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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

Saturday March 29th & June 7th, 2008       (9am-6pm)

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.  In March and June of this year I will be 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.

**Registration Required**

Call 402.650.9311 or Email:  Relax@TouchOmaha.com to register for one or both workshops.

Advanced Registration:  $70/workshop

After March 14th — $90 for the March workshop

After May 23rd — $90 for the June workshop

Location:

Beyond the Body, 9124 Bedford Ave, Omaha, NE

Directions:  From 90th and Maple take 90th Street North 1 block.  Turn left by the Burger King.  Beyond the Body is a free standing, light tan, brick building just before Pat & Mike’s Bar and is next to Kaplan University

To secure your place, please send a nonrefundable $40 deposit (per workshop) along with the date(s) you would like to attend to:

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

Note:  If for any reason the workshop is cancelled 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 (Glimpse 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.

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!   

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.

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.