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Workshop: The “Getting in Touch” method of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

webmaster — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:39:53 +0000

September 18th & 19th, 2010 (9am-6pm & 9am-3pm respectively)

Simple and uncomplicated, this workshop, based on the core principles of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), allows you to explore for yourself, the comforting and healing effect of Touch.

From the early to mid 1900’s Dr. William Garner Sutherland developed a system of bodywork we now know as Craniosacral Therapy. I am currently offering a two day workshop designed to introduce you to the history and core concepts of the “Getting in Touch” model of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), developed by Michael Boxhall, RCST, UK (www.stillness.co.uk). Personally, I have found BCST, and specifically “Getting in Touch” to be the most accessible form of Dr. Sutherland’s work.

This is a fully clothed, hands-on course. As a participant you will experience receiving and offering the work. After each session there will be time set aside to discuss individual experiences. Mike considers this to be an essential part of the work, and I absolutely agree; discussing your experience in both roles serves to deepen your experience, thereby deepening your awareness, understanding and healing of the mind/body unit.

The intention of “Getting in Touch” is to get in touch with Stillness.

“There is no suffering in stillness. There is an end to suffering in the reconnection with the centre. The function of healing therefore is to reestablish in the stillness.” ~ M. Boxhall

The goal being to maintain awareness of the present moment and observe whatever arises without judgment, trusting the inherent intelligence, or life force of the body to direct the healing process. This course allows you to discover for yourself the healing potential of being Present to Life.

**Registration Required**

Call 402.650.9311 or Email: TherapyWrks@gmail.com

Advanced Registration: $140

After September 3rd — $180

Location: TBA

To secure your place, please send a nonrefundable $70 deposit to:

Touch Omaha Bodywork, 4225 Cuming Street, Ste 204, Omaha, NE 68131

Note: If for any reason the workshop is canceled you will receive a full refund of your deposit.

Ann Ealy, LMT, BCST is owner of Touch Omaha Bodywork, she offer’s bodywork in 2 locations: 4225 Cuming Street (The Healing Gallery) & 4751 S 96th Street (Brockman Chiropractic). She is a 1997 graduate of the Chicago School of Massage Therapy, and completed the 3 year foundation course in Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy in 2003. Advanced work in BCST includes; assisting Dr. Michael Shea, ABP, in his St. Louis, MO Foundations course, and completion of advanced studies with Michael Boxhall, RCST, UK in England. Ann has taught BCST in Kaplan University’s Omaha branch with outstanding results and is pleased to now offer the “Getting in Touch” model to the public.

BEGINNING YOGA - Bring life back into balance through mindful exercise.

webmaster — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:06:37 +0000

New 8 week series beginning (TBA)
Our classes are geared toward developing conscientious awareness of your body and breath as you move through, and hold the poses.

Yoga has been called the “perfect exercise” by local PT Cassie Baker because it works the body in all three planes…. horizontal, vertical & diagonal. Yoga stretches and strengthens the body developing flexibility & strength.

At Touch Omaha it’s about combining the yoga poses, breathwork & meditation, leading you to better overall physical and emotional well being. Throughout the class, postures are checked to ensure safety and to make sure that you are getting the most out of the class.

Classes: (Ongoing) * Registration is Required *

Location:
Call to register: 402.650.9311

or email: therapywrks@gmail.com

Price:

Touch Omaha Pricing

webmaster — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:56:10 +0000

Welcome to Touch Omaha, where we offer non-sexual, therapeutic massage for relief from pain and stress.

THE STRESS RELIEVER:   A lighter touch massage designed to soothe and relax

(1/2 hr) $35, (1 hr) $60, (90 min) Not Available,

(add BCST) + $5

THE THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE: A pain relieving treatment which may include Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, and other specialized techniques designed to affect change in the tissue to speed healing, increase mobility and reduce pain

(1/2 hr) $40,  (1 hr) $70, (90 min) $95,

(add BCST) + $5

BIODYNAMIC CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY: BCST works to soothe the nervous system and bring life back into balance, alleviaing stress and often resulting in pain relief & better overall function.

(1/2 hr) $35

(1 hr) $60

** DISCOUNT PACKAGES AVAILABLE **

Check out this fascinating video of a lecture by Jill Bolte Taylor

webmaster — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:48:20 +0000

http://www.touchomaha.com/tedvideo.html

Why you should listen to her:

One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness …

Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the “Singin’ Scientist.”

“How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I’ve gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career.”

Jill Bolte Taylor

More Favorites

webmaster — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:29:16 +0000

You are wealthy enough to give some money to worthy causes when you can buy all the groceries you need. - Tom Parker

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
—James Baldwin, U.S. essayist, novelist, and playwright

Many people are afraid to empty their minds lest they plunge into the void. They do not know that their own mind is the void.                 - Huang-po

“Don’t fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear,”                                - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When everything inside and outside, bodily and mental, has been let go; when, as in the void, no attachments are left, that is the highest form of relinquishment.                       - Unknown

We have just to cast our bread upon the waters, without thought of return and trust the tide.    - Mike Boxhall

The Touch Omaha Approach to Bodywork

webmaster — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:07:06 +0000

Touch Omaha is owned and operated by Ann Ealy, LMT. That’s me! I am both owner and employee. So when you schedule your appointment you know you will be working with me. :)

My goal at Touch Omaha is to offer the type of bodywork that provides the best results with the least amount of pain for my clients, for the simple reason that after about 7 years of doing Deep Tissue massage I discovered that it wasn’t necessary to hurt my clients (even in a “hurts good” kind of way) in order to help them. By incorporating Craniosacral Therapy and Myofascial release into the session, I now listen to the muscles and let them dictate the therapy. What happens most often is that by gently following the direction of movement (the body and its tissues move sublty), a release can be fascilitated, leading to less pain and greater function. It’s suprising how often pain is caused by stress. When you think about it, it makes sense. As we become stressed, our muscles tense, a limbic system (our reptilian brain) response set’s in causing muscles to contract, readying for action. Now, this is useful when we are exposed to an actual physical threat, however, the limbic brain doesn’t evaluate stressful situations, it just responds, so whether we are being chased by a sabre tooth tiger or driving in rush hour traffic it’s response is the same… contract, guard, be alert and ready to bolt at a moments notice!  The problem set’s in when the limbic brain forgets to turn off the ready switch, that would allow the muscles to return to a relaxed state. Craniosacral Therapy and Myofascial Release listen’s to the body’s story, soothes the nervous system, and reminds it, it’s time to take a break! Muscles relax, endorphins flow, and life is good again!

Welcome

webmaster — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:34:55 +0000

As a woman working in the field of bodywork and yoga I have always wanted to provide more. As I work with a client, I find myself asking, “Is there something else that would be of benefit for this person? Is there something more that I could do?” As a perpetual student, I continue to explore various forms of bodywork, yoga, meditation, and self expression in search for methods that contribute to health and well being. What I am coming to know at a very deep level, is that the greatest potential for health lies in the recognition of our True Self. As we come to know our Self, our True Self, we realize that there is nothing that needs fixing, that we are absolutely perfect. My intention is to provide a place for people to share their experiences of awakening to their True Self and how it has affected their life. I also want to provide an opportunity for people to share any experience that offered a glimpse that perhaps there is something greater. One might call it an experience of the Divine or feeling touched by God. So that as we share these experiences it offer’s us a mirror, so to speak, so that as we peer into these page’s we can recognize ourselves.

Favorite Quotes

webmaster — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:31:06 +0000

Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating.    - Muso Kokushi

Swami Kripalu on personal growth: Growth can only be gradual. The seed that is sown today does not sprout into a tree the next day. It does so only in the course of time, at its own pace, and by its own order.

There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
~Meister Eckhart

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life..    ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event–it is a habit.    - Aristotle

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew….Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful…and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.    ~  Desmond Tutu

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.      ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”     - Carl Jung

“For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope
Look well, therefore to this day.”
- Sir William Osler

“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”     -Marcel Proust

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”    - Bertrand Russell

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”     – Marian Wright Edelman “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”    – Leo Tolstoy

“The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”    – Abraham Lincoln

“I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everythig, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”    - Edward Everett Hale

“Take charge of your thoughts.”    - Plato

“Out beyond the idea of right thinking and wrong thinking is a field. . . . I will meet you there. . . .”     – Jalaluddin Rumi