Shifting into Shape with Linda de Villiers by Michelle L. Crowley - Talking Total Health Vol II No 2, 2001.  

My dreams alert me to my habit of arriving at least 10 minutes late for everything that is important to the evolution of my Soul essence. With intent I manage to arrive at the Shape Shifting Workshop conducted by Linda de Villiers with seconds to spare. It is well worth the effort.

Let me put you in the picture. Linda suggests that all of Life is energy that  vibrates at different frequencies. By virtue of this, each  individual on Earth has a unique shape, form or signature made up of an electro-magnetic field of colour, sound and fragrance. As a lattice of interlacing energies, or a Light Body, if we want to change the shape of our lives when things are not working out for us, we must let go of the baggage that obstructs the free flow of electro-magnetic energy. We can shift this baggage very easily using sound, breath, and movement, says Linda.

Chakras are energy centres or vortexes that are located on the body, and it is the chakra system that  generates our electro-magnetic field. We take energy from our world through the front of a chakra and release this energy from the back. These energy centres may be off balance, torn, tilted or closed due to shock, trauma,  abuse, and negative thinking patterns. All the time, says Linda, we are setting up energy patterns. Fear, for instance, lowers the frequency with which we vibrate, while Love increases the frequency, bringing us closer to who we truly are.

Essentially, says Linda, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. The paradox of this is that in order to become our Light Bodies we need to keep ourselves grounded. Our bodies are the bridge between Heaven and Earth. For those of us who have wished, and perhaps still wish, to float off on a petuli cloud, this is disappointing news. But it is Truth. It is through honouring the ground of our being, our bodies, that we make Heaven on Earth manifest.

The first part of the workshop involves activating the chakras, or seven energy vortexes on the body, with physical positions, toning, breathing and fragrance. I understand the point of this. Setting our intent, as we Metaphysicians are so fond of calling it, involves more that just giving our Celestial Friends (or whatever we call them) a list of our wants, needs and desires. Setting our intent also means stepping toward what it is that we want. It is easy to fantasize and then change our minds. To step towards something, or take action, suggests commitment to the new dream or vision. So while I get my lefts and rights all mixed up, I gently jog my signature, or unique lattice of electro-magnetic energy, into consciousness.

Linda then introduces us to a selection of Aura-Soma bottles. For each session the selection is unique, and several of the bottles have called to be present. There are bottles that honour the Angelic realms, and others that allow us to come to know the primary colours for each of our chakras. In the meditation that follows we are invited to attend to each chakra, to clean and balance them. As we move through the meditation I am surprised at how accurately my body registers my resistance in those chakras where I have already noted a serious blockage, and stated my intent to do something about it. Now I know where the shields are, where I will have to show courage, where I need to walk through my fear. Linda encourages us to let go of the wounds, the mistrust, and the betrayals that stand in the way of loving our Selves.  

Chakra by chakra we clear the dross, let it go, put it behind us. With all seven now balanced and aligned, cleaned out, Linda invites us to cut off the ‘shadow self’ that stood in the way of our wholeness. In my mind’s eye I look behind. I see a scene from a dream - I am grovelling around in chicken shit, wondering if this is how it will always be for me. Clearly not. I have a choice, and I make it. With the sword of Archangel Michael who accompanied us through the meditation, I cut my ties to this shadow self and let go of the sludge through which I have trudged. I release the fears, the guilt, the shame, the betrayals, the pain. It is a psychic spring clean. My energy field is now dusted, washed and vacuumed.

Once clean, balanced and centred, Linda invites us to find our true shape, our particular and unique signature, the reason we came here, our Light Body. To feel into and be with it, and then to find our place in the cosmic lattice, or the electro-magnetic field that surrounds the Earth. Like us, Earth (or Gia) has consciousness. Like us, she dances, moves, shifts, groans and sometimes weeps with her transformations. Her frequency is also changing. Love is also lifting her up out of the dross. To build Heaven on Earth Love must first visit and find cause to anchor here. To find our place on the cosmic lattice is to be a conduit for the Love that will bring us closer to our Selves. To Ascend means to use the body as a bridge between Heaven and Earth, and to allow the new energies on the cosmic lattice, the energy of Love, to flow through rather than just into us. It means to be a conduit for the Truth rather than to hold onto it.

During the first session I did not see my Light Body with consciousness. I am too busy feeling my Self into my new found freedom and remembering to breath.  In my own meditation that evening it crosses my vision. In a second session with Linda I access my Light Body. It calls me to play, and I do, like the child I was once and froze. And the oracles thereafter alert me to a window of opportunity - to embrace this new beginning and create Good with it.