Caring for Self Caring for Others
1.5 Hours
Harmony can be supported and restored beginning with our whole body daily hygiene practices.
As we meet our Self with reverence our inner and outer cleansing practises can transform our wellbeing. Through simple hand washing practices to steam inhalations and compressing face cloths, hand and footbaths our breath and circulation can be invited to restoration.
Whilst carrying an imprint of our whole body our feet also gather us back to our whole. Resting the feet in moist warmth can have a dissolving effect that seeps into the body, helping to create “sensitive chaos”, freeing the way for formative forces to regulate the transformation of the body on all levels. Restoration of order can be invited and even individualised. The enfolding and holding provided through the gift of wrapping, whether being cocooned in silk cloths or woollen roving to rest or having organs held with tea or oil substance wraps to rejuvenate, supports the human being to wholeness.
Lynette Clifton
Lyn is a Community Health Social Worker who combines her anthroposophic wholistic healthcare training to bring home healthcare simply and practically to the daily life of children, parents, carers and teachers.
In the 1980’s Lyn worked with communities and schools across Greater Sydney to provide a range of early childhood formal childcare and support services to families of diverse backgrounds. Lyn was President of the NSW Occasional Child Care Association and an advocate, representative and educator for children’s services policy development and quality Australia wide.
Alongside her own growing family (more than 20 years ago), Lyn took up studies in early childhood at Parsifal College (Sydney Rudolf Steiner College). From this work grew home-based child / parent groups to support young families, and was recognised as complementary to Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School in Sydney. Lyn also studied EduCareDo’s Foundation Year in Anthroposophy and the complementary Towards Health and Healing workshop series with Lisa Romero, which fortified her individual development and directed her towards Inner Work Path. Lyn’s home healthcare practices were refined through studies with the nurses at Taruna College New Zealand’s course Certificate of Holistic Healthcare, and additional training to qualify in practicing Rhythmical Einreibung.
Over these past two to three decades Lyn has been a founding member of numerous initiatives including Anthroposophic Care for the Young Child Association in Sydney, Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner Preschool and Developing the Self Developing the World.
Lyn now specialises in what she names the Mantle of Care, to bring home health care to individuals, families and class groups.
