Updated June 16th, 2011

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for description of the Services see our 'Sessions' link

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Sessions Offered at Jerusalem Health

- Derech Chaim: the Jerusalem Health and Meditation Method  (description below)

- Shiatsu and Bodywork Hands-On Therapy

- Hard and Soft style Martial Arts

- Yoga Training

- Whole Health Consultations

- Collaboration with Holistic MDs and Allied Professionals

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Overseas/Outside Israel: 

On-Line and Telephone Consultations

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Jerusalem Health is located in Nachlaot, Jerusalem

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Home and Office visits available

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Always inquire for flexible scheduling

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Ready to go anywhere in the world and stay as long as it takes to finish your training and healing.

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Live-in Trainer and Health Practicioner

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DERECH CHAIM :  The Jerusalem Health and Meditation Method

This is a Practice you can learn the basics of in one hour -

challenging and virtually irresistable.

The writings below provide an outline of the work.

These notes are a bit more for people to review after they train with me.

But a reading for first-timers may also be useful.

Feel free to ask me any questions!

Print out this list below to refer to when you want to practice.

1- vibration

2- open jaw

3- suspension

4- movement

5- relaxation

6- use your hands

7- awareness of breath

8- feeling

9- audience

10- meaning

11- anatomical

12- future

13- smoothness

14- continuity

15- expansion

16- support

17- rhythm

18- fire up

19- root down

20- think deeper

21- go to nature

22- slow down

23- push through

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1-

A lot of this method is about SOUND VIBRATION.

'Vibes.'

When we make sounds we can hear how our sound is incomplete and 'off'.

We can hear what is restricted in our voice, and we can hear where our sound is stuck.

2-

So when we are vocalizing let's

OPEN UP THE JAW!

You can feel  tension in your jaw,

and that must be worked out in order for the life to flow.

3-

Next, SUSPEND THE TOP OF THE HEAD

as if it's being pulled by a string upwards.

4-

Let all your body

MOVEMENT

be from the center of the body.

Instead of having your body move separately,

we are going to train only to move the very inside of the body

and let the outer limbs follow.

5-

RELAX completely.

No matter what comes up- and everything will!- keep relaxing through it!

6-

USE YOUR HANDS.

There are limitless self healing techniques using your hands

which we can get into in time.

In general, constantly use your hands to work on your own health!

Holding your palms to the sky can be very helpful!

7-

AWARENESS OF THE BREATH.

breathe fully.

Trial and error.

Breathing slower. Deeper. More gently.

More power. More grace.

Just being aware of your breathing may be enough.

8-

Make every word, and sound, and song you make with

FEELING.

There is no end to going deeper into the heart.

Part of FEELING is FEELING all the most subtle sensations inside your body.

Feel where you feel blocked and numb and FEEL INSIDE THERE!

You have to 'feel to heal.'

9-

The concept of AUDIENCE

is very different than how you might think of it if you were rehearsing for some performance.

In another way it's the same.

Here just have the idea that you are not overly inwardly focused.

You are working on yourself, but that self is much of the time, in life, going to be in contact with other people.

Your 'performance' is basically the way that you are when you are with other people all day every day.

We are training to be 100% real but also 100% subtle.

10-

MEANING.

Move and make sounds in a way that have the most meaning for you.

What does that mean? You have to know for yourself. It changes. Go deeper and deeper.

We'll come back to this and a lot of things.

But in other words, it's against the rules to just 'go through the motions.'

11-

ANATOMY.

Feel your anatomy. Pay attention to your anatomy.

G-d gave you this miraculous body.

Learn how to use it.

Feel exactly what needs to happen and do it.

12-

FUTURE.

There is always an element of training for your future,

whether you have a vague notion of the future approaching

or a very exact thing you are preparing for.

Be in the moment without getting lost in it.

We all have great battles ahead and are training for them.

13-

SMOOTHNESS.

Don't be a 'jerk.'

Consciously make all your movement, sounds, etc, exactingly smooth.

14-

CONTINUITY.

You will often have the impulse to break whatever 'flow' you are in.

Resist the urge to be scattered and quit or focus on a less central process.

This Method demands your all but it will become you in time, and you will be glad to have progressed.

Almost everyone needs to be coached in the beginning to 'get in the groove'.

The longer you can practice in one continuous masterful session,

the deeper you will go in.

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EXPANSION.

Let your whole body continually expand.

Everyone lives at various states of pathological contraction, tenseness, etc...

Physically OPEN UP! Stretch! Jump around and stretch your lung capacity!

Lift your head as if the top will touch the ceiling.

16-

SUPPORT

your proper breathing by feeling the alignment of your pelvis.

When practicing standing, tuck your tailbone down to point to the ground so that your lower back is flat.

Be loose and relax and drop your weight.

17-

RHYTHM.

Find your rhythm. You can 'cheat' by using recorded music and working with it.

Our heart and our whole system works with rhythm.

Attention to this will support all the points we are developing.

18-

FIRE.

Feel inside yourself what you are most burningly 'psyched' about.

If you are like most people it is unfortunately very very buried.

Dig it up.      Connect to it.

This whole work is to bring your life towards the pure version

of whatever true direction you are most wanting to go.

19-

ROOT DOWN.

Drop all your physical weight, your center of gravity, down down down to the center of the earth.

Stand tall and drop all your weight onto your thighs.

Let your upper body dance free and take all your weight on your thighs.

The center of the earth is a long way down, so keep droppin!

20-

THINK DEEPER.

Even deeper than the center of the earth is the center of your mind. Think. Think!

The goal here is to express yourself completely about what you most want to, and think as deeply as you can about what you most want to.

21-

GO TO NATURE.

Whenever possible practice this method out in nature.

Braving the elements forces us to develop our health.

Especially good is places of total isolation that are as natural as possible.

Highly recommended is the same spot in nature, off-trail, every day.

22-

SLOW DOWN.

As you are basically rebirthing your world with this method,

the slower you practice, the faster you will create a new way of being in your world.

To go fast, slow down!

23-

PUSH THROUGH THE GOOD PAIN

With every moment that you endure through good pain, you are opening up what has been long-stagnant.

Persist!

This whole method is based on a very healthy dissatisfaction with your present life

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You can feel what's off and you are training to get closer and closer to 'where it's at.'

Ok, so you have the general outline of a Method, but now what do you do?

Like with all music, you can either IMPROVISE   within the structure.

However, if you already have something you do like daily prayers or music you play,

or in actuality, anything, then you can obviously work this method into that.

It's difficult because we are demanding that you demand of yourself your truest expression.

And it's easy because deep down we can all feel how we are off and we inside have the constant desire to work on it in a way we like.

Practice, report back, and we'll see!

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WHY PRACTICE THIS METHOD?

After practicing and researching world health and therapy systems

over the past 20 years,

Jerusalem Health has worked it all together into a unified system.

Although Jerusalem Health has found great benefit in the following styles, we cannot recommend any one of them in and of themselves.

If we did we wouldn't have come up with our own style!

The Jerusalem Health and Meditation Method is a 'purified synthesis' of what we have found to be the greatest traditions in the world.  

Rock it out without the cultural  baggage!

Here are some of our main influences:

1- Movement

Contact Improvisation,

Feldenkreis Technique,

Alexander Technique,

Modern Dance,

Ballet,

African Dance,

Butoh

2- Martial Arts

Shotokan Karate,

Kickboxing,

Wing Chun Kung Fu,

Capoeira,

Chi Gung,

T'ai Chi Chuan,

Shintaido,

Bushido

3- Indian Traditions

Yoga,

Chanting,

Ayurvedic Medicine

4- Chinese Traditions

Acupuncture and Acupressure,

Taoist practices,

the five schools of Chinese Buddhism

5- Performance Work

Theatre Training,

Slam Poetry,

Voice Training,

Creative Writing

6- Holistic Medicine

Osteopathy,

Homeopathy,

Nutrition,

Exercise Science

7- Bodywork

Masunaga Shiatsu,

Trager,

Cranio-Sacral,

Zero Balancing,

Deep Tissue,

Swedish Massage,

"Energy Work"

8- Western Medicine

Psychotherapy,

Chiropractic,

General Medicine

9- other World Mystical Traditions

esoteric SIkhism,

Sufi Islam,

Hinduism and Vedanta,

the Desert Fathers,

Balinese Shamanism

10- Music

New Wave,

Underground Hip Hop,

Classical,

Emocore,

Powerpop

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MORE ABOUT THE METHOD OF TOTAL SELF HEALTH

Here is the simple description of the ideal method.

Go alone into trackless nature every day for one hour

Keep your arms up for entire hour.

Pain will come up from all the deepest tensions inside you.

The only way to keep your arms up is to release all this tension.

A style of releasing the tension is described below.

An alternate style of practice is sitting in the full-lotus position for one hour and working through the pain.

Obviously most people need to train at their own pace towards these goals.

The Method is something you practice until it becomes natural.

What are we practicing?

We are practicing a way to work on our own health, our own life force, our own life.

Basically, it could be practiced with every breath from here forth.

It is too good to miss any chance to practice.

It's not that we 'should' practice or we should 'feel bad' if we don't practice.

Conversely, it's just a great thing to get into, and when we start

we will likely realize that it is something we do not want to live without!