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Our Mission: To provide spiritual sanctuary, emotional healing, physical health care and education to all our clients.
Vision: To continue to attract the best practitioners of the healing arts and to work alongside each other as friends and associates.To provide our clients with the best complementary health care available. To be able to refer appropriately for care and products. To provide an educational forum for our clients and the public in general.
Some day the CFH will be housed on an exquisite parcel of land above the water. Our clients and guests will be able to stroll through the fragrant rose and herb gardens after their healing sessions. Those who spend the nights can cozy up under a warm, thick comforter, waking to hot tea and breakfast served in bed or by the calm lotus pond.
Who We Are: The CFH is now the professional home of two dozen complementary health care providers. We offer Psychotherapy, Acupuncture and Oriental Herbs, Hypnotherapy, Various forms of Bodywork, (Feldenkrais, Swedish Massage, Reiki, Mayofascial Therapy, Visceral Mobilization and Craniosacral Therapy). We also provide Spiritual Counseling from Interfaith and Non-Denominational Clergy, Aromatherapy products and counseling, Astrology, Intuitive Coaching and Nutritional Counseling from a registered dietitian.
History: The Center for Health opened its doors in January 1993 as the brain child of founders Carol Jensen and Rob Ryan. They met in l991 and quickly became friends upon discovering their dreams of an interdisciplinary Health Center were similar. They looked for office space for a year before settling on the present building, the Branciforte Plaza that was the old Santa Cruz Dominican Hospital.
The Hospital was built on the Spanish Branciforte Land Grant. The old land grant encompassed an Olohne Indian site near a healing spring. The Spanish settlers built a school on the site, taking care to preserve the spring by turning it into a well. The old hospital, which is now the Branciforte Plaza, incorporated the bricks from the old well into a planter in front of the current building.
Rob and Carol felt at home in this beautiful building which has housed, healed and birthed so many people of our Santa Cruz community. The Branciforte Plaza looks out over our Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary. We're only minutes from downtown Santa Cruz and the Boardwalk and minutes again from Highway 1 and Highway 17.
Our clients
come for an hour, a weekend get away, and longer. We have
arrangements with local retreat centers for those wishing
extended stays.
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About Carol Jensen:Carol Jensen was raised in the Hood River, Oregon apple orchards, in the shadow of three ancient snow capped mountains, on the banks of the mighty Columbia River. Her roots ran deep beneath the mountains, searching for the essence of the land which appeared as bright yellow and blue wild flowers, ice-cold clear water and Indian artifacts tinged with blood. She has fished commercially in Alaska, sailed between the Hawaiin Islands, and attended college in Europe and the United States. In 1981 she found herself on Mt Madonna, in Watsonville, California listening to the words of a great spiritual teacher. Here she has stayed for the past 20 years, studying yoga and raising her children. Carol and Rob were married on Mother's Day 200l.
About Rob Ryan:In 1970, Rob had an hours-long ecstatic spiritual experience. He vowed to remember this forever and and make blissful revelations part of his everyday experience-or die trying. A few months later he found his Teacher. Thirty years of focused spiritual instruction, meditation, and practice followed-including a 2 year course in astrology. Thousands of people have discovered profound inner confidence and purpose through Rob's work as an advisor, broadcaster and teacher. |
555
Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
(831) 457-0907 or 1 (888) ROB-RYAN
director@centerforhealth.info