The training offers a 50 day practitioner course for individuals wanting to become qualified craniosacral therapists. The training is biodynamic in its approach orienting to the body’s natural wisdom and allowing innate intelligent processes to arise and bring about authentic change. These changes will be physiological and psycho-emotional. The body’s own priorities for change are listened for and encouraged to arise. The art of the therapist is to connect with the underlying forces of health and facilitate a process of natural reorganisation. These forces express as subtle motion of tissues and fluids that can be felt by sensitive hands. Biodynamic craniosacral therapy takes a whole-person approach to healing and the inter-connectedness of mind, body and spirit are deeply acknowledged.

 Sem 5 – birth, ignition and original health

Explores how we develop in utero and the prenatal conditions for health. Craniosacral therapy can form a relationship to these early forces and facilitate a re-ordering of early affects. Looks at the process of birth and how the body shapes itself in response to this unique event.

• Pre-natal experience and the psyche
• Cranial base patterns and their resonance
• Whole body birth shapes and posture
• Understanding entrainment
• Ignition processes
• Attachment and bonding body affects
• Relating to the transpersonal
• Pacing and containment
• Practice development: developing trust in body intelligence, diagnosing health and assessing change

You will learn how to:

• Work with the vault hold (Sutherland’s hold) and modified vault hold (Becker’s hold) to explore cranial distortions.
• Work with whole body shapes and patterns, exploring links to the cranial base and perinatal events.
• Orient to the cranium as a fluid membrane bag, appreciating the effect of birth stages in distorting the fluid filled bag that is the baby’s cranium
• Start to get a sense of compression, side-bending and torsion patterns.(physiological strain patterns of SBJ)
• Start to get a sense of lateral and vertical shear patterns of the cranial base (non-physiological strain patterns of SBJ)
• Deepen your appreciation of Long Tide through relationship to a ‘horizontal’ perceptual field
• Deepen skills around facilitating resources, presence and understanding pacing and containment

With Heidi Lauber

The website for further information and how to register is http://www.bodyintelligence.com/vernon