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The brain (central nervous system) and lymph system are like ‘brother and sister’and the extracellular fluid is like the grandfather in their coordinated function for your overall health.

Brain & Lymph Drainage Therapy Techniques

The fluid systems of your body are key for delivery of nutrients and processing of toxins. Your cells are bathed in fluid, your blood circulates fluid, your discs, eyes and cells are full of fluid… and each component has it’s own intelligence & consciousness. The brain & your body can be adversely impacted by:

• Birth trauma & Physical impact: falling, being hit…
• Toxic exposure: cleaning supplies, carbon monoxide
• Emotional trauma & Allergic reactions

Dr Chikly uses an extensive scientific background and an open mind in developing his methods, balancing right brain & left brain approaches. He compared the ability to affect deep tissues to 2 magnets on opposite sides of a window still having an affect on each other.

Brain therapy results have been measured by MRI & the Lymph system helps all other systems function better. He has well over 200 treatment applications including:

• Veterans: affected by bomb blasts
• Parkinsons, lymphedema, car accidents
• Poor concentration, focus & issues of the aging mind
• Jet lag, hang overs, skin health and hundreds of more applications

His extensive experience gives him philosophical privilege to contemplate: Love and treatment, consciousness of tissues, “gourmet” manual therapy, the brain as ‘the Holy of Holies’ and lymph as a tool of personal transformation. (Wow ~ He even made dissection sound romantic in this call! Where do I sign up?)

www.chiklyinstitute.org

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Karate, judo, rock ‘n’ roll drummer (opening for Janis Joplin), psychology, broken neck (in a halo), rolfing, body / mind, philosophy, physical therapy school, osteopathy, bio-mechanical to functional… In another context he’d mentioned that you can’t teach experience (!) and his experiences lead to:

Myoskeletal Alignment

Erik advised us not to get married (to one idea or another). As a multi-modal pain management system, Myoskeletal Alignment works to keep pace with evolving scientific understanding and allows that to shape the work. Examples on how his thinking has grown:

• When he went to massage school, everything was a muscle issue…
• When he went to Rolfing school, everything was a fascial issue…
• And when he broke his neck, everything became a bony issue.

Then he realized that it all works together and he now places attention on working to the deepest restrictive layer, whether that is superficial or deep. A key treatment aim for Erik is to have an aligned & level sacral base and the eyes level. There are several ways he approaches this aim. He looks for tissue issues to do with:

• Ascending syndromes – affecting the body lower than the issue: ie. TMJ dysfunction affecting the upper back
• Descending syndromes – affecting the body above the issue: ie. low back pain due to a foot problem
• Upper & lower cross syndromes: issues of imbalance such as in our “Flexion Addicted Society”
• Gait, physiology and more…

There are many factors that contribute to pain and the Myoskeletal approach is to facilitate “… proper neural, myofascial and skeletal function.” (From the notes that come with the YouTube video below)

www.erikdalton.com

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Are you limiting your physical health – Even in your imagination?

Color Wisdom: Embodying Spirit

Your physical body & spiritual worlds connect; physical manifestations can come from your energy clarity & balance. There is an immense power of the human spirit to heal.

When the Spirit is so moved, the physical body will take you where you need to go to accomplish what you need to accomplish. ~ Tori Hartman

Healing in this lifetime impacts 7 generations back & forward and your DNA changes with this work. Generationally, we have agreements with our grandparents to help them heal. Color Wisdom uses the power of color to tap into 7 personal centers:

1. Red – root, grounding to earth, movement
2. Orange – emotion (some symptoms: hives, nerves, sleeplessness)
3. Yellow – solar plexus, intellectual
4. Green – heart
5. Blue – throat, communication
6. Indigo – inside us yet to be communicated + higher consciousness
7. Violet – infinite mind
8. White – heaven / God, Spirit, universe
9. Dark – everyone has a shadow & those are aspects that protect us

Tori sees a grace in each person, even if we don’t have the clarity to see it. We need people around us to see our greatness when we can’t & it’s about finding people and interacting with those who will experience mutual benefit while taking the highest possible road.

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Sacred Lomi can be compared to a mantra and it can be seen as a weaving of energy. Sacred Lomi weaves the waking world and the sleeping world together which allows for a very profound space and comes from the Temple Style Lomi.

Sacred Lomi

The system / form is assistive for the person to connect with themselves. It is more about un-learning things that aren’t very useful anymore so you can be more fully you. Figure 8′s & circular movements are an integral part of the system and is designed to confuse the thinking mind that likes to control & analyze. Your body receives the message that you can let go.

Donna shares that the invitation is to let go on deeper levels than the recipient has ever had and so there needs to be a safer space than the recipient has ever been in.

Tom shares that there aren’t really rules, however there are principles. The training is more about learning about yourself than learning a set of techniques, but it still has structure. Key principles & important considerations include:

• Listening : Whole Being : Now : Love
• Movement : Sound : Breath : Presence
• Trust : Safety : Boundaries : Acceptance

Sacred Lomi is powerful both as a modality, and also for personal development for those who want greater personal healing & awareness.

www.sacredlomi.com

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What is among the highest compliments? I think Ryan said flatulence (!) He also described his passion for massage as spreading like a plague! (… of empowerment for folks and their health!)

Massage Therapy: Massage Nerd

Massage training varies from location to location, but basic training includes: Anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, basic massage techniques, “Swedish Massage.” No matter what techniques are used, Ryan emphasizes that listening to the client is very important.

There can be health consequences from too much stress & relaxation massage can be very beneficial. A few other forms include:

• Deep Tissue/Neuromuscular Therapy: specific aches & pains, trigger points
• Sports Massage / Orthopedic Massage: aches & pains, more medical
• Spa based – often relaxation oriented depending on treatment
• More than muscles: lymph, fascia, digestion

Sometimes your pain can be referring from another location and so treatment beyond the specific complaint is common so as not to miss the cause. These locations are called trigger points, or hyper-irritable spots in the muscles that can refer pain. Some examples include:

• Headaches that come from your neck & shoulders
• Groin pain that can have abdominal origins
• Low back pain that is a referral from your gluteal muscles.

Ryan’s site is a wealth of information and he is mindful of different learning styles: E-books, video, images, techniques…

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First you put yourself in a box, then you put others in a box and it ends up being a comfortable, although limiting perception of reality.

Sacred Service

You aren’t defined by your limitations ro circumstances because you are so much more than that. We have explorative and creative qualities and harnessing these subtle energies leads to:

• Resilience & ‘okay-ness’
• Empowerment & Fulfillment
• Inner Peace

A ‘bottom-up’ view of the dimensions will limit your perspective and a ‘top-down’ approach within your life will allow you choice, freedom & growth. You can tell the difference because of a ‘clear air’ feeling

New ideas, inspiration & genuine creativity comes from the 5th dimension and is not subject to the limitations of the 4th dimension.

It is critical to be able to be wrong as that allows your perception to evolve. The development of intuition adds depth & richness to your engagement in life and enhances how you engage in Sacred Service to the world.

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This graceful modality has been compared to a dance and is considered a Dynamic Art & a Healing Art with origins back to the time of the Buddha.

Thai Yoga Massage

The name ‘Lotus Palm’, Kam Thye’s company, has symbolism in the ‘Lotus’ as a flower representing clarity, beauty, purity & enlightenment and ‘Palm’ is indicating the palming techniques used. The name can therefore be translated to “The Art of Compassionate Touch” for this mindful, respectful and sensitive approach. There are 4 foundations to the technique:

1. Meditation
2. Stances
3. Rhythmic Rock
4. Touch Technique

Kam Thye compared the modality to “A Yoga Dream.” It utilizes a ‘deep listening’ to the client’s body and brings them into a yoga pose while focusing on energy lines and working on those energy lines, called sen lines. There are 4 breathing techniques used:

1. Mindful Breathing – deep, meditative, present moment
2. Synchronized Breathing – respectfully breathing with the client, “dancing with breath”
3. Induced Breathing – used to encourage exhale
4. Directed Breathing – asking the client to focus on their breath to move them into a deeper pose

Thai Yoga Massage can be considered the physical application of Loving Kindness and is a combination of Buddhism & Yoga.

www.lotuspalm.com
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Starting with ‘gently stimulating the body to come back to health’ & progressing on to ‘the journey of your life’, Dr Gaul described how a Doctor of Naturopathy would look at your symptoms in a big picture way.

Naturopathic Medicine

Naturopaths often serve as primary care for individuals and families. They aim to do no harm & be an information source for their patients while looking at them from a ‘whole person’ point of view.

They have an array of tools for your health available to create a treatment plan that includes: homeopathy, herbal medicine, nutrition & diet, physical modalities such as hydrotherapy, massage & physiotherapy…

When your ‘immunity’ might seem low, it might be one or more components of “PNEI” model which has a major stressor. Dr Gaul described the 4 aspects:

1. Psycho – ex. Stressful work / home environment
2. Neuro – ex. Chronic pain
3. Endocrine – ex. Hormonal concerns
4. Immunology – ex. Hyper / hypo, allergies

It is important to look into what your Naturopath offers to make an informed decision. You will need to research because there are different levels of regulation world wide and different access is granted to Doctors of Naturopathy for medical services.

www.drgaul.com

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The Swiss Ski Team went for gold… And You too can use this technique to enhance your life!

Sophro-Ki Sophrology

Sophrology means, “The study of consciousness with the values of existence,” and it’s a series of short mental & physical exercises that can be done anywhere & any time.” And indeed, it is used by not just the Swiss ski team, but by psychologists, police, nurses and everyday people who want a tool to help with:

• Any stressful situation: illness, exams, sports, move, work
• Concentration & focus
• Childbirth, sleep & depression
  

There are 3 cycles (Reductive, Radical & Existential) in Sophro-Ki with 4 levels per cycle. The 4 attitudes in Sophrology include:

1. Being free from judgment
2. Looking at life as if it were the first time
3. Put beliefs & knowledge in brackets (…) – suspending beliefs
4. Repetition – for building neural pathways

Sophrology recognizes that everything is energy and we are solid energy. Discordant energy creates a state of un-health. By ‘noticing’ we are able to anchor happiness and harmonization in our solid energy and that creates health & focus. Also, by noticing, we can uncover choice.

Dorna illustrated the power of our thoughts by sharing a “Tea Bag Exercise” that you can do at home and walked us through a wonderful guided session!

www.energycentre.ch

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First found in Egypt, used as instructed by a prophet in the 12th century and long held wisdom from aboriginal peoples, flower essences have powerful and subtle healing properties for your emotions.

Australian Bush Flower Essences

Ian cited how in Chinese & Ayruvedic medicine the majority of problems can have emotional or spiritual roots and he also shared how his learning started as a small child going on ‘walk-abouts’ with his mother and grand mother in the Australian bush.

There is a “Doctrine of Signatures” that can guide herbalists in what kind of healing properties a particular plant may have and Ian’s flower essences have a regulatory effect.

Flower essences aren’t aromatic and their healing properties come from the life force of the plant which is strong because of the harsh conditions for survival in the Australian bush. Spiritual concerns can include finding meaning & feeling unity and some physical / emotional correlations include:

• Lungs -> sadness
• Liver -> anger
• Kidney -> fear & anxiety

Essences can be used for animals, as well as people & are indicated for any age and any problem with one possible contraindication to do with the alcohol base.

www.ausflowers.com.au

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