SELF-HEALING - Key Persons

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• Occupational Therapist Graduated at University of Sao Paulo 1983

Meir Schneider Ph.D. was born blind to deaf parents in 1954 because of congenital cataracts. After five unsuccessful surgeries on the lenses of his eyes, which left him with massive scar tissue, glaucoma, cataracts, cross-sightedness and nystagmus (involuntary rapid eye movement), his doctors pronounced his condition hopeless and he was certified permanently legally blind. He performed his reading and schoolwork in Braille. Inside, he never relinquished his dream of gaining sight. Just months before his seventeenth birthday, Meir met a teenage boy who gave him hope that his dream of seeing could be realized. The boy taught him the Bates Method of eye exercises. Undeterred by the opposition and skepticism of family and physicians, Meir practiced these exercises with extreme diligence - up to 13 hours per day. Using the Bates Method as his foundation, he developed many more eye exercises of his own and created his own regimen of self-massage and movement.

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• Director of Education and Development at the School for Self - Healing

Melissa Moody, Emeritus Director of Education and Development at the School for Self-Healing for many years, is a Self-Healing Practitioner and Instructor and Natural Vision Improvement Instructor, having studied with Meir Schneider, PhD, LMT, since 1998. She is a certified Instructor of the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method and plans to offer Level One classes in Texas. Melissa is also an Advanced CranioSacral and SomatoEmotional Release therapist, trained through the Upledger Institute; integrates Self-Healing and CranioSacral therapy and uses Syntonics Light therapy when needed (www.syntonicphototherapy.com). She is a founding Board of Director charter member of Ophoenix, www.ophoenix.org. In 2009, Melissa developed and implemented Self-Healing vision care classes "Take Care of Your Eyes" for Stanford University through Stanford's Health Improvement Program, which are still ongoing. Melissa is a featured subject in the documentary HAPPY www.thehappymovie.com, and in the BIO TV Channel's Twisted Fate Series- hers is "Nothing's Perfect." Melissa is available to give lectures and workshops nationwide. She offers private therapy sessions in Central Texas, and sometimes at the School for Self-Healing in San Francisco (when she is in the Bay Area). Visit Melissa's website at inspiringselfhealing.com. You can reach Melissa by email at hello@inspiringselfhealing.com or by phone at 650-218-9887.

Márcia Alves de Siqueira is an Occupational Therapist, certified by the Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar (Brazil), having also earned a postgraduate degree in Hand Therapy and Physiology & Biomechanics by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo - Brazil. She is a Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method Instructor and Therapist certified by the School for Self-Healing in San Francisco - CA - USA. She is also one of the creators and founders of the Brazilian Association of Self-Healing, serving as its first secretary. For more than 20 years, she has been working in Brazil with the Meir Schneider Method in both prevention and treatment of various health problems (neuromuscular, neurological, muscular, spinal, rheumatic, bone, joint, gastric, repetitive strain injuries, postural, circulatory and vision related problems). During this period she has also held lectures and workshops on the method. Since 2012 she has been teaching Level 1 courses in Brazil.

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• Co - Founder of the Website Envision Self - Healing

Richard Miller from Tucson, Arizona is first and foremost a Self-Healing Practitioner in the Meir Schneider Method. He is a also a meditation instructor, holds a Master of Fine Arts and is a Certified Massage Therapist as well as a Personal Trainer. While pursuing a career as a legally blind photographer, Richard began working with Meir almost 30 years ago. After many years of working on his eyes, he got rid of his glasses and improved his optic nerve atrophy. Wanting to help others, he became fully trained in Meir's Method including the Advanced Training in Vision Improvement. Richard is co-founder of the website Envision Self-Healing that has helped countless people all over the globe with their vision conditions. He is currently seeing clients with vision problems and teaching workshops on how to get rid of glasses. After 30 years of exploring the world of vision improvement, Richard has "done it all" from microstim to acupuncture to colored light therapy (Snytonics) to stem cells. He makes an excellent vision improvement coach to guide you on your own personal vision quest.

Since 2010, William Fuller has been a Certified Massage Therapist and Wellness Educator working in San Francisco, California. William's extensive background in sports science has prepared him to combine multiple massage styles with holistic principles to achieve effective body tension release and positive structural change. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, sports played a major role in William's own development from an early age. In high school he discovered a passion for understanding the role that anatomy, physiology, body mechanics, and nutrition play in peak sporting performance. This led him to pursue a BTEC National Diploma in Sports and Applied Science at Mid Kent College. Following an overuse injury at age 18, the doctor told William: "I hope you don't like sports because you're never playing again." William began focusing his attention on deepening his knowledge, skills, and understanding of the human body, and its application to sports by obtaining an undergraduate degree in Sports Science from Southampton University, followed by a post-graduate certificate of education in Physical Education from Southampton University. Over the next five years, William taught a vast range of sports, abilities, and ages around the world, including England, Kenya, and Kuwait. In 2010, William stumbled upon a unique physical rehabilitation training program in San Francisco, founded by Dr. Meir Schneider. Dr. Schneider had been born blind to deaf parents, but had regained his eyesight through a series of vision and body exercises. Following this extraordinary event, Dr. Schneider established a physical rehabilitation training program based on combining in-depth knowledge of the human body with movements, and applying self-care techniques, such as massage and stretching. Inspired and intrigued by Dr. Schneider's vision, William moved to San Francisco and enrolled in the program. It was during this training that Willian learned a variety of massage modalities and how to utilize them based on his clients' needs. Following graduation, William worked at the Sports and Recreation Center at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He now runs a practice out of a sports medicine clinic in Embarcadero 3 Monday to Fridays and the Flood Building at market street and Powell.