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The Ride of our Lives: Swami Sister Session

(When we left off, I was checking off last-minute to-do’s and ready to face my day)

My first real “appointment of my day” fell just after my shower (in which it was verboten to wash my hair), and was with my sister Kim. I had requested it months before my wedding day, and knew that despite my procrastinatory disposition, it would be the make-it-or-break-it moment of my pre-ceremony wedding day. Kim is the most incredibly gifted healer that I know, and she generously offered me a craniosacral therapy session the morning of my wedding. I’d had experienced her abiliities before, but never in such extreme circumstances, but this was by far the most profound of them all. I’m no kookyspooks, but Kim can hold her hands over an area of my body, and not only feel my emotions without question, but seemingly exorcise tension from my body and prepare me for any experience with pure openness. Now that is a true gift of healing.

It was an extremely personal session, but I will say that I laughed, I cried, and I worked out any possible many insecurities, discoveries and awakenings that I never even knew existed before this…. it felt like years of therapy were accomplished in an hours’ time. As usual, I stood taller, felt stronger, and more grounded as I moved forward with my day; but the gratitude and connection I felt for Kim can never be surpassed. It was a truly deep and integrated moment among sisters that I will cherish as long as I live.

Kim has studied craniosacral, massage, and structural therapies for many years, and her healing powers are so strong it was mind boggling to me. She’d barely, if even, be touching me for the past hour; and be able to feel me having a thought process or feeling, it was incredible. She would hear me laugh or feel me start to cry, and feel it just as deeply as I would.

That hour before my wedding bound me closer to Kim than I ever dreamed, and prepared my body and soul to be open for the experience of a lifetime. I am so grateful to have had that experience, and had my swami sister there to ready me for every angle of emotion I could have possibly imagined experiencing.

My love, thanks, and gratitude to our family members for their support is unmeasurable. And as I readied to walk the aisle I was more sure footed than ever before.