direct the energies of the land to harmonize with the buildings and with the people who live there. Furthermore, the focus within the building is to direct the energy to move freely through the different energy designs of each room to enhance and contribute to the well-being of the inmates. These principles are also referred to as 'geomancy' or Feng shui and refers to the art of placement and alignment to create harmony with Nature, with the environment of natural and man-made structures. More than that, it is a way of being and a way of relating to everything around you, relating to Nature. It is a way that acknowledges the principle that everything is related to everything. ![]()
In the '2nd World of Awareness/Reality', MA-URI® is a medium to a profound understanding and awareness of Self, an understanding of who you are, what you are, where you come from and where you are going - from an emotional, subjective perspective. This is where MA-URI® Bodywork comes in to work on the emotional body, putting an emphasis now on the choice of music, the pressure and speed of touch, the continuity of movement, the introduction of key words, the use of dance, movement, breathing systems and on sound and voice empowerment. Together, these become powerful media to release tension, cleanse, transform and harmonise the emotional body or realm. In this realm MA-URI® becomes a medium to an expanded and accelerated sensitivity of self, creating a deeper awareness of who we are. It is here that an understanding of the principle is conveyed to us that everything is related to everything. ![]()
In the '3rd World of Awareness/Reality', MA-URI® is a spring that draws its 'water', its energy and sacred knowledge from a Pleiadean source of Huna by way of the ancestors. It is within this realm that the depth and very nature of MA-URI reveals itself to provide and enhance multi-dimensional understanding and experiences. It will reveal itself through symbols and parables, appearing before you in the symbolic figure of the Navigator and Pathfinder. In moments of prayer, ceremony and sacred actions its presence may be felt within the confines of your clinic, training room or out of doors in Nature. Blessed be those moments where we ask of the Spirit To be nurtured by the Land & GROW To be shone upon by the Stars & REMEMBER To be empowered by the Dream & SAIL To be danced by the Spirit & KNOW To be touched by Love & HEAL To be blessed by the Ancestors & WALK the Truth of who we are. Katja Fox ©2000-2001 MA-URI® Institute, Centre for MA-URI® Healing Arts. All rights reserved. |