What is Advanced OceanaBodywork?
Be sure to read the excerpts from Steven Halpren's book, The Body, The Human Instrument below. It explains the nature and direction of OceanaBodywork and Advanced OceanaBodywork both scientifically and beautifully.
Advanced Oceana Bodywork teaches you how to participate in your massage for spiritual growth. You’ll learn how to breathe in tandem, stay in eye contact, and channel energy with me before, during, and at completion of your treatments. You and I will clear mental, physical and emotional blockages through the preceding techniques invigorating both of us with profound positive energy.
Most of the time when people get on massage tables, they want to be done to. The general attitude is this: " Let me rest, zone out, and get up from the table recharged to meet the circumstances of my life AGAIN." I'm like this too!
Advanced OceanaBodywork calls for two active participants, one receiving the massage doing breath/awareness exercises and the one giving the massage doing breath/awareness exercises. There's a dynamic connection called for and developed. One can't be passive. When learning these methods, one can get very tired. Actually, one is very tired. The bodywork brings up what is already there and is a venue to deal with it.
Frankly, I'm an explorer in Advanced OceanaBodywork. If you're interested in a "Lewis and Clark" bodywork adventure, OceanaBodywork is definitely for you. It's great if you know how to meditate or sustain "the zone." If not, you can learn. Married, singles, and/or couples are welcome to explore this method alone and/or together.
To sum it up, Advanced OceanaBodywork is a body focused meditation that channels energy back and forth between one or more people. It is very personal, connective, and sweet.
This method also positively impacts:
- metabolism
- muscular activity
- respiration
- pulse rate
- blood pressure
- vitality
- cholesterol
As your skill level increases a wonderful sense of well-being can last for days. You’ll become very proficient in harnessing your mental, physical and emotional energies for revitalizing yourself and others in addition to enjoying your bodywork more and more. The recommended learning schedule is ten, 120 to 150-Minute sessions, once a month or more.
Excerpts from Steven Halpern’s book, The Body, the Human Instrument
"All of us are vibratory transformers - our bodies are living bio-oscillators, much like crystal receiving sets that pick up radio sounds. Each of us has a similar hookup to our universe. We have genetically pre-programmed vibrational patterns coded into our molecular structure.
The body as a total system vibrates at a fundamental rate of approximately 7.8 to 8 cycles per second (inaudible) when it is allowed to come into its most natural relaxed state of being. The frequency of brain waves produced in this deeply relaxed alpha state is alpha waves and it is also 8 cycles per second.
Physicists have shown that the earth vibrates at the same fundamental frequency of 8 cycles per second. This is known as the Schumann resonance, and it is the function of the speed of electro magnetic radiation divided by the circumference of the earth.
The nervous system of all life forms is attuned to this fundamental frequency. Thus there is a resonance between the human instrument in a natural relaxed state and the electrically charged layers of the earth's atmosphere. Being in harmony with oneself and the universe might be more than a beautiful phrase.
Electricity in America operates at an alternating 60 cycles per second. We hear this frequency subconsciously in the activity of all electrical devices, including lights, amplifiers, motor generators, appliances. We are surrounded by vibrations of 60 cycles per second. This resonates to the B Natural tone on a musical scale. When Americans are asked to tone, they tone at B Natural.
Europe's electricity alternates at 50 cycles per second and they tone at G Sharp. Knowing this we can consciously harmonize are sound bodies to a common denominator with foreigners.
French engineer Andre Simonenton and author of the Secret Life of Plants found that the average person gives off a radiance of about 6500 angstroms of light units. Tobacco smokers, excessive alcohol users, and heavy meat eaters give off uniformly less. Cancer patients give off a radiance of almost 2000 units less than normally healthy people. Cancer to an experienced eye can be seen and heard way before the symptoms manifest.
In the article, "the Future of Cymatic Therapy" in Technology Tomorrow 1980, Dr. Manner's claims that contraction of striated skeletal muscle involves actual vibrations of sound. Other research indicates the liver vibrates at a different frequency from the heart. Manner claims that "all processes taking place in the active muscles are organized as vibrations and can be heard with scientific devices and/or by some holy people."
Important information before beginning:
Enhanced esteem, confidence, and communication skills naturally arise from feeling good. Along the Advanced OceanaBodywork path, uncomfortable physio-psychological factors may arise for you and/or me and they normally resolve themselves by continuing the practices. It is common for people to release old baggage making their lives easier, happier, and lighter.
Before we begin any Advanced OceanaBodywork practices I do an intake and then share my evaluation with you in the following session. If I think other methods are more suitable for you, I will share that with you at that time.
