Healing through Dolphins
When I found out that the autistic children in Germany have a waiting list of at least two to three years in order to take part in the dolphin therapy in Florida, I was actually very disappointed. Suddenly the idea of offering such a therapy in Antalya crossed my mind. The children would then not need to wait such long waiting lists. I immediately started searching this matter. After 10 years of hard and deterrent work, I started offering the dolphin therapy as an activity of Soulscience School Antalya in the year of 2001. Not only the families of autistic children but also the families of children with cerebral palsy and many rare genetic syndromes showed great interest to this therapy. Having exceeded all sorts of difficulties on our way, we today continue offering our dolphin therapy program to a wide range of mental and physical diseases.

As the dolphin therapy becomes more popular and more understood day by day, the number of new places offering such therapies are also increasing. 70% of patients receiving dolphin therapy are coming from Germany and the 30% are coming from the rest of the world. As the social security and the insurances do not include the cost of such therapies, many families  can pay these therapies by the donations they receive. There are also some Turkish families which receive donations concerning this matter. Some grandmothers donated their money-which they saved for the pilgrimage to Mecca - to their grandchildren, so that they can make use of this dolphin therapy. Some big companies do also give financial support to the families which cannot afford this therapy.  

The dolphin therapy continues for ten days. The child swims every day with the dolphin for half an hour. Later on the dolphin show is presented. By doing so, we try to give the child the feeling that he or she can do more then just swimming with the huge and powerful dolphins, which can draw, can sing, can play with the ball, can roll a hoop, can do a summersault, can swim fast.  This helps to child to learn more abilities and to develop him or herself. The bio-energy flowing from the dolphin to the child accelarates the learning process of the child and increases the interest of the child to the external world between two to ten times. Such improvements of the child continue for about a year. The children learn more from the special educations and therapies. The dolphin and the child communicate on a different level with more love and tender; which is pure of prejudices. This relationship gives happiness and peace to the child. The studies show that swimming with the dolphins takes away all sorts of depressions. It is proved though the laboratory researches that so called happiness factor "endorphin" increases, positive improvements in the brain through alpha waves occur,   immunoglobulin and antibodies, which are also called T cells, increase. Some researchers proved that the ultrasonic sounds of the dolphins can even cure the wounds. Schools of bevaviroral psychotherapy underline that swimming with the dolphins is a great reward for the children and that it helps the children to develop their thought abilities.