I just returned from the BioAquatic workshop in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. This letter is to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude for this extraordinary program and opportunity.
The schedule was filled with diversity, challenge and lots of excitement. Our instructors were loving, fun, knowledgeable, sensitive practitioners and skillful stewards. From the very beginning we all realized this adventure was going to be very very special. We were not disappointed - it was magnificent.
From the beginning we were on a flexible yet disciplined, well planned and prepared schedule. Each day was different from the next. During our time together we treated each other and were in turn treated by each other. On two different occasions we visited the Dolphin habitat, once to swim and play together and next the dolphins offered each of us their expert therapy. In between we were out on the boat, at the beach, in the pool, visiting an atoll, picnicking, snorkeling, beach combing, being together and healing together. Though we did a great deal there was never a sense of rushing. There was time to learn, a time to try our wings, a time to rest.
During the scheduled and sometimes rerouted flow of events there was always the meeting room. Here we came together often to blend our experiences, question, learn, share, discuss concerns, express ourselves and rehearse upcoming activities. In these meetings we were comforted and given closure to our many and diverse responses to our treatments and experiences.
Though we came from all over the U.S. and as far away as Switzerland, very soon we became close friends determined to spread the harmony, joy and beauty of our dolphin encounter. We have our dolphin pictures, our new knowledge, enhanced skills and our enthusiasm to share with friends, family, clients, and patients.
Your efforts have great value. This program is life changing. One person at a time our planet is healing.
With appreciation, love and respect,
- Ginger Covalt
It was incredibly special to work with Mom and baby today. Mom already had a lovely connection with baby and they both let us right in. We were able to help create more room for baby, who until then was always sitting on Mom’s left side. As her tissue opened and the uterus let go of some tension, the baby moved to the right side and stretched out. Mom had profound releases in her occiput and softening in her pelvis. This was her first CST session and I think we turned her into a "junkie!" Mom and baby both felt connected, relaxed and satisfied and I felt blessed and lucky to be part of this experience.
- S.M., Occupational Therapist
I was invited by a grandma who was in town visiting her son and daughter-in-law one month after the birth of twin girls to teach the parents how to massage their babies. Birth baby 1 was one pound larger than her sister and birth baby 2 was positioned head up under Mom’s ribcage. Baby 2 didn’t have an opportunity to turn head down and was delivered frank breech, both delivered vaginally. After our baby massage sessions, which they both loved, I began CranioSacral Therapy work with them. Baby 2 had figured out what I knew and took her opportunity to literally dive off the surface she was lying on head first with definite purpose and strength. I checked in with her craniosacral rhythm and it was in stillpoint, so I followed Baby 2 as the parents watched. As she was positioning herself, her Mom said, "it looks like she is being born the way she wanted to." This coming from a Mom that doesn’t know about our work!
I know this is not a new occurrence and that many therapists doing CranioSacral work see this often. This was thrilling for me because it was the first time for me that a baby I was working with, re-worked her birth. I am so grateful to her and I honor the trust she had in me to know I understood what she needed to do.
- V.A., LMT, CNMI
Helping Children…Helping Families
Hi Everyone,
We just wanted to let you know that we continue to think of all of you so often. We had such a wonderful experience at Upledger…when our daughter, Charlotte, was there for almost two weeks for the Intensive Program. Each of us felt so energized and so much more connected as individuals, as a couple and as a family when we left. You have an amazing group of people there and we feel so lucky to have met and worked with all of you.
Charlotte is doing well. We have definitely seen an increase in vocalization since coming home… Thank you again for all that you have done for us. We hope you are well and hold you very close to our hearts.
Sincerely,
- Arlene, Curt & Charlotte Butler (21 months old)
Say Goodbye to Depression
I am SO happy to be able to share my success story with you. I was taking antidepressants (Paxil, Zoloft and Welbutrin, not all at once obviously!) for a couple of years for what was called “situational depression.” I hated every moment of it and I didn’t get any real, consistent relief for my depression. I never knew what kind of day I was going to have depression-wise. But I continually felt that I wasn’t "clinically" depressed--that there must be something else to it. While doing research about depression on the net, which led me to one of Dr. Weil’s message boards, I read something about CranioSacral Therapy (CST). I was desperate to find an alternative to anti-depressants because of all of the side effects that I experienced--memory problems, nonexistent libido, flat lined emotional state, etc.--so I looked into CST. The message on the message board specifically stated that if one had had an accident of some sort that may have compressed the spine from, say, a blow to the sacrum, or may have hit the back of the head or forehead that this could cause an interruption in the flow of vital fluids throughout the spinal column and that circulates around the brain. This circulation carries serotonin and other vital compounds to your brain. I had had an accident rollerblading and I fell and landed directly on my tailbone about 2 years prior to reading that message.
After the accident it felt as if I was sitting on a grapefruit for about a month, then it suddenly was better. Some time later I began feeling depressed. I found a CST therapist through The Upledger Institute…and saw her for 5 sessions. I no longer have to take ANY antidepressants and have not had to do so for over a year! I cannot tell you how happy I am to not have to take any more meds or wonder what kind of day I was going to have the first thing when I awoke each morning. I would love to tell everyone about my experience! ...
Thank you so much for your work and your techniques. I hope you can feel even a smidge of how grateful and happy I am that you have given me back my life.
Yours truly,
Techniques Certification Was A Career Highlight
I’ve had 12 years Public Education, three years pre-dental, four years dental school and 33 years of continuing education courses. The educational experience at Upledger with David Tomlinson has been the best of my career…
- The lecture demonstrate, and do it yourself model is the best for learning and retraction.
- The confidence, professional treatment and respect of the participants enhanced the experience.
- The information given in science and art was sound and conclusive…
Upledger shows and demonstrates knowledge and application to the human learning process that is unparalleled in my experience.
I suppose there is always room for improvement – though I’m not sure where.
Congratulations
P.S. I look forward to MORE Upledger/IAHE Courses!
- Roy Brewster D.D.S.
CST Success in Chiropractics
I’ve incorporated CranioSacral Therapy (CST) in my chiropractic adjustments and it seems to have a great impact on helping the client/patient receive better care.
One story I have, is of a woman who had for some reason begun to have skin deterioration, had lost most of her hair and hardly had an appetite to speak of. After only two one-hour sessions and a series of holding the occiput and separating the atlas and occiput, her skin condition improved (we did do extensive neuro-emotional sessions prior to the CST that was significant to her healing as well).
She now has a voracious appetite but “fills out” proportionately and does not gain the fatty weight. Her skin condition cleared especially at the scalp and in between the fingers. Her hair began to grow back without the itching that was once there. Although slow growing in length, the hair follicles remain intact.
- Dr. Ann
