Become a Biodynamic Craniosacral Practitioner

Have you ever…

• listened to the roar of ocean waves and found your body swaying with them?
• wondered at the miracle of a pregnant woman’s belly and the new baby forming within?
• touched someone and wished you could understand more of the mystery beneath your hand?

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is like a combination of these experiences – an opportunity to touch the mystery more directly, and to be touched by it. And it begins with the tides that are always moving in us and the peaceful stillness that rests beneath them.

 

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy – Practitioner Training

The Practitioner Training is a comprehensive 700-hour course for anyone who wants to become a professional Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist.

• This training deepens your ability to listen unconditionally to the life force, so you can perceive WHOLENESS within yourself and other people.

• When you learn to resonate with health and wholeness, you invite the life force to show you and your clients the way to natural and optimal healing. This training may also transform you on a deep personal level.

• When you graduate, you will be eligible for the credentials of RCST^® – Registered Craniosacral Therapist through the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (BCTA/NA). www.craniosacraltherapy.org

• This training is a good complement to other therapies you may already know, and you can easily incorporate the skills you will learn into any existing healing practice.

The curriculum includes (but is not limited to):

• Skills of Being: settle into a state of neutral, being with what arises

• Relational skills: establish and maintain resonance, safety, and healthy boundaries, grounded in body-centered awareness and being

• Perceptual skills: orient to the whole and recognize specific aspects of the living system; perceive from head, heart, or belly

• Palpation skills: learn to feel and support subtle rhythmic fluctuations, tides and stillness within the body, motion and relationships of specific anatomical structures; differentiate between settling, activation and discharge, contact and dissociation

• Trauma skills: recognize signs of trauma in the body-mind and support their resolution (based primarily on the work of Peter Levine)

• Verbal skills: talk with clients to establish and maintain safety and relationship before and during table work; useful comments and questions to ask to help deepen or integrate a process, access a more resourced or settled state

• Anatomy: Landmarks, mobility, motility, relationships and embryological development of relevant structures
  • Bones (cranium, spine, pelvis, joints, face, TMJ, hyoid)
  • Membranes and Fascia, (dural tube, reciprocal tension membrane, horizontal diaphragms, neck, and pelvis support, pericardium)
  • Fluids (CSF, ventricles, circulatory system, venous sinuses)
  • Neuro-Endocrine system (brain, autonomic nervous system, cranial nerves)

• Theory: Biodynamic Craniosacral concepts including Health, Wholeness, Resonance, Embryological Imperative, Inherent Treatment Plan, Breath of Life as ordering principle, Primary Respiration, Tides, Holistic Shift/Neutral, Resource, Potency, Matrix, Field, Stillness, Augmentation, Still Point Gateways, States of Balance, Mid-line, Natural and Inertial Fulcrums, 3-Stage Healing Process, Reciprocal Balanced Interchange, Ignition, Original Blueprint

• Specific applications and strategies: Augmentation of space/disengagement, fluid drive, lateral fluctuation, potency in relation to specific joints, cranial sutures or other tissues, Still Point Gateways (relating to CV4, EV4); working with TMJ and dental issues, sphenobasilar junction and vertabrae, occipital atlanteal joint, Venous Sinuses, Nerve Facilitation and chronic pain: connective tissue, viscera: introduction to working with babies, children, and prenatal and birth issues

Course Outline

Module 1:  The Relational Field: Presence, Being and Settling

Module 2:  Grounding in Resource and Tissue Motility: Stillness, Motion and Primary Respiration

Module 3:  Engaging the Fluid Body: The Reciprocal Tension Membrane, Natural and Inertial Fulcrums

Module 4:  Skills of Augmentation: Space, Fluid, and Potency

Module 5:  Birth Process and Cranial Base Patterns

Module 6:  The Embryological Imperative: Mid-line, Spinal Dynamics, and the Pelvis

Module 7:  The Central Nervous System and Continued Birth Influences

Module 8:  The Face, Hard Palate and Temporomandibular Joint

Module 9:  Connective Tissue Fields, Joints, and Viscera

Module 10:  Ignition, Completion and Integration

Questions?  Contact us by e-mail or phone Wendy at 503.200.5995 or Cherionna at 323-208-6397.