Touch Omaha Bodywork Blog

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

• Equipment: a muffin pan with 12 (1/2-cup) cups with or without paper liners
• oven 350 w/rack in the middle
• organic ingredients as much as possible
  

• 3/4 cup sucanat
• 1/4 cup coconut oil
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1 cup soy milk
• 1 large free range egg
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

• 1 1/2 cups 100% whole wheat flour
• 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon aluminum free baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
  

• 1 cup spaghetti squash chopped into short strands
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup walnuts

In a large bowl beat together the first 6 ingredients. In separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.

Then mix in flour mixture until just incorporated. Stir in last 3 ingredients. Divide among lined muffin cups (oil cups if you go paperless) and bake until tops spring back when lightly pressed, 20-25 minutes. Cool in pan 5 minutes, then turn out to cool completely.

Kindness
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
—Naomi Shihab Nye

From Nischala Joy Devi’s book “the Healing Path of Yoga”

“[Everyone] should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.” ~ James Thurber

Spend a day practicing, discussing and experiencing the comforting and healing effect of Touch.  Simple and uncomplicated, this workshop, based on the core principles of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is available to laypeople as well as health professionals.

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 one 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.

**Call or email for pricing and schedule**

Phn: 402.650.9311    Email: TherapyWrks@gmail.com

Location: The Healing Gallery, 4225 Cuming Street, Omaha, NE

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.

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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