Salon Nights

SerenSnippity's catering to all styles of hair at all times of night is a home away from home, where you can rest, hang out, and just generally while away the hours. No appointment necessary. By day, you might not realize there was any kind of business here, but you'd certainly notice what looks like an adorably quaint dwelling with a peach colored climbing rose, trained in a perfect arch over the doorway. At night, it's a different story. As soon as it gets dark, the salon's sign, in neon pink cursive, comes on in the window, with an extra few words of encouragement beneath. Come on in. Before we begin, let's start off with a little wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. So when you're ready, let's begin. So no matter what's been going on today, whether it's been a busy day or a calm one, this is an opportunity to put everything down, to let go of any inner chatter, and find a place of rest in both the body and the mind. So first, get yourself comfortable in bed. Just taking a moment to pause and be still. And when you're ready, taking a big deep breath, breathing in through the nose, and out through the mouth. And as you breathe out, allowing the body to sink down into your bed, feeling the weight of the body, allowing thoughts to come and go. Now imagining a steady flow of warm sunlight flowing down through the body, dissolving any tension, any discomfort as it begins to fill the body, starting with the toes, moving up through the feet and the legs, being filled with sunlight. The qualities of warmth, space, and ease, as it continues to travel up through the body, up past the waist, through the back and the stomach. It's as though it washes away any discomfort. It continues up through the chest and the upper back, into the shoulders, and down the arms, all the way down to the hands and fingers. A sense of relief in the body and stillness in the mind, as it continues to travel up through the neck and the throat, into the head and face, all the way to the very top of the body, until there's nothing other than that sense of stillness remaining. And now just gently bringing the attention back to the body. There's always something to look at in the salon. There's the artwork adorning its walls. For example, a series of period pieces depicting hair salons of the past and people from every era having their hair done. In one, a row of women in white toweling dressing gowns with their legs crossed in the same direction sit under hair steamers shaped like beehives. The painting is done in warm, earthy tones, and around each woman, the paint lightens into a glow. Another is a still life of barber's materials, a collection of shaving brushes and an elegant glass bottle of cologne...