Testimonials
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"I had been through the conventional medical process,
and several years ago a specialist had more or less
dismissed me with: "Well, it could be rheumatoid
arthritis, but your x-ray shows no bone deterioration,
so we'll wait a while and then consider a hip
replacement." He could give me no reason why I had so
much pain. Then someone told me I had to give Dan's work a try. Amazingly, the hip pain started to
alleviate in about 3 sessions, though it took many
more for it to completely disappear.
"The learning process was remarkable – as a follow up to
his work, Dan showed me the anatomy and "what" was
really hurting. As I learned to understand what was
happening structurally, I also learned to respond to
the pain as a message and could change things to ease
it. Walking while paying attention, I could get a
certain sensation of easing along the inner thigh if I
walked far enough. Focused stretches (which Dan had
showed me) that I could do for myself between sessions
helped too. After something like 7 sessions was able
to start running again! It was the first time in 15
years my hip could handle that kind of pounding.
Needless to say, by now I was not taking ibuprofen at
all!
"Some of my favorite moments in my sessions were the
walks around the table after he'd done the bodywork:
walking in (imaginary) jello, Dan coached me to feel
how my ankle was connected to the hip pain. Another
time after the bodywork I could see colors more vibrantly.
"One session I'd had a migraine for the past 24 hours
and it was still there as we started the session. As
Dan worked it came back intensely, but he coached me
to feel through it as he worked. I actually felt the
pain pattern, the starting point and the areas of my
back and neck that were tightening up against it. As
we worked to relax those places (he doing his magic
and me breathing and paying attention) he seemed to
literally create a pathway for turning down the pain.
I never had a full blown migraine again, though I
continued to have headaches off and on for a few more
months. And finally even those went away and I've now
been migraine free for years.
"There are special people – teachers and healers - that
give you, literally, a new lease on life. If there
were an Oscars ceremony for each of us to celebrate
our lives, Dan would be one of two people in my life I
would thank for being here." - Erica