Network Healing Centre
November 2006
Newsletter
Important Dates to Remember!
Saturday, November 11th – Remembrance Day
Tuesday, November 14th – Gateway to Healing Introductory Workshop with Dr. Michael Tucker
Thursday, November 23rd – Wellness Workshop with Dr. Michael Tucker
We are pleased to welcome Trisha MacKie as your
New Office Manager!
Andrea is leaving to pursue a career in the Hi-tech field. Our sincere thanks to Andrea for her dedication and support over the three years she has been with us. We wish her all the best as she moves
forward in her career.
Her last day will be Friday, November 3rd.
Gateway to Healing Introductory Workshop
with Dr. Michael Tucker, DC.
What? A complimentary introductory workshop which gives information about Network Spinal Analysis (N.S.A.) and what it can do for you.
Format: The workshop will consist of a half hour talk about N.S.A. followed by a half hour demonstration of the work.
Who? Everyone who is interested in learning more about N.S.A. and how it helps to release tension is encouraged to come.
When? Tuesday, November 14, 2006 from 7:15 pm – 8:15 pm
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo F. Buscaglia Contributed by Angela Soberal, RMT
Wellness Workshop
with Dr. Michael Tucker, DC
What? This session presents an in-depth view of NSA and how it can be useful to enhance quality of life and well-being. It aims at providing continuing support to patients who are committed to Network care.
Format? This workshop is led by Michael in order to encourage discussions and exchange about the healing process.
Who? For any NSA patient who has been receiving regular care.
When? Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 from 7:15 pm – 8:15 pm
CranioSacral Still Point
By Rosemary Brown-Tucker, RMT
We all possess an inherent ability to self-heal and we can learn to tap into this even more with a few simple craniosacral techniques. In this role we are assisting the body in its self-correction – we can enhance or facilitate this natural process.
One such technique is the still-point induction. During a still-point the activity of the craniosacral system is temporarily interrupted. The benefits are: stress reduction, calms the nervous system, can reduce a fever, increases immune system effectiveness. In other words a great tonic for the body.
Still-point can be induced anywhere on the body – the legs, arms, etc (be sure both sides are held equally and in the same place) In response to the craniosacral rhythm the body constantly and subtly internally and externally rotates. Using the lower legs as an example gently (only the pressure used to pick up a small glass of water) follow the legs through a few cycles then follow and hold in internal rotation . You may notice the subtle force of the body wanting to go into external rotation but gently resist those attempts until finally the body stops and the still- point is induced. Hold this for 5 – 15 minutes. Afterwards assess the craniosacral rhythm and a more robust and symmetrical feel may be noticed. This may be repeated daily to great benefit.
The Network Healing Centre is pleased to welcome Erin Whyte, RMT
to our Massage Therapy team!
Erin's approach to massage therapy is an integration of both body and mind.
Since starting her practice as a therapist she has had a keen interest in providing people with the tools that they need to become more connected with and aware of their body. She believes that the most powerful healer is found within yourself and that she is merely a helping hand in the enhancement of your health and quality of life.
Along with a strong therapeutic background in musculoskeletal injuries and experience in treating a range of conditions Erin seeks to contribute not only to the physical but also to the emotional well-being of her clients.
Her philosophy of care includes integrity and compassion and she will provide these in an environment conducive to safe touch.
Erin is excited to be joining the Network Healing Centre and with this new step in her career hopes to inspire you to a new level of quality of life.
She looks forward to meeting you on your path towards healing and optimal health!
Erin will be joining us part-time until December 18th when she will become our full-time Massage Therapist.
I found this inspiring, hope you do as well……
Contributed by Dr. Michael Tucker, D.C.
"With regard to vision is mind, I'll give this example
about one of my first experiences in America. One of the culture shocks for me
coming to the West was first opening a big refrigerator. Late one night after
just arriving in the United States, I was with friends and we were saying to
each other, "Let's cook something." There was a huge fridge, the kind you only
see in the United States - and you'll find them even in single small houses! In
most other places in the world there are refrigerators but none that big.
When they opened the fridge, I saw that there was so much food. Yet, the person
who opened the door said, "Oh, there's no food. We need to go to the grocery
store." For a moment, it was a total shock for me. I thought maybe I was seeing
things incorrectly! How is it possible, I thought, that we are looking into the
same fridge and somebody is seeing that there is no food, yet I am seeing a
fridge full of food? But, then when we went to the grocery store I saw that
what we bought were just the few extra things we needed to cook with that were
not there.
Where I grew up in India, though, we made lunch from the leftover breakfast. And
the leftover lunch would then be our dinner. So it was never an option that if
the onion was missing, we would skip the whole dinner plan and run out to the
store.
So, even if something is missing in the refrigerator, still, you don't have to
run to the grocery store every time. This is a crazy culture. [laughs] When
you continue to live here, though, you tend to forget that and not see the
different perspectives. But when you're coming here from other places and
looking freshly from another point of view, it's just amazing.
So, using the fridge as an example, just as you open the
fridge, so do you open up your life. And when you open your life, what do you
see? There is the opportunity to see, "Oh, life is full. We have milk. We
have yogurt. We have this. We have that." You can see it's full, so full!
Or, you may open it and see, "The onion is missing; my life is empty."
[laughter] You aren't able to see how full it is because the absence of the
onion is so powerful.
This is absolutely due to our own vision. Clearly, we have experiences in our
lives of the feeling of abundance regardless of what we may actually have or not
have. It is simply due to our vision.
One of the greatest experiences of this that I have had, which brought me almost
to tears, was in Dolanji (India) when a few Tibetans came there from Tibet. The
conditions that we were living in there were very poor, but the people who came
there from Tibet were basically poorer than us. They didn't have anything. So
these few Tibetans arrived in Dolanji, and one day I went to visit them in their
room where they stayed. They greeted me, "Oh, come in!" They were so happy, so
happy. As I visited with them there in their room they said, "Okay, let's fix
something!" Of course, in that situation, it was the opposite of when I looked
into the fridge in America. They had nothing. I mean nothing in the sense that
they had only one plate of dried pieces of bread, leftover bread from maybe a
week earlier, and then only boiled water.
When we think about how our vision can create a feeling of abundance, it's just
amazing that someone could experience it with just this. When they first said,
"Have something," I thought there would really be something. Then, they brought
out the dried bread and a glass of water. They had excitedly offered it, though,
and the amazing thing was their joy. Just so much joy. And this generosity,
this giving of their dried bread and boiled water. It was a truly amazing
experience.
an edited excerpt
from oral teachings given by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche during the Tenth Annual
Summer Retreat, July 19, 2002