Workshop-January 29, San Francisco: New Help for Your Vision Problems: Colored Light Therapy and More

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New Help for Your Vision Problems:

Colored Light Therapy and More

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A workshop with leading behavioral optometrist Ray Gottlieb, OD, PhD,

assisted by Sarah Cobb, optometric vision therapist

 

Whether you¹re a natural vision improvement teacher or just someone who

wants to get more deeply in touch with your eyes and learn how to address

their needs, this workshop is for you. It¹s a rare opportunity - these

self-help tools are almost never available outside of the world of

optometry.

 

You¹ll learn powerful therapies that have led to big improvements in people

with nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, cross-eye (strabismus)

and lazy eye, injury-related vision problems, and conditions such as macular

degeneration, cataracts, retinopathies, and retinitis pigmentosa.

Highlights include: group colored light experience, making your own colored

light instrument, Edgar Cayce¹s teachings on healing with light and color,

special techniques for strabismus, and much more.

 

You can sign up for all or part of this four-day workshop, which will take

place at the School for Self-Healing in San Francisco, Thurs.-Sun., January

29 ­ February 1, 2004.

 

Days 1 and 2:

Colored light therapy. Colored light therapy can induce deep visual

relaxation (deeper than palming or any other vision exercise can take you)

and improve mental clarity, visual and emotional stability, and visual

attention, memory, and efficiency. It can improve reading and academic and

job performance. It is a deep balancer of the nervous system, including the

autonomic nervous system, which controls muscles within the eye.

 

While this therapy has many non-vision applications for an astonishing range

of physical and psychological problems, the applications Ray will teach are

for vision improvement: for nearsightedness, farsightedness, cross eyes

(strabismus), lazy eye, and other problems. You¹ll learn what colored light

therapy is, how it works, the insights of major figures who developed it

(Spitler, Liberman, Downing, Henning, Vasquez and Searfoss), when and how to

use colored light therapy, and how to build your own instrument.

 

Ray and Sarah will lead a group colored light event ­ a guided psychological

and physical experience of exposure to specific light frequencies.

 

Colorpuncture therapy. Sarah will introduce German acupuncturist/

naturopath/ homeopath Peter Mandel¹s method of healing our physical and

energy bodies by focusing colored light on acupuncture points and others.

Day 3:

Methods for improving cross-eyes (strabismus) and lazy eye. Ray¹s

innovative methods with these conditions have led to success even in

extremely difficult and complex cases. You¹ll learn important background

facts about these conditions, how Dr. Bates, founding parent of natural

vision improvement, looked at them, and how Ray works with them.

 

Evaluating basic vision skills, using the test that school nurses use.

Sarah Cobb will teach the Keystone Visual Skills test and other methods

which evaluate such things as whether we aim our eyes at, in front of, or

behind our visual target, how our eyes are working together to create depth

perception, whether one eye is being suppressed, how our eyes move, how well

we accommodate to look near, and more. In this segment, you¹ll learn a

detailed, highly accurate way to measure the progress of colored light

therapy sessions: mapping your own, or your client¹s, visual fields.

 

Training visual skills, including skills that make reading easier. Sarah

will teach methods of working with many of the problems that are evaluated

by the Keystone Visual Skills test.

 

Day 4:

Ray¹s own methods for working with nearsightedness and middle-aged

farsightedness. Concepts and practices of Bates and others and Ray¹s many

years of clinical experience came together to build his powerful methods for

working with these conditions.

 

Visualization. Sarah and Ray will present their own unique methods of

visualization. Visualization is a major vision improvement tool. From the

point of view of the nervous system, there is no difference between

visualization and performance.

 

Self-massage. Ray¹s self-massage for vision improvement is unique. You

really can¹t get too much of this, to enhance relaxation and improve

circulation to your eyes.

 

Stress-point training. This trampoline work helps us learn how to learn. It

reduces anxiety and improves visual attention, learning, memory, perception,

mental ease and efficiency. This training has been helpful to people with

attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, and brain injury. It has helped

skilled musicians improve their performance.

 

Edgar Cayce¹s teachings on healing with colored light. The workshop will

end with a special two-hour presentation of material that is almost never

available to the public: Sarah Cobb will teach Edgar Cayce¹s approach to

healing with light and color and Cayce¹s use of the violet ray to heal

vision conditions that lead to blindness. Edgar Cayce is considered the

father of holistic medicine and a modern-day prophet. His more than 14,000

psychic readings, collected and disseminated by the Association for Research

and Enlightment (ARE), have touched the lives of tens of thousands of

people. You can enroll for this class alone, if you wish (see below).

 

 

 

When: Thursday through Sunday, January 29, 30, 31, and February 1, 2004

Time: 9 am ­ 5 pm, check-in first day 8:30 am

Where: School for Self-Healing, 2218 48th Avenue, San Francisco

Tuition: $400 for all four days. One day, $130. Two days, $240. Three

days, $330

Cayce presentation alone (Sunday, February 1, 3 pm ­ 5 pm), $15

Bring bag lunch or we¹ll carpool to local restaurants

If possible, wear white or light colors on second day for group light

experience

For more information, contact: Carol Gallup, email

self-healing. Contact her by phone at School for

Self-Healing, 415 665-9574 or fax, 415 665-1318. Or register online at

www.nviconference.org

 

About the presenters:

Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D., FCOVD, FCSO, has been dean of the College of

Syntonic Optometry since 1979. His teaching experience includes serving on

the faculty of two optometry schools, an ophthalmology medical school, a

mental hospital, and the piano faculty of a music school. He has been a

frequent lecturer at national and regional conferences of the Optometric

Extension Program, the College of Optometric Vision Development, the

International Congress of Behavioral Optometry, the Neuro Optometric

Rehabilitation Association, the College of Syntonic Optometry, the Gesell

Institute, the Association of Vision Educators, the International Conference

for Holistic Vision, and at education, health and psychology conferences.

He is known for his innovative work in behavioral vision training for

strabismus, amblyopia, visual/motor and visual/perceptual improvement,

myopia control, brain injury rehabilitation, and visual stress reduction.

 

Sarah Cobb has authored about 20 articles in Optometric Extension Foundation

publications and is editor of and a frequent contributor to the Journal of

Optometry Phototherapy. She presented at recent International Light and

Sound Conferences and at several conferences of the College of Syntonic

Optometry. For more than 10 years, she chaired the Southwest Vision

Therapists, has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Behavioral

Optometry, and has created numerous eye charts used in vision training.

With a background in education, she has led workshops for teachers and

vision therapists on vision and learning.

 

A member of the Association for Research and Enlightenment for 20 years,

Sarah has developed the only Edgar Cayce protocols on the subjects of

healing with light and color, and healing vision conditions that lead to

blindness, based on a thorough study of every reading he did on those

topics. She presented these protocols in two lectures at ARE headquarters

in Virginia Beach, and at two recent international conferences on light and

sound therapy.

 

 

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4-DAY WORKSHOP WITH RAY GOTTLIEB JANUARY SAN FRANCISCO

 

WORKSHOP IN COLORED LIGHT THERAPY, VISUAL SKILLS AND MORE

 

Here¹s a rare opportunity - training in colored light therapy and visual

skills is almost never offered to non-behavioral-optometric vision

educators. In the first two days, instructor Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D.,

will teach colored light therapy from a perspective that includes not just

Spitler, Liberman and Downing, but pioneers in the field whose major

insights have been neglected: Henning, Vasquez and Searfoss. You¹ll learn

when and how to use colored light therapy, how to look for progress, even

how to build your own instrument.

 

Colored light therapy can induce deep visual relaxation and improve mental

clarity, visual/emotional stability, and visual attention, memory, and

efficiency. This important tool will enhance your work with clients with

refractive errors, strabismus, and a wide range of other vision problems.

 

Ray will be joined by Sarah Cobb, editor of the Journal of Optometric

Phototherapy. Sarah will teach Edgar Cayce¹s approach to healing with light

and color, Cayce¹s use of the violet ray to heal vision conditions that lead

to blindness, and color puncture therapy. Ray and Sarah will lead a group

colored light event ­ a guided psychological and physical experience of

specific light frequency exposure.

 

On the third day, Ray will give an in-depth presentation on working with

strabismus; he is known for his innovation and skill in this area. Drawing

on her 20 years¹ experience as an optometric vision therapist, Sarah will

teach how to screen for and train basic skills: accommodation, convergence,

divergence, fusion, stereopsis, suppression, pursuits and saccades. She¹ll

demonstrate the Keystone Visual Skills Test (the best test available to

non-optometrists, widely used in visual screening) and other assessment

procedures.

 

The last day will cover classic AVE topics like myopia and presbyopia from

Ray¹s unique perspective. Included in Ray¹s presentation will be his

self-massage method for reducing refractive errors. Sarah and Ray will teach

their own versions of how to train visualization skills. Ray will

demonstrate Stress-Point Training for improving visual and mental ease and

efficiency during highly demanding learning experiences.

 

When: Thursday through Sunday, January 29, 30, 31, and February 1, 2004

Time: 9 am ­ 5 pm, check-in first day 8:30 am

Where: School for Self-Healing, 2218 48th Avenue, San Francisco

Tuition: $400

Bring bag lunch or we¹ll carpool to local restaurants

If possible, wear white or light colors on second day for group light

experience

For information/registration, contact: Carol Gallup, phone/fax (360)

379-4795, email self-healing

 

About the presenters:

 

Ray Gottlieb, O.D., PH.D., FCOVD, FCSO, has been dean of the College of

Syntonic Optometry since 1979. His teaching experience includes serving on

the faculty of two optometry schools, an ophthalmology medical school, a

mental hospital, and the piano faculty of a music school. He has been a

frequent lecturer at national and regional conferences of the Optometric

Extension Program, the College of Optometric Vision Development, the

International Congress of Behavioral Optometry, the Neuro Optometric

Rehabilitation Association, the College of Syntonic Optometry, the Gesell

Institute, the Association of Vision Educators, International Vision

Educators and at education, health and psychology conferences. He is known

for his innovative work in behavioral vision training for strabismus,

amblyopia, visual/motor and visual/perceptual improvement, myopia control,

brain injury rehabilitation, and visual stress reduction.

 

Sarah Cobb has authored about 20 articles in Optometric Extension Foundation

publications and is editor of and a frequent contributor to the Journal of

Optometry Phototherapy. She presented at the last two international Light

and Sound conferences and at several conferences of the College of Syntonic

Optometry. For more than 10 years, she chaired the Southwest Vision

Therapists, has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Behavioral

Optometry, and has created numerous eye charts used in vision training.

With a background in education, she has led workshops for teachers and

vision therapists on vision and learning.