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UpCloseEliane Lalonde, 2, arrives for a day of

therapy dressed in yellow and looking like abuttercup. It’s the second intensive therapyprogram at UI HealthPlex that the little girlfrom Cornwall, Ontario, has attended aftersuffering a shower of strokes in June 1997.

“CranioSacral Therapy gave her a newlease on life,” Eliane’s mother, Ginette, says.“There is no question in my mind that shewould not be where she is today without it.”

Now Eliane is on the brink of crawling,eats soft foods and reacts with delight as hermother crosses the room — a stark contrastto the child who hospital workers predictedwould be blind and wheelchair bound.

Ginette explains that the strokes pro-duced seizures in Eliane, who was hospital-ized for nine weeks after the incident.When she came home from the hospital,the little girl had no head or trunk control,slept about an hour at a time and woulddrink only half an ounce. A chiropractor,who was also a family friend, appliedCranioSacral Therapy (CST). Ginettenoticed that CST seemed to help, whichled her to seek more information on CST and UI’s therapy programs fromThe Institute’s website. Eliane attended her first intensive therapy program inSeptember 1997, three weeks after cominghome from the hospital.

“After the first program, Eliane startedoral feeding and would drink eight ounces.She started sleeping three and four hours ata time. And, for the first time, I noticedEliane focus her eyes on someone. It hap-

pened when Cathy [Pliscof, P.T.] was work-ing on her,” Ginette says.

When they returned to Canada, Ginetteand her husband Michel, a chiropractor,had Eliane’s feeding tube removed. Theyalso decided to slowly decrease the seizuremedication prescribed for their daughterbecause the seizures had stopped. Elianecontinued receiving CranioSacral Therapytwice a week, as well as chiropractic andFeldenkrais® sessions. But there was never a question that Eliane would return to theUI HealthPlex to continue her progress.

“CST is something we can focus on andsee results,” Ginette says.

That’s worth a whole field of buttercups.

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PRACTITIONERSJJOHN E. UPLEDGER,

DO, OMM

RUSSELL BOURNE, JR, PhD

GAYLE BREMAN, LMT

CLOÉ COUTURIER, LMT

ROY DESJARLAIS, LMT

JOANN EASTER, LPN

JIM GREEN, LMT

FRANCINE HAMMOND,LPN, LMT

LIZA KATZ, PT

HENRIETTE MERAN, OMD

LEE NUGAN, MA

CHAS PERRY, PhD

CATHY PLISCOF, PT

ÄLICE QUAID, PT

LISA UPLEDGER, DC

CRAIG WOLL, LMT

UI HealthPlex Hours8 AM - 7 PM, MON - FRI

APRIL 1998 VOL. 11, No. 2H e a l t h P l e x C l i n i c a l S e r v i c e s

Eliane enjoys playing with her grandmotherand other childhood activities. Her mothersays CST gave her a ‘new lease on life.’

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By the time therapists reach intermediateskill levels in the practice of CranioSacralTherapy and SomatoEmotional Release®,they doubtless have encountered someevents in the treatment/facilitation processthat suggest that a heart is much more than a pump and that a lung does morethan facilitate the exchange ofgases across alveolar membranes.In fact, it would seem that everyorgan and tissue in a human,animal or plant is imbued withfunctional abilities that go farbeyond the apparent physio-log-ical services that they performfor the host.

Unless the CranioSacralTherapy practitioner is in a verystrong state of denial, he or shehas felt the energy of emotions that residein these organs and tissues, as well as theresidual energies of past events — be theyrelated to physical or emotional trauma, or to infections by bacteria or viruses.These energies literally become palpable to the therapist who is tuned in to the per-ceptions delivered through his/her hands.Most practitioners have witnessed clinicalchanges in their patients as these foreignenergies are released from the organs andtissues in which they reside.

My own experiences as a clinician verystrongly support the concept that organs,tissues and, for that matter, individual cells,have individual consciousnesses that affordthem qualities such as intelligence, memory,emotion and ambition. It seems reasonableto me that each living cell has an indepen-dent consciousness which interacts withthe consciousness of other neighboring cellsand blends to form the consciousness thatwe see as belonging to the tissue. In turn,tissue consciousnesses blend to form the overall consciousness of the organ, muscleor body structure. In this same way, theconsciousness of each system is formed.These systems then blend to form the indiv-idual human, animal or plant consciousness.

It would appear that consciousness andits related qualities are resultant to DNA.Yes, I’m suggesting that DNA is the seat ofconsciousness.

Our recent experiences with viruses andbacteria have shown that these smallest of

living creatures have the ability to outsmartour human immune systems and some ofour best science. Viruses are actually mem-brane sacks of DNA or, less often, RNA.They have proven that they can outwitsome of our most highly developed humanbrains. Therefore, it strikes me that DNA

(and less often RNA) is whereintelligence and consciousnessreside. If DNA is the mainseat of consciousness and intel-ligence, it seems likely that allthe other aspects of living sys-tems are probably located inDNA or in structures that areinfluenced by it.

Consider the case of organtransplants. If the transplantedorgan has a consciousness

that is unique unto itself and that is anintegrated blend of all of the individualconsciousnesses of its constituent cells,then each heart, for instance, has its ownconsciousness, intelligence, memories,emotions, opinions, likes and dislikes.Essentially, then each heart has itsown personal character and memorybag full of its own unique experiences.At the time of transplant surgery wetransfer this unique heart, which hasmost probably faced death squarely inthe face, to a totally new body that mayor may not feel accepting. This seemscomparable to taking a native Australianaborigine and placing that person — with-out any reprogramming — into the midst ofa tightly woven community in ruralAmerica or cosmopolitan Manhattan.Could we expect the aborigine to feel atease? Or could we expect the local peopleto welcome this stranger? It would mostprobably require a lot of time and effortbefore acceptance could occur on eitherside of this sudden mix.

When the heart and lungs of a blue-col-lar, workaholic, Italian boy who loves to ride motorcycles and eat fried chickenwashed down with beer, are transplantedinto the body of a female, middle-aged New York City dancer with lung disease,can we really expect an automatic bilateralacceptance by the various consciousnesses?I doubt it. If we are going to transplantorgans from one body to another, it seems

to me that we must consider the conscious-ness of both the donated organ and therecipient.

Thus far, I have treated six organ recipi-ents — two with heart and lung transplants,three who received only hearts and onewith a kidney transplant. I also haveworked with a number of bone transplantpatients. In my work with these few cases,I seemed to perceive either an antagonisticenergy between the recipient’s body andthe transplanted organ, or at least a hesi-tant and conditional acceptance. Thus far, a certain degree of release of antago-nism and blending of energies has beenobtainable, after very limited therapeutic/facilitative effort on my part. At this time,it is my strong suspicion that by the use of CranioSacral Therapy, Energy CystRelease, SomatoEmotional Release,Therapeutic Imagery & Dialogue along

with Myofascial Release, a significantreduction in organ rejection

could be achieved. I wouldwelcome the opportunity to work in depth with anyorgan recipients in order to explore this possibility.

Along this line, I should tell you that the

previously mentioned danceris Claire Sylvia.

She has written a book entitled A Change of Heart in which she gives anexcellent and very human description ofher life’s events as they relate to her illness,her transplant experience and the changes that she has witnessed in herself since the surgery. Claire and I have had theopportunity to have only one treatmentsession thus far. Her impressions and feel-ings during and subsequent to this sessionare such that she desires to join forces withus at The Upledger Institute to make ourwork available to other organ recipients. It is our hope that we can provide benefitsfor the patients while we learn more abouthow the consciousness of donated organsand their recipients interact.

Claire’s book is available through TheUpledger Institute at 1-800-233-5880, ext. 9468, and is in the process of being made into a movie.

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The year was 1985 and Jim Green, amassage therapist and psychology studentat York College in Pennsylvania, was inFlorida to attend a workshop sponsored bythe newly formed Upledger Institute. Hehad heard about this new method calledCranioSacral Therapy and had come tostudy with its developer Dr. Upledger.

While the workshop impressed him,Green could not have envisioned that five years later he would be a Cranio-Sacral Therapy practitioner and instructorfor The Upledger Institute — and that his tutelage would continue through thedecade.

“As in any adventure, I was filled withnervousness and curiosity as to whatwould unfold in this new situation,”Green recalls about his arrival at The

Institute in 1989. “What Ihave found over the yearsis that whatever educationI needed was then presentedin a myriad of ways — somepleasant, some painful, butalways in the direction ofgrowth.”

In addition to his train-ing in CranioSacral Therapy, Green also is a certified practitioner of ZeroBalancing® and the Trager® Method. ButCranioSacral Therapy holds a specialplace in his therapeutic repertoire.

“Having a practice at the UI clinic hasbeen a profound experience that hasafforded me countless opportunities toassist people in their healing processes,”Green says. “My first appointment might

be a nine-week-old infant,while my next patient couldbe a 93-year-old. The firstone might have had a toughbirth, the later a tough life.”

As an instructor, Green has led more than 150CranioSacral Therapy work-shops for healthcare practi-tioners in the United Statesand Canada.

“Teaching has brought methe opportunity to interact with peoplefrom other countries and cultures,” Greensays. “I have found all of them to befriendly and open — very different thanthe way people often are depicted on thenightly news.”

Indeed, Green has come a long wayfrom being a Pennsylvania college studentto being part of the healing community ofThe Upledger Institute.

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Lisa Kaplan found

relief for her migraines

at the UI HealthPlex.

The therapy also helped

her overcome the residual

effects of a stroke she

had 10 years ago.

When an aneurysm burst in Lisa Kaplan’sbrain in 1988, her husband needed to cope notonly with his wife’s illness but a healthcare sys-tem that had undergone radical change.

“I had to deal with Lisa’s condition not as adoctor, but as a spouse and caregiver,” husbandBarry, a psychiatrist, recalls. “The physiciansdidn’t want to talk to us. They didn’t want todiscuss emotion-laden issues, like can she walk,talk or drive. What they don’t see is that theirwords shape the way that patients look at thefuture and can take away hope.”

Lisa’s recovery was interrupted by two surger-ies in 1992. Doctors also discovered that she had developed hepatitis as a result of the medications. Just months later,Hurricane Andrew destroyed the Kaplan’shome, their son’s house and the hospital where Barry worked.

The Kaplans again regrouped. Lisa was

involved in another rehabilitationprogram near their new home inAventura when three differenttherapists recommended that shecome to the UI HealthPlex to seek relief of migraine headachessuffered from childhood.

“When we met Dr. Upledger, we felt goodabout him,” Barry recalls. “We liked the factthat he was down-to-earth and we weren’t givena lot of hype about CranioSacral Therapy.”

Not only did Lisa’s headaches diminish with-in five sessions, but she regained feeling in her right leg that was lost after the stroke.The feeling and freedom of movement in herright arm increased and her vision improved.

Encouraged that she could make moreprogress, Lisa registered for UI’s intensive thera-py program and entered a new, positive health-care environment.

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