My name is Richard Duree and for the past 47 years I have been committed to assisting people to develop the skills to understand themselves better and to take responsibility (the ability to respond) for their own wellbeing, both mentality and physically.
My journey into my own personal healing began back in the early 70s while living on a commune in Southern Oregon. I had traveled there to assist my cousin in his endeavor to build a house.
At that time I thought I would become an architect or engineer and had just finished a project to industrialize the process of growing insects for biological control of insects on farm crops in Berkeley California.
Like many people who become interested in alternative medicine I sort of fell into it, literally. I was involved in a motorcycle accident. I hit the pavement at approximately 60 miles per hour. I was taken to a local orthopedic surgeon who told me that I needed to have the vertebrae fused together in my neck. This option seemed like a last resort for me, which I would do if necessary.
A person living at the commune suggested that I go see a doctor named Larry Hill. Dr. Hill did a type of hands on therapy on me that solved my neck issue and suggested that I live with him and learn the techniques he had developed.
After studying with him for many months he woke up one morning as told me I should find a man named John Thie in Pasadena California.
I didn’t move in that direction at that moment. I went to Washington State and while sitting in my tipi on the Columbia River Gorge my friend from school Dr. Brian Anthony appeared looked at me and asked if I had ever heard of a doctor named John Thie. That was enough to convince me to head down to Pasadena California.
It turned out that Dr. Thie was developing a program called Touch for Health and I eventually became the research director for Thie Chiropractic and the Touch for Health Foundation. Our goal was to empower individuals to gain awareness of their structure and learn a system to realign it by employing a modified version of Applied Kinesiology.
More detailed stuff about Richard:
He is an internationally known Kinesiologist, Psychopractor ®, educator, author, lecturer and counselor. During his 47 years in the field of education, specialized kinesiology, energy medicine, and somatic energy psychology Richard served as the head of Research and Development for Dr. John Thie, creator of the Touch for Health Program.
He also served as an Instructor Trainer for the Touch for Health Foundation where he worked alongside the co-creator of the One Brain System, Gordon Stokes. (Together in the mid 70’s they began integrating a humanistic approach to healing services and education that focuses on human values, beliefs, and concerns while working on the Board of the Human Achievement Foundation).
For six years he served as an executive board member and the Research Director for the International Association of Specialized Kinesiologists.
Richard worked on staff as a kinetic psychotherapist at the University of Santa Monica Medical Center, USM under the direction of Dr. Steven Small.
He is the creator of the Neurosomatic Psychology System, N.P., Kinesiology, Phased Reflex System, Enteric/Vagus Release Technique, and the Advanced Professional Practitioner Programs with Andrew Verity, N.D.
Richard worked for many years with Olympic and other world-class professional athletes under the direction of Dr. Leroy Perry now with the International Sports Medicine Institute, Los Angeles.
At the Renaissance Clinic in Nassau, Bahamas, he researched the effects of muscle balancing on stress and aging under the direction of Dr. Ivan Popov, M.D.
Richard has published numerous papers in kinesiology journals worldwide and contributed to numerous books related to the subject including Touch for Health 2nd edition by Dr. John Thie and Energy Medicine by Donna Eden and David Feinstein, Ph.D.
Richard and his former partner Shanti (co-creators of N.E.P.) were included as two of the pioneers of kinesiology in Claudia and Andreas Niklas’ book “Kinesiologie” Released in 2012 (German).
Richard teaches Seminars and is on the staff of professional schools of kinesiology and natural healing worldwide.
He also teaches specialized programs for educators for improving their teaching skills, reducing their stress levels and teaching them and their students about emotions.
When not on the seminar circuit Richard maintains a private practice in Murcia Spain.
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