Twenty-five years ago I trained in a new type of Chiropractic - Network Chiropractic.  Instead of focusing on individual symptoms and problems, Network looked at the body on a holistic level and treated tension patterns in the spine and body as a whole.  The interaction between the mind and the body was emphasized with the belief that by releasing the tension in the nervous system, the body would automatically heal itself.

This work did an amazing job of making people feel better almost immediately.  Consequently my practice boomed.  I got the nutritionist in my office involved and before we knew it we were treating people in the halls and every room was stuffed with people.  We needed a new and bigger place to accommodate all the people.  I was Citrus Heights Chiropractic at that time, but the new consciousness called for a new name and location.

I formed a partnership with the nutritionist in my office - Susan Sarback, and began looking for a new location.  The feel good nature of Network demanded a feel good office - something grounded and homey feeling.  We found just the place - an old red house on a hill in old town Fair Oaks surrounded by oak trees and grass.  In the front of the building it had a huge glassed-in porch which provided room for six treatment tables.

As it happens, Susan Sarback was more than a nutritionist.  She was also an art teacher.  She was trained in the impressionist style through a direct line of teachers going back to that most master impressionist - Claude Monet.  She saw the office in its open air setting as the perfect place to start an art school.

Thus was born the Fair Oaks Healing & Arts Center.

Life moves forward.  After a few years the art school grew and it was soon evident that it needed to be more than just a weekend school. Susan moved her art school a couple blocks away to become The School of Light & Color.  It is still there today.

The thrills of Network Chiropractic waned as I slowly discovered that while everyone loved the feelings they would get from a treatment, long term they were not actually making any progress in their growth emotionally or in their health physically.  I came to deeply appreciate the difference between releasing a problem and actually healing a problem.  Even though the beliefs Network promoted were very empowering and attractive, at the end of the day they just did not work most of the time.

I moved forward and began the creation of my own healing method, which I named Heartflow.  To this day I continue to expand and evolve Heartflow even though I have given over its application to Ellen Flowers as she is better suited to work "in the trenches" with folks on their evolution.  I am more of a big-picture type of person.  I work from the Heartflow philosophy, but have also integrated dozens of other healing techniques to work on the whole person.

Much time passed and we had gotten quite comfortable up there in the old red house on the hill.  Yes it had its "old house" problems - no heating, no air conditioning, rats, the killer parking lot on the hillside, but the ambiance made up for most of that.  That is until the electrical system started to fail.  It was so old, replacement parts no longer existed.  I offered to replace the electrical on my dime to the landlord, but she did not want to change anything about the place.  So eventually we had to leave.  The power went out just one time too many.

We ended up a couple blocks away on Sunset Ave..  The space was rather secluded, but huge.  Life was good until the first time we got robbed.  The landowner lost the building to the bank and we got robbed again.  We were happy with the bank as owner for a while - till we got robbed two more times.  This was a bad neighborhood it seems.  When the bank went into negotiations to sell the place to a new owner, we decided we better find a new place fast before we are left without a place to call home.

My long-time receptionist, Susie, insisted that I needed to buy a place so we would never again have to move because of landlord issues.  The problem was commercial real estate is not cheap.  I could not afford to buy a building.  Besides, after a zillion years of paying on my house, I had just paid it off and I was in heaven not having a house payment for once in my life.  The last thing I wanted was a new mortgage.

We looked anyway and scraped the bottom of the barrel when we found a seriously distressed property on Fair Oaks Boulevard.  The location was excellent, but the building was horrible.  Ellen dubbed it BUB - Butt Ugly Building.  The other thing it had going for it was the price.  It was about half the price of the next cheapest building within a five-mile radius, but it was still more than I could afford. By totally re-mortgaging my house and taking out a second personal loan, we swung the deal.  Now we just had to do something with this dog of a building.

It took about 8 months to get the first phase of the remodel done so that we could at least move in.  (Two-thirds of that time was just trying to get county permits.)  But we were able to open for business in November of 2012.  Now here we are almost a year and three quarters along and phase two is almost complete.  We actually finally got a sign for the business this week.  Why so long for a sign?  Because I wanted the colors of the sign to compliment the building, and I had no idea what the building was going to look like once phase two was completed.

Although Ellen Flowers is now our "artist in residence", the art school is long gone.  In thinking about putting a sign out on Fair Oaks Boulevard the question arose - "What would Fair Oaks Healing & Arts mean to folks driving buy?"  Does that give anyone a clue about what we are about and do?  No, it doesn't.  So I asked around normal folks "What name would communicate most clearly to you what we do?"  The winning answer came from my daughter-in-law who said "Holistic Health".  And so our new name was conceived - Fair Oaks Holistic Health.  I checked with the county to make sure it was available, and then signed up the fictitious business name.

My son Devon - a graphic designer and corporate total image consultant, turned the name into an appropriate piece of traffic worthy business signage.  Check out his work here.  And my patients, Dan & Linda Rathburn at Eggleston Signs & Graphics (eggsigns@sbcglobal.net  916-920-4926), produced the actual sign.

So here we are - it is official - we are now Fair Oaks Holistic Health.  It says so right on the street and everything.

Enjoy,

David

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Our address is  9725 Fair Oaks Blvd.

Finding the new location is very easy.  Coming from highway 50 up Sunrise Blvd, you turn left and go up a block.  We are on the right hand side - the building just past the Subway Sandwich shop.  If you are coming down Sunrise from the Mall area then just turn right on Fair Oaks Blvd and up a block on the right.

 

If you are coming from the Roseville area you could come down Sunrise Blvd, but that is a long trek.  It is probably shorter time wise to come down Auburn Blvd - San Juan Ave like you have been for the Sunset office, but instead of turning left at Sunset, keep going straight 3 more lights to Fair Oaks Blvd and turn left.  Go down 2 lights to New York Ave, go through the intersection, and immediately turn into the turn lane once the center divider ends.  We are on the left.

 

About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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