The Asclepeion Center for Body Mind Therapy offers a holistic, integrated approach to healing—an approach drawn from both traditional and non-traditional medicine—that considers the whole person: body, mind, emotions, and spirit. The Center’s uniquely talented staff stand at the forefront of the current fusion of alternative healing and traditional medicine. The Center is becoming a leader in both healing treatments and the mentorship and training of healing professionals. The approach of the Asclepeion Center is deeply integrative. The fusion of traditions at the Asclepeion Center grows out of the professional life journey of its gifted founder, Ronald S. Murray.     Ron Murray—who holds degrees in Physical Therapy, Naturopathy, and Integrative Medicine—is a master body/mind worker, trainer, and healer, as well as a theoretician and an innovator in the application of technology to wellness assessment. The Asclepeion Center has attracted physicians, physical therapists, nurses, and other healing professionals who, under its auspices, use a holistic approach in their specialties. Clients include people of all ages. The Center’s Innerlinks program and Early Intervention Protocols offer integrated, holistic treatment for infants and children. Utilizing a theoretical approach synthesized by Ron Murray, the Asclepeion Center staff see various healing techniques—including CranialSacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Myofascial Release, and Body Mind Healing—in terms of a view of the human body as a dynamic colloid system. Dr. Murray’s Dynamic Colloid Fluid Model helps explain the integrated functioning of the human body, mind, and spirit—and the process of healing. A colloid is a substance that sometimes behaves like a resistant solid, sometimes like a yielding liquid. The Dynamic Colloid Fluid Model suggests that all human tissue is essentially colloidal. Thus, intervention using the appropriate healing techniques can act on the autonomic nervous system—reducing the viscosity of the tissues, allowing them to “let go” of tension, chronic pain, and dysfunction and return to a more natural, optimal state of function. This model is important because it sheds light on the treatment of certain health problems that traditional Western medicine—for all its profound, life-saving successes—does not always address effectively. There are certain symptoms, such as chronic pain or low energy level, that sometimes seem to “fall between the cracks” of regular medical treatment. Yet, it is in these areas that the Asclepeion approach can really shine. Moreover, CranialSacral therapy and other healing techniques can often help people who are living with a chronic disease, such as arthritis or scoliosis, to reduce and better manage chronic pain. Thus, Center philosophy is to seek to supplement, not supplant, traditional medicine. Experience has shown that clients with chronic pain or other health problems recover faster when they actively participate in the healing process. The focus of the work is to help you to “listen to your body’s needs,” so you can then participate more actively in reclaiming its natural healing potential. During your time working with the Asclepeion Center, you are urged to become your own co-therapist, deciding—with staff help and input—what blend of treatment techniques works best for you.     The Asclepeion Center, situated in a gracious nineteenth-century manor house and sheltered by two acres of wooded hillside and beautifully planted grounds, provides an energetically healthful space for this work. The Center is located in the Forest Glen neighborhood, near Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Kensington, accessible by Ride On bus from the Silver Spring Metro and just minutes from the Capital Beltway via the Connecticut Avenue or Georgia Avenue exits. The Center also operates in two additional locations. The Northwest Washington office is located on New Hampshire Avenue near George Washington University, and the Ellicott City office is located in the Dorsey Hall Medical Park off Route 108 near Columbia, Maryland. BACK TO TOP