CraniOcean Media: New Publishing

CraniOcean Media is leading the way in independent publishing with mainstream distribution. Independent or Inter-dependent? CraniOcean Media, or just “CraniOcean,” publishes the books of innovative craniosacral therapist James Nemec but would not exist unless for You. It arises out of requests to learn how to learn in the community of healing arts, by both patients and/or clients and practitioners. Growing out of the informational website, CraniOcean.com, its CONTENT a response to the celebration of freedom and variety and the unconditional liberation of the being, YOU. We are pleased to announce that our first publication, TOUCH THE OCEAN: THE POWER OF OUR COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS,” by author, Nemec, has held its own with the majors, including Harpercollins, Hyperion, Simon and Schuster, and St. Martins Press.  This should also be a clue to the publishing world that Craniosacral Therapy, and it’s allied modalities, Somatoemotional Release, Visceral Manipulation, Lymph Drainage Therapy, is a subject that is worthy of interest. TOUCH THE OCEAN, and CraniOcean Media’s forthcoming books in this first phase, including JOURNEYS: STORIES OUR BODIES CAN TELL, are distributed by New Leaf Distributing. The mission? Anything is possible. CraniOcean Media has demonstrated this with its bold moves in Internet publication. It is here also to encourage others to be what they are, for to be as You are can be a considerable contribution in itself. Thank you for being YOU

Thank you also for your visit and interest in the books and AudioBooks made by CraniOcean Media. For more, please visit the Press Page at http://craniocean.com/media

Fire Yogi — An Example of Blending

Although I myself wouldn’t do this, and certainly do not suggest anyone do this, might this be another example of blending?

This could be something that each of us are doing every day in our different ways — it’s all a matter of degree — no pun intended   For example, when we open up to a person and shake hands.  Or hold a pet that we love.  Or touch the ocean.  We are always blending, even with the environment.  We are not aware that we are.  We are blending individually and collectively.

Again, no one need light a match to find out about this!  There is no force required in blending.  (And no fire!

For more on “blending,” google Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions or visit the site, CraniOcean.

Thank you.

Seals Are Special too — Timing is All

Thank you for joining us here! From the latest story in the CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter –

How did the Seals play into the therapeutic Ocean sessions in Southern California?  We may never know.  In the session on Hermosa Beach, when the shorebreak was so rough for my client, we felt honored when a seal appeared a few feet from us (on urban Hermosa Beach of all places!) and I’d felt grateful that we had “stopped” and waited before going into the water.  What’s interesting is the timing of the events. Timing is all. Now, in the moment of the blend, the seal had seemed to point us back to the beach and to safety.  We both got the message.  The seal wasn’t there when Lydia went down on her back on the sand, the waves washing over her like they had over the body of the seal.  I didn’t know where the seal had gone off to and was grateful to have gotten the point.  As Lydia’s boyfriend, a long distance solo-sailor from France, had said, “The animals know.”

Was the appearance of the seal on this Los Angeles beach a random event?  Or was it there to help us and show the way?  Am I reading too much into this?

Here is a video from the BBC that demonstrates that Seals can not only discern turbulence in the water, but that they are very special sea creatures.

Again, it’s not that the seal appeared on this very busy beach it’s the timing of the event.

Back to the notion of a seal as a “helper” seal — when doing therapy, in water or on land, stopping to ask “how” an event happens can be rather useless!

(Think about it for a while.)

If you are in sub zero temperatures and freezing, are you going ask “how” it got so cold?  Or are you going to build a fire?

It’s wonderful what can happen when we take a moment to “touch the ocean,” and in return, feel the answering touch of the ocean in the blend.

Thank you.

Sitting with a Question, from TOUCH THE OCEAN

Some questions raised in Touch the Ocean –

What is it to sit with a question without having to have an immediate answer?

Another question the book poses is just as the weather can affect our moods (a bright day can make us cheerful, gloomy day sad) can we in turn influence the “moods of the weather?”

If you have been following the CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter, you know of a certain seal that crawled onto Hermosa Beach to point the way during a Craniocean-healing session — one event the book points to CAN happen when we learn to “touch the ocean.”

What is the connection between our health and healing and the health and healing of the planet? Do we need to be “healed?” anymore than the Planet? Could it be that the outer pollution will never stop until we address the inner pollution?

Could our connection with each other, and with the planet, be more intimate than we have previously imagined?

Are our bodies oceans in miniature?

And here is a proposition that a friend presented by gifting me a new book by a fine gentleman the other day –

“Since human life and human consciousness are intrinsically one with the life of the planet, as the old consciousness dissolves,there are bound to be synchronistic geographic and climatic natural upheavals in many parts of the planet, some of which we are already witnessing now.”

Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell, L.A. Bodhi Tree Event

The Bodhi Tree Bookstore event in Los Angeles for CraniOcean’s new book, “Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell,”was on February 24th, Tuesday, and a delight for all who attended.  The Bodhi Tree has no more copies available, yet. Find out what happened by clicking here — This was a pre-publication event of “Journeys.”

The Body, Not Just the Mind, Has Stories to Tell

JOURNEYS: STORIES OUR BODIES CAN TELL takes us on a journey beyond traditional medicine.  Our bodies tell stories, whether we are aware of it or not.  Others can often tell us our stories before we ourselves know what they are.  Even domestic animals.  What we don’t know won’t hurt us, “ignorance is bliss,” but some of our body’s stories can unintentionally hurt others as much as heal.  The author of “Touch the Ocean,” L.A. playwright, and Upledger craniosacral therapist, articulates prismatic case histories.  The body, not just the mind, has stories to tell.  At the end, he stands the book on its head, challenging us to find out for ourselves.

Both “Journeys” and “Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions,” are now available in Los Angeles at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore.

Distributed by New Leaf Distributing

Kauai Embraces Book, TOUCH THE OCEAN

Front Page, Current Events!

CraniOcean is back in LA!  Was in Kauai on a short visit on invitation from March 4th through March 17th. There was a book event for Touch the Ocean:The Power of Our Collective Emotions at Ed and Cynthia’s Talk Story Bookstore in Hanapepe on Friday, March 6th, from 6 to 9 PM, and then again, on Friday, March 13th, from 6 to 9 PM. There are no more copies of Touch the Ocean available for sale on the island of Kauai. There was an interview with the author on  Tracey Schavone’s KKCR radio show on Wednesday, March 11th at 2:30 PM. Also, sessions were offered in the Ocean while there to those asked. Here is a description of Touch the Ocean, distributed by New Leaf Distributing. The Website is CraniOcean.com, of course!

Can one light touch change the world?

TOUCH THE OCEAN: THE POWER OF OUR COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS, by celebrated craniosacral therapist, James Nemec, narrates compelling stories of heart centered presence and ocean healing. He explores the history of craniosacral, mind altering connections with dolphins, and with our environment. Upledger Institute certified, Nemec combines science and intuition to heal individuals previously considered beyond help. The case studies presented explain the curious life-elixir Nemec brews between the ocean, sky, and the energies of our collective conscious. “Are our bodies oceans in miniature?” At the end, the author stands the book on its head, challenging us to find out for ourselves.

Touch the Ocean in KAUAI

Aloha!

The first event at the Talk Story Bookstore on the South Shore of Kauai in Hanapepe was a lot of fun!  There are now only 4 copies left of Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions on the entire island! Ed and Cynthia have a top notch bookstore (the only real bookstore on the Island besides one Borders) and operate it as a conscious business.  A joy to hang out in the vibe there.

Here is the schedule for the rest of my stay here in paradise!

CraniOcean will be near Princeville, Kauai on a short visit on invitation from March 4th through March 17th. The next event for Touch the Ocean:The Power of Our Collective Emotions at Ed and Cynthia’s Talk Story Bookstore in Hanapepe on Friday, March 13th, from 6 to 9 PM. There have been only be 8 copies of Touch the Ocean available for sale here.

Then on Tracey Schavone’s KKCR radio show on Wednesday, March 11th at 2:30 PM. KKCR (Kauai Community Radio) is the coolest station here.  One of the best anywhere, really.  Me and my bros have been listening to it in the Rental Car everyday, while checking out the sites — interesting interview styles and full sets of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix with no BS. One of my bros discovered it in Chicago.  To contribute to KKCR a singular honor for this book.

Here is a description of Touch the Ocean, distributed by New Leaf Distributing. The Website is CraniOcean.com, of course!

Can one light touch change the world?

TOUCH THE OCEAN: THE POWER OF OUR COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS, by celebrated craniosacral therapist, James Nemec, narrates compelling stories of heart centered presence and ocean healing. He explores the history of craniosacral, mind altering connections with dolphins, and with our environment. Upledger Institute certified, Nemec combines science and intuition to heal individuals previously considered beyond help. The case studies presented explain the curious life-elixir Nemec brews between the ocean, sky, and the energies of our collective conscious. “Are our bodies oceans in miniature?” At the end, the author stands the book on its head, challenging us to find out for ourselves.

Again, I’ll be back at the Talk Story Bookstore with Ed and Cynthia next Friday Night from 6:00 PM.

For more, go to CraniOcean.Calm

Thank you so much for your visit and support!  The OCEAN WILL THANK YOU!

The Body, Not Just the Mind, Has Stories to Tell. Pre-publication Event, Journeys.

Simple and magically beautiful. Miraculous! — Blythe Stratton, MT

Yes!  Very happy with the way the pre-publication event went for Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell.  All who attended received something special, call it nourishment.  It was the first time I saw the book, and it is gorgeous!  You can put it up on a bedstand or on a table and it somehow brightens the whole room — the interior layout is delightful, with flowing, easy to read print in TVo-sized sections. Cover designer George Foster and layout artist William P. Groetzinger have done it again!

The event was to end at 800 but went to 930. The Bodhi Tree staff assistant was sweet and yet professional and interested in the material.  We set up the group in a circle — I only knew 4 people there — the posse — and past clients in the book who chose to remain anonymous as clients — and we started with each person giving a brief introduction around the room of why they were there.  Then each person opened the book at random and read a sentence or two, at random.  Then this was discussed.  It was quite wonderful to see how all of the passages worked together in synchroncity. ( The book’s consulting editors, Chiwan Choi, Lisa Marguerite Mora and Kayla Wilson, can also be thanked here for knowing enough about this author’s writing style to let it alone and allow it to be.)  There was a feeling of freedom and variety and dolphins at play in the room.

Then a very mental, intellectual lady stopped the freedom and the flow with mental type questions — this was worthwhile too — the mind was going to speak now, and not the “body.” Someone remarked she had had a catholic upbringing — she was very rigid.  She wanted specifics about Craniosacral Therapy, and this was actually a good thing.  I asked for a chalk board, and we went into the book even more.  She was very happy by the end, although she did not get her requested, sample, hands-on “demo” on herself.  There just wasn’t time and too much to be gained and to learn with her interjections otherwise.  Some teachers, even spiritual teachers, tend to kick people like that out, but here, all are invited, and I was grateful for her inadvertent contribution to the whole of the evening.  It’s always that one apple that makes any event interesting and worthwhile for others.

More than half the books the store ordered for the event were sold.  So the bookstore was very happy.

Here is the description the bookstore used for the book (scroll down).

[Note that the bookstore promoted the book using, "Craniosacral Prisms," since that was the information we'd sent them before taking "Craniosacral Prisms" out of the subtitle area.  Later, when I asked him, the book buyer at the Bodhi Tree, Marc Labinger, said it was good to have a subtitle like this underneath "Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell," since it tells what the book is about.   I was like, "Whoa."  I'm still not crazy about "prisms," for some reason -- I wish I could be, but some craniosacral practitioners can't get the sense of how prisms relates to cranosacral therapy while others can.  Might need to come up with a fitting second word there, if not 'prisms.'] So here to goes:

Journey beyond traditional medicine in this book of case histories by James Nemec, author of “Touch the Ocean”.  These are stories that our bodies tell, uncovered through the work of craniosacral therapy.  Non-surgical, non-intrusive, the light touch, hands-on therapy is safe for newborns and the elderly and is often considered a “last hope” by many for a healthy life. Nemec invites his readers to experience and receive the ancient wisdom that arises from their own bodies, through this therapy, to open the doors to a renewal of health and well-being.   Our bodies tell stories, whether we are aware of it or not.

This was also posted in the The Whole Earth Catalogue.

Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell (with subtitle)

The event was all very spontaneous and interactive.

Thank you for checking in. Please leave a comment as to what you think the second word in the subtitle would be, if not ‘prisms.’ The official publication date is July 11, 2009.

The culture of, Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell

Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell the long awaited sequel to Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions, enjoys its premier pre-publication event in Southern California tonight at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, February 24th, at 7:00 PM.  The actual date of publication is July 11, 2009, although increasingly available online.  It’s like a sourdough culture now, a living culture that can make other cultures, and contribute to the sanity of a 21st Century Health.

Some of the people written about in Journeys will be at the event tonight. Why was this particular bookstore chosen for this first pre-publication event?  Because it’s virtually across the street from the holistic healing clinic where the stories in Journeys took place, over a 7-year span, from 1998 to 2005.

What will I talk about in my role as an author?  I don’t know.   I think we might ask each person there to briefly introduce her or himself, then  set the chairs in a circle, then ask everybody to open to a page of the book at random. Each person can read a few sentences or a paragraph and then we can discuss it and let the questions generate. This book is an invitation to journey beyond traditional medicine and this event, tonight, an open invitation to learn. We go through so many adventures on this planet and rarely do we remember to ask this simple question, “What Can I Learn?” Then a few moments of silence, like in Touch the Ocean, at the shore.

Afterwards, oh yes! I’ll have to remember to buy a bottle of champagne, if for nothing other that the sound of the cork pop! (Totally forgot to buy the bottle of champagne–maybe save that back for the official publication event?) After all, the very real people in this book worked hard in their craniosacral therapy sessions.  It’s not easy to trust either, and sometimes you are up against Doctors and Hospitals giving up on you, and you have no other choice.

This is a book about the stories our bodies can tell and the honoring of the tellers of these stories.  Tonight is to honor these people, and this book, all of those who came through the doors of this Melrose Avenue clinic – a small culture.

I have a sense the Mom and Dad will be there in spirit. Other Mom’s and Dad’s and guides and angels and Inner Physicians will be there too, no doubt.  If you catch this on time, you are invited to contribute the privilege of your presence in the blend.

Kindly wish our Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell, Godspeed toward its journey of publication and beyond into the Cosmos!

Thank you.

Top Literary Agent in the Country

When did I turn to micr0-press CraniOcean Media?  After going through more major and mid-sized publishing houses than I care to remember, and enough literary agents to fill a pickle barrel, a friend introduced me to one of the top literary agents in the country who looked at the subject of Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions, and said, something like, “I absolutely adore craniosacral therapy.  But I cannot push it.  I cannot even push the books of that man, what is his name? Upledger.”  Touch the Ocean sold out of it’s first run printing and is about to sell out of it’s second, making it’s money back for the publisher.  It stands to go into the pantheon of very special books on craniosacral therapy and to do well over time.  It’s now followed by a sequel, Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell, and now being made into a Trilogy.

It has bested the majors in the National Best Books Awards by USA Book News, including, Harpercollins, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, and if the reports coming in be true, has changed the approaches of practitioners in the USA and the UK.  Take an example from Slumdog Millionare that was rejected by the majors as an “Indie,” and ask yourself — Are the Majors really relevant anymore?  Anymore than Publshers weekly? PW remains, above all, a marketing tool which feeds into a large distribution pipeline for the Majors and an exclusive chub, however, 1 plus 1 does not add up to relevance.  Seeing this, CraniOcean Media has already bypassed PW and is doing well.

Here is an honest assessment from the New York Times about smaller micr0-pressses and even self publishers.  And what is a publisher — major or minor house — but a person? Yes, a publisher is a person.

Many have wrote me and said that after reading Touch the Ocean, they now feel inspired to write their own books on alternative medicine and healing.  This is beautiful and one of the reasons bad boy CraniOcean Media went foward. Just remember it’s all a game, like any other game we play in this Man Made World, a game with players, rules, referees, rewards and penalties — and have fun in the playing.

(I am in the world but not of it) is not only a useful reminder, it’s a tool of remembering this, also.

Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell enjoys its premier pre-publication event in Southern California at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, February 24th, at 7:00 PM.  The actual date of publication is July 11, 2009, although increasingly available online.

Thank you.