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CraniOcean is nurturing massage and intuitive bodywork in a blend with craniosacral therapy and other light touch therapies. It is performed on a relaxing massage table, or in a pool, or in the ocean itself.

Considered "A Poet of Bodywork," the Facilitator works with trust, presence, good manners, light touch integrative modalities, and with a poetic healing art called CranioSacral Therapy and massage. Quick fixes happen but the Facilitator shys away from that in order to progress with your unique timing, phase by phase.

The Facilitator is keenly aware that men and women for a very long time have been out of connection with their essential Self. No one need have an "out of body" experience but only examine what one is doing, already, out of body.

A competent craniosacral practitioner can re-embody the person. This alignment can reach not just through the core system and connect the physiological systems but even into the core of the Star System, and beyond? For more on this, please turn to the books offered here.

Ever have the odd feeling of being up against a wall? You're not alone. Toward the end of his life, the great psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, at 86, was unsettled for he felt that in 50 years the world and all its people were going to come up against an apocalyptic catastrophe on a psychic level. To him, it was as if mankind would approach a psychic wall, and if we did not transform, if we did not change, there would be a massive crash. His unease was experienced in 1961.

We are fast approaching 2011. Might we take a look at mess that our interior worlds are in? If we are willing to transform, where to begin? On sites such as this? If we are not ready for real information, we can at least get a jump start in unscrambling our bodies from internet and cellphone technologies with such light touch therapies as craniosacral.

CraniOcean blends CranioSacral Therapy(CST), or "Cranial," as a gentle hands on therapy which uses a very light touch and goes beyond the reach of traditional medicine. It uses NO AGENDA, and because of this, is more a "process fix" than a "quick fix" though quick fixes often happen. Nor is it to be mistaken for a "cure all." CST, depending on the resonance and compatibility with your practitioner, and on mutual willingness to give the process some time and allow a widening of perception, can take you on a Journey to the Cause. James compares this journey to the feeling of slipping into a pair of new shoes. It is said that our shoes represent the ideas that a man walks in. And in this work there is a quality of expansion that can occur.

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CranioSacral Therapy, one of the primary modalities used in CraniOcean work, is so gentle that Newborns and the Elderly benefit. CranioSacral Therapy is proven to relieve and treat:

Meanwhile, please honor your Primary Doctor, also your Cranial or Massage Therapist or good hearted Bodyworker! We each owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to our good hearted Massage Therapists and intuitive Bodyworkers and Energy Workers as one of the greatest natural resources on the planet at this time.

James blends intuition with clinical skill. James alternates work in the ocean with work on a relaxing massage table or in a warm pool.

(Others guess 2012, but why not look forward to 2013 and beyond? Let's get it together now people.)

With a Theater background, originally, James played a leading role in introducing CranioSacral Therapy to the Southern California area, was the first in Southern California to be Diplomat Certified by the Upledger Institute. CranioSacral Therapy is his primary modality.

"CraniOcean," is intutive bodywork and massage therapy in a blend with craniosacral therapy.

Since 1998, James has offered the special, "CranioSacral Mini-Intensive," a creative format for personalized sessions. When he is invited to perform Mini-Intensives in other states and abroad, his travel and expenses are to be met by the Host.

He has been in practice in Los Angeles for more than 12 years and his touch is sought out by medical doctors and also healers of both the Traditional and the Alternative communities. He is recently arrived in South Florida.

Bachelor of Arts, Humanities, Syracuse and Stetson Universities, Certified Massage Therapist through New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts in Santa Fe, Postgrad Honors Human Biology, Diplomate Certified CranioSacral Therapy through the Upledger Institute in South Florida, with continuing studies at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.

James feels a gift to assist others in need can evolve from training in Theater and feels that sincere Actors and Actresses can make wonderful Healing Artists. Find out! It could be that acting is a healing journey in itself.

His favorite poet is the 12th century poet, Rumi, as translated by Coleman Barks. Rumi has been the best selling poet in America for the past decade.

"Rumi is the best selling poet in America, and the most recited and listened to in the country of Afghanistan. He was born there. They love him." - Coleman Barks

The Facilitator is based in West Palm Beach, but makes trips to Los Angeles and other locations around the country and the world to work and contribute.

James worked as a intuitive bodyworker and massage therapist for three years without formal training before he sought formal studies in CranioSacral Therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. In Los Angeles, he was resident "Poet of Bodywork"at the Dr. RA Galas office on Melrose Avenue since 1993, and now this office group has moved to the Dr. Jeff Benton office on Wilshire at Crescent Heights.

Just as there are people and places you like to hang around there are also Bodyworkers and Healing Artists you might be compatible with and like to hang around. Getting to know each other is a mutual process and totally part of it.

Please use this website to discover others you may also be compatible with! This site is informational and for your use and enjoyment!

In 2002, on Dr. John E. Upledger's birthday, Upledger encouraged James to go forward with a book about CranioSacral Therapy, and told James to make the work his own. James accepted Upledger's challenge, and now, as you have seen, the one book has grown into several books. And this because the first draft was almost 700 pages!

Each of the following new books will appear here on CraniOcean.Calm for you first. So the Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise, stand by for updates!

Please don't say "James" is a healer. You are. Life is. (The online publicity for this first book means, "facilitator," if you come across some other word :)

AudioBook of TOUCH THE OCEAN soon to be available here, first, to friends of CraniOcean.Calm News, before the official publication date!

The next book will also appear here first to friends of CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter.

To be candid, lately there have been rumors in the trade that more and more people across the board are experiencing emotional "stuff" come up, in both traditional and alternative branches, including pre and post op. Why? Perhaps due to the "planetary rise in consciousness," or the "acceleration of time," or even "2012"? Or an increasing sophistication and knowledge? These books are also in response to the spontaneous processing of emotional aspects that might arise in massage, craniosacral, chiropractic, physical therapy, bodywork, and more. Journeys a book for the concerned doctor, for hands-on healing artists, for those who love them, for lovers of story, for those who simply enjoy browsing case histories

This set of books will complete James's phase writings on CranioSacral Therapy, and there is more to do. Call it the "CraniOcean Trilogy," if you like. He looks forward to others' in the cs trade getting inspired to write their own books about their own experiences, and making this healing art their own! There is no competition here. He will later return to his plays for the Theater.

Or a nice dinner with candlelight and wine? Or a trip to Cancun? Paris? (With far less the stress for the travel plans!) And what is the cost of a week of prescription meds?

Some memberships include the International Association of Health Care Practitioners (IAHP), International Massage Association (IMA), American CranioSacral Therapy Association (ACTA), National Certification (NCTMB), Sailing Club, Scuba Club, Sons of the Amrican Revolution (AHEM)...on his Mother's side... earliest nickname? "Sunbeam."

With his Dad

James's favorite quote?

The Secret to Living: Keep the Mood Up
and Don't Make Anything Important.

(Not Even This!)

- Dr. Robert R. Gibson

What else is the Facilitator doing NOW? As inspired by events in the book, TOUCH THE OCEAN: THE POWER OF OUR COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS, the "One World Laff Off!" Beginning Feb 28th, 2009 at Sunset! Because Laughter is still the best Medicine. Check it out.

"THE ONE WORLD LAFF OFF!"

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