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About the Stillpoint Project

We are a small group of people working to offer alternatives in health care. Our medical practice incorporates complimentary therapies such as osteopathy, craniosacral therapy, neural therapy, myofascial trigger point injections, homotoxicology, and herbology. There is a Lyme literate physician on staff.

Our waiting room is a small shop and an art gallery. Our intention is to offer a beautiful environment to people. Recovering from chronic illness can be as much a reclamation of identity as anything, and an appreciation for beauty is helpful in this regard.

This web site is dedicated to The Stillpoint Center for the Healing Arts - our dynamic walk-in space, located in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Inspiration

The Founder of Osteopathy:
Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917)

Twenty one million people died in the flu epidemic of 1917-18. While American hospitals reported a 30 to 40 percent mortality rate, records show that a relatively unknown medical maverick of the time was saving lives. Dr. Andrew Taylor Still practiced his brand of medicine during that epidemic and lost less than one percent of his patients.

Dr. Still committed himself to the discovery of a better way to treat disease. He was disheartened over the orthodox practices of his time and particularly shocked at the mutilating surgeries he witnessed as a volunteer army surgeon. But it was the loss of three of his own children in the 1864 meningitis epidemic that moved him to "fully realize the inefficacy of drugs... (and the) gross ignorance on the part of the medical profession." Steeled with determination the following ten years of his life were spent delving into medical books and experimenting with the human anatomy. This work produced three basic principles:

The body is capable of making its own remedies
Health depends on the body's structural integrity
A malfunctioning physical structure causes disease

He also promoted sanitation and hygiene, and spoke strongly of the hazards of toxic drugs.

Ultimately however, it was his "magic" manual manipulation that produced the most renowned results, and Dr. Still came to regard himself as a mechanic of the living body. With his discoveries a new medical science was born.

"The western way is to take a heroic stance in life, to battle our way past great obstacles ... This plunge toward what we want sets up opposition in the unconscious.

The East teaches quite a different attitude ... if one finds an antagonism he is taught to withdraw the cause of the antagonism by meditation, detachment, finding a stillness in his attitude and thus bringing the opposition to a stop. If the antagonistic forces are diminished the battle will stop.

The East has described this cessation of antagonism as the Divine Nothing, The Great Void, the Stillness, the Creative Nothing, Nirvana - the Still Point.

This is not to say that one way is better than the other ... But the contrast is instructive from either point of view."

-- Robert Johnson

The Stillpoint Center for the Healing Arts
4419 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6R 2H8 Canada / Telephone: 604-224-6857
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