SCENAR HEALTH SPONSORS 'TOUR OF DUTY'

Scenar Therapist Leon Colbert will be helping a team of fire-fighters and emergency service workers from the US and Australia stay fit and focused on "The Tour of Duty Run" that starts at the Santa Monica Pier August 12 and ends at "ground zero" on the morning of September 11, 2010. The fire-fighters and emergency service workers are coming together as allies to remember our fallen colleagues, our brothers and sisters, our family.

The Australian team commenced their journey last Friday, Aug. 6 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney with a reception, gifts from sponsors and SCENAR treatments. Some of them ran in a 14km City to Surf run on Saturday. The SCENAR HEALTH team treated Achilles tendons, hamstrings, headaches, abdominal discomfort, muscle tightness and general relaxation treatments and taught them how to treat themselves and each other.

SCENAR HEALTH USA will be supporting them in the US and we call upon SCENAR therapists along their route to donate their services, if possible. You can check out their route at www.tourofduty.com.au or download their iPhone app from iTunes.


An excerpt from their website:

We run to remember them. First and foremost this is our purpose and intent, to honour their sacrifice, respect their courage, and appreciate their commitment to service and devotion to duty. To remember them and their humanity. We also begin this journey with an understanding that so many people have suffered and are suffering to this day, the survivors, the loved ones left behind, the workers involved in reclaiming the World Trade Centre Site, the families, friends and co workers of the passengers and crews of the American Airlines and United Airlines Flights, the emotional and physical scars of this attack are devastating and potentially far more reaching than we can imagine. It has changed our world, irreversibly, forever.

It is our duty to remember what happened on September 11 and reinforce all that is good about humanity.

We also see the run as an opportunity to acknowledge emergency services globally. Every day on every continent people are giving of their lives, risking their lives so our world can be a safer place. The military, police, fire and medical services represent just some of the people that give of themselves, so others may live a better life, their service can never be underestimated.

Our journey begins on August the 12th, we fill our shoes and start to run from the Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles at 8.46 a.m., we ask you to share our journey, to remember with us, our family, the people that have suffered and are suffering still, and the people globally that have served and will continue to serve to make our world a better place. Share this run, via the web and if we happen to be anywhere near your ballpark, fill your shoes and share the load, run with us and remember.

A message from our CEO - Helen Gracie

I will never forget the tearful hug Dr Toni Bark MD from Chicago gave me when I arrived at our AMURT head quarters in Port Au Prince in Haiti in April 2010. Dr Bark had just returned from a strike team clinic in one of the many make shift tent cities that now dominate the Port Au Prince devastated urban landscape. It was the first time we had seen each other since I had agreed to help her with her request for donated SCENAR devices and to accompany her on the volunteer medical mission.

After the embrace she tearfully explained that she had witnessed an amazing transformation of an elderly man who had been in full body pain since the January 12th earthquake. After she had given him a 6 points on the face treatment, he smiled and told her that he felt normal again.....she then looked me in the eye and said she was so glad I was there - together we would make a big difference to the lives of the Haitian people. Over the next week we treated hundreds of people and constantly saw the rapid transformation SCENAR facilitated. People were relieved of pain and transformed before our eyes.....

Since then, we have been back again in June, identified a local organization that can be trained in SCENAR and develop a local community program enabling Haitian run clinics to treat patients that otherwise would not have any medical help. I am currently working with Alison Thompson ( co-founder of JPHRO in Port Au Prince, Order of Australia recipient and new SCENAR practitioner) and Sarita Wolf ( Director; AMURT Child protection services) to develop ongoing SCENAR therapy programs in Haiti. The next big hurdle we have is to get back to Haiti with a Ritm SCENAR INstitute trainer, so that the programs conform to world's best practice in SCENAR therapy. ( I know my way around the SPORT and can do simple techniques with a pro unit - but we have exhausted my ability now! )

Last weekend at the Australasian SCENAR conference held in Sydney; Australia, I was asked to share my experiences in Haiti and spoke about the importance of volunteering. My hope was to inspire SCENAR practitioners to give back to a community organization in some way or another so that we ensure all people have access to SCENAR as a choice. Within days I received an email with an offer of help!
A heart felt thanks to Bhavani Rhooks - our Victorian trainer who has volunteered to go to Haiti to train both Alison and Sarita. We are hopeful to secure some funding soon to help Bhavani get there - so please email me on helen@scenarhealth.com if you have any ideas on ways to cover her costs of volunteering. She is ready to travel - we just need to figure out how we can get her there!

Helen Gracie
CEO
SCENAR HEALTH