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At a busy road junction in Wellingborough near the entrance to Morrisons car park, behind the heavy green door that lies at the base of a tall red-brick building with sash windows, solid stone lintels and nothing to distinguish it other than the word CALLISTHERAPY on the windows, lies a different world.
Most people on their first visit comment on the peace and tranquility of the place, the friendliness of the people in it. Some find it healing just to sit in the large seminar room that doubles as a waiting room, absorbing the atmosphere, the space, the light, browsing in the library, drinking tea, in conversation with whoever’s there, or simply reflecting in the stillness. Many come for treatment, several thousand in the seven years since the centre has been open, for bad backs, necks, knees; bad skin, bad fat; bad heads, hearts, guts; bad cells, bad fears, bad sorrow. No one is turned away because they can’t afford it: they pay what they can. Most come from Northamptonshire. Some come from further afield - from Leicester, Worcester, Wales; Cambridge and points east; London, Liverpool or Scotland. One came all the way from Vancouver, another from Hong Kong.
‘We have come together to heal the body, mind and spirit of all those in need,’ runs the mission statement on the notice board, alongside posters for courses, meetings and new events. Often there’s bustle and chatter in reception as people come and go and exchange ideas. The pale blue carpet leads up the stairs to surprisingly spacious rooms for healing on two further levels. Lights are everywhere. The work goes on behind the doors on several levels too: down-to-earth body mechanics, subtle energies; conscious deliberation of life’s choices, unconscious reorganisation and restoration; healing by hand, by word, by sound, by light.
Always there is the challenge of motivation and intention. When you are open, life flows to you. But also there is the need for dedication, balance and vigilance. What you put into something determines what you get out of it. This applies equally to those who come for healing, those who come to learn, those who come to help and those who come to heal.
So the organisation is non-profit making, but bills have to be paid. It’s an association of like-minded people, but there has to be leadership. It’s a Foundation, and people have to build on that foundation. As with any collection of people, there are people struggling with their own issues in their own personal development, clashes of personality and perception to be healed and resolved to move to a higher understanding or to move on to a parting of the ways. People come and go and the light grows. The darkness assails it and the light grows even more.
At its inception it was likened to a bus. You can get on it at any stop, travel as far as you want, and get off it when it’s taken you as far as it can on your route, your journey. Sometimes it seems like an ordinary bus, sometimes it seems like a magic bus. But it’s just a bus.
