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SANTA BARBARA HEALING SANCTUARY
An Integrative Medical Treatment Facility
Enhancing The Body's Innate Healing Power
We live in exciting and interesting times. Nowhere is this more true
than in the fields of medicine and healing. Recent discoveries in
neuroscience validate healing traditions that are thousands of years old,
and show that the mind/body connection is indeed very real. They point
to new directions in the ways we think of and treat disease, and promote
wellness.
The ground-breaking work being done in this area has led a group of highly
experienced doctors, clinicians, and other professionals to establish
the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary, a significant resource for those
who suffer from serious medical conditions, or have been critically ill in
the past and wish to maintain optimal health. The Sanctuary's unique program
is multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary. Each patient receives a personalized
treatment plan, which integrates cutting-edge medical support with proven
therapies encompassing nutrition and cooking, meditation, creative arts,
reflective writing, music therapy, yoga, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, and more.
What makes the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary unique, distinguishing it
from other integrative healing centers, is its emphasis on the healing potential
of dreams. Dreams give individuals access to a form of intelligence originating
deep inside the brainstem, where signals travel up to the cortex and down through
the neuro-endocrine system to affect the body at a micro-cellular level. This
activity, as natural and innate as the human heartbeat, has extraordinary
therapeutic potential and is widely thought to trigger the body's own self-healing
response. The Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary has been designed to maximize
these effects.
Patients engage in the program through a series of 10 day scheduled stays at the
Sanctuary. While not at the Sanctuary, patients receive ongoing support in their home environment.
The Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary’s Treatment Program is divided into units of 10-day
healing incubation retreats. Each unit consists
of:
1. Nutrition and gourmet cooking lessons for an individualized diet
2. Individual dreamwork
3. Yoga
4. Art
5. Creative writing
6. Dream theater, (a healing modality based on
enacting dreams under the guidance of a professional theater director)
7. A variety of
elective integrative therapies such as acupuncture, massage, music, chiropractics and watsu will
be offered.
Each unit will have a central focus on dream incubation, for over one
thousand years the primary medical modality of classical antiquity at the root of Western
medicine. Dream incubation gives a dreamer access to forms of embodied intelligence far
removed from our habitual consciousness, which are seen to correspond to the
endogenous healing response present in every living system.
As a whole, our program is geared towards enhancing the innate ability of the body to
heal itself. In the same way that conventional medicine attempts to eradicate illness,
sanctuary medicine is designed to promote health. Based on the understanding that a
combination of both works better than each individually, it has been the original principle
of Western medicine that the eradication of illness and the promotion of health need to
work in tandem.
At the end of each 10-day module a sustainable individualized health program will be
designed by our medical team, including the optimal uses of conventional as well as
integrative medical modalities. Each 10-day module can be taken individually or as part of
a programmatic series of healing retreats connected by private individualized treatment.
The Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary Team
The Sanctuary’s physicians, therapists, and supporting professionals provide a high level of experience and
expertise in the healing arts and sciences.
Robert Bosnak, PsyA, Executive Director and Founder
Robert Bosnak is a Jungian psychoanalyst with 40
years of clinical experience working with dreams. He
has developed a method of working with dreams that
profoundly affects physical health. It is currently in use by
health practitioners around the world.
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., Founder
Stephen Aizenstat is a clinical psychologist, marriage
and family therapist, and the founding president of
Pacifica Graduate Institute. For more than 35 years, he has
explored the power of dreams through the study of depth
psychology and the pursuit of his own research.
Glenn Wollman, M.D., Medical Guide
Glenn Wollman, MD is on the leading edge of Medicine, as a "Medical Guide"
he assists people in making important medical decisions through a scientific,
integrative, and holistic approach. He practiced Emergency Medicine for 30 years,
founded and was the Medical Director of a hospital-based Integrative Medicine
Program in Santa Barbara, CA. and now works with Healers around the world
offering the best form of Combinatorial Medicine to his clients.
Jill Fischer, MS, APRN, BC, Director of Clinical Services
Jill Fischer is an advanced-practice registered nurse and
clinical specialist who practices Jungian psychotherapy
and embodied dreamwork. She has 45 years of experience
in creating and administrating programs for hospitals,
public health settings, and community-based clinics.
Richard Kradin, M.D., PsyA, Director of Research
Richard Kradin is a research immunologist, Jungian
analyst, former Research Director of the Harvard Medical
School Mind/Body Medical Institute, and author of The
Placebo Response. He is an Associate Professor at Harvard
Medical School, and teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Radhule Weininger, Ph.D., M.D., Mindful Meditation
Radhule Weininger teaches meditation and has studied
Buddhist psychology for 30 years. As a psychotherapist,
she has noted the ways in which dreamwork is particularly
compatible with meditation practice.
Michael S. Kooby, D.C., Chiropractics
Michael S. Kooby has over 20 years of experience in
chiropractic care, energy work, and a holistic approach to
healing. He created Integrated BioEnergetics, a healing
modality that uncovers emotional, mental and spiritual
patterns that are held physically, and enables individuals
to discover their own healing capabilities.
Lawrence Span, PA, Ph.D., Reflective Writing
Lawrence Spann founded the Literature, Arts and
Medicine Program (LAMP). He has led more than 500
reflective writing groups, and writes daily.
Lane Clark, MFA, Creative Arts
Lane Clark is an artist who has taught abstract painting,
documentary video, and clay for 25 years. He helps
people access their imagination in order to augment and
deepen the healing process.
Cheri Clampett, CYT, ERYT-500, Yoga Practitioner
Cheri Clampett is director of the Therapeutic Yoga Program
and co-author of the Therapeutic Yoga Kit. Cheri has presented
Therapeutic Yoga at Beth Israel Medical Center and Rusk
Institute at NYU Medical Center. Currently she teaches yoga
at the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. She is passionate about
bringing the healing benefits of yoga to those recovering from
or living with illness or injury.
Carolyn Kenny, Ph.D., Music Therapies
Carolyn Kenny is a board-certified music therapist with
more than 40 years of experience. Her unique blend of
Western psychology and traditional Native American
healing originate from her indigenous background, her
work in arts-based research, and the role of the arts in
human development.
Kirsten Frantzich, Dream Theater Director
Kirsten's explorations are fed by her background in theater,
medicine, and depth psychology. She is particularly interested
in using the stage as a homeplace for unearthed unconscious
material and dreams.
Professor Janet Sonenberg, Ph.D., Theater
Janet Sonenberg is a professor and Chair of Music and
Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
LeAnne Thomason, Acupuncture and Chinese Herbalist
LeAnne in her private acupuncture practice focuses on creating health and synergy
between Body, Mind and Spirit through the use of all 5 branches of Chinese Medicine.
Virginia Macedo (Vivi), certified Watsu and Waterdance Therapist and Instructor
Since 1986, Vivi's been studying and practicing bodywork and various healing modalities
including Reiki, Aqua Cranial, Aqua Release Therapy, Rebirthing-Breathwork and Tantsu.
Vivi has been involved with Watsu since 1996 when she met Harold Dull (the creator
of Watsu) and became his student, assistant and Co-teacher.
John La Puma, M.D., Nutrition and Cooking
John La Puma's a board-certified internist and
professionally trained chef who specializes in customized,
nutrition-based care. His books, recipes, and television
appearances help to change the way people think about
food, health and medicine.
Claire Stancer, Food Stylist and Cook
Claire Stancer has worked in the food industry for the last thirty years. She studied
in France and has been as a food stylist for magazines, packaging, and advertising.
She has owned her own cooking school and a Dinner delivery service.
Kimberley Patton, Ph.D., Sanctuary Historian
Kimberley Patton is a professor of comparative and
historical study of religion at Harvard Divinity School. She
specializes in ancient Greek religion and archaeology, and
has research interests in archaic sanctuaries.
The team also includes a number of physicians affiliated
with hospitals in the Santa Barbara area.
Permanent Advisors
Bessel VanderKolk, M.D.
Bessel VanderKolk is a professor of psychiatry at Boston
University Medical School, and Medical Director of the
Trauma Center at HRI Hospital in Brookline, MA.
Joanne Segel, Ph.D, Movement Therapist
Joanne Segel is an advanced member of the American
Dance Therapy Association and a clinical psychologist. She
helped found the Center for the Healing Arts in Los Angeles.
Michael Kearney, M.D., Medical Advisor
Michael Kearney has over 30 years experience in palliative
care. He is especially interested in combining medical
treatment with approaches that enhance the innate
healing capacities of body and mind.
Education and Research
In conjunction with the Sanctuary’s Treatment Program
an optional educational track is being offered. It
culminates in a Certificate in Depth Psychology with
Special Emphasis on Somatic Studies from Pacifica
Graduate Institute. In addition, OPUS Archives and
Research Center on the Campuses of Pacifica Graduate
Institute will offer a program based on the work of
Marion Woodman, and her emphasis on the relationship
between body and soul.
As your illness becomes your teacher it can prepare
you to become an effective peer counselor for others
suffering similar conditions.
Students in Pacifica’s M.A./Ph.D. Program in Depth
Psychology with Emphasis in Somatic Studies will serve
as interns and researchers at the Sanctuary. This degree
program is based on the fact that neuroscience has
convincingly demonstrated the functional unity between
mind and body. In doing so, science validates one of
the foundational principles of depth psychology—that
there are forces in the psyche which stimulate the body’s
capacity to heal itself.
The practices of the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary will
be the subject of continual scientific research designed to
further study the evidence base for this approach.
If you feel the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary's program
may be right for a patient, you, a loved one, or someone
under your care, we urge you to find out more. Phone the
Sanctuary's Clinical Director, Jill Fischer, MS, APRN, BC,
at 877-216-4610 for a free consultation. There is no
cost or obligation, and you will receive an honest assessment
of how the Sanctuary might be of help.
Visit the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary
The Sanctuary hosts bi-monthly, Saturday open houses
where you may meet with members of the team on
the Sanctuary premises. Open houses are will be held
February 19, 2011 and April 30, 2011 from 11:00 AM
to 4:00 PM. For more information, call the Sanctuary’s
Director of Clinical Services, Jill Fischer, MS, ARNP, BC at
877-216-4610 or e-mail jfischer@sbhsanctuary.com.
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