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BodyTalk, jpg, from 1995
The founder, John Veltheim, has always been involved in energy work. He began martial arts when he was eight, and practiced Zen meditation throughout his teens. Chiropractors gave him the greatest relief from injuries he sustained in his teens.
He studied for and attained a doctorate in chiropractic and then trained in Chinese medicine specialising in acupuncture. Next he studied naturopathy, homeopathy and herbalism. He built up the busiest practice in Australia, then began teaching. He was the academic chairman of the chiropractic profession in Australia, president of the Acupuncture Association and principal of the college in Brisbane which had about 800 students of natural therapies and acupuncture.
During this time John had a burning desire to learn more, in particular more simplistic approaches to healing, and how individuals could help themselves. He was running his clinic full time, and lecturing at all hours. This lifestyle triggered major health problems and cost him his marriage.
One of the major diseases he had was a form of the Epstein Barr virus, which attacked his liver, causing it to disintegrate at a rapid rate. He lost 80 percent of his liver. Medical doctors gave him 4-5 days to live.
John checked himself out of hospital and treated himself with herbs, acupuncture, meditation techniques and the mind. It took him about a year to restore his liver. He changed his life and ended up running a small practice.
While over the acute stage of the Epstein Barr virus, John still had health issues. He had chronic fatigue (chronic Epstein Barr) high temperatures, cramps and severe body pain.
He vowed to walk away from health care. He went on a lecture circuit covering 28 countries. He taught stress management, psychology, Reiki, and various techniques to develop the mind, which we now know in BodyTalk as Mindscape and Breakthrough. He was still affected by the virus.
Six years later, and after trying many treatments, John met a New Zealand osteopath who had trained at his acupuncture college in earlier years.
She told him of local osteopaths who were experimenting with various techniques including acupuncture and yoga, and getting good results with chronic viruses. Interestingly, the techniques were also working on children with dyslexia.
John accepted her offer of a treatment.
While his temperature rose considerably and he spent two days bedridden with severe pain, he somehow knew that this dramatic change in symptoms was positive. On the third day he woke feeling a million dollars. Two weeks later blood tests confirmed that there was no trace of the Epstein Barr virus in his body.
These osteopaths taught John what they knew and asked him to use his expertise to experiment and develop the techniques and processes further.
This combination of disciplines was the most important John had experienced. He began developing a system using these and other techniques. The New Zealand group who had initiated the process encouraged him to teach it. ...
Career Tracks and Training, 1-877-884-1767
http://www.bodytalkcentral.com/careertracks.php
Some training sessions in Canada are held in Ontario, 2009
Fees for Courses
Level 1 and 2: ($1450/$1550 Can)
Membership in the IBA ($90US for Canadians standard membership)
Exam: ($175Can)
IBA processing fee: ($20US)
Total Cost Basic Certification: c. $2000 to $2100 Canadian
Practitioners typically charge $75 to $100, or more per session.
Sessions may run for 1 hour, or longer.
Early registration is between $700 and $750 per module;
Late registration is between $700 and $775 per module.
Early registration deadlines are from one to four weeks in advance of the training and vary according to course type and instructor.
To study upper modules, a standard membership in the International BodyTalk System Association is required (for Canadians $90US)
Training Level 1
The BodyTalk Access techniques can be learned in a one-day training.
Although the fine-tuning and the focus of a full BodyTalk session requires at least the complete Modules 1 & 2, those who complete the one-day Access training will be able to positively impact the health balance of friends, family and others immediately after completion of the course.
- Balancing the focus and function of the brain
- Bodily reactions to outside invaders (microbes, toxins, and allergens)
- Cell hydration
- Postural and structural integrity
Training Level 2
Basic Level - The Foundation of the BodyTalk System (Modules 1 & 2)
The BodyTalk System offers a balancing system for the body-mind complex in a non-invasive way that encourages improvements in body-mind communication and synchronization. These enhancements encourage the brain to target and improve health on all levels – mind, body, and consciousness – in a very unique way.
Once the basic levels of BodyTalk is learned healthcare practitioners can immediately utilize BodyTalk to enhance results for their clients while greatly expanding their scope of practice. Lay people can also greatly expand on the basic techniques learned in BodyTalk Access to maintain and enhance the health of their family and friends.
- BodyTalk theory
- Balancing the cortices
- Hydration of the body
- Clearing blockages caused by scars and adhesions
- Balancing the organs, endocrines, and body parts
- Balancing body chemistry by stimulating immune responses to microbes, allergies, and toxins
- Addressing stored emotional trauma, negative belief systems, and phobias
- Addressing environmental effects on the bodymind: emotional, physical, and chemical
- Balancing the posture and correcting structural issues with the body
- Normalizing the circulation of blood, nerve, lymph, and energy
- Balancing the acupuncture meridian system and the chakra energy system
Training Level 3
Intermediate Level (Modules 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9)
These Modules take the BodyTalk System student deeper into many of the underlying balancing principles of the body-mind complex. Lay people can attend the courses; however, knowledge of anatomy and physiology would be an advantage. The concepts and techniques taught in these intermediate levels will be invaluable to any healthcare practitioner and greatly increase the scope and effectiveness of a practice.
- Addressing consciousness, beliefs systems and attitudes
- Philosophical application around healthcare
- The specific consciousness of individual organs, endocrines and body parts
- Five element emotions and their resolution
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- Disturbances of the five senses
- Breathing cycles
- Structural integration
- Lymphatic drainage techniques
- Energy cycles of the body including practical applications of the Chinese clock
- Hereditary health factors and techniques to neutralize their effects
- Matrix theory and extensive applications of the dynamic systems theory
- Releasing emotions stored in connective tissue.
- Protocol Charts
The entire spectrum of energy medicine and the knowledge and integration of quantum mechanics, consciousness, and the new biology is about to expand geometrically. The BodyTalk System is perfectly situated to bring this exciting new wisdom into practical applications that work – balancing body, mind and spirit at the deepest levels.
Training Level 4
Advanced Level (PaRama College Units 1-2)
In these advanced levels, the BodyTalk practitioner explores to a much greater depth the functioning of body-mind in relation with specific body parts. The procedures are greatly expanded to incorporate tools for developing advanced energy formulas to address the more complicated imbalances within the body.
The advanced procedures include the concepts of time and space variables, recurring formulas, the three Gunas, concepts of Vedic medicine, and three- and four-dimensional formula building. This area of the BodyTalk System is still under active development and is expanding rapidly into many specialty healthcare fields, animal and plant care, matrix integration, and social and cultural welfare.
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The five levels of the mind
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- Detailed analysis of very specific parts of the brain that includes a study of the physiology as well as the consciousness function of each part. At this level, the student is combining the knowledge of state of the art neuro-physiology with psychology, philosophy, and many ancient Vedic and Kabbalah texts.
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The energetic physiology of the cell
- DNA/RNA structure
- Specific biochemical processes
- The ‘Breakthrough System’ for analyzing beliefs, attitudes, and concepts
- The investigation of paradox
BodyTalk Instructors
Certified BodyTalk Instructors are healthcare professionals that have been certified by the IBA (International BodyTalk Association) to teach BodyTalk or other related courses. This certification signifies that these persons have reached the highest level of qualification as BodyTalk instructors, have gained extensive knowledge and experience through the practice of BodyTalk and have met the IBA’s stringent quality standards.
Modules and Ancillary Course Descriptions
http://www.bodytalkvancouver.com/courseDescriptions.html
Vancouver.
Glossary of BodyTalk Terms
http://www.bodytalkit.co.nz/
BodyTalk+Information/Glossary+of+BodyTalk+Terms.html
Active Memory - this disconnects the link between the brain and the emotional charge stored with a memory regarding belief systems (love, sexuality, sensuality, body image), events pertaining to one's entire life, including: past relationships, lifetime periods, foetal life, childbirth, specific events, and fears and phobias.
Chinese Clock
– balancing the ebb and flow of energies throughout the meridian cycle to enhance a person's potential. Each house and meridian in the Chinese clock represents a two hour period on the clock and refers to specific body parts and processes, ie:
3am-5am: lungs
5am-7am: large intestine
7am-9am: stomach
9am-11am: spleen
11am-1pm: heart
1pm-3pm: small intestine
3pm-5pm: bladder
5pm-7pm: kidney
7pm-9pm: heart constrictor
9pm-11pm: three heater
11pm-1am: gall bladder
1am-3am: liver
Because the body-mind moves through these cycles, BodyTalk sessions will take 24 hours to work through all the meridians or houses.
Cortices
http://www.bodytalkit.co.nz/../BodyTalk+Access+Techniques.html#cortices
- a technique that balances the left and right hemispheres of the cortices in the brain with astounding results. When the brain is functioning optimally, it is reflected in the body. A common feeling after this technique has been completed is a comforting sense of well-being.
In "olden times", before life was so stressed, there were just two modes for the body to function in – fight/flight and then recovery/relaxation. The dopamine released after the fight or flight gave the body a feel good factor that reset the Amygdala, which is the part of the brain involved in memory and emotional processing, and enabled it to continue its role of making all major decisions for the body.
Now we have a third mode to work in – coping.
This entails the negation of problems so that we can try and carry on with our lives without having to address any alarming issues. This activates our adrenals but does not allow them a recovery time. The result is that dopamine is not released and the Amygdala is not reset. Over time it becomes so mixed up that poor decisions are made and the body ceases to function at its optimum level.
What BodyTalk founder John Veltheim has discovered in his research is that by balancing the cortices daily for approximately three months, the Amygdala can be reset to its normal function. After that a balancing once or twice a week should suffice to keep it under control. John recommends we make a habit of balancing our cortices each day, just as we clean our teeth. Habits are formed very quickly, so by doing it consciously for about 10 days it will soon become part of your daily routine.
Exaggerated Breathing
– the brain uses the breath cycle to scan the body.
When breathing in, you enter the higher frequencies of thought and emotion.
People who don’t breathe in fully do not fully interact with their emotional and mental processes. If you spend your life living in stress, your body stops breathing out fully and the brain stops scanning the lower stress-related frequencies, which is where it would recognise low frequency diseases such as chronic bone or muscle diseases like arthritis.
If your breathing is restricted, your body-mind will not be able to accurately ascertain your state of health. If the brain doesn't know what is wrong, it can't fix it. Using exaggerated breathing ensures that you are breathing fully so your brain can scan your body at all frequencies.
Microcosmic Orbit
- the body's own healing energy that is located at the base of the spine and runs throughout the body.
Mind Crystal
- a hybrid conglomeration of active memories that are causing more serious health issues and usually hidden in the subconscious mind; they often have secondary crystals in an organ, endocrine or body part. Kundalini energy is safely used to dissipate the crystal, which can be energic or physical in nature.
Reciprocals
– points on the body that influence the extrinsic energy systems of the body. Reciprocals provide a rapid form of communication between the various parts of the body. Balancing the reciprocals involves touching two separate but linked parts of the body, and tapping out the connection over the head and the heart complex. This technique is designed to balance muscle co-ordination and tone and allow the unrestricted flow of energy through the body. It can have help with many forms of injury, arthritis, circulatory issues, co-ordination, spinal problems and chronic pain.
Balancing the reciprocals can boost energy levels, balance the energy meridian system that influences major organs, improve posture, circulation and lymphatic drainage, have a positive effect on the breathing cycle, reduce muscle tension, improve digestion and harmonise the function of the nervous system.
Reestablishing Communication
- in the same way that a cut finger heals itself, your body can heal your health concerns once communication is reestablished. If the brain, the blood, and the finger didn't communicate chemically, platelets might form too slowly and inhibit clotting, so innate wisdom may indicate tapping out the blood to the platelets. Occasionally the body-mind will want to disassociate from an emotion or a memory that has an emotional charge that is leading you away from balance.
An example would be a subconsciously stored memory of a motor vehicle accident, details: June 10, 2000 linked to the left knee (damaged in the accident) defined by fear. The body-mind wants to disassociate that charge rather than reestablish communication. Once it does, the knee stops aching every time a number of subconscious factors come together, such as watching an accident on TV. The memory stays but the emotional charge is diffused.
SB - Unlocks Spheno-Basilar
- the cartilaginous junction of sphenoid and basilar portion of occipital bone. This can result immediately in increased breathing capacity, memory, reduction or disappearance of tension headaches, foggy head, depression, endocrine and digestive disorders and can protect against poor response to sessions.
Switching
- stressors can "switch" the brain off or into self-destructive behaviour. When the brain is switched, common symptoms are: a feeling similar to the circuits being blown - mental confusion, memory lapses, left/right confusion, right/wrong confusion, poor reading comprehension, self-destructive behavior, and poor response to BodyTalk sessions. When the Switching technique is performed, it raises the body-mind's stress threshold, so that the stressors have no effect. ..
Tap Out
– when the practitioner has determined through the body-mind's innate wisdom that there are no further links or details necessary for the formula to solve itself he or she will have you touch one of the areas involved in the formula, and will, using his/her fingers, gently tap on the head and then on the heart. Tapping the head restores the linkage. Tapping the heart stores the changes, and therefore gets results that last.
Body Talk NZ
http://www.nzbodytalk.org.nz/
Cherie Carpenter CBP, Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, Access Trainer, Instructor in Training, has a busy practice in Barrie and Toronto. She teaches and coordinates continuing education in health care to support the growing BodyTalk System in Ontario. Contact Cherie at 705-735-2424 or toll free in North America 1-877-884-1767 or at cherie@bodytalkcentral.com
Clinic Phone:
Barrie: 705-735-2424
Toronto: 1-877-884-1767
The BodyTalk Clinic • Vancouver, BC
http://www.thebodytalkclinic.com/
Christa Lynn, 604.837.5125
1929 W Broadway, Ste 202, a block and a half west of Burrard Street
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