Cetacea Bleu Inc. was a State of Hawaii Nonprofit Corporation for five years. We have provided thousands of Free CranioSacral & AquaCranial(R) treatments to children in Hawaii and around the World since 1997. Free clinics, home visits and cetacean therapy are provided as part of the ongoing research program developed by Rebecca Goff. A certified Marine Mammal Naturalist, Ms Goff has swam in the wilds with Dolphins for over a decade, has acted as a guide in Tonga, is a proponent for the marine environment and is a licensed therapist in the State of Hawaii.
Rebecca Goff Still provides Free treatments for pregnant mamas and children. She combines free aquacranial clinics with her lecture circuit to expand awareness of the marine environment.
Reef Kids International is a project of Aquacranial International Inc.
Rebecca also works with Support Tonga Marine Sanctuaries Inc, a State of Hawaii nonprofit, and Tonga Marine Sanctuaries Inc, a Tongan nonprofit society.
Gifts of frequent flier miles can be used to support our free clinics and / or our Marine Environment lecture tours. Many thanks for your gifts.
According to many osteopaths and other doctors, using craniosacral or Aquacranial the following are CONDITIONS THAT MAY BE AVOIDED OR IMPROVED BY TREATING BABIES WITHIN 72 HOURS OF BIRTH
"Dolphins sense when a woman is about to give birth and gather round. They give both the mother and child a sense of protection and safety. Sometimes, when a baby is born the Dolphins nuzzle it to the surface." Igor Charkovsky, Russia
While the research is mainly qualitative, some measurement and statistical analysis is done as well. Research tools include but are not limited to:
Treating children on land as well as in the water and allowing family members to swim near the treatment area gives the clinic a safe and comfortable feeling environment for the keiki.
Five year old Koa has had two land and three water treatments in six months. His parents attribute his fairly aggressive behavior changing to quite sweet and gentle to his treatments. Mom had just recieved a treatment when this photo was taken. Interesting light over her head (crown chakra).
Treated at 3 days after birth, this little girl was not nursing. An adjustment of her maxilla (upper teeth) which was rotated incward at her birth took a couple of minutes. Evaluation the next day showed normal placement of the bones. She also nursed a total of four and a half hours that day. Although the baby's head felt similar to a water balloon during the initial treatment, subsequent evaluation at one month of age determined that the mouth was in balance. No further feeding problems were encountered.
Families come to the therapists trainings as part of Cetacea Bleu's free clinic. Classes are also available on a group basis for families and couples to learn some basic decompression techniques to use on each other, siblings, children.
Aquacranial(r) Therapy was developed thru our free clinics for children. Thousands have been treated. No child has ever been charged. No criteria. Just be a child.
Stress in children takes a multitude of forms. Environmental stress. Postural stress. Muscular stress. Nervous stress. Stress from, TV, video games, noise pollution, sports, peers and school. We have seen an increased stress level across the board in children coming to our clinics since 9/11.
In 2009 the stress level has increased even more with the world wide financial crisis.
Family stress is addressed. Sometimes it becomes obvious you cannot treat an individual child without treating various members of the family. Financial stress, political unsurety, terrorism, families have a lot to handle these days. Sibling rivalry has long been a fact of life. Children who abuse thier brothers, sisters, cousins, neighbors and sometimes themselves could use some help.
Craniosacral and Aquacranial(r) therapies ease the traumas of living. Families become gentler, less aggressive with each other and themselves.
Families that have material wealth and security face other stress issues. Demands are sometimes greater to perform.
Families that have very ill children suffer the stress of thinking that every day may be the last. It takes away the ability to ever relax. Sometimes a different perspective can be seen during family therapy and swimming near cetaceans.
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AquaCranial Therapy
An Ocean Born Experience Originated & Developed by
Rebecca Goff & the Cetaceans
My research began when dolphin communication led me to begin doing craniosacral therapy (based on the Sutherland/Sills method) in the ocean. The original theory was that doing so on infants to the age of 3 would allow the the physical body to hold higher levels of consciousness. I later learned that the brain grows to 90% of its size by age three. The consciousness aspect of this work continues to hold my personal attention. The dolphins communicated, touched and taught us until Aquacranial(r) Therapy was developed with years of research.The thousands of treatments we have now done were rarely on children brought to us for consciousness work.
Autistic children came first. It was the work with autism that led the Upledger Institute to open Craniosacral therapy training to those without an osteopathic degree and to collect data on the effect of the therapy. The dolphins have assisted us in moving beyond the table, expanding the scope of the modality. WE DO NOT SUPPORT ANY THERAPY INVOLVING CAPTIVE DOLPHINS! Not for therapy, research or entertainment and we never have supported any captive dolphin programs nor worked with them.
Autistic children have become calmer, more coherent, social and have stopped head banging and other self abusive behaviors with treatment.
The attention deficit children were the next to show up at the clinics. While this is a very real problem, it is also very misdiagnosed. In addition, children in the school system are drugged specifically to "control" them. Not to cure them, not even to help them. Upledger quotes a 50% rate of relief with simple cranial adjustments to the occiput. We have the same results.The fact that ADD and ADHD pharmacuticals are gateway drugs is no surprise to us. By the time the kids are 14 or 15 an alarming number are using ecstasty and heroin. We treat ecstasy babies on a regular basis because of this.
Around the same time the midwives and doulas found us, the critically ill and dying children began to be referred. They came to find peace. The parents came to put a little joy in thier dying child's life with a dolphin visit. They came believing that while medications were helping, or not, obviously something else was needed.
For centuries the ocean and the ocean air have been known to have a healing effect. The way that most people llive these days, very little time is spent outside. Fresh air and sunshine do a body good, there is no doubt about it. We many times have busy parents, both working. When there are other children in the family, time spent with each child individually is even more limited. Confilicts within a family, even when the child is not directly involved, affect the child none the less. We spend time evaluating the cranial sacral system of the child. We also give the child total attention. Spending time with them in the sun and water, we listen. Our evaluation usually shows many things are involved in the healing process of any child. We customize our treatment plans accordingly. Dolphin therapy, therapy with whales, craniosacral and aquacranial therapy are the modalities used along with nature and compassion. Emotional support for the children and the parents is an element.
Many, many things can be involved in a crisis situation for a childs body. Sometimes the very fact that it is a combination of factors involved is exactly what makes it difficult to discover the "problem" or imabalance. Compression from coming thru the birth canal, compression of knees from crawling, compression of tail bone from falling learning to walk, the many natural falls children have, wrestling with dad and the siblings, wrestling with the puppy, using the phone, braces, disease, pollution, improper diet, emotional starvation, abuse, prescription drugs, sports, viruses.....the list of possibilities is even more endless when you begin combining some of these things.
We do our best to educate and inform parents about the issues that arise during treatment of thier children. There are a multitude of articles out there on the dangers our children face in a world growning more polluted. It is a reality we should be aware of and deal with it.
It is much more likely that your child will be affected by cigarette smoke. Many children I treat have second hand cigarette smoke in their lungs. Even when the parents are very diligent about not smoking directly in front of the children I will find smoke. If the parents do not smoke we are always able to track to a person the child is around who does smoke. Occasionally air pollution is noticable in childrens lungs who live in highly polluted cities or very dusty areas.
It would be great if we could just "take a pill" and be healthy. Many times it is more complex than that. On rare occasions, it is the medications themselves that inevitably break down the little bodies. It is so much easier to give your child a pill than to be sure they eat healthy food. I have actually watched financially well off, highly educated parents hand thier eight year old a prozac and a rootbeer to wash it down.
Children usually love me right off. Of course I bring them presents, give them all of my attention and as one little girl said, I do not hurt the children, "you know, stick needles and things in them". The parents are not always thrilled to hear what I have to say initially. Sometimes it is thier children who get them to come back. The children love the treatments. Even the ones who insist they do not want a treatment, will NOT get a treatment, tend to sit still and allow me to treat them all the while they are telling anyone who will listen they they do not want treated. By the second treatment, all children to date have been happy to get on the table or in the ocean..
Happy, healthy children are our goal.
AquaCranial Clinics are a community gathering to support the children. Therapists volunteer, mothers help each other, many times tourists at the beach ask to join in and help in some way. Holding babies while a mother is treated, wrapping a toddler in warm blankets or "pillowing" a pregnant mamas tummy as she is gently laid on the sand to "integrate" her treatment, truly, it takes a village.
