Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce I will be continuing to practice gentle, long lasting DNFT chiropractic in Colorado Springs for the indefinite future. We are sill moving and I’m still farming but I will be coming back every 4-6 weeks with my wife, Dr. Faith to work and visit family.

Many of you know I have been in Utah for the last month and a half slaving away as a novice farmer and home remodeler. There is much humility to be appreciated being a novice. At least a few times a day I am finding this out. Whether it is breaking implements, growing mostly weeds in the garden and living in the middle of an ever evolving remodeling project, I am consistently humbled by how much easier it is to dream about these projects than actually do them.

The work is getting done though in spite of setbacks and I have had some great help a long the way. We love it here and look forward to when our home is more livable and our land produces what we and hopefully many others could possibly eat.

I have needed to be away from my family for weeks at a time and I am finding it more difficult than I imagined. So I am looking forward to driving 9 hours each way with kids at least every 6 weeks to come back to my childhood town, Colorado Springs to work and be with family.

Selling my practice to another chiropractor will not be happening although it turns out this is probably best for all involved. Dr. Peter Fox is moving on to other opportunities, I am grateful to be with family and continue to do what I love in Colorado Springs.

The other major change is I will be needed to move my office. Thankfully, there is space in my wife’s office, Springs Natural Medicine which is only about a mile west on Colorado blvd from my current office. So from July on, I will be seeing clients at Springs Natural Medicine, 1010 W. Colorado Blvd, Suite D, Colorado Springs CO, 80904.

As of now I will be in Colorado Springs the week of June 20 working out of my downtown office at Sun Plaza 104 S. Cascade Suite 203 and working at Springs Natural Medicine the week of July 18..

I am really glad to be able to come back to Colorado Springs and help as best I can.

Schedule ASAP

There are very few spots available for my June work days but there is still room in July. Let me know as soon as possible if you would like to get in for an appointment.

Here are some pics of the farm and fam:

Jonathan and Ari

Leaky irrigation pipe

Ari Leusden at 6 months.

First hay cutting. Future cuttings will be done by professionals with modern equipment.

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Utah Heirloom Gardening and Orchard Production

I suspect I will be grateful for generations for being introduced to the profound, simple and productive world of permaculture (permanent agriculture) land principals and design. When an idea whose time has come arrives, there is little stopping or even became apparent, I started ordering and buying a bunch of seeds. So many seeds in fact, my wife has cut me off for this season.

Emerald Valley Market's permaculture canvas

The big question of how to grow, manage, record keep and save all these different plants kept nagging my subconscious. I have been researching small niche market farms and how they take take full advantage of the land and out of all the different methods and ideas, one has stood out alone.

Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small Scale Integrative Farming and Gardening

This work has finally put all the pieces together. High altitude farming, integrating food forests, raised beds, green manure, complementary planting, sun storage, cellar building, cultivating edible mushrooms, microclimates, water management and more.

This book has tons of color pictures and is super easy to read. Urban suburban and big farms can all benefit. Sepp’s farm has been called the most consistent example of permaculture worldwide.

Even though Sepp has been gardening since a child, and managing his farm since the 1960′s, they just realized in 1995 his self-derived methods had a name… Permaculture, a term coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren.

From Sepp’s book, the basic permaculture principals are:

• All elements within a system interact with each other
• Multi-functionality: every element fulfills multiple functions and every function is performed by multiple elements
• Use energy practically and efficiently, work with renewable energy.
• Use natural resources
• Intensive systems in a small area
• Utilize and shape natural Processes and cycles
• Support and use edge effects (creating highly productive and small-scale structures)

Aligning farming techniques with nature allows us to use Nature’s energy at exponential levels.

Emerald Valley Farm

Amaranth in all its Glory

This year, we will plant about 100 fruit trees. Heritage apples of great variety, pears, cherry, peach, apricot and more. In choosing which trees, we looked at fruit qualities, storage ability, uses, size and genetic diversity.

I have learned a super easy way to propagate any woody plant or tree using rooting hormone (B1) and hope to propagate and add to our orchard over the next five years. Also, planting sunflowers and lilacs as fence boarders and wind breaks and big nut trees such as pecans, walnut and ginkgo will also have a home.

Every fruit tree we plant will be supported and fertilized naturally with companion plants such as clover, tomatoes, squash, beans, carrots and corn.

I would also like to plant wheat, beans, clover, quinoa, amaranth, barley, rye and more throughout the pasture and in and around the garden.

Speaking of the garden, 500 tomatoes surrounded by carrots, beans and corn nearby are planed. Eggplants, broccoli, beets, beans, squash, peppers, marigolds, and a ton more are are planed.

These are just some of the projects this summer….

Much to learn by actually doing and mistakes and humility are are given. Sincerely thankful for the opportunity.

More soon,

My best,

Jonathan

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In the freedom years of high school and early college, I can remember thinking about the big questions of my life: who do I want to be, what do I want to contribute and how do I want want to live. The consistent answers to these questions always involved helping others and living sustainably. Helping others is a sincere joy and I certainly plan on continuing to work in my field and pursue my professional ambition.

Living sustainably is a significant challenge in today’s society. We have been raising chickens, growing a small garden and dreaming about planting fruit trees and, much to my landlord’s dismay, replacing the lawn with a larger garden.  Although, it never seemed like we were making the impact we had intended. An opportunity has arisen to allow the dream of living sustainably to become reality.

Living sustainalby requires community cooperation. Joining my wife’s family has opened doors to unique skill sets and a hard working and knowledgeable family community.

My wife’s parents recently purchased a home and some acreage just North of Monroe, Ut. A small farm adjacent to their property was available and we are now under contract to purchase the home, land, equipment and irrigation water rights.

This home, land and equipment purchase represents to us a fulfillment of a core dream my wife and family hold dear. My mother will also be moving with us and no doubt will be in her element gardening and being with her grandchildren and family.

Ari Jonathan Leusden, March 2011

I will be doing my best to find and train a suitable replacement for my work in Colorado Springs but as you can imagine, this work is a specialty and there are few options available. I will be able to refer people who need to see a DNFT chiropractor to a someone in town who has 20+ years experience with this work if needed on days I am not available.

In the mean time, I am committing to working in Colorado Springs on these dates:

• April 2011
• May 16 – May 26, 2011
• June 20- June 25, 2011
• July 18- July 27, 2011

These office work days will continue to be in my current office in the Sun Plaza building, downtown, Colorado Springs.

Work days beyond these dates will be based on demand and office space available.

My phone number (719-322-4234) will stay the same.

My wife and I are planning on opening a practice together in downtown Richfield, Utah sometime in August or September 2011 depending on the progress of building out our new office space.

The Monroe, Utah and Richfield, Utah area is absolutely beautiful and the land scape reminds me much of Colorado. We are minutes from I70 and anyone driving to Las Vegas from Colorado or most places in Utah, will be close enough to stop by.  There is a great hot springs, Mystic Hot Springs, Monroe, Utah just a couple minutes from our house as well as snow capped mountains and large national forests. Paragliding, mountain biking and thousands of miles of trails are literally minutes from our future home.

Mystic Hot Springs, Monroe, UT

Our land will have about a acre vegistible garden which will allow us to hopefully grow all of our own food and a large established pasture where we will be planting 53 heirloom apple trees this May. We hope to add Maple, Oak, Ginko, Cherry, Peach, Apricot and Pear trees also as well as grape vines in the years ahead. Bee colonies are also on tap….

This is a huge project for us although the opportunities this land allows overshadows the work required.

We plan on growing some market garden crops as well as establishing an area heirloom seed bank. I will post this website when it is more available. We sincerely believe saving, cataloging and sharing heirloom biodiversity will be an extremely important element of community cooperation and sustainable living.

Schedule your appointment today!

It would be wise to schedule ahead of time to reserve an appointment as I will be attempting to squeeze a month worth of appointments into a week or two! Call, Text or Email to schedule today for an appointment time during the above dates.

I will be continuing to update this blog with our new adventure and I’ll send appropriate email updates to my client list.

We appreciate your well wishes on our next big adventure and know you will always be welcome to stop by, visit, get adjusted and stay in touch!

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A long time patient of mine has given me a testimonial regarding her experience with DNFT® Chiropractic in my office. This woman was one of my first clients in my first office and has been seeing me since for regular maintenance visits as needed. I will let her tell her story:

I have a condition called spondylolisthesis (a stress fracture in one of my lumbar vertebra) which has caused me progressively worsening lower back pain since I was 16. I initially sought treatment from a chiropractor who employed “traditional” chiropractic methods. The adjustments themselves caused me pain and never held – I saw no improvement and, in fact, the treatments only aggravated my symptoms and greatly increased my daily level of pain. I became fearful that surgery might be my only option. Then my massage therapist recommended Dr. Leusden to me. To say Dr. Leusden restored my quality of life since he began treating me would be an understatement. In less than 24 hours after my FIRST TREATMENT I was pain-free for the first time in 20 years. The treatments caused me no discomfort and they HELD. And continue to hold. I have been seeing Dr. Leusden for almost 3 years now and have been pain-free ever since that initial visit. Thanks to him and his light-force treatments, I am able to resume activities I previously had to give up, such as camping and gardening. I highly recommend Dr. Leusden to anyone seeking pain-free, lasting corrections.

Gentle chiropractic treatments.

I have been grateful to this client for her faith and confidence in my work. This client’s experience with Spondylolisthesis treatment with DNFT chiropractic is a perfect example of how appropriate the DNFT chiropractic is for conditions as extreme as spondylolisthesis.

DNFT chiropractic is a great chiropractic method for anyone who is looking for lasting results in relatively few visits.

We offer free initial consultations. Contact us today at and lets see if we can help your situation with lasting effect.

- Directional Non-Force Technique® and DNFT® are registered trademarks owned by Christopher John DC of Beverly Hills, CA

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When someone considers chiropractic care, there are usually three criteria and expectations:

1. Will the chiropractor be able to find what is my particular problem?
2. Does this chiropractor know how to completely correct and resolve my concerns?
3. How many times will I have to visit this chiropractor to resolve my issue?

Choosing a chiropractor out all the possible options can be a daunting task. Directional Non-Force Technique® or DNFT Chiropractic in Colorado Springs offers a way to identify your issue (1), resolve and correct your concern (2) and achieve the resolution you are seeking in relatively few visits (3).

Using the body as an instrument, we are able to find exactly how injury, stress and trauma are stored in the body.

DNFT chiropractic uses a unique window into the body or diagnostic test allowing us to find exactly how stress, trauma and injury are stored in your body. So detailed is this analysis, we can identify bones, ligaments, disks, muscles, ribs, in fact any involved anatomy in meticulous detail without x-rays or expensive tests. A very light force correction or adjustment without joint popping or cracking can produce a lasting change.

Gentle Chiropractic Colorado Springs

Your body actually prefers to be in a corrected state and will hold onto a DNFT chiropractic adjustment because your body is more efficient and stable in a corrected state.

Free initial consultations are always available. Contact us today and find out is your or a loved one’s condition can be helped with DNFT chiropractic Colorado Springs

Fewer visits, light force adjustments, lasting corrections.

- Directional Non-Force Technique® and DNFT® are registered trademarks owned by Christopher John DC of Beverly Hills, CA

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I just published a new page on this site all about Directional Non-Force Technique® (DNFT® chiropractic) and children.

Infants, toddlers, pre-tens, preteens, teenagers and beyond consistently take fewer visits than people with more life experience. Typically it is now taking 1-2 visits for infants, toddlers through the early teens to fairly consistently clear their accumulated life stress.

Falls, tumbles, birth process, sports injuries, play injuries call accumulate in their growing bodies. This type of stress can be accurately identified and resolved using DNFT chiropractic. Kids are great too because they hold onto these adjustments and corrections incredibly long.

The first visit with a child address the major issues where ever they are. We have success treating children of all ages for conditions such as:

Specific analysis finding exactly where and when to adjust. Gentle children's chiropractic, lasting corrections.

• TMJ syndrome, grinding teeth
• Headaches, migraines
• Frequent neck popping, stiffness and complaints
• Mid back, Low back, Hip pain
• Knee, ankle injuries
• Sports injuries
• Play injuries
• idiopathic scoliosis

DNFT chiropractic is able to analyses all related anatomy in what ever area we are testing. Bones, ligaments, muscles, cartilage, fascia, dura mater and more are able to be identified in real time and resolved as it is unfolds. We are able to identify causative patterns and related anatomy and most importantly, we have solutions for our findings.

When we analyze the body in this detail and correct the issues, we create a clean slate effect with areas of injury, stress and trauma. The body is more efficient and stable in a the corrected state and will hold onto these adjustments extremely well. This means fewer visits, gentle adjustments, lasting corrections.

Gentle Chiropractic

Kids respond so well and hold their adjustments so well I give a 50% office visit discount for anyone just born through adult. Fewer visits, Gentle adjustments, Lasting corrections. Free initial consultation.

Kids respond great to this type of work. As do adults also. With children, 1-2 visits is usually all that is needed for a lasting dramatic change. Adults may take 3-5 visits in 8 weeks. More complicated, more layers, more accumulated life stress.

Either way, DNFT chiropractic offers gentle adjustments, lasting corrections and fewer visits. Free initial consultations are always available.

-Dr. Jonathan Leusden, Colorado Springs Chiropractor

- Directional Non-Force Technique® and DNFT® are registered trademarks owned by Christopher John DC of Beverly Hills, CA

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Dr. Jonathan Leusden, Colorado Springs Chiropractor, specializes in a unique Chiropractic method, Directional Non Force Technique ®, or DNFT ® that uses an accurate form of passive muscle testing or reflex monitoring to find exactly how stress and injury are stored in the living body.

Gentle adjustments without joint popping or cracking, lasting corrections

This very gentle approach uses no joint mobilization or traditional methods of cracking, popping or twisting of the spine. And yet, produces amazing results using light pressure to clear bone, ligament, vertebral disc, muscle injury and more.

The genius of DNFT chiropractic lies in the diagnostic sensitivity, accuracy and detail. Knowing exactly when and where to adjust allows this work to produce potentially dramatic results with very light pressure, in very few visits. The adjustment or treatment holding power allows each visit to pick up where previous visits leave off.

This method is a great choice for people hesitant to see a chiropractor due to the few visits, light force corrections without joint cavitation or popping, and the holding power of the adjustments.

Any area of the body is able to be specifically analyzed and completely addressed including: pelvis, low back, hips, SI joint, thoracic spine, ribs, cervical spine, cranial bones, TMJ, mandible, shoulders, forearms, hands, knees, feet/ankles and organ reflexes.

Gentle Chiropractic Adjustments

Contact us today for a free initial consultation to see if Dr. Leusden, Gentle DNFT Chiropractic Colorado Springs could help your concerns.

- Directional Non-Force Technique® and DNFT® are registered trademarks owned by Christopher John DC of Beverly Hills, CA

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As many of you know, my wife’s practice, Springs Natural Medicine offers a broad range of family health services. I wanted to let know about a simple lab test they offer using saliva and urine that identifies the exact levels of most neurotransmitters and brain chemistry.

This test identifies the current neurotransmitter levels for kids, teenagers, and adults suffering from:

Springs Natural Medicine, Family practice

• ADD/ADHD
• Bipolar cycles
• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• Depression
• Anger
• Aggression
• Bipolar cycles
• Parkinson’s Disease

Using a patient specific combination of cost effective high quality supplements, herbs, pro-biotics, and specific homeopathy, the doctors at Springs Natural Medicine are able to bring balance back to brain chemistry.

The test is done with a simple saliva collection and urine collection.

Springs Natural Medicine, Colorado Springs

Check out this page which describes all the neurotransmitters tested at Springs Natural Medicine

Contact Springs Natural Medicine today and identify your’s or a loved one’s exact neurotransmitter levels. With proper support, we can help bring balance to brain chemistry.

Written by Jonathan Leusden, DNFT® Chiropractor, Colorado Springs

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I just finished and posted a web page detailing the second Directional Non-Force Technique® (D.N.F.T.® Chiropractic) office visit.  This treatment oppertunity is usually scheduled within a week of the first visit. In most cases, the majority of the work and adjustments and done during the first appointment has held. There may be times when some residual or deeper layers are revealed within the regions address in the first visit but for the most part, we find the body holds on to the adjustments really well.

Gentle adjustments without joint popping or cracking, lasting corrections

We know we are making progress when we find the only areas needing to be adjusted on the second visit are the areas not revealed on the first visit. This means we pick up exactly where we left off after all the work during the initial visit.

Gentle Chiropractic, Fewer Visits, Lasting corrections.

DNFT chiropractic is a very special process and treatment. Also, check out this page on Low back treatment, and this on TMJ pain and treatment.

Free initial consultations are always available, Contact us today to see if DNFT Chiropractic in Colorado Springs is right for you!

- Directional Non-Force Technique® and DNFT® are registered trademarks owned by Christopher John DC of Beverly Hills, CA

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Just wanted to let you all know there is a listing for my office on yelp.com which you can find here: Colorado Springs DNFT® Chiropractor. If anyone is interested in writing a positive review it would be much appreciated.  As you probably know, reviews and first-hand accounts are a big factor in someone’s decision to contact a business or buy a product. I always appreciate the great person to person referrals and services like yelp.com offer another amazingly efficient way to get the word out.

Ari sitting with us for at dinner in Salida, Colorado

This year has started out well for us. Samuel got back from his trip to Japan, had a great time and is thriving at school. My beautiful wife, Faith is back in the office part time two days a week. Although she is not taking new patients at this time, her highly capable associate, Dr. Julie Neal, Colorado Springs Naturopath is seeing new clients. Dr. Neal has been doing an amazing job filling in for Dr. Faith and has been enjoying being busy helping people with conditions such as hormone balancing, food allergies, ADD/ADHD, depression and more.

The new baby, Ari is growing fast and is happy and super healthy,

Wishing health and happiness to all this year,

Jonathan

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