The Transformational Gate™ Program

BECOMING SELF AWARE:
As children, most people were not taught that paying attention to oneself is vital to a happy and healthy life. Many people were taught that paying attention to their job, their schedule, their accomplishments, their spouse or family, or earning a living was primary. Many were also taught that paying attention to oneself is self indulgent or selfish. Therefore, the natural mechanisms that help you to listen or observe your bodymind's subtle cues became inhibited,
improperly developed, or blocked. We learned to use our thinking brain to redirect our attention outside of ourselves and began placing our trust where our attention had been . . . also outside of ourselves. 

Physical, chemical, and emotional stresses or traumas can often be difficult to deal with. Brilliant unconscious biological mechanisms are established throughout lifetimes to insulate us from our unpleasant experiences. 

It has been shown that in people with severe trauma, the emotional brain (limbic system) places a "marker" on certain experiences. This happens as our cerebral cortex (thinking brain) avoids having to deal with the trauma. The energy of the trauma still circulates throughout the body without our awareness (or perhaps with only partial or distorted awareness) of the experience that had been so difficult.

In people with severe trauma, it has been reported that posture, body movements, and sensations associated with the situation or event may persist or recur, even though there may be no conscious memory of the event. Dr. Epstein suggests that via the mechanism of the facilitated subluxation, mechanical tension at the spinal level replays the energy that the brain can not fully experience. Therefore, spinal tension and altered spinal postures act as a means of further perpetuating the fragmentation of the nerve system. 

Your body can not remedy something it is not aware of. You can not begin to do things differently until you are aware of what it is that you are actually doing. 

During this weekend you will be learning to pay attention to yourself in a way that may exceed anything you have ever experienced. You will be asked to place your focused attention on you spine, its movements, your breath and your sensations. You will not be asked to do anything with this awareness. By placing your attention on yourself as you participate in the weekend's programs you allow yourself to help those parts that have become separate to come together again. In this process the body will most often disburse the energy once confined to a specific area, as it reintegrates this separated part of you back into the whole.


NETWORK SPINAL ANALYSIS™ 
The benefits reported by those receiving Network Spinal Analysis™ (N.S.A.) include an increased ability to recognize areas of tension and dysfunction within the spinal system, and to employ forces to bring about resolution of the distortion or tension. This process contributes to healing and well being. 

N.S.A. is administered in a series of four Levels of Care TM, each geared at your ability to detect and resolve spinal tension and interference, and to your increased self awareness and ability to respond to yourself. During the Gate we will strive to enhance the development of your spinal and nerve system's capacity to benefit from the various Levels of CareTM. For some, the refinement of one level will be most advantageous with a profound learned effect for your spine and nerve system. For others, especially those in N.S.A. care for longer periods of time, and for those who are "Veteran Gaters", more than one Level of Care TM strategy may be advanced. 

This weekend is geared at assisting you in further developing your nerve and spinal system's self observation capacities, and in dissipating tension you no longer need. We aim to help you to develop an increasing number of coordinated spinal oscillators. These are regions of the spine that gently rock in synch with one another. This will advance your progression through care and your ability to develop mechanisms for spontaneous detection and self correction of spinal tension, interference and subluxations. 

The Gate will help you to be in better touch with your body; knowing its own story and needs, and integrating your movement, breathing and the way you touch and hold yourself. This will help you to know that you truly can heal yourself. 

EMOTIONAL SUBSYSTEM
The Network Spinal Analysis™ model of spinal and neural integrity considers several "subsystems" which are responsible for creating and maintaining nerve system and spinal integrity. The cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive are some of the subsystems which maintain your body. 

The subsystems of the spine and nerve system are: 

  • Passive: vertebra, ligaments and spinal discs

  • Active: spinal muscles and their tendons 

  • Control: brain, spinal cord, nerves,and an extensive membrane network known as the meninges. 

  • Emotional: composed of the tension, movement and vibration of the body's tissues. 

Each of these systems must coordinate function and be able to respond immediately to changing demands placed upon them. If any subsystem is compromised, another will have to take over the slack. For example if a vertebra is injured in an automobile accident, the messages sent to the control subsystem (nerve system) will tell the active subsystem (muscles) to contract to protect the area. If the control subsystem (nerve system) is under mechanical tension (stretched or squeezed) the passive subsystem (vertebra) and the active subsystem (muscles) will orchestrate movement of the spinal bones into a protective posture.

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