Published on Sunday, June 29, 2008
By JAHMAL PETERS
Brenda Burger has devised a method that enables her customers to swim with the dolphins in the middle of the desert.
Owner and operator of the La Quinta Healing Arts spa for more than seven years, Burger recently added a new method of relaxation called Virtual Dolphin Therapy.
Situated in one of the three rooms in Burger's business in La Quinta, dolphin therapy entails lying on a specially designed, water-filled sound wave table with a flat screen television overhead that projects film footage of a pod of dolphins synchronized with music.
The table was designed by Don Estes, a Santa Monica certified medical technologist, laboratory director and neuroscientist.
"He was giving a lecture in Palm Springs and he showed us some of his inventions, including the sound wave table," Burger said. "He gave me a therapy on the sound wave table; the vibrations come through the table, and I was blown away by the experience
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