CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY 
AND BEYOND- continued

Just as oceans are fed by thousands of rivers flowing into them, and those rivers are fed by watersheds that include millions of streams and creeks, so each of these great medicines has evolved from anecdotal lore being shared, a lot of villages pooling their knowledge, towns creating clinics, cities building hospitals, with effective enough governments that diverse channels are able to join together, inform each other, and evolve. A Study Group like this is a meeting place where these creeks and streams and rivers merge and flow together - I look forward to our discussion.

I graduated from Duke Divinity School seven years ago. I then went to the Bay Area and did a year of post-degree study. This included work in Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley with Nancy Sheper-Hughes, and work on Traditional European and Native American spirituality and cosmology at Matthew Fox’s Institute for Creation and Culture Spirituality. For the last five years, with my acupuncturist husband Joe Pfister, I’ve spent a lot of time brainstorming on theoretical bridges between these diverse medicines and comparing traditional constitutional models of Chinese medicine with those of the ancient elemental quaternary of the West. When I work on someone now, I think in terms of anatomy, meridians, chakras, and elements.      Next...