Osteopatía

CENTRO BALANCE NATUROPATÍA

ÁREA DE FORMACIÓN

El Sr. Luis De Simone, de Venezuela, recibe de manos del profesor Pedro Fleitas su diploma de Osteopatía después de 5 años de estudio del método.

La osteopatía es un método haptológico natural de salud. Técnica holística e integral. Es un arte cuyo objetivo es reequilibrar los distintos sistemas del cuerpo humano, la normalización de los fluidos y de las diversas estructuras (articulaciones, músculos, órganos…) del cuerpo y la mente.

La ostepatía parte del concepto de ser humano como ser único, formado por un cuerpo físico y un cuerpo mental, inseparables en la salud y en la enfermedad, por ello, la osteopatía realiza un abordaje integral del sujeto, interesándose no solo por la enfermedad o los síntomas motivo de consulta, sino por el verdadero origen de ese trastorno.

El objetivo de la osteopatía es armonizar al individuo, teniendo presente que toda alteración de la estructura corporal repercute sobre la función de dichas estructuras, dando lugar a síntomas (dolor, falta de movimiento, estrés, cansancio…).

Los síntomas son la señal de alarma de nuestro organismo, es una llamada de atención sobre algo que no funciona bien, son mensajes que nos envía nuestro cuerpo para que busquemos una solución para aquello que no marcha bien.

¿Cómo es una sesión de osteopatía?

La sesión de osteopatía es siempre individual, en la que se establece un dialogo entre las manos del Naturópata y los tejidos del paciente. Consta de un primer tiempo evaluativo y un segundo tiempo reequilibrante. En la primer parte el Naturópata se interesara por el estado de salud general y realizara una serie de test y palpaciones manuales para identificar las estructuras que han sufrido perdida de movimiento o estrés mecánico. Una vez identificadas dichas estructuras se aplicaran las técnicas manuales pertinentes para normalizar la función y eliminar los síntomas del consultante.

¿Qué técnicas aplica la osteopatía?

Las técnicas de elección varían en función de las características del consultante (edad, sexo, enfermedades asociadas…) y la naturaleza de la lesión (estructural, visceral, craneal, miofascial…). La batería de técnicas incluye manipulaciones de alta velocidad, movilizaciones lentas, técnicas de tejidos blandos, técnicas miofasciales...

La aplicación de las técnicas se hará respetando el límite del dolor del consultante.

Las sesiones de osteopatía son un impulso para nuestro cuerpo en el sentido de la curación y seguido de un tiempo de descanso (una semana mínimo) para que el consultante se adapte y participe en el proceso de curación, sin sobre estimular los tejidos en disfunción.

. Los principios de la osteopatía son:

• La estructura gobierna la función, existe una estrecha relación entre ambas, piense en un pie plano produce alteraciones en la marcha del sujeto, o un intestino vago produce estreñimiento, una artrosis cervical produce dolor, mareos…siempre una estructura alteradas modifica la función fisiológica.
• La unidad del cuerpo, en nuestro cuerpo todo está relacionado, los tejidos tienen continuidad de distal a proximal y de profundo a superficial. Piense ahora en un pie que duele al andar, el cuerpo se organiza para cambiar el apoyo, disminuir el paso…para compensar, evitando que duela este segmento y apareciendo muchas veces dolor en el otro miembro por la sobre carga.
• La auto curación, nuestro cuerpo dispone en sí mismo de los medios necesarios para eliminar o combatir la enfermedad (sistema neurovegetativo e inmunológico) a condición de que estos medios estén libres para actuar. Si existe trastorno circulatorio o metabólico que impide la nutrición normal de los tejidos estos serán más susceptibles de enfermar y el cuerpo no podrá defenderse.
• La ley de la arteria, para Sutil la alimentación celular era la base de la salud, si los tejidos no reciben el aporte sanguíneo necesario, se modifica el metabolismo celular y se fragilizan los tejidos, siendo mas débiles ante agentes internos y externos. Un ejemplo claro es un infarto de miocardio, al corazón no le llega sangre y parte de sus células mueren, dejando de realizar su función.

¿Quién puede beneficiarse de la osteopatía?

La osteopatía no tiene limite de edad en su aplicación, desde el bebe al anciano se pueden mejorar mediante la aplicación de tratamientos específicos en función de sus necesidades. El hecho de aplicar técnicas m en las que el Naturópata esta en constante comunicación con el cuerpo del consultante hace posible que la edad no suponga un factor excluyente.

COURSE IN FRANCE / Aix en Provence

COURSE IN FRANCE / Aix en Provence

For over 10 years since I saw my friend Agustin Martinez, he was many years serving on the Foreign Legion. But last weekend in January, the circle closed. Invited by him to give a course of Bujinkan Martial Arts in Aix en Provence city I moved from Gran Canaria to the airport in Marseille.

Aix en Provence is located in Southern France, near Avignon, less than 1/2 hour from the airport of Marseille.

Provence Aix is the historical capital of Provence, university town, a city of art with an extremely rich architectural heritage, Aix en Provence is an ideal place to enjoy and walk.

The Cours Mirabeau with its lively terraces, the countryside very close and numerous cultural and sports activities available are the main advantages of this dynamic city that looks to the future.

Their quality of life and the incomparable light fascinated many wonderful artists and country landscapes inspired the painter Paul Cézanne's famous paintings throughout his life.

It was a very special reunion, we told each other our stories after so many years since we met. Between technique and technique we confessed ourselves, it seemed the time had not passed, but for more than 10 years I've not seen him. Before I lost touch with him I used to give martial arts seminars at its center in Zurich (Switzerland) where he used to live before.

His family is great, now I have three new nieces, since they call me Uncle Peter, even so my friend Agustin, with his special sense of humor, sometimes referred to me as Grandfather, so I hesitated.

The seminar was fantastic, very well organized with simplicity and in a dojo with a beautiful and wonderful participants. We had participants from France, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. Some members of the Legion participated in the event.

I tried to show the danger of the concepts of form and no form, base and variation, of concepts themselves as well as the human habit of labeling all in excess without evaluating the options that life gives to live it fully every day.

From the taijutsu (close combat fighting) to the sword and knife techniques.

On Saturday we enjoyed a very pleasant dinner with the participants.

Thank you Agustin for your invitation, your family and students for their hospitality. Also thanks to all participants for their effort in these so special moments we are living. And I say goodbye for a while, because I´ll be back to this means, if I may, because in a few days we go to Japan to train with Grand Master Masaaki Hatsumi with a group of 20 people.



And I say goodbye for now remembering the love for human beings is what gives us strength to the teachings of our art. Action, Reaction, Passive , Dynamic. Forget for a moment one's existence let you recognize the value of living every second and sometimes the minute which corresponds you with a smile on your face and soul, even when you're crossing the hell.



A hug and see you soon

Pedro Fleitas

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BETTING

BETTING
Every day I bet for my students. I bet for every one of them, many are rejected by other groups for their way of thinking, their way of "life", but I want to bet for them, I try to offer them a wide range of opportunities for their development. With patience, I reiterate the basic instructions for making them going forward by themselves. For many of them no one wanted to bet, simply rejected them and today they have become incredible human beings, the "masters" of life through martial arts. If you are an instructor, have ever you thought that "in reality" you are someone who must bet without any fear for others and offer them opportunities according to your own possibilities?
In a danger situation, several biochemical factors which act to make you run away to avoid it, or you stay paralyzed unable to move or to deal with it. There is another situation that produces the same, envy. But what is envy? Just wanting something that others have. I have reviewed some proverbs about envy that I share with you:
Jealousy in men shows how miserable they feel, and your constant attention to what they do or do not do the others, shows how much they get bored.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher.

Punishes those who are jealous by doing them good.
Arabian Proverb

Envy is a statement of inferiority.
Napoleon I (1769-1821) Napoleon Bonaparte. French Emperor.

What is jealous? An ingrate person who hates the light that illuminates and warms.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French novelist.

Envy is caused by seeing others enjoying what we want, jealousy is seeing others having what we want to possess.
Diogenes Laertius (third century BC-?) Greek history.

Our envy always lasts more than the happiness of those we envy.
François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer.

Envy is a thousand times more terrible than hunger, because it is spiritual hunger.
Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) Spanish philosopher and writer.

If you look at jealousy is a disease that occurs since the human being exists, which makes the person who feels it continually unhappy, miserable and bitter. It is also decentralized their own reality and his own self to be all his life focused on what others get and that he would like to have. Ideally, if you want something and is an available goal, it is not necessary "to knock down" those who already have it, because they have achieved through their own efforts, rather you could ask for more ideas about how to do it and leveraging their own experience.

In short, what is a jealous person? It is a person who wants the "good things" without effort and sacrifice that others have, normally achieved with effort and sacrifice. And I wonder if they want the "good things" of others, they also want the "not so good ones".

My JUST IN THIS VERY RIGHT MOMENT Decalogue is:
1. Do not waste YOUR time wanting what others have. If you want something start dreaming,which is a kind of reality and then start working for it, joining forces with the universe and avoiding that the goal justify the means.
2. Do not waste your wonderful time with superficial or deep controversy. The term "controversy", which has its origin in the Greek language, is linked to the tricks used to defend or offend a posture. Most of the time they are meaningless and worst of all, do not let you proceed.
3. Avoid becoming a fan of yourself, of your own ideas, of your own concepts, of your own techniques.
4. Help all you can as your posibilities let you and do not expect anything in return. If you expect something in return, you´ll be frustrated.
5. Build rather than destroy. But if you try to destroy, leave a space to re-build.
6. Do your best. Whether you're on the mat, in the car, sitting, lying down, you can always do something to benefit others.
7. Stop and slow down when you need it, but as part of the integrated motion, not as an isolated event. Do not keep long in the same position. Staying too long in one position has many risks attached.
8. Do what you can for yourself and if you can´t, ask for help, but don´t any expectations about it.
9. Live every moment to the maximum, join with people with attractive and positive initiatives. There are many things to do, there are many needy people organizations and sick people that need volunteers.
10. Love every being deeply.

A big hug, by my side I will go on betting.
Pedro Fleitas

MARTIAL ARTS ARE SIMPLE ….BUT PLEASE DON’T PANIC!

MARTIAL ARTS ARE SIMPLE ….BUT PLEASE DON’T PANIC!
By Pedro Fleitas
I had an illumination. I realized that although I don’t have hair I can brag about it, because every time I wear a black t shirt to give a class, I see the hair of my doggie Tai decorating the textiles. So I have hair, and I make it clear so that there are no misunderstandings. The great thing is that the hair of my dog knows no borders, no passport control, no customs control nor language, just as I see hair across my shirt, usually up and down (to advertise a bit more Isaac Newton), but the fact is that some are also come from the bottom to the top and from right to left and left to right, and so on. They are very sensitive to motion, like those who practice the Kihon Happo, Juppo Sessho, Sanshin no Kata.

In our lives there are many things with us and which we don’t perceive, yet are very important.
I ask, pardon, I ask myself? The existence of the hidden combination of sempai, gohai and dohai is identical to Jonin, Chunin and Genin or equal to Shidoshi ho, Shidoshi and Shihan. There is a hidden combination in every action, every movement, even if we do not know when the movement is in-limited (be careful is a perception not a technique) the plot exceeds the hidden combination to become the re-opening of the essentials?
Today when we "philosophize" we get very serious. We want to take the role, for example, of a perfect martial arts teacher, correct, strict, someone who must be respected for his titles and technical knowledge. What could be Furthest from a martial reality? Reality or illusion? Illusion AND reality?
YES, we all learn from each other, correct, but all are not your master. A teacher is very special and if you're lucky enough to find one in this life, consider yourself fortunate, very fortunate. There are many beings who cannot find anything and look at themselves every day and thinking I am my master, my only teacher, I know all the techniques, I get all the feelings, but how often have you felt a knee that smashing your head on the floor and laugh so you don’t cry. Ten, Twenty, Thirty, have you counted? How many times has your teacher told you: YES and how many: NO? And how many times have you served him tea? Have you cut a lot of wood to develop deshi-iri or ultimately you just want skills and techniques? kanji and kanji. If so, congratulations, you're keeping the least important thing, you are forgetting the core. CONGRATULATIONS. But if you have filled the glass raising the bottle and turning it over, then it won’t be very difficult to turn the glass upside down to empty it. It seems like overdoing. Watch the Children, for example, at the edge of the beach playing with sand and buckets. They fill, empty and refill them. They make a mountain and destroy it, and enjoy that!
Gentlemen, ladies, the experience is personal, but one cannot be a good teacher, rather one cannot acquire the mastery of something if you have not been a student, excuse me, rather as my Uchi Deshi Dr. David Palau says "Without having the heart of a student for all your life" I would say without having the syndrome of: I am here, I want to experience, but what you have to experience or what you choose to experience, if perhaps you have that option.
Today I wrote about unimportant things, about worldly things, about my dog’s hair, on heads being crushed by knees, and above all about chopping wood, lots of wood. This is writing is a little crazy, rather pretty crazy.
I love having this syndrome called "the minimum common denominator sydnrome" from Wikipedia Is the lowest common denominator of two or more fractions, that number is the result of calculating the least common multiple of the denominators of the same fractions, usually with the aim of obtaining two (or more) fractions of the same denominator and equivalent fractions, and respectively equivalent to the initial fractions.
You know, I prefer the lowest common denominator of the lowest common denominator, it is easier.
Every day you hear more "in a few days I go to Japan" or "I was in Japan training" do you have to go to Japan to train? Japan is not the origin of our Budo, the origin of our Budo at least the one we came to know) is a number of people who sought survival through natural movement methods integrating their lives with nature. It seems that the first were from the East.
I state firmly: "I will train with Hatsumi Sensei, my teacher, wherever he is." Anyway I understand that this statement is difficult for many because they would have had to follow Hatsumi Sensei wherever he was, in other words, to be able to cut wood in any forest.
Saying things such as "Good, that so few of us attended training " "Good I was uke" "I had 20,000 trainings" "I am a Shihan" "Tell me when you are going so I don’t". The most important is to train with Hatsumi Sensei and define clear within yourself if you are a contracted party or a contractor, and if you want to be contracted you have to possess some natural abilities and something more and if you want to be contractor you will have to "have something" that can be hired.
Everything is easier. Keep it simple; respect your teachers, even if you disagree with them, at least temporarily. It’s a natural law, not to agree, is not inappropriate, it’s natural. Maybe you do not get theirmessage or you may not understand it. Have you tried to tune the same channel or you just have stubbornly refused to cut wood? Think, meditate, what have you done? You don’t need to leave a comment here, is something for your interior. It’s not something to be neither judged nor trialed, but thought by you. Respect the Sempai (Close students of Soke), the gohai and dohai. Respect yourselves.
Heart to heart, is not that difficult. A big hug. A crazy day.
Pedro, Unryu
P. S. Do not worry because children become adults, it’s natural, nothing happens, that’s not a disease or genetic transmutation.
(translated by Dr. Palau)

TEACHER - STUDENT?

Teacher – Student?

Some days ago i read an article which said

"Researchers at the Durham University found that longer pregnancies and prolonged breast-feeding periods are directly related to brain development in offspring. The research included the study of 127 species of mammals, and scientists concluded that these findings were also applicable to human babies. This explains the long period of dependence of babies from their mothers between humans. 
Specialists indicated that the result of their research constitutes proof that backs up the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) that infants should be fed only breast milk during the first six months of life, and combine it with other foods up to two years or more. 
When analyzing the evolution of animal offspring, researchers at Durham University found that brain size in relation to body size, was directly related to the time the mother spent pregnant, and the length of time spent breastfeeding her offspring. 
According to the investigators, the length of pregnancy influences the size of the brain of the offspring at birth and the time spent in breastfeeding directly affects the brain development of the child after birth. In the case of humans we have nine months of pregnancy and breastfeed our babies for up to three years, all this time is required to support the development of the brain that gets to have an average of 1.300 cubic centimeters (cc) in adults .  Deer have a similar body weight than humans, but their pregnancy only last for seven months, followed by six months of breast feeding, the adult brain of a deer is 220 cc, or six times less than the human brain. 
Robert Barton, main investigator, suggests that species with larger brains achieve a longer life, but until now this relationship is not very clear, "a theory is that larger brains enhance lifespan by making the animal more flexible in their behavioral responses to unpredictable challenges, allowing for slower life histories. However, our findings suggest that the slowdown in life stories are directly related to costs instead of the benefits of developing a larger brain. The profits necessary to offset these costs could come from other sources, such as improving specific perceptual and cognitive capacities, rather than through some generalized flexibility, "Barton stated" 

This information opens the door for me to pose to the students, that many of them leave training before the right time and their "martial immune system" is not strong enough to face the obstacles of life in the most comfortable manner. To illustrate this important relationship in Martial Arts I share this letter from Hatsumi Sensei, published in the Bujinkan Sanmyaku Densho. " Enjoy.

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DESHI - IRI

Teachers are essential - and not just for warriors. 
If you find a great mentor and train diligently, you will be able to become a great warrior, but if you go to a martial merchant, it’s very unlikely that you get the real enlightment of martial arts.

In ancient times there were two forms of Deshi-iri: those who entered the martial arts in search of a good teacher (The "Seeker" type) and those that were discovered by a teacher while they trained unaware in the mountains (The "sudden" type). In each case, the teacher judged whether that person was qualified to be a martial artist or not.
Those who asked for Deshi-iri in the past had to do at first tasks such as chopping wood or cleaning. They should cut firewood and seriously clean fromdawn to dusk for several years.
The teacher then examined the student's potential as a martial artist during this period, distinguishing if he had a direct nature and enough guts to be able to stick with martial arts.Then, in that moment, the next step began:  "Come to the dojo I will give you some training."

With continued training, day to day, students learned to value their teacher, learning the depth of his affection and maturing as a true student.

Today, the kind of people that come to me and ask me to accept them as students is very varied. Some are of the fragile type, weak, both of body and mind, and wishing to be strong. Some are intellectual, wishing to strengthen the spirit, some are fighters who just want to be strong in the martial arts, but all are part of a group of "geniuses" who are eager to study budo. I want to tell all these people without reserve:

 "If you want to forge your spirit, train in religion or something similar – in martial arts you will learn superior techniques from murderers. Do you want to strengthen your body? Go for a walk, lift weights and eat plenty of vegetables. What do you expect to achieve being strong in martial arts? You cannot win a trophy, and you cannot create any wealth! "

When I tell them these, I observe their reactions. The reason is that few people who have been allowed to pass through the door will be really able to persevere in training. There are very few people stupid enough to continue to the end, continuing with their intentions without caring what is said about or to them.

Takamatsu Sensei accepted an idiot - me - as a student reciting the following poem:
"In Ten'ei Gannen (1110), martial winds blew
There was a follower of Kopp-jutsu,
Fearless and gallant, defeating wild beasts with a blow
As normally peaceful as a flower or bamboo
Brave in confrontation against countless enemies,
Is there anyone who knows where this warrior went?
No more waiting for he has finally arrived
from the land of the gods he is the chosen one "

This is not pride, I am not boasting. Persons who do not turn crazy will succumb in anything that they do (CF: Edward Phelps: "The man who makes no mistakes usually doesn’t do anything!"). They are, precisely, stylish people who don’t seek anything more than to "appear as good," leaving everything halfway and carrying horrible lives.

What about the relationship between teachers and students?

Both should have a sense of respect for each other. At first, when Takamatsu Sensei addressed me as “Hatsumi Sensei", I found it irritating and incomprehensible. Now, finally, I am aware of this mutual respect, and again I lowered my head for the lesson.
            On the other hand, the teacher is the teacher and the student is only the student. One should not deny your own ways and attitudes; Takamatsu Sensei taught me how to live a nice life. From him I learned life itself.