After all these years, it doesn't matter the school or approach that one uses in craniosacral, what matters is the truth.

Information on other light touch therapies was added and this site served as one of the only information providers for these services online.  Now, it's time for an upgrade and certain things will look a bit different.  We have put this off as long as possible because so many liked the old website, it's very familiar, and protested any changes.

There are some refreshing new additions to this website, designed as before by J.C. Spradley, such as drop down Menus, Books, and a Calandar function, and now the Blogs (Blends) are easier to access.  Theses Blogs were never posted before on the site or advertised, but are as quiet as before — for those who happen to find them, along with the book gardens.  Later, there might possibly be a shopping cart added.

This site will be a work in progress – just as the old site was — for the next several months.  For those who would like to take a walk down memory lane and visit the old website, CraniOcean.Calm, feel free!

Thank you for the privilege of your support over these years and for this visit with us.  Comments are fine now, if you actually feel inspired to do so. Let us know what you like about the site now, if anything.

We hope you find a friend in the pages of the new upgrade too!

JN, LMT, CST-D

From Reuters and Canada.com, Review confirms PTSD, other syndromes in Gulf vets

Might there be a connection between the body and the mind?

Might there be a Connection?

For the safe and sane relief and treatment of PTSD, one might browse a few chapters in the book, Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell.  Peter Levine, who draws from the same or similar sources in his book, Waking The Tiger,  also beneficial and a man of heart.

Thank you.

And what might all of this have to do with the healing power of a light touch?

An Example of a Real Question -- What is Going on Here?

Might there be other choices before more drastic and very expensive medical procedures are enlisted? Why not airlift in battalions of light touch therapists, massage therapists, reiki masters, chiropractors, craniosacral therapists, acupuncturists, shock and trauma therapists, and so on, and have them go to work on the local populations (if not on the soldiers) in clinics guarded on the outside?  http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1811858,00.html

And why not airlift in poets and poetry teachers too?

All of this would create a radical shift in the balance toward heatlh,

harmony and wholeness.

This link posted by Slam poet, Saul Williams, and star of the poet-movie, Slam. FYI, both of us members of the Nuyrocian Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side, NY – I’m a bit more of a former member – my thing was helping to open the gentler “Banana Puddin’ ” group with Rome Neal, Saul’s ever Slam.

Meanwhile, feel free to learn more and get informed and empowered with real information by visiting, CraniOcean.Calm. Enjoy the pages of this Blend (not a Blog).  Find out what more of what you can do for yourself and for those you love, now.

Thanks again for listening!

Welcome back!  not only over “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,”
“Colbert Nation,” “Lost,” or “60 Minutes,”–a real surprise– we are still
staying with the name, the CraniOcean.Calm News. This is less a
Quarterly and more a “whenever I can get to it newsletter.”

If you’ve never had a dolphin encounter, or want to get closer to them than a swim in the wild … experience them as they work with you!

There are a few spots left this summer!

Lot’s of loving and expert human hands around.  And before lunch times, in the water with dolphins doing Therapy, July 15-18.

For the details on working with Ocean Facilitator, James Nemec, in Port Lucaya, Grand Bahama Island, this year, July 15 – 18, CLICK,CLICK here … or … just scroll down.

Taking a break during Dolphin Assited Therapy (DAT)

Mind, Body, Massage, and Bodywork includes 2 sessions each day for up to two hours with more than one therapeutic facilitator, each session, work in the warm ocean waters of the Bahamas, and a visit in the water with the dolphins before the lunch break.

(Why is there a fee at all? Why isn’t this free? Dolphins are expensive to rent!
More than your therapists are!  Also, we are certified professionals, includes, time,
expertise, and consultations)  Room, board, and plane travel are not included.

Want to do a life time of contemplation for health in four days? Reconnect? Deeply
healing and unforgettable.

Lot’s of loving and expert human hands around.

And at times, in the water with dolphins doing Therapy, July 15-18.

This year, after the Dolphin Therapy workshop, visit Bimini with Ocean
Facilitator, James Nemec, to swim with the wild dolphins of Bimini!  The dates for this
are July 19-23.  For the past 8 years are so, Spotted Dolphins have been cruising the edges
of this tiny jewel of a Bahama island. This is the island where Ernest Hemmingway
fished for Marlin and wrote.

(Why is there a fee for for this at all?  Why
isn’t this free? You can always swim with wild dolphins, but this is considerate to them, for they come to you. Also, boat, fuel, time, and expertise)

Room, board, and plane are not included.  This will be an exciting first! Explore the links in this newsletter –  forward to any like minded friends, post of FaceBook or Twitter.

I do hope you will accept this invitation to join me with the bottlenose-dolphin-
facilitators and the attuned hands of many loving human therapists this summer, July
15-18, 2010.

After this, why not continue with a few days of swimming with the wild
spotted dolphins off Bimini, from July 19-23, 2010?

OK, now details follow!  Put on your blue suede eyeglasses!  Infants and toddlers with parents welcome too!

For more, peruse the book, Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions, by James Nemec, LMT, CST-D

Thank you.

]]> http://craniocean.com/?feed=rss2&p=473 0 http://craniocean.com/?p=478 http://craniocean.com/?p=478#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:28:11 +0000 JN CMT, CST-D http://craniocean.wordpress.com/?p=478 DOLPHIN ASSISTED THERAPY (DAT), JULY 15-18, 2010

Lot’s of loving and expert human hands around.  And before lunch times, in the water with dolphins doing Therapy, July 15-18.

In the Integrative Intentions Dolphin Assisted Therapy program, we trust and facilitate the inclusion of our natural environment in the healing process. CranioSacral (CST) therapy is our primary modality. CST relies upon the innate healing capacities of our own nature. Dolphins offer their assistance in the healing process.  We intend to facilitate, with their assistance, to bring holistic dimensions into your therapy.  Dolphins frequently offer us their unique ability to facilitate healing.  We will be respectfully asking them to participate and assist in your healing process.  This brings some unique holistic dimensions into this work. We have found that the uniqueness of each individual exchange with dolphins brings a very individualized, specific and universal dynamic to the process. Regardless of what you have read or been told by others and the images you might have, we invite you to come and experience for yourself.

Chas and Kat of INTEGRATIVE INTENTIONS

This is a four-day program.  On the first day, we will meet at 9am at The Convention Center (next to the Radisson Hotel) in Port Lucaya for introductions and orientation. We will address any remaining questions regarding this program and its logistics.  Then we will travel by boat to Sanctuary Bay for DAT sessions.  We will be at Sanctuary Bay for  approximately 1 to 2 hours, after which we will leave Sanctuary Bay for our lunch break.  We’ll reconvene after lunch for continuing treatment either in the water and/or on tables.  Everything is within walking distance.  Our therapy day will continue until approximately 4:00.  The next 3 days will begin with a 9:00 meeting at the Convention Center following a similar format to the first day.  We will conclude on the 4^th day with evaluations and a short meeting.  Please note that the time we leave to go to the dolphins is always subject to change.

The cost of the program is $4,500, excluding all expenses such as
travel, hotel transportation and meals. A deposit of $2,250 is required
to confirm your space, and the balance is due 30 days prior to the
program.  If you are unable to attend, the cost will be refunded until
60 days prior to the program.  Thereafter, a $1000 processing fee will
be charged. If cancellation occurs with in 30 days of the program, your
deposit amount of $2250 will be charged.  All cancellation notices must
be received in writing.

The dates for 2010 are July 15 – 18 The location is the Convention Center in Port Lucaya. You’ll fly into Freeport, Grand Bahama (FPO).  Our on-island phone number is 242-373-4661 x 724.  The phone number to call for reservations for the Radisson or the Lucayan Reef Village (collectively known as “Our Lucaya”) is 242-373-1333.  The phone number for Pelican Bay, which is across the parking lot from Unexso (where we go to get on the boat to go to the dolphins) is 242-373-9550.

For more information or to register for this program, please call Kat at 772-349-5799 or e-mail seaspirit24@hotmail.com.

And ironically, at the same time there is a kind of unspoken excitement and relief among these same folks here in the South that America now has a health care system that works to benefit the People, because they mistakenly think that it is NOW just like Canada’s and England’s and France’s health care systems.  This is uncanny.

Not to discourage, but those who have been following the debate know that health care reform was put aside by President Obama, early on, due to the worries of the larger insurance corporations, and that the debate was then about,  “health insurance” reform.  

OMG, what?

You mean it wasn't Health Care Reform? What of Regan's, City on a Hill?

Here is a man who sums it up quite well in a review on a rather liberal blog.  OK, whether you like Dr. Andrew Weil or not, he sure has been following the Health Care debate in detail. He’s even able to sum up Sunday’s vote. If you lost the thread of the debate, Dr. Weil will fill you in here.  From his Huffington Post article, The Good, the Bad, the Awful in Health Insurance Reform

Fear not, what American has now is nothing like what Canada, England, France, and other developed Nations have.  There is no such thing as “Obamacare.”  Obamacare is merely the way that Insurance has been deployed in the last 50 years in this country. There are some minor differences now, but marginal.

True health care reform might never pass in this country without the approval of private insurance corporations.  Fortunately, we still have preventative, alternative, complementary, and integrative care available – for an amount of cash money and time – and it works.

Anyway, if you’ve read this far, you know that CraniOcean questions, and does not take sides in politics.  Here, in this Blend, we are looking at Health.  And it’s quite amusing how far folks will go, the fabulous lengths, to maintain poor health and the status quo of chaos, conflict, contraction, dis-harmony.  Anyway, here is another question, rather prosaic:

What is Integrative Medicine anyway?

Of course, all that was needed so that Americans could really have the same insurance programs as Congress and the Military, as promised by Obama in his Campaign — and yes, like these other developed Nations, would have been to lower the age to receive Medicare.  All along, the solution was already in place.  And Obama gets accused of being a Karl Marx anyway! Well, this isn’t news to anyone. So it goes.

Thank you.

The Lakers and Celtics do light touch. Why Not You?

It’s about time!

Did you know that Private Insurance companies are exempt from Anti-trust laws?  This means, in summary, that they can raise rates as high as they want to without regulation of any kind.  Well, what if folks in some states can’t afford the huge rate hikes going on now?  Or just don’t care to use Insurance?

Fortunately, the article has a happy ending, at least in the House.  It’s yet to see the Senate.  What will happen next?   Hope it uploads from the NY Times for ya.

Spirals Within Spirals: Stones Have Stories to Tell

Spirals within Spirals - Stones Have Stories to Tell

BIO?

(This is not marketing)

Thoreau said he had traveled widely in his own back yard.  Raised on the ocean in South Florida, the ocean his backyard, James Nemec, poet and L.A. playwright, is also regarded as an expert in the field of CranioSacral therapy, and known for his fascinating hands-on work with dolphins and humans in the Bahamas through the Upledger Institute.   What he contributes with CraniOcean arises as a byproduct of more than three decades of Spiritual Quest and pathwork.

Visit our rather immodest press page, CraniOcean Media and with much appreciation for your visit here