"The pace was excellent - slow enough to facilitate learning, but quick enough to avoid boredom." - J.H., Sunnyvale, CA "Keep up the good work! The results are phenomenal. My clients are extremely pleased." - J.K., Carlsbad, CA "My work has taken a quantum leap thanks to you." - M.N., Annapolis, MD "The information, methods, and techniques I have learned during the seminars have changed both my practice and my life." - C.L., St. Paul, MN

Stretching Visceral Ligaments Thanks for your teaching of VM1 in Singapore. Before your teaching, I thought Barral's way was too direct, using a lot of force and may be harmful to the viscera. Now I know Barral's force is just enough to counteract gravity. Barral's way of stretching visceral ligaments is quite effective. So I am now very interested in Barral's way. I am even planning to speed up my learning of VM. C.Y., Taipei , Taiwan Author: C.Y. HCT Workshop Experience I recently returned from a four-day workshop in Palm Beach Gardens given by Alaya and Bruno Chikly. I found it comparable to the Gestalt Pastoral Therapy I used to practice, except this is gentler, more focussed, more powerful, and you don't need five years of training and a master's degree to take the class. Whether it is something you would like to experience once or use in an ongoing manner, heart work is utterly magical and transformative. My heart chakra has not been as activated as it was during this class since the last time I was in the presence of Master Choa. This work is a manifestation of the healing power of the Divine Feminine. During my session as a demo for ancestral healing, I received clear images with substantial and specific information from 15,000 years ago during the time of Atlantis, which is relevant to who I am and what I am doing right now. During my 30 years of inner work, counseling, meditation, healing, and therapy, nothing accessed that information until this class. Peacefully, A n t h o n y July, 2007 Author: Anthony LDB1 Class Testimonials This is the newest and most innovative course to access the mind, body and spirit of the brain. I highly recommend it to advance practitioner because it gives you direct and specific applications to treat the brain. Mya Breman, LCSW, LMT, CST-D LDB1 was one of the best courses I assisted in my 17 years of Upledger classes. Dr. Chikly covered thoroughly both the structural and the functional anatomy of the brain. It was a solid, precise and fascinating information. I consider this class indispensable to practitioners of any advanced modality. It should be a pre-requirement to high level therapists training. I'm using the many tools learned in the brain class in almost all my patients, and being delighted with the results. The functional modifications of the brain are happening at deeper level and faster pace. The techniques learned in LDB1 classes became true blessings to my little handicapped patients. Shanna Ringel, DOM, CST-D The class was great. Just to think that you could located, feel and then treat such specific parts of the brain was wonderful. Everyone who works with individuals who present with any type of brain damage should take this class. I have used it for all of the children that I work with and it has produced some fantastic changes in a short period of time. I highly recommend this class for all practitioners. Mable Sharp, PT, CST This is an extraordinary class. Dr Chikly has developed a profound method of releasing brain trauma and trauma from tissue anywhere in the body. The technique is subtle, gentle and very harmonizing for the client. Robert H Weiner, PhD, clinical psychologist This course is so important to me that I repeated it in December '06. The content is key to healing and Dr. Chikly is key in explaining and demonstrating it. Often, as non-medical personnel, we cannot receive such high level information and technique. After having used the information and technique in my practice for a year, it is very clear to me that the healing potential is profound. It is a meticulous practice which requires preparation in anatomy and physiology and manual skill on the part of the practitioner. Dr. Chikly has a special way of communicating the curriculum which is precise and professional while at the same time humorous and personal. Alaya Chikly is a special and essential addition to the class, providing guided meditations and other less traditional exercises which varied the presentation and opened the minds of the students to new and more expansive ways of perceiving this unique and useful material. There is no question in my mind that this work is an important part of what I do daily with the people who come to see me for help with a wide variety of health issues. There is no way I would ever give up what I have learned from Dr. Chikly, nor could I envision my practice without it. I am deeply indebted to the Chiklys for their skill as pedagogs and their care and precision as research scientists. I plan to continue with LDBII and future courses which the Chiklys develop. Jane Shepard, M.Ed., L.L.C.C. This is the best class I ever take in 20 years taking all sorts of hands-on seminars. Robin Walpert, LMT Since returning from the course, I have been using what I learned on every client of mine. I am very excited about it as it is truly awesome work that accomplishes a great deal. Cindy Rowe, PT Author: Various Heart Centered Therapy Dear Alaya and Bruno, I just want to say Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. With the Heart Centered Therapy and Lymph Drainage Therapy I knew I was on the right track with being there for people in their healing. Now, I have to say, thank you for elevating me into a deeper and even more sacred space with the brain work. I feel when I am in this healing space with people--it is very holy and sacred. . . phenomenally and exponentially. And so it is. And here's the best part, I am in the calmest, most assured, and sacred space within myself that I've ever been. I've been working with a woman for more than 2 years who is recovering from a near death auto accident with pretty good results. I am now doing the spinal work that Bruno showed us on the last day of the Brain 1 class, and holding the injured part of the spine and connecting to the 4th ventricle, the brain stem, then the nuclei of the cerebellum, then the pons and then the midbrain. Unbelieveable! Her spine is healing and opening up like nothing has done before. And she is so appreciative. And her other therapists say they are noticing the difference--they say it's making their work easier. As long as I stay neutral, the therapy works and I am healed as well. Suzanne Ryan March, 2007 Excellent - it was well-researched and well-presented, such that it was easy to take the information in and work with it. K.S., VA March, 2007 Author: Suzanne Ryan CranioSacral Therapy and SLP Dear Pam, You gave my son, Billy, CS therapy 4 x-s late Oct. 05-Dec. 05; he slept through the 1st 3 sessions, and was awake through the 4th. Before the CST, he had feeding issues, sensory problems, and speech-language delays. He has made remarkable progress in the last few months. His feeding issues and sensory problems have almost completely resolved, and he has made huge gains in his speech/language development. I believe the therapy he received from you had a very positive impact! Thank you. I think more people should be aware of the wonderful & positive effects of CST. Forwarded with permission by Pamela Yenawine, CST Certified CranioSacral Therapist May, 2006 Author: Billy's Mom Advanced HFC Skills "Nowhere else have I found such powerful, yet gentle, healing. These trainings are a masterful synthesis of conscious intention, cutting edge hands-on work, and ancient indigenous ceremony using breath, movement, and sound to augment it all. What an incredible combination!" Author: An Occupational Therapist in North Carolina Practical Skills Learned "I find the grounding skills highly valuable. Also, the breath and movement exercises helped me to deepen my experience of being grounded. Now, I can call upon this in the real world, especially at school." Author: A Massage Therapist Healing From the Core Experiences Can Strengthen Therapeutic Presence "After studying with Suzanne, there is an ease during my therapeutic sessions that I had not previously experienced. If you are not clear in yourself, it will be impossible to allow your client/patient to experience all their traumas in the least judgmental way. If you become "charged" by what is happening on the treatment table and do not know how to work in a grounded way, you may lead that person down the wrong road or the session will just never go far enough. CranioSacral Therapy taught me how to touch and heal the nervous system. Healing From the Core taught me how to incorporate essential resources of energy, grounding, and connection to Spirit/life force. Combining the two systems creates the whole." Author: A Physical Therapist in New York Process Acupressure A new client recently came to me directly from an emergency doctor visit. She had a sinus infection that had blocked her Eustachian tubes and antibiotics had not helped. The doctor had told her they would have to put shunts in to drain the buildup. The client had never had any bodywork and was nervous about the whole process but her pain and fear of the operation made her willing to "try anything". I wondered if this client was blocking her ears because she didn't want to hear something but said nothing to her. As I began working with her doing a Head Release, I gently asked some questions about what was going on in her life, about her work situation and about her new marriage. I got answers like nothing, fine and O.K. When I asked her when the infection had started she said, "Last weekend." I asked her to tell me about the previous weekend and she mentioned that her parents had come for a visit. I knew her mother was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and asked how her mother was doing. The tears started to flow as she related that her mother had paid a visit to Johns Hopkins Hospital hoping to qualify for a new experimental drug. The doctors had told her mother that her case was too advanced and that they had nothing further to offer her. Of course, that was exactly what she didn't want to hear. While expressing her pain and grief, the client felt immediate relief in her Eustachian tubes. The infection lingered for a few more days but the intense pain and deafness left almost immediately. I continued to work with this client to deal with the grief she experienced when her mother passed away a short time later. January, 2006 Author: Ritie Mroz Process Acupressure at the End of Life The soul connection when working with the terminally ill can be extremely profound and satisfying. In many cases the individual is unable to communicate fully about their experience, but the results of PA used at the end of life can be quite dramatic. One experience I had opened my mind to the power of the work, even when a person is not particularly open to what is happening but has a strong intent. Bob was a self proclaimed, born again atheist. His wife Joan was a shaman in the Native American tradition. Their bedroom was full of Native American art, large dream catchers with long trailing hawk feathers, sagebrush smudge sticks and drums. The dream catcher resided over Bob's side of the bed. When I met Bob, he and Joan had just reconnected after being apart for four years. They had recently decided to get married in a non-denominational wedding that included Native American symbols and traditions. They were very much a part of each other and deeply committed to each other. Shortly after their wedding Bob was diagnosed with a rare wasting disease that only occurs in a small percentage of aging men. His prognosis was not good and his doctor told him he had less than a year to live. He quickly began losing control of his arms and became weaker with each passing day. His wife had worked for hospice for many years and was aware of the issues relating to end-of life and was able to discuss these issues with Bob frankly. Ultimately, Bob wanted to die consciously with as much control and dignity as was possible in the situation. They asked me to come work with Bob doing Process Acupressure to help him come to terms with the end of his life and to supplement his pain relievers with acupressure releases. Bob was able to sit up at our first session and joked around with me. He had had little body work in his life and was a little wary of what we were going to do. He told me at that time he was atheist and did not believe that he was going anywhere after his death. He just wanted to die and wanted me to help him. Since I had worked with many hospice patients, I was willing to work with him. We went into the session with that intent. He did not verbalize very much during the session. I was quite surprised at the end of the session when he sat up and said, "You know, I don't think I ever really knew how to pray. I think I would like to learn now." Over the following weeks we had many conversations about God and what might happen after he left his body. Session after session we set the intent for Bob's life force to move peacefully out of his body without pain. I encouraged him to visualize his physical energy moving up and out of his body and focused on opening the points of the head. During one session as we were focusing on the Great Central Alignment, it became clear to me that it was would be harder for Bob to leave his body until he had balanced his connection to the issues relating to each chakra. We processed the issues relating to each chakra in two or three sessions. Shortly after this experience he consciously chose to stop eating and drinking in congruence with the natural process of his terminal illness. Our sessions became more frequent, but lasted for a shorter duration, 20 minutes instead of and hour and a half. I focused mainly on the Great Central Alignment and holding the neck and head points. During one of these sessions Bob pointed to something on his right and when I asked him what it was he said that someone was talking to him. I encouraged him to tell me more but he looked startled after that and stopped talking, so I just continued with the session. Within three weeks of that session, Bob died peacefully in his wife's arms. December, 2005 Author: Anne House © The International Alliance of Healthcare Educators Legal Statement | Privacy Policy