Soldier's Heart Healing Intensives
As a 30 year CranioSacral/SomatoEmotional Release therapist, with offices located in Encinitas and in Oceanside, CA, between Camp Pendleton, and San Diego Naval Base. In launching an intensive series program called "Soldier's Heart Healing," I am providing the space and support to serve our military warriors. This light touch, deeply relaxing, self-correcting therapeutic modality has been shown in recent research studies to be effective without the use of masking, suppressive drugs. Support persons are always welcome come to assist in the sessions as well.
Assisting Marines to reboot their fight-flight nervous system, releasing residual effects of trauma throughout the body, while to providing a supportive space has been my honor and privilege.
The intensive series that I have developed for PTS sufferers, includes 6 x 50 minute sessions, or 3 x 100 minute sessions in successive sessions spaced over a three to 5 day period. Clients are dressing in comfortable, casual clothing, and lie face up on a therapeutic bodywork table. In mobile applications, the sessions can be performed on an air mattress placed on a rectangular folding table. Drinking water before and after the session is recommended.
A Soldier's Heart:
SomatoEmotional Release is a therapeutic process that supports effective recovery for those in our military that suffer from "a soldier's heart." This term was originally coined to describe the post trauma aftershocks of the Civil War and it seems to me that today, this is a more fitting term than to describe what happens in battle and afterwards, as a "dysfunction." Yes, there is a healing and balancing that needs to occur, neurologically, emotionally and socially. However, a big part of the problem would be alleviated if our military vets, and our active duty military, following deployment, could bring heart and soul together, back from the war zone. The recovery process could much more be facilitated by acknowledging the adaptation that is necessary as a survivor in the military, when perhaps many of their closest buddies did not come back together with them. This part of the suffering seems to be over and above the trauma that our military experienced themselves, during their mission. Family members also suffered along with them, during lengthy deployments, and also continue to suffer because of their absence, as the person that they once knew. Perhaps we could do better to call what happens, an extreme form of grief and loss, than a dysfunction.
SomatoEmotional Release therapeutics is an advanced technique of CranioSacral Therapy, which I learned from the late and great Dr. John E. Upledger, neurosurgeon and researcher, in 1985. He served in the Coast Guard and developed a research program for Vietnam War Vets in 1993. Now, his foundation, which is being run by his son is about to launch a new PTS research program.
As a CranioSacral/SomatoEmotional therapist for 31 years, I invite you to contact me for a more detailed explanation of the immediate, lasting benefits that a few CranioSacral/SomatoEmotional Release sessions can do for you, or to schedule an introductory session.
God Bless our military warriors and their families!
Sally A. Thomas, CranioSacral Therapist, Holistic Practitioner