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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: Primary Respiration |
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Michael Shea, PhD
This 3-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 a still heart and deep perception and listening skills. We will learn practices that will permit us to establish “presence” and “grounding” and to sense subtle movement in the fluids of the body.
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); the four stages of dynamic morphology based on the development of the human embryo; palpation of the “long tide” (primary respiration) by contact with the shoulder, pelvis, feet, sacrum and spine; and how to decompress the structures around the heart and how this manual work relates to the psychospiritual dimensions of the human heart. The focus of this class will be on the development of the heart and the therapeutic implications of the biodynamic approach to craniosacral therapy.
Notes: Required reading: chapters 1,2,5,12,13–15 of Michael Shea’s textbook, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Volume 1 (available at the Open Center book-store). This course is for students with little or no prior training in craniosacral therapy and is a requirement for the long-term training in biodynamic craniosacral therapy (which also includes components specializing in resolving prenatal and birth-related issues in both infants and children, as well as adult clients).
A Three-Day Training
Friday–Sunday, July 25-27, 9:30am–6pm
08SBM22S Approved for CEUs
Members: $360 / Nonmembers: $390
7/24: An Introduction to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Michael Shea, PhD, one of the nation’s pre-eminent somatic educators and therapists, has thirty years’ experience in Craniosacral Therapy as well as in-depth experience in Gestalt, Rolfing and several other mind-body modalities. The author of several books and numerous articles on craniosacral work, 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. http://www.michaelsheateaching.com/ |
