{"id":232,"date":"2005-04-13T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=232"},"modified":"2005-04-13T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T20:34:00","slug":"apricot-hill-farm-honingklip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/apricot-hill-farm-honingklip\/","title":{"rendered":"Apricot Hill Farm, Honingklip"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thursday, April 7, to Wednesday, April 13, 2005<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * * * * *<br \/>      Food: * * * * *<br \/>      Ambience: * * * * *<br \/>      Babe Count: * * * * *<\/i>       <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the gorgeous and gifted Anthea Hardwick, I am now a level 2       Hawaiian ka huna masseur. These past six days have been an absolutely       intense and wonderful set of days. Hardcore physical work, but even more       work in the emotional realm.<\/p>\n<p>Just so you know, I&#8217;m now as highly qualified in the art of ka huna       massage as most masseurs working in salons around the country. As soon as       I get a massage table, I&#8217;ll be offering my services professionally. At       first, I&#8217;ll be scheduling two or three massages a week. Each session is an       hour and a half. And in my experience, once you&#8217;ve had a ka huna massage,       you won&#8217;t want any other kind of massage. That&#8217;s what happened to me.<\/p>\n<p>About five years ago, I visited the Festival of Out of Mind, Body and       Soul (okay&#8230; private joke&#8230; it&#8217;s actually called the Festival of Body,       Mind and Spirit), and Anthea had a stall set up there, with massage beds.       And she was offering free sample massages. So I took the bait, got a       sarong on, stripped down to nothing BUT the sarong in the middle of this       festival, got on the bed, and Kearn Bamber gave me fifteen minutes of the       best massage I&#8217;d experienced until then. Wow!<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s more than that. Since I was around 11 years old, I&#8217;ve been       mystically inclined, and somewhat psychic. But I&#8217;m also a major skeptic.       So I tend to buck against New Age stuff. Most practitioners of new age       mumbo jumbo realllllly piss me off. Many are well-meaning, and really do       have some gifts. But a lot are plain ole charlatans out for a buck.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve really spent much of my life resisting being a shaman. I&#8217;ve       read tarot since I was a kid. I&#8217;ve channeled my healing abilities by       volunteering and training as a crisis counsellor. People tend to come up       to me and tell me things they tell noone else.<\/p>\n<p>       And then, several years ago, I came across Serge Kahili King&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671683071\/barefootpress\/104-9643511-3372750?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&amp;link%5Fcode=xm2\">URBAN        SHAMAN<\/a>. And when I read it, it was like some sort of homecoming. I        identified with all of the mystical practices he talks about. The vision        questing. The way he harnesses energy. And I kinda knew that sooner or        later I&#8217;d have to follow this path.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am, a ka huna masseur, following my mystical path.<\/p>\n<p>The training itself. Wow. Level 1, we worked on the back of the body. A       very fiery space to work in. Fast music. Long, hard movements. Really       working with energy and verve. That was the first three days. And I&#8217;ve       sweated a lot. And I&#8217;ve been massaged right into the leather of the       massage table. I am one with the massage table, I tell you! And I&#8217;ve done       my fair share of massaging too. Sheesh. And it&#8217;s VERY high energy work.<\/p>\n<p>Level 2, the next three days, we worked on the front of the body. Much       more intuitive, slower, more careful. It&#8217;s the vulnerable part of the       body. And when women are being worked on by men, it can be quite scary for       them. So it&#8217;s very delicate, and totally non-sexual.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s me. Much mellower than when I went in. Much more in touch       with my shamanic calling. And ready to do swap massages with other ka huna       masseurs so I can get some practice in both giving and receiving.<\/p>\n<p>If you know of anyone with a massage table they don&#8217;t want anymore,       please let me know. I need one.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh&#8230; the place was self-catering. Which meant that Eduardo, here from Mexico, Anthea&#8217;s        partner, made most of the food. Man, that bloke can        cook! Delicious vegetarian stuff. And tons of fruit. And most of the women        on the training&#8230; total babes. Total.)<\/p>\n<p>(Oh&#8230; and why am I not producing a travel dvd right now? Wellllll&#8230;       the company I was working for kinda didn&#8217;t really have its act together,       and it turned out not to have a business plan, nor startup funding, and       was hoping that somehow, sales would materialise out of nowhere and pay       salaries at the end of the first month. Which it couldn&#8217;t do. Since there       were no sales. So I&#8217;m now prowling for other production work.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. 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