Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: A Professional Training
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Please call 212-219-2527 x2 to apply for admission to the full training program. To sign up for Level 1, which the prerequisite for the Level 2 training that begins on December 8, 2010, see Level 1: Primary Respiration. We also offer the evening lecture An Introduction to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: A Professional Training
Healing the Hearts of Infants, Children and Adults
Michael Shea, PhD
INTENTION OF THE FOUNDATION TRAINING
Our adult body is composed of 75% living water and only 25% solid tissue. Many manual therapies focus on the 25%,such as the musculoskeletal and myofascial systems. This 700-hour Biodynamic Craniosacral Foundation Training teaches the student to sense, explore and palpate a slow rhythm in the living fluids of the body called Primary Respiration. Students learn how to feel the subtle movements of the whole fluid system, which is a guiding principle of growth and development in the human body. Students learn to reconnect the client’s soma with the original stillness and slowness of the embryonic fluid body. This is the focus of biodynamic healing.
The following are five goals of the Foundation and Advanced Trainings:
1.To cultivate a new image of the whole human body in self and other as being a three-dimensional fluid body like an embryo.
2.To embody a felt sense of love and wholeness as the movement of Primary Respiration in the fluid body in self and other.
3.To be mindful of “Dynamic Stillness” as an intimate connection between one’s self and the natural world. This is the spiritual foundation of the training.
4.To reorient in self and other away from the intensity of one’s trauma story carried in the soma towards one’s origin story of conception, gestation, birth and infancy carried in the fluid body.
5.To revision the therapeutic relationship as primarily a coupling of two hearts and two interactive cardiovascular systems like a mother and her child.
An Introduction to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Tonight one of the nation’s foremost authors on Craniosacral Therapy will explain the underlying principles behind this gentle but powerful approach to healing through touch. Especially effective in harmonizing the nervous system, treating trauma and supporting the body’s ability to regenerate, the biodynamic approach posits that we are, in a sense, all perpetual embryos, even into our adulthood, and that our bodies are far more fluid and capable of self-repair than is commonly thought.
AN EVENING LECTURE
Wednesday, August 4, 6–8pm
10SBM21P Approved for CEUs
Members: $18 / Nonmembers: $22
Level 1: Primary Respiration
This four-day training for healing and bodywork professionals seeks to impart the skills necessary to begin to work with “primary respiration,” a therapeutic, tidal-like movement in the fluids of the body named by Dr. Sutherland, the founder of Cranial Osteopathy. Working with it requires stillness, thinking hands and delicate listening skills. We will learn practices that will permit us to sense wholeness moving three-dimensionally in the soma and to palpate slow movements in the fluids of the body that support health.
We will also cover: appropriate therapist/client boundaries; the theory underlying the Biodynamic Craniosacral approach (the view of the body as a fluid structure of living water, and how it communicates its stresses, patterns of resistance and past traumas); palpation of the “long tide” (Primary Respiration) by contact with the shoulder, pelvis, feet, sacrum, and spine. The focus of this class will be on the embryonic development of body shapes and their therapeutic implications in the Biodynamic approach to Craniosacral Therapy.
A FOUR-DAY TRAINING
Thursday–Sunday, August 5–8
Thursday & Friday, 9am–5pm
Saturday & Sunday, 10am–6pm
10SBM22S Approved for CEUs
Members: $480 / Nonmembers: $520
Note: Admission to Level 2 is by approval of Michael Shea. Once you are admitted, you are responsible for the complete payment of the deposit.
Level 2: Birth Ignition—The Autonomic Nervous System in a Therapeutic Relationship
Wednesday-Sunday, December 8-12, 2010
Level 3: Heart Ignition—Embryonic Development of the Blood and Fluid Body
Wednesday-Sunday, March 30-April 3, 2011
Level 4: Conception Ignition—The Midline of Stillness and Center of the Heart
Wednesday-Sunday, July 13-17, 2010
Level 5: Birth Ignition—The Heart and Brain Before and After Birth
Wednesday-Sunday, October 5-9, 2011
Level 6: Somatic Ignition—Working with the Gut and Extremities
Wednesday-Sunday, December 14-18, 2011
Level 7: Heart Ignition—Working with the Face and the Heart
Wednesday-Sunday, March 7-11, 2012
Level 8: Birth Ignition—Working with the Viscera
Wednesday-Sunday, June 6-10, 2012
Level 9: Conception Ignition—Working with the Floor of the Pelvis
Wednesday-Sunday, September 12-16, 2012
Level 10: Review, Completion, Birth and Graduation
Wednesday-Sunday, December 12-16, 2012
REGISTRATION AND FEES
Deposit: $1,600 (Due November 22, 2010)
10WBM49D Approved for CEUs
Early Bird rate: $1,450 (due October 29, 2010)
Full Payment: $5,075 in addition to
deposit (due March 30, 2011)
10WBM49A Approved for CEUs
Payment Plan: $5,460
10WBM49B Approved for CEUs
Note on payment plan: In addition to the deposit,
there are seven payments of $780, due on 2/22/11, 6/6/11, 8/22/11, 11/7/11, 2/6/12, 4/30/12, & 6/4/12. Automatic credit card payments only. $75 late fee.
Michael Shea, PhD, one of the nation’s pre-eminent somatic educators and therapists, has 30 years of experience in Craniosacral Therapy as well as long experience in Gestalt, Rolfing and several other mind-body modalities. The author of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Volumes 1 & 2 (North Atlantic Books), he has taught somatic psychology at numerous schools and centers in North America and Europe and is a specialist in treating pediatric neurological problems. He is adjunct faculty at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, teaching in the pre- and perinatal psychology doctoral program.
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