If I had to name some common denominators of what is
underway at 6th
DimensionTM,
I would say that they are "energy", synthesis, a spiritual focus,
a commitment to healing through the arts, movement, and healing practices,
and a deeply felt impulse to take subtle action in respect of humanitarian
and planetary concerns.
Integral to my thirty one years as a creative
artist , which have been very
much focused on light, movement, and spirituality, I have been involved
in other forms of energy arts, especially those from Asia where I
have spent significant periods of my life.
My interdisciplinary impulses saw me involved in Yoga at 15. Finding
Asian movement modalities to be a natural fit for me and living the
idea of "Stillness Within Movement"TM,
I subsequently became involved in Tai Chi and Chi Kung in 1978 and
received grading as an instructor (8th degree) in 1986. This was really
the beginning of my teaching movement as an energy art, for Tai Chi
is often referred to as an internal energy art. Simultaneously, I
studied in depth the healing aspects of Tai Chi and Chi Kung. Many
of the postures have direct beneficial effects on various organs and
ailments.
Later, while living in Japan, I was studying Asian musical instruments
(koto, shamisen, and subsequently ku cheng), as well as becoming involved
in alternative healing modalities. Soon after, building on earlier
undergraduate training in Fine Arts and Graduate training in Material
Anthropology, this interdisciplinary impulse pushed on into a PhD
that spanned cultural and sensory planes, delving into the visual,
musical, and proprioceptive arts and philosophies of Asia, then synthesizing
them with those of the West. As part of this work, I researched the
frequencies of sound, color, light, and subtle frequencies beyond
the reach of human senses.
The genesis of a space for the arts and healing harks back almost
25 years to a time when I helped a chiropractor establish herself
by setting her up in the front section of my art studio, while I continued
with intensive creative work at the rear of the studio. More recently,
significant events in my own life brought me to direct involvement
in healing work as a practitioner, and in 2004 to the manifestation
of a space for the arts and healing where the frequency work continues.
Hence, 6th
DimensionTM
, a space for the arts and healing...
To me, the arts, healing, and spirituality are inseparable, just as
the energy source from which they all spring is indivisible. Unifying
aspects of these all under the umbrella of 6th
DimensionTM
, in several of their forms of expression and manifestation in this
creation - the creative
arts, Tai
Chi, Yoga, Therapeutic Movement,
Polarity Therapy, other
healing work, and other specialized arts still under development for
6th
DimensionTM
- melds these elements into a whole and facilitates making them accessible
to others. Bringing into 6th
DimensionTM
other professionals who are qualified in related areas of expertise
is part of this.
It
is my deepest wish and intention that this space, and the activities
within it, contribute to the planetary shift and uplift that is surging
into manifestation on many levels and in many arenas as part of the
rebalancing of, and on, the planet. It is the ripples-on-a-pond
theory in action...
Old
pond
Frog jumps in
Sound of water...
(Traditional
Japanese Haiku by Basho)
Ranna®
Dr
Ranna-Lesley Lachlan (PhD)