People have asked me what, in particular, a healing circle is, or what I mean in general with the term healing. While I don't define myself as a healer (yet), I'm in the journey of providing assistance to others.
The term healing is primarily coming from one of the first encounters in my spiritual enlightenment, meaning sound healing sessions, gong baths primarily. But all started years before, on a random afternoon outside Bristol (UK), where I've been playing with my kids on a sort of vertical xylophone made of pipes, which stuck in my mind until, years later, I got my first swinging chime. Gongs have been a sort of religious item that I kept looking at them with admiration and profound respect for a long time, dare to get closer, impossible to stop staring at them. Their oscillations in the room, even when no one is touching them, always created a connection between my spirit and them. The energy I got out of those sessions has been extremely captivating and channeling, an auspicious sign of the not-so-later regular Kundalini practice. Since then, and building up over the course of time, I've been exploring the paths of sounds with the intention of creating safe spaces and diffuse gentle energy.
The term circle is instead grounded mainly on the various ceremonial settings I've attended, but also on specific workshops, dances and practises that required both an opening and a closing ritual in a circular arrangement. I've been recognising (and somehow forgetting) how such a setting has been influencing my mood, feelings and emotions. For how much counterintuitive could sound, and how much could tell of myself, I've felt extremely open to share my true self (sat nam) in those contexts, where the majority, if not all, of the participants were strangers. I truly believe that sharing is the first step towards healing. Not only the circle makes me at ease with others, but creates a genuine tension that I've not experienced before, at least not in quiet and still environment. But even when standing up, when introducing touches, hugs and smiles, the power of the circle feels strong.
Unity, wholeness, harmony.