SANTA BARBARA — Discover how non-physical influences can affect your inner healing process this Saturday at SBCC School of Extended Learning. Students enrolled in the one-day class Access Your Inner Healer will learn about cures that exist beyond the realm of modern medicine.
Access Your Inner Healer
David Cumes. Courtesy photo.
Dr. David Cumes, M.D. will guide students through the many variables in the healing/curing paradigm in his course, including healer-patient relationships, faith, hope, forgiveness, happiness and gratitude. Discover how these non-physical influences facilitate your inner healer, create balance and equanimity, and also assist in the remission and cure of deadly diseases.
A South Africa native, Dr. Cumes received his medical training in Johannesburg and taught at Stanford Medical Center after emigrating to California in 1975. He currently runs a private practice in Santa Barbara. In 2002, he fulfilled one of his lifelong dreams of being initiated as a sangoma, or medicine man, in South Africa.
He is also the author of several books and is an active advocate of bridging the gap between Western medicine and indigenous healing techniques.
“The ability to move the spirit that heals probably has existed as long as humans have walked the planet, and we need to familiarize ourselves with its mechanism,” he writes in his book, The Spirit of Healing: Venture Into the Wilderness to Rediscover the Healing Force. “As doctors, we need to recognize our ability to facilitate or aggravate the patient’s Inner Healer not only by our deeds, words and body language, but also by our wishes and thoughts. The positive desires and prayers of the physician are just as important as the affirmations and visualizations of the patient in the healing process.”
The Healing Power of Plants
Dr. Cumes will return later this summer with the class The Healing Power of Plants. Discover what our flora and water have to offer us in terms of physical, emotional and spiritual support. Come away with an understanding of how plants can heal us both by cleansing, protecting, and helping our dreaming and also by summoning our spirit guides for us.
- WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, July 21
- WHERE: Room 14 Tannahill Auditorium at Santa Barbara City College’s Schott Campus, located at 310 W. Padre Street, Santa Barbara.
- COST: Class cost is $19
- INFO: Please register here (course number: 21951)
About the SBCC School of Extended Learning: The School of Extended Learning responds to the diverse learning needs of the adult population in the Santa Barbara community by advancing career and life skills, and building bridges to credit. www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning