embracing
the digger & the dreamer
Welcome to
The Dig On Series:
Exploring Consciousness
through Osteopathy
The purpose of The Dig On Series of osteopathic courses is to help integrate the Loving Heart, Innovative Mind, and Stillness of Spirit into osteopathy. Our mission is to help bring the digger and dreamer together so they are One. As osteopathic physicians, we have the honor of working with all human beings in a way that empowers them to express their own Inner Light of Health.
We choose to start from the Stillness, the Infinite Potential of pure Loving Awareness. In being Still, we get to know ourselves better and allow ourselves TO BE the Truth of who we are – loving conscious beings, all precious emanations of the Oneness. And through this series, we step into the ease of Osteopathy such that “suns appear (where you never even saw a star.)”
We look forward to connecting and sharing with you in this “sacred science of Osteopathy.”
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Sensing & Releasing
Emotional Shock - Part 1+
August 23-25, 2024
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Join us for a refreshing take on osteopathy. You’ve learned how to sense bone, fluid, and membrane. Let’s expand on those skills to tend to yet another vital dimension of health: the emotional body.
In this course, you will learn how to perceive the emotional body directly and safely, as well as how to address stuck, unprocessed emotional patterns.
It’s a great time of year to return to Vancouver, B.C.! We hope to see you there.
See brochure and below for course details.
COURSE DETAILS
Sensing & Releasing Emotional Shock -Part 1+
August 23-25, 2024
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
COURSE INSTRUCTORS and CO-DIRECTORS:
Arlene Dijamco, MD and James Gaydos, DO
SPONSORSHIP:
Sponsored by the Northern California Academy of Osteopathy (NCAO)
Co-sponsored by the American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Join us for a refreshing take on osteopathy. You’ve learned how to sense bone, fluid, and membrane. Let’s expand on those skills to tend to yet another vital dimension of health: the emotional body.
Both conscious and subconscious patterns of emotional trauma can be felt in the body's tissues as structural associations. Stuck or unprocessed emotional and thought patterns contribute to both acute and chronic somatic and visceral dysfunctions.
Classically, osteopaths are taught to perceive the various strain patterns in bone, fluid, and membrane. This course will help you sense the emotional dimensions safely and integrate them into the osteopathic treatment.
When appropriate, the “stuck” emotional and thought patterns can also be brought to the surface with “patient collaboration,” providing a fulcrum of sorts to aid in the release of the somatic, visceral, emotional, and thought disturbances.
By addressing these additional dimensions in our work, we can help patients access a greater depth of healing and speed up the treatment process as well.
PREREQUISITES:
Osteopaths and osteopathic practitioners with training and experience in cranial osteopathy and/ or biodynamics.
Course Schedule
Tentative Outline: L = lecture, E = experiential / lab / practical, S = small group discussion, O = other, Q = question and answers
Day 1 - Friday, August 23, 2024
12:30 pm (O) - Registration, 30 min
1:00 pm (E) - Opening Lab: The Living Stillness, 30 min
1:30 pm (L) - Physiologic Responses to Stress and Trauma: A Foundation, 30 min
2:00 pm (E) - Creating a Nest for Healing, 15 min
2:15 pm (L&E) - Coaching the Patient: Ways to Approach, 30 min
2:45 pm (L) - Embryo Part I - Nervous System, 30 min
3:15 pm (E) - Lab: Flow of the Neural Tube, 30 min
3:45 pm (S) - Discussion in Small Groups, 15 min
4:00 pm (L) - Lab: Embryo Part II - Limb Buds, 30 min
4:30 pm (E) - Lab: Grounding with the Metabolic Field, 30 min
5:00 pm (S&Q) - Head check and Discussion, 90 min
Day 2 - Sunday, August 25, 2024
8:00 am (Q) - Q&A, 30 min
8:30 am (L) - Day 2 Opening Lab and Review, 30 min
9:00 am (L) - Embryo Part III - Lungs, 15 min
9:15 am (E) - Lab: Lung Buds, 45 min
10:00 am (S) - Discussion in Small Groups, 15 min
10:15 am (L) - Lecture: Embryo Part IV - Heart, 30 min
10:45 am (E) - Heart-Centering Meditation, 15 min
11:00 am (E) - Lab: Uncurling the Heart, 60 min
12:00 pm (E) - Lab: The Heart Field, 30 min
12:30 pm (O) - Lunch, 75 min
1:45 pm (E) - Lab: Guided Lab: Reading the Heart Layers on Yourself, 30 min
2:15 pm (E) - Lab: Reading the Heart Layers on a Patient, 45 min
3:00 pm (S) - Discussion in Small Groups, 15 min
3:15 pm (E) - Lab: Guided Lab: Sensing Emotion Anywhere in Your Body, 45 min
4:00 pm (E) - Lab: Sensing Emotion Anywhere in a Patient’s Body, 60 min
5:00 pm (S&Q) - Head Check and Discussion, 90 min
Day 3 - Sunday, August 25, 2024
8:00 am (Q) - Q & A, 30 min
8:30 am (E) - Lab: Grounding & Centering Revisited, 15 min
8:45 am (L&E) - Lecture & Lab: Expanding Your Perception with Topical Remedies, 45 min
9:30 am (L&E) - Lecture & Lab: Using Bach Flower Essences to Enhance the Osteopathic Treatment, 60 min
10:30 am (S) - Discussion in Small Groups, 15 min
10:45 am (L&E) - Lecture & Lab: The Diaphragm, 30 min
11:15 am (L&E) - Lecture & Lab: Integrating Mental Thought Loops and Emotional Short Circuits, 60 min
12:15 pm (L&E) - Closing Lab: Putting It All Together, Stillness Revisited, 15 min
12:30 pm (S&Q) - Head Check & Discussion, 60 min
*Optional Add-On for Sunday Afternoon: Lunch + 2-hour Workshop
Often, Sunday rolls around quickly, and many people are eager to continue our exploration together. In case you would like to stay longer, we invite you to join us for an afternoon gathering for lunch and a two-hour workshop. We’ve created this afternoon session as an Add-On experience to give you the option that suits you best.
See the draft schedule below, which can be adapted based on the interests of the participants. In order to maintain the integrity of this additional workshop, only participants that have attended the full course may attend this Add-On course.
The cost of this Add-On session is $195 USD which includes lunch.
Draft Schedule for Add-On Workshop
Sunday, August 25, 2024
1:30 pm or sooner (O) - LUNCH, 60 min
2:30 pm (E) - Expanding on what we’ve learned: Additional perspectives to enhance the perceptual experience, 45 min
3:15 pm (E) - Biofield exploration, including addressing Static in the Biofield, 45 min
4:00 pm (E) - Spheres and the Biofield, 30 min
Dr. Gladys McGarey
Fri, May 17th
10am PT/ 1pm ET
RECORDING WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON
We are so honored to be able to offer this live interview with Dr. Gladys McGarey FREE for all osteopaths.
Dr. Gladys McGarey is a 103 year-old physician and author of Well-Lived Life.
Her parents studied with A.T. Still.
She is a co-founder of the American Holistic Medical Association.
Plus, she is still seeing patients and rides her trike daily! Wow. She is a joy and inspiration for all.
And there’s so much more!
About Dr. Gladys McGarey
Dr. Gladys McGarey, MD, MD( H), was born in 1920 and is internationally recognized as the Mother of Holistic Medicine. As a founding diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, she has had a family practice for more than seventy years, through which time she has tirelessly championed holistic medicine, natural birthing, and the physician-patient partnership. She is the cofounder and past president of the American Holistic Medical Association (now called the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine), cofounder of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine, and was one of the first Western doctors to regularly utilize acupuncture in the United States. Dr. Gladys was also an early advocate for home birth. Her innovations for natural birth include the Baby Buggy program, founded in 1978, which featured a fully equipped paramedical and emergency transport vehicle for home births, and pushed the Arizona hospital system to welcome partners into the delivery room.
For decades, she has worked closely with Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE). In 1970, she cofounded the ARE Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she pioneered the integration of allopathic and holistic medical practices, laying the groundwork for the cultural shift that recognizes alternative and holistic medical modalities. She also cofounded the Scottsdale Holistic Medical Group. Dr. Gladys’s work continues through the Foundation for Living Medicine, a nonprofit that works to expand the knowledge and application of holistic principles through scientific research and education.
Dr. Gladys lives and works in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she has recently become a great-great-grandmother. She currently has a life consultation practice, maintains a healthy diet, and achieves a daily 3,800 steps with her walker. She rides a tricycle named Red Bird and enjoys a good piece of cake now and then.
The Well-Lived Life is available via paperback or hardback on Amazon.
About her book The Well-Lived Life
On these pages, Dr. McGarey shares her six actionable secrets to enjoying lives that are long, happy, and purpose-driven:
Spend your energy wildly: How to embrace your life fully and feel motivated every day.
All life needs to move: How to move—spiritually, mentally, and physically—to help let go of trauma and other roadblocks.
You are here for a reason: How to find the everyday “juice” that helps you stay oriented in your life’s purpose.
You are never alone: How to build a community that’s meaningful to you.
Everything is your teacher: Discover the deep learnings that come from pain and setbacks.
Love is the most powerful medicine: Learn to love yourself—and others—into healing.
In a voice that is both practical and inspiring, Dr. McGarey shares her own extraordinary stories and eternal wisdom—from her early childhood in India and a chance encounter with Mahatma Gandhi to her life as a physician and a mother of six, to her survival of both heartbreak and illness. Dr. Gladys shares her inspiring vision for a healthier and more joyful future for us all, filled with “rich and complex truths that will resonate with readers’ hearts and minds” (Dr. Robert Waldinger, New York Times bestselling author).
Listen to Dr. Dijamco on Ep. 88 of The Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Podcast - “Palpating the Emotions in the Body”
Special thanks to Benjamin Greene, DO, for this interview.
Our scholarship recipients from our Vancouver, 2023 course — Sensing & Releasing Emotional Shock - Part 1+
Would you like to sponsor a physician-in-training? We’ve started a scholarship fund!
Would you like to SPONSOR a PHYSICIAN-IN-TRAINING? Click the “Become a Sponsor” button below. You’ll be recognized with a scholarship in your name. If you’d like, we’ll also connect you with the physician-in-training that you’re sponsoring.
In 2023, All Worlds Foundation Inc, a 501c3 nonprofit, provided scholarships to seven recipients.
Bio for Arlene Dijamco, MD
Dr. Arlene Dijamco is a passionate physician with a mission to help bring the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of health back to medicine in practical and tangible ways.
A graduate of Harvard College and Emory University School of Medicine, she completed her pediatric residency at Albert Einstein. After finishing her residency, she began a two-year integrative medicine fellowship through Dr. Andrew Weil’s program at the University of Arizona. Here, she explored a vast array of powerful modalities beyond conventional Western medicine; the one that moved and impacted her future most was cranial osteopathy.
She is a regular faculty member of The Osteopathic Cranial Academy’s introductory course. Together with Dr. James Gaydos, she co-founded “The Dig On Series” of osteopathic courses to help integrate the Loving Heart, Innovative Mind, and Stillness of Spirit into osteopathy. She also collaborates with Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) as a co-host of the parenting podcast Edgar Cayce’s Creating Calm: Parenting with Mind, Body, and Spirit with Corinne Cayce. In addition, Dr. Dijamco has a weekly YouTube livestream called The MultiDimensional MD. One of her greatest interests is addressing emotional trauma release. In that vein, she teaches Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) both in-person and online and offers courses to teach osteopaths how to perceive and address the emotional body consistently and safely.
Her book I AM Intuitive: A MultiDimensional Guide to Embrace Your Inner Light will be releasing in 2024.
Dr. Dijamco founded the All Worlds Health family, which includes her practice in Roswell, GA, nonprofit, and online school. You can learn more about Dr. Dijamco's practice, background, and philosophy at www.allworldshealth.com.
Bio for James Gaydos, DO
Dr. James Gaydos is a 1985 graduate of the University of New England COM and is board-certified in Family Medicine and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine/ Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine NMM/OMM.
He mentored extensively with Dr. James Jealous, later joining his practice for five years, where he under-studied from the seed-development to the full-flowered Biodynamic concepts of practice. Dr. Gaydos also studied with Anne L Wales, DO in the Balanced Tension Model and Cranial Concept developed by William Garner Sutherland, DO. He is a current member of the A Still-Sutherland Study Group (ASSSG) that originally formed around Dr Wales. Another inspiration in osteopathy was Dr. Louis Hasbrouck whom Dr. Gaydos met with regularly for several years.
Dr. Gaydos has also developed special interests in the following areas: Deciphering challenges to chronic somatic dysfunction through stance and gait; rebalancing dental bite imbalances and appliance failure mechanisms; evaluating vision lenses in a wide dynamic range of patient-use, management of metabolic-nutritional strain as inspired by the writings of Janet Travel MD; and management of EMF-emitting or contaminated devices that appear to interfere with Central Nervous System motion.
Dr. Gaydos served as Course Director of an annual four-day Course in Nagoya, Japan, for four years. This course was based upon the life-works of Dr. Jealous and Dr. Sutherland, as supported by Embryologic work of Erich Blechschmidt, MD, and further developed by Brian Freeman, PhD. Dr Gaydos currently serves as Adjunct Faculty at Touro University California, and current sponsor of the Students American Academy of Osteopathy at Vallejo. In addition, he is a regular faculty member of The Osteopathic Cranial Academy’s Introductory Course. Together with Arlene Dijamco, MD, Dr. Gaydos has co-founded the “The Dig-On Series” of osteopathic courses to bring integration of the Loving Heart, Innovative Mind and Stillness of Spirit into osteopathy.
He is in private practice in Walnut Creek, CA. You can learn more about him at www.cranialosteopathic.com.
A patient’s story (after using the emotional release concepts you will learn in Sensing & Releasing Emotional Shock)
As a Health Educator and Chronic Disease Prevention Expert, I have been to many healers in my day, but Dr. Arlene Dijamco stands out from the rest.
In about 10 minutes, a 40-year block was cleared. I felt it in my body and was no longer triggered. Dr. Dijamco is a truly gifted healer that intuitively knows how to help her patients work through negative thinking patterns that no longer serve them. I can't thank her enough. If you're ready and motivated for change, Dr. Dijamco can be the remedy to help you achieve a sense of intuitive healing that is enduring.
-Mai T. Trinh, Founder of Mai Health Now & Health Educator
Step into the Stillness
We hope to present ideas and concepts that will help you…
-step into the Stillness
-expand your perceptual abilities, and
-integrate patient collaboration
for more ease and depth of osteopathic treatment.
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