Archive for July, 2008

Cape Town Report – November 04

I was invited to teach a Post Graduate Seminar to Cranio Sacral Therapists in Cape Town. The seminar was titled, ‘Expanding the Base.’ and I’m finally getting around to writing something about my trip.
In short, it was a great success.
The teaching side of it went particularly well, the participants got a chance to go beyond [...]

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Full Body Release Postgraduate Workshop, Aug 06, Brisbane.

As adults we are no longer physically held in the way we were as
children. Full body release is a technique that holds us like a baby.
A team of cranio sacral therapists tune into a patient and literally
pick them up as they provide complete support for their system.
When provided with intentioned gravity-free support, our bodies
begin to [...]

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Core Success Seminar in Brisbane 07.

Jenny Palmer invited me to give a postgraduate seminar in Brisbane in April 07. I delivered [...]

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‘Why are people so dumb?’

+ Emotional issues – Why are people so dumb? – September 05
Ok Maestro. Read your blurb on your website.
You don’t seem like your standard “Be still
and know that I KNOW,’ sort of cranio person.
Is there a factory somewhere I don’t know about
that churns these folk out?
Anyways, I’ve got a question for ye.
I’ve been seeing [...]

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‘Am I making it up?’

+ What I feel with my hands, am I making it up? – September 05
Mr Dalton.
I feel I am at a crossroads in my craniosacral
training. [...]

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‘What did you do to me?’

+ How to handle the, “What did you do to me?” question. – September 05
+ Comment from Mij Ferrett, craniosacral therapist
and editor of ‘The Fulcrum’, journal of The
Craniosacral Therapy Association of the UK. – September 05
Dear John,
I have been practicing for two years and am
enjoying the work immensely. By an large my
practice is going [...]

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Sciatica

+ Which technique should I use? – September 05
+ Comment from Al Pelowski, principal tutor with The South
African Institute of Cranial Studies. on sciatica- October 05

Hi John,
Found your web site very useful and your URL easy to [...]

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Cancer

+ Cranio sacral therapy and Cancer -October 05
Hi John,
I have a friend who has had a mastectomy and partial
lymphadenectomy and is currently receiving chemotherapy
for active cancer in her neck. I was thinking that some
CST would be helpful to assist her immune system (not
to mention emotional state) but am concerned whether it
would simultaneously stimulate the cancer [...]

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Maxillae

+ CST and orthodontic work? – April 08
Hi John,
Thanks for your reply to my letter regarding
cancer in the New Years Newsletter.
As to what to call you how about the “enlightened
one”?
Your reply to my question made me laugh but if I
had received it a few weeks earlier I would have
cried, can I remind you of your [...]

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Burnout

+ Question about therapist burnout. – July 08
Hi John
Thank you for the very valuable information shared
by you and other CS therapists.  I’ve been a
little out of circuit lately – life’s little
challenges – so even though you may have not had a
response from me, I’m still keen to remain
connected.
My preference would be more frequent shorter news
rather [...]

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