Oct 31 2007
About Suzanne
Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, C.M.T., C.S.T.-D., For more than 25 years Suzanne has taught and mentored in the area of conscious awareness and its relationship to the healing process. She developed the Healing from the Core curriculum and audio series Healing From the Core: A Journey Home to Ourselves, based on decades of helping healthcare practitioners hold healing space for themselves and others.
An expert at integrating right and left brain learning, Suzanne is particularly adept at weaving together mind, body, and spirit to create a unique environment where profound healing can occur. Known for her grounded, direct, nurturing way of assisting others in going to the heart of their healing process, where deeper healing begins, Suzanne draws on a wealth of experience as a teacher and therapist, mother and wife, and generously shares from all areas of her life.
Since 1986, she has been a certified instructor of CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release training with the Upledger Institute, nationally and internationally. Since 1997, Suzanne and Emilie Conrad have co-led the ground-breaking work of synthesizing the movement and breath world of Continuum with hands-on CranioSacral therapy. She also provides ongoing staff development training at Esalen Institute and is a well-known and sought-after speaker in this field. She has authored the chapter “Developing Therapeutic Presence”, within Complementary Therapies and Wellness: Practice Essentials for Holistic Healthcare, and numerous other articlessuch as , “The Gift of Presence” in Massage Magazine and “Reclaiming the Feminine Field” in The Ecozoic Reader. Her upcoming book on developing therapeutic presence is due out later this year.
Hey Suzanne-
Will you please add me to your mailing list. I have taken several of your workshops (at AMTA VA conferences) and would love to hear you wonderful suggestions regularly!
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Will do Beverly, and stay tuned!
Warmest regards,
Suzanne
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The infilling of Spirit through the grounding of my soul has blessed me since I met you. Thank you, Suzanne, for fostering growth in my work and life. Linda Hurley
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Hey Linda,
Long time no talk! I am so happy to hear from you. I still have the calendar of your beautiful mandalas. Be sure and subscribe (see the upper right corner of this page SUBSCRIBER OPT-IN to stay in touch. It brings a smile to my face to hear from you!
Hugs,
Suzanne
Suzanne,
Please add me to your mailing list. Thanks for the post. I often get caught up in “doing” and have to remind myself to just be present.
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Will do Janice - I trust that you have gone to the top right of this page to fill out the Subscriber Opt In information and if you would like to be on our Snail Mail list as well, please go to www.HealingFromTheCore.com and put your information into our CONTACT US link to be added.
And, we ALL need reminders to simply be present in today’s world…. so, enjoy!
Warmest regards,
Suzanne
Suzanne,
Please add me to your mailing list. I found your Oct. comments so encouraging as a practitioner and as a client.
Thanks, Carol
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Will do Carol - if you would like to be on our Snail Mail list as well, please go to www.HealingFromTheCore.com and put your information into our CONTACT US link to be added.
I am happy to be of service.
Warmest regards,
Suzanne
Suzanne, I was so excited to read about you and what you are doing. I am a massage therapist and would love to have you add me to your mailing list. I would like to learn more. THanks…Mary
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Happy to do that for you Mary! Please be sure you have gone to the top right side of this page and taken the few minutes it takes to fill out the SUBSCRIBER OPT-IN information. AND, if you would like to be on our Snail Mail list as well, please go to www.HealingFromTheCore.com and put your information into our CONTACT US link to be added.
Thanks for the feedback and stay tuned!
Warmest regards,
Suzanne
Hi Suzanne,
What a delight to find and read your blog. Put me on this mailing list please. It’s wonderful to connect with you this way.
With blessings for success,
Malka*
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Hi Malka - you are on our list already. Glad to hear from you! Hope your holidays have been good. See you next month in Miami for the Healing From the Core: Grounding and Healthy Boundaries course. Thanks for being there to assist.
Warmest Hugs,
Suzanne
I attended my first HFC workshop in Mpls recently, and have already found it so helpful in my CST practice (and nursing career as well). Kathy Burns was our instructor, and is a wonderful teacher. I was able to access strengths I knew were down there somewhere and rooted them out of hiding with grounding and filling, and the other exercises.
I was working with a client today who was able to experience an absence of pain t/o the majority of her treatment. She has had no pain-free moments since hurting her back several years ago and has had several back surgeries since, which have only led to further vertebral fractures.
Thank-you for putting your learning experiences into a format so easy to access.
Please add me to your mailing list,
Nancy Prusi RN
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Hi Nancy,
Thanks for the compliments! I have worked for years to clarify what I teach in that curriculum so that it is easy to access. I am happy to hear you found it that way! AND, welcome to the Healing From the Core family - Kathy Burns is a fabulous teacher, isn’t she? Now that you have completed the HFC: Grounding and Healthy Boundaries course, I would welcome you at any of the next level of advanced trainings that you feel drawn to experience.
Keep practicing what you learned and enjoy!
Warmest regards,
Suzanne
Hi Suzanne,
Please add me to your mailing list. I have never had the opportunity to take a class with you but I’ll add that to my goals. I’ve taken CST 1 and 2 with Eric and it was awesome and a little overwhelming. I really enjoyed your story of your clients’ healing from MS. How inspirational! Thanks for sharing.
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Hi Kathy,
Look forward to seeing you in a HFC course soon! In the meantime, pick up the Healing From the Core: A Journey Home to Ourselves audio series and start working with the explorations there. They are required listening for the courses, so you will be ahead of the game and there is a lot to learn just from that avenue alone!
And thanks - I trust you have gone to the top of the page and done the SUBSCRIBER OPT IN thing already and if you would like to be on our Snail Mail list as well, please go to www.HealingFromTheCore.com and put your information into our CONTACT US link to be added.
Warmest regards,
Suzanne
I am not a blog person. This whole thing is new to me. But, being able to read your story is very inspiring to me. I have felt the same way- Am I doing anything for this person?. You will definately help keep me grounded & waiting to be further inspired. Thank you so much Suzanne.
Angela Robertson, LMT
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Thanks Angela - I have never done a blog before, so we are even! Stay tuned and stay inspired!
Warmest regards,
Suzanne
Dear Suzanne:
I am interested in learning more about your Continuum work with Emilie Conrad and any workshops you might be offering.
Thanks, Joan.
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Hi Joan - to learn more about the annual collaboration we teach here in Reston together, and the DVD sets that we have filmed of our classes together for the last 7 years, go to my website at www.HealingFromTheCore.com and click on Seminars and Products. There is lots of information. We are still formulating the description for our collaboration next fall which will be entitled “The Undiscovered Body”. Stay tuned for more information. Thanks for the interest!
Warmest regards,
Suzanne
HI: Suzanne I will enjoy reading your Blogs storyies.This one one was ectreemly enteeresting. I know sometimes I think that I have not helped the person at all .l How wonderful the bodie is.
Loiik forward to atteneding yhour class iat Miami in Jan 2008. I sure hope they tell us where it will be son so I can get a motel for Ruthe Peterson and myself. Thanks again Dottie
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana reply on December 30, 2007:
Hi Dottie,
Looking forward to meeting you in the Miami class. It is in a hotel in Coconut Grove this year. The Upledger Institute now has the location and all the information you need to get registered at
800-233-5880 or 561-622-4334.
See you there!
Suzanne
Dear Suzanne,
Please add me to your mailing list. I so enjoyed your course in Perth, Scotland and the evenings the group spent together. it has been extremely valuable to me in my work and personal life. I hope to join you in the States in May and possibly August, bringing with me at least one other of the McCall clan. Glad to see you are coming back here next year - we have been spreading the word.
Love and light
Janis
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Hi Suzanne
I just found your website - it’s beautiful! And I love your blog page. Nice layout and easy to read. And your insights are worth a million! I hope lots of people find your gifts to us here. I’ve missed not being able to TA with you recently, so this site will keep me up to date with your news.
I spent this past summer getting my website up - no easy feat when therapy work takes up all my time, so I can appreciate yours even more. Like you, I wanted my blog page to share my thoughts with others but I haven’t had time to write, and I don’t know where you find time in your crazy-busy life.
So, well done! And thank you.
If you have time, take a look at my site. And if you know anyone who wants info on aromatherapy oils, you can send them my way…
Hope you had a wonderful holiday season and that 2008 brings blessings and love and health.
Lots of love-
Sue
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Hi Suzanne, I am from Australia and would like to be sent further stories, it is wonderful to hear of others experiences. Thankyou Jenny
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