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Compassionate Touch Teaches County Students Manners, Respect and Healing Ailments
Ivy HerronCurriculums:
The article focuses on the potential to change a childs outlook about personal relationships. Compassionate Touch is being taught to children at elementary schools and YMCA summer camps. The repetitive process teaches children to be nice and kind to each other.
The Gift of Presence – A Guide to Transform Your Work and Life, Part One: The Unspoken, Unseen Connction
Suzanne Scurlock-DuranaCurriculums: Healing From the Core,
The article describes three stories where the therapeutic bodyworkers were taking on the client’s pain. Scurlock-Durana points out how the bodywork session is significantly influenced by the therapist’s ability to hold a strong, healing presence. By recognizing when your energy reserves are low, you can develop healthy ways to nourish yourself.
Truth: The Golden Thread, Part Two
John Upledger, DO, OMMCurriculums:
In his column CranioSacrally Speaking, Dr. Upledger discusses how 'truthful self-discovery' is the Golden Thread that runs through all therapies designed to help patients achieve permanent recovery as well as spiritual growth.
Massage Therapy, A Free Cure for Students
Andrew MarshallCurriculums:
Marshall is a therapist at the Myotherapy College of Utah. She shares her experiences after a serious car accident. SLCC now offers free massages to students to help them relieve their stress.
SomatoEmotional Release: A Whole-Person Treatment
Alice D. (Ali) Lindsey, MS, LMT, CST-DCurriculums: Upledger's CranioSacral Therapy / SomatoEmotional Release,
The article points out how a therapist’s physical touch is often enough to trigger emotions and memories. Physical therapists are taught to leave emotions for mental health professionals to sort out. SomatoEmotional Release (SER) is a therapeutic process to facilitate the client’s self-healing process. Lindsey describes SER as a whole body event.
Truth: The Golden Thread, Part One
John Upledger, DO, OMMCurriculums:
In his column CranioSacrally Speaking, Dr. Upledger discusses the ‘process of leading the patient through honest and truthful self-discovery’. Upledger describes this as the “Golden Thread” necessary for the initiation and continuation of self-healing, because it is only through self healing (as opposed to curing) that patients can experience both permanent recovery and spiritual growth.
Are Headaches and Neck Pain Ruining Your Day? CranioSacral May be Your Soothing, Gentle Answer
Bob JensenCurriculums:
The author is a clinical massage therapist with his own practice. He points out how lifelong series of injuries, minor and major, and a variety of stresses, both physical and emotional, eventually cause us to suffer aches and pains. He discusses how CranioSacral Therapy reduced and eliminated chronic headaches, along with other pains in the neck and back.
Do Cranial Bones Move? (Ask the Italians)
Tedd Koren, D.C.Curriculums:
The article states that cranial motion was introduced to the osteopathic profession by William G. Sutherland, DO, in the 1920’s. Listed in the article are several others who have continued work in this field. The article also writes about CranioSacral Therapy, as developed by John E. Upledger, DO, OMM. The article sights instances that support the theory that the cranial bones do move.
Recording the Rate of the Cranial Rhythmic Impulse
Nelson, KE., Sergueef, N., Glonek, T.Curriculums:
The rate of the cranial rhythmic impulse can be obtained by both palpation and instrumentation. The literature has reported higher rates obtained by instrumentation compared with palpation. The cranial rhythmic impulse has been demonstrated to be synchronous with the Traube-Hering oscillation, measured in blood flow velocity. This finding provides an explanation for the difference between palpated and instrumentally recorded rates for the CRI.
With the Lightest Touch, the Most Powerful Healing
Angela JeffsCurriculums:
The author relates her personal experience with a craniosacral therapist in Japan. She describes her therapy session in detail and the positive effect she experienced.