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The next chapter...

7/4/2012

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The Heart Connection journey started with a sweat lodge and another chapter begins with a sweat lodge at the end of June.  My wonderful soul sisters sent me off in April and Esalen Institute was my first stop on my journey to learn more about creating a retreat center and intentional community.  It was a magical time and I can't wait to incorporate all that I experienced into Dragonfly Healing Center.  After my second sweat lodge at Esalen, I visted our leader at his home.  I was completely floored and honored when he invited me to join the Esselen tribe.  I'm looking forward to becoming a part of this family.  I truly see Esalen Institute as a source of inspiration for us here at Dragonfly Healing Center.

The next stop on my journey is Cambodia.  I will be as a participant in the Buds to Blossoms Pediatric Massage Volunteer Program which will take me to Cambodia. There I and my fellow volunteers will live at a rural AIDS orphanage for two weeks providing gentle massage to over two hundred children with HIV to foster their health, well-being and development.  A number of the children we will care for at the AIDS orphanage were abused, raped and enslaved before arriving there. The children's immune systems are severely compromised, and some have infections which cause painful, disfiguring sores to erupt on their skin. Only a narrow range of treatments for HIV are available in Cambodia, and the children are in danger of developing full-blown AIDS at any time. Newly-orphaned children come into the care of the orphanage on a regular basis and are sometimes emaciated and in the last stage of AIDS.  Our volunteer group will promote the children's health and their chances of surviving HIV infection by providing them with the proven immune system-strengthening effect of gentle massage. The massages we give will also help relieve the children's pain and anxiety and meet their emotional needs for nurturing contact with caring adults.

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    Melissa Green, MS, MA is
    the Founder of Dragonfly Healing Center and is an integrative health counselor and meditation teacher aka Happiness Consultant.  Dragonfly Healing Center holds space for people of all walks of life to heal holistically. Currently the center holds workshops and retreats to help people reconnect with their inner light and find their meaning, purpose, and true happiness in life. 

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