Therapy in the Water with Dolphins

Therapy Session in the Water

Therapy Treatment Session in Water Key West, FL

I have had the good fortune to treat patients in the water…in swimming pools, hot tubs, aquariums, open ocean, and ocean areas that were netted off.   Treatment in the water, especially the ocean, is fantastic.  The water basically removes the affects of gravity.  This allows the body tissues to respond and release in an extraordinary way.  The entire body can move freely in 3-dimensions which enables the body to easily achieve various positions .  When the body remembers and repositions in specific orientations, it encourages tissue memories and energy blockages to emerge.

Generally, I follow treatments in the water with treatments on a therapy table to support the patient in resolving and discussing the water experience.  This may be later in the same day, or the following day.

Therapy in the Water with Dolphins Grassy, Key, FL

Therapy in the Water with Dolphins Grassy, Key, FL

There are many different kinds of programs around the world where one can swim-with or experience time in the water with Dolphins.

I offer therapuetic treatment in the water in the presence of Dolphins.  This can happen in a variety of ways.  I have participated in, and/or organized and facilitated many different programs.  These include:

  • Close-contact Dolphin swims in Roi Tan with snorkel equipment and/or scuba gear.
  • Three intensive therapy treatment programs in the water with Dolphins at the Dolphin Research Institute, Grassy Key, FL while working at the Upledger Institute.  Each program was 3 days in length.
    Therapy in the Water with Dolphins Tenerife, Canary Islands

    Therapy in the Water with Dolphins Tenerife, Canary Islands

  • Four intensive therapy treatment programs in the water with Dolphins on Grand Bahama Island while working at the Upledger Institute.  Each program was 4 days in length.
  • A seven-day intensive treatment program with multiple patients in the water with Dolphins in Tenerifie, Canary Islands as an invited therapist.
  • Two open-ocean snorkel swims and encounters with Dolphins in Australia…a personal adventure.

Therapy in the Water with Dolphins Grand Bahama Island

Therapy in the Water with Dolphins Grand Bahama Island. Dolphins combined with therapy treatments in the shallow ocean shorelines and at an off-site retreat environment in Key West, FL. These were each 3 days in length and organized and implemented by me and a colleage.

  • Several other open-ocean swims and encounters with Dolphins and Whales in Tenerifie, Canary Islands and Key West, FL…personal adventures.

So…what is it like to receive therapy treatment in the water with Dolphins?

There is a difference when the Dolphins are in captivity versus swimming with them in open ocean.  But all the experiences are equally as wonderful.

I worked with Dolphins in captivity  in Grassy Key, FL, Tenerife, Canary Islands and on Grand Bahama Island.  In these situations, the patient floats in the water, with one or more therapists supporting them with light, hands-on contact and engaging the body tissues with treatment techniques.   There was usually from one to nine Dolphins present in the water.  Every situation was different and unique.

The Dolphins came in and participated in the therapy treatment, sometimes invited by a trainer, but more often under their own inititive.  They send their sonar energy, at many different frequencies, into the bodies tissues that need to change.  Sometimes they contact the body, and sometimes they send the energy from a short distance.  It is very powerful, yet so gentle, but you can feel it…it can be point specific, broadly focused into a general region, or seemingly, moving along some trajectory in the body.   At times, you can also feel them “scanning” as if they are evaluating you.

With my hands on the patients body, I can feel the tissues change and follow the movement of the energy.  If your head is in the water, it is quite audible.  Sometimes, I feel the energy go directly into the patients body, other times it will pass through me, and then into the patient.

I have treated the young and the old and in-between.  Some conditions include cancer recovery patients, Multiple Sclerosis, Downs Syndrome, depression, Autism, brain aneurysm with subsequent language and movement impairment and short term memory loss, and many patients with simply a desire to improve health.

KISSED BY A DOLPHIN

KISSED BY A DOLPHIN

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