The small, informal talks on valuable information started in Los Angeles on Melrose in 1999 as a way to save clients on consultation time.  All are invited.

Craniosacral has often been our point of departure, but each talk is different.

    We have learned about yet other hands-on approaches to health and healing including Massage Therapy, Lymph Drainage Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Grounding techniques, Energy Medicine, Presence and also...

                                    Learning How to Learn

   The informal talks for clients have been given in different parts of the country and are a way of saying, "Thank you." 

     Some of those attending the informal Studio Talks have felt drawn to learn more about their own health and healing.  Some have sought formal training in such modalities as CranioSacral Therapy, Reiki, and Watsu, and are now sought as healing presences in their own communities.

     The only requirement, really, is that someone feel drawn to attend.

     And as always, don't forget to bring along your sense of humor!

    Beyond Therapy

     Is there life after therapy?

     Let's take a wisdom refresher, shall we?  Recall, therapy, any form of therapy, from psychological counseling to craniosacral therapy, from physical therapy to phamaceutical psychiatry, eventually has its limits. Each person who seeks therapy, and each person who practices or administers therapy, finds a way to get through the night.

    Whatever gets you through the night, it's alright.

-John Lennon

     Then there is the highest state of being known to man, and this is called, living.

A Picture Can Say More than Words

     Nothing important is ahead, not really.   This is just some simple information from this old fellow I happened to meet once upon a time.  He drew this picture on a chalkboard and suggested to work with it to see what would happen.

What's going on here?

     There are many paths beyond therapy, there are paths to the Truth, and there is the Truth. There are many paths, some more religious, some spiritual, and so on, and some are posted on the Related Links for your perusal and delight.  Finally, there is the door, and there is only one person to open that door and that person is You.

YOU

The Secret to Living --

Keep up the good mood, and

don't make anything important

-Rhondell

     Needless to say, here we can get that any path of authentic Transformation will not work very well -- without a healthy dose of humor!

     Thank you.  Have Fun!

The following poster was for one of the Studios Talks on Melrose in L.A.

It's informative and fun!

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Nothing important ahead -- Even less important!

     And if you happened to scroll down the page this far and if you have bothered to read this whole page, then here is a treat -- a casual, old timey, talk on Keeping the Mood Up, even without medications, by this elderly gentleman, Rhondell, or, "Dr. Bob." 

     As a fun experiment, see if you can read these few words, and discover what the resopnses are as you scan each paragraph -- the responses in the body.  If you can find this out, then you will make a special discovery and your visit to this page will be quite worthwhile! 

     Thanks so much for the generosity of your attention:

"Good Mood Raising"

by Rhondell

:)

      I can turn my attention outwardly. When we turn our attention outwardly, we can begin to put forth a bit of effort to make all those other people out there feel a wee bit better. If everybody in this room is feeling real good, it’s pretty nice, is that right? I’d have a hard time saying “aaaahhh” if everybody in here is feeling good, because a good mood is highly contagious, just like feeling “grumpy” is.

      Now if you are in a room full of “grumpy” people, you’ll find that it’s a little difficult to raise the mood level, but at that moment I can decide that I have the conscious ability to raise the mood--none of the rest of the people are being conscious if they’re going to keep they’re mood down.

      So consciously I can raise the mood for the whole room. But even unconsciously—if you begin to raise the mood--a whole roomful can raise those other few people. So if the world is not like you want it today; and I do read lots of things that I think most people have decided the world is going to Hades in a hand, thereby picturing an illusion that they are worse off.

      So let’s raise the mood to see how far I can reach out. Now I know a few people. You know a few people. Everybody else knows a few people; and if every one of us was in the mood raising business today—and that’s a pretty good business to be in –I wonder how far out it could go and what effect it would have? It doesn’t sound like much; but if you were just raising the mood a notch of everybody you came in contact with today, enough of it is going to run over--then they, possibly, will raise the mood a little bit of the next person they meet. Can you see that it wouldn’t take too long for it to cover the whole world? Where does it start—with two or three people raising the mood?

      Now you can do it whether you’re running a business, or whether you work for someone else or even if you are st staying home by yourself. Wherever you are, it’s nicer if the mood is up—even if you’re at home by yourself—have you ever tried that? It’s an interesting and experiment of value.

      If you’re driving in your car by yourself on the street, isn’t it nicer to have your mood up, tha it is wondering where that “plough jockey” came from. That guy must have got his license in a crap game, blap, blap, blap. What are they all doing out here in the road. Don’t they know this is my road, and here they are on it? You know, you can scream and holler all you want to, but you can sit there and have a good time watching everybody make things important. That is kind of interesting and you can think of it as entertainment.  They all have clown suits on.

      I have found that one of the favorite indoor sports of people is to make about everything important—no matter what it is.

We all have our clown suits on.

      Now I think it’s a great big lot of fun to sit around and watch people make things that are totally irrelevant important. A man called me from LA the other day and said, “I finally caught on to something, and I’m saving a lot of money.” “I used to go to the movies all the time to see a show.” “Now I just go stop on any corner, and there’s a far better one going on —much better show going on with no admission fee.”

      So I don’t know if that’s good for the movie industry, but it was good for him. So here he was just having a ball because you can sit anywhere,, and if you do look at a movie, you see that what makes it a story is that practically all the people in it are making every insignificant thing important, and they have one person called the “hero” or the “heroine” that comes along and kind of sees through the whole show and gets it around to not being important. That’s the great Savior of the crowd—the hero of the show, the heroine or whatever it is. Now you can see that on any corner—only usually there’s nobody there to quit making it important. Just more and more people make more and more things important, and it is funny! That alone can get your mood up if you’re objective about it.

Thank You For Your Time!