Network Healing Centre
April 2009 Newsletter
(613) 725-0988
Important Dates to Remember
Sunday, April 19 – CranioSacral Introductory Class for Parents
Monday, May 4 - Network Spinal Analysis Workshop
PARKING
We wish to inform our clients that, as of April 1, 2009,
due to construction, we will have no more complimentary parking to offer our clients.
Free limited-time parking is available on the street.
Pay parking is available in the Mountain Equipment Co-op parking lot.
We regret any inconvenience that this situation may cause.
CranioSacral Introductory Class for Parents
Rosemary Brown-Tucker is offering a CranioSacral Introductory Class for Parents on
Sunday, April 19, 2009.
Preregistration is required.
Please phone (613) 725-0988 or speak to Lisa or Mary at the front desk to register.
Please see the article below for details.
Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009
Time: 10 AM to 4 PM
Location: 389 Danforth Ave., Ottawa (The Network Healing Centre)
Cost: $100.00 per participant plus GST
Instructors: Rosemary Brown-Tucker, RMT
Marcia Bamber, PT
To Register: (613) 725-0988
The CranioSacral Introductory Class for Parents is being offered in response to parents who have expressed an interest in learning more about CranioSacral Therapy. You will acquire an understanding of the craniosacral system and experience its rhythm. This course will support your learning of simple, yet effective techniques to help your infants and children between CST appointments or to help them when they are distressed.
The material will be presented in a simple format: short lectures followed by a demo, then practice time, in pairs, on therapy tables. Both instructors will be available to enhance your learning and practice time.
There is no required reading or preparation; however, if you have not already done so, it would be helpful to your learning if you had experienced a CST session in advance of this class.
Please wear comfortable clothes and wear layers. There will be a one-hour lunch break. The Network Healing Centre is a smoke and scent-free environment.
Network Spinal Analysis Workshop
Dr. Michael Tucker DC invites you to a workshop about Network Spinal Analysis
on Monday, May 4 at 7:15 pm.
There will be a half hour discussion and explanation about Network Spinal Analysis
followed by a half hour demonstration of the work.
Friends and family are welcome and encouraged to attend.
If you’ve ever had difficulty explaining NSA care to your family and friends,
or wanted to watch how the treatment is performed,
now is your chance.
Please call Mary or Lisa at (613) 725-0988 to ensure sufficient seating.
Life Force
by Dr. Michael Tucker, DC
I found this transcript by a Buddhist Nun, Pema Chodron, given at the
Shambhala Mountain Center, 8.21.03.
I found the article helpful and I want to share the following parts:
When I gave the analogy of water turning into ice, I said that we could look
at ii as life force, and our life force is either frozen, blocked, or free
flowing.
I think that is a really accessible way for a lot of us to think about our
practice. When we are irritated and provoked or in any way hooked at a greater,
middle, or lesser level— but, particularly, when the habitual pattern is very
strong, the momentum or sense of undertow is very strong—we want to do what
we've always done. Wouldn't you say that's pretty accurate?
No matter how many Dharma teachings we hear or how much we practice, when the
going gets rough or we're in a tight spot, when you're in that [tight] place, as
far as I'm concerned, that is the main place that all the Dharma teachings are
pointing to. You could say they're pointing to full, complete awakening— and
that would be true— but the moment of truth is when we're caught in a habitual
way and we just do the habitual thing.
The main thing is how we talk to ourselves at that point. I know that one of the
main story lines is: "I'm not good enough," in some kind of form. And we get
hooked by something along those lines.
If at that point, you could just say to yourself, "This is a familiar moment,
this is just a common, ordinary occurrence in every day life, and the choice is
mine, again and again and again. And I'll get plenty of opportunities to work
with this. I don't have to get it right this time. Do I want to proceed with a
blocked, frozen life force or do I want to experience it [as] free flowing?"
Now, you wouldn't usually call that usual Dharma language. But I think it's a
very helpful way to think about it. Do we want to block the possibility of our
human life, the creative, life force, the basic energy of our being, which has
the potential, when fully recognized and fully experienced, is the experience of
full awakening— complete open heart, complete open mind to everything.
Do we want to have access to that in this very brief human life that we have?
It's so short, and the whole thing, from the moment we're born until we die, is
like a chance that we're given to either unblock ourselves or block ourselves
further. ...
Let's talk a little bit about this life force, and let's not give it any Dharma
labels— not even soft spot. But, let's just say that all of us experience, in an
ongoing way, in everyday life, to lesser degrees or greater degrees, and
sometimes we don't experience it at all, but it's a very common experience, that
we experience this sort of uneasiness.
There's this uneasiness. That's a label, actually— uneasy. But, it's a shaky,
quivering, underlying energy. It's life force. That's how we experience life
force. It doesn't have to be called uneasy. It doesn't have to be called
"pre-panic panic," or "pre-anxiety anxiety." It's just a quivering feeling.
Trungpa Rinpoche had a very interesting way of describing this. He called it
"shaky tenderness." And that is a great way to describe it, because it has a lot
of heart.
A lot of what we're talking about is developing the skill to just experience
directly or abide with the underlying energy, which now I'm calling life force—
but, basically, it's the insubstantial fluid dynamic energy of wakefulness.
Sinusitis and CranioSacral Therapy
By Rosemary Brown-Tucker
CranioSacral therapy can successfully help chronic sinusitis sufferers by this gentle whole body approach. This therapy works by releasing the connective tissues and nerve centers that affect blood flow to the sinus lining and the drainage openings of the sinus cavities. Chronic and acute sinusitis may require balancing of the sacrum, low back, neck and face.
CranioSacral therapy is especially indicated if there has been a history of sinus, facial, or jaw surgery; head injuries; a history of premature or traumatic birthing; or dental history of orthodontics or tooth extractions.
Rosemary has extensive training and experience in addition to CranioSacral therapy in the field of Cranial Biomechanics.