What is BCST v8 - Body Intelligence Training

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body intelligence training: what is bcst?
what is biodynamic craniosacral
therapy?
a brief introduction
contact: courses:
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steve haines oct 2013
1. Touch and Presence
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seminar 6: visceral intelligence
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The influence of another presence
Craniosacral touch
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seminar 7: neural matrix
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seminar 8: the facial complex
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2. What is Biodynamic Craniosacral
Therapy?
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Overview
A brief history of cranial work
Biodynamics
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3. Breath of Life
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4. We Are Shaped by Experience
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Patterns of experience are imprinted on the body7
Trauma 7
5. Curriculum
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Curriculum mindmaps seminar 1: relational touch
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seminar 2: the midline
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seminar 3: whole body dynamics 10
seminar 4: craniopelvic resonance
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seminar 5: birth, ignition and original health
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What is BCST v8.pages!
seminar 9: the holistic system - the neuro endocrine immune response
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seminar 10: working with mothers, babies and
children **Optional 5 day seminar**
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6. About Body Intelligence Training
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Intention of the training
Living anatomy
Learning process
Study and Practice
Accreditation
Optional seminar
What the course offers Trainers Application
Postgraduate courses Contact and Administration
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1. Touch and Presence
The influence of another presence
Just being there is no small thing. When we are
present with someone’s expressions of their life force,
there’s a profound affect created that brings about
healing. How relieving it is to be heard. Just to be
heard. Not having someone qualify the hearing of you
with providing a solution, intervening, or trying to
offer something else. Rare indeed is it that someone
will just listen intelligently without intervening with
their own life story, opinions, solutions, or ideas/
concepts/fantasies of what is happening.
When you experience this, a wonderful healing
takes place and there is a natural relief of your
suffering. This can be so profound that you have
physical sensations and changes as well emotional
expressions. Someone has acknowledged who you are.
It might only be for a short time or just a moment but
that’s all it needs. It’s the deepest form of
communication, being to being. There are no words in
this connection and it feels timeless. As a craniosacral
therapist you bring this into the therapeutic space.
Your beingness. The more deeply you can manifest this
the more powerfully people respond to your touch and
presence.
At the heart of the craniosacral touch there is a state
of being present. Practice will make you more skillful
at being able to manifest this. Eventually this starts to
become part of you in a more apparent way. What you
will notice too is a burgeoning sense of spaciousness.
Both gross and subtle. You will feel bigger and fuller as
if you not only occupy your body but the space around
it too. Also you will notice a mental and emotional
spaciousness that allows you a deeper and richer
contact with your thoughts and feelings. The
spaciousness allows a disengagement, so that a natural
state of non-attachment comes about.
You can engender this state through a practice of
opening into this spaciousness. The wider the space,
the deeper and more energetic the manifestation of
health. As you widen out there is an expression of
energetic forces within the body that can be felt as
tingling or fluid like movements throughout the body.
This is the movement of potency and the phenomenon
of primary respiration.
Sit for a moment and see if you can be with your
state of beingness. When you reside in it you can truly
be the witness. Its qualities are presence, clarity,
simplicity and non-doing. It’s a state of repose and
acuity, it’s not a sleepy state. You are actually bringing
together a balance of internal and external awareness
into harmony. From this place you can begin to see
what is happening. Let go of ideas of what you might
find, or formats for making sense of things. Try to
observe what is, unfettered by your own fantasies or
anxieties. Only then will you be able to have any sense
of what is happening in yourself or in another person.
Craniosacral touch
In biodynamic craniosacral therapy we use touch as
a way of communicating and listening. The focus is
always on exploring sensations and the nature of being
in a body. The cranial paradigm teaches that there are
certain phenomena that occur in the body and the
space around us. These include a sense of stillness,
expansion and contraction through all the tissues and
structures, a surge and tide like movement of fluids
and shifts in an electric like charge we call potency. A
skilled therapist can interact with these phenomena to
support a movement towards health.
Fig 1 The whole body takes part in the phenomenon of
primary respiration. Left: The inhalation phase of opening,
rising, widening. Right: The exhalation phase of closing,
sinking, narrowing.
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2. What is Biodynamic
Craniosacral Therapy?
A brief history of cranial work
Overview
Two big ideas go to the heart of cranial work. One;
the whole body expands and contracts in a rhythmic or
tidal way. Two; there is an intelligence expressed
through the whole body.
A skilled practitioner can interact with the rhythms
and tides expressed by the body. The rhythms are very
rich in information. If you were watching someone
breathing and they were breathing quickly and rapidly
in their upper chest you might learn to associate that
with activity, excitement or anxiety. Similarly the
tempo, strength and presence of the various tides in
the body tells us huge amounts about that person.
Sutherland initially described five key movements in
the body; the mobility of the cranial bones, the
fluctuation of cerebrospinal fluid, the motility of the
central nervous system, the reciprocal tension
membranes and the involuntary mobility of the
sacrum between the ilia. When Sutherland was first
struck with the thought that the bones in the head
moved, this was against the accepted model of his
time. The tide is not limited to theses five elements, it is
expressed through out the total human system; every
cell knows the tide. Every cell breathes, inhaling and
exhaling within cycles of what Sutherland called
‘primary respiration’.
The smartest thing in the room is the intelligence
expressed in our bodies. There is millions of years of
evolution behind the shapes and forms and
movements in the body. There are lots of coordinated
self regulating processes that respond to events and
maintain an internal balance and flow. This intelligence
defines the chemistry, nervous activity and alignment
in the body. Biodynamic craniosacral therapy
experiences this intelligence as an expression of a
wider ordering principle in nature. Health is an active
principle, it is a living breathing reality that can be
palpated by knowing hands. Sutherland named the
ordering principle as the breath of life. We also use the
term biodynamic health to represent this principle.
The work grew from the pioneering insights of
William Garner Sutherland. His identity was very
much that of an osteopath and his writings are full of
references to his teacher A.T Still, the founder of
osteopathy. He started writing about and teaching
‘osteopathy in the cranial field’ from the late 1920’s. He
died at the age of 81 in 1954.
Sutherland’s early descriptions of the ‘primary
respiratory mechanism’ defined five phenomena:
1. The fluctuation of the cerebrospinal fluid - the
potency of the Tide.
2. The function of the reciprocal tension
membrane.
3. The motility of the neural tube.
4. The articular mobility of the cranial bones.
5. The involuntary movement of the sacrum
between the ilia.
Towards the end of his life his writing underwent a
shift in emphasis to include not just the mechanics and
infinitesimal movements of the structures of the body,
but also an increasing reverence for the breath of life. It
was during the last few years of his life that he began
to describe principles such as being a more passive
observer and waiting for something to happen rather
than just applying techniques, ‘liquid light’, primary
respiration as being outside as well as inside the body
and the power of stillness.
The cranial approach was passed on through a
lineage of osteopaths, Rollin Becker and James Jealous
being the most prominent.
In the 1970s an american osteopath, Dr John
Upledger, observed the distinct, regular movement of a
dural tube (the tough membrane that surrounds and
protects the spinal cord) during surgery on a patient’s
neck. He studied the work of Sutherland, did his own
experiments and caused a schism in the work by
starting to train non osteopaths in ‘craniosacral
therapy’. Upledger was a prolific writer and trainer
and has done a huge amount to increase awareness of
craniosacral therapy. The Upledger Institute claims to
have trained over 100000 people around the world.
The Upledger training is a modular approach with
different certification levels from a few weeks to a
couple of years in training.
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Fig 2 Sutherlands’ initial five phenomena making up the craniosacral system.
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Biodynamics
Biodynamics is an attempt to always
appreciate the whole of things. The work is
about a surrender to the priorities of the
body. There is a trust that, given the right
relationship and with enough resources, the
intelligence in the body will choose the best
way to heal. In biodynamics we do not
impose a plan from the outside. We listen and
support the inherent striving of the organism
away from fragmentation and towards
health. This approach orients to the slower
tidal movements (mid tide and long tide)
expressed by primary respiration. Stillness is
a defining goal and experience in the work.
Change happens in the still moments where
an individual comes back into relationship to
what is around them.
Jim Jealous adapted the term biodynamic
from his study of the embryologist Erich
Blechschmidt. Jealous calls his work the
‘biodynamic model of osteopathy in the
cranial field’. He emphasizes the embryo as
being ever present in the living organism.
The word biodynamic has connotations of
holism and interrelationship.
The biodynamic principles began to be
applied to craniosacral therapy through the
work of Franklyn Sills and the teachers at the
Karuna Institute in the UK. There is now an
International Affiliation of Biodynamic
Trainings (IABT) consisting of ten schools.
The biodynamic approach is one in which the
main focus is the forces at work within the
human system via mid tide, long tide and
dynamic stillness. The work orients to
insights from the later years of Sutherland’s
life.
Fig 3 Top: On inhalation the whole head widens side to side and
narrows front to back. Bottom: The cranial base opens like a flower
around the sphenobasilar junction (SBJ).
In biodynamics the orientation is to the whole skull changing shape
as a fluid, membrane bag or the cranial base opening and closing
like a flower, never just the movements of individual bones.
To review; there are cranial osteopaths
and craniosacral therapists (sometimes
described as having a biomechanical
approach). There are biodynamic osteopaths
in the cranial field and biodynamic
craniosacral therapists. This leaflet is about
the latter approach.
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3. Breath of Life
Sutherland discovered the existence of a movement
in the body that he termed primary respiration. The
animating force behind this movement he called the
breath of life. He believed this was an energetic
expression of an intelligence in the universe. The
expression of primary respiration is a longitudinal
fluid motion that has two phases of inhalation and
exhalation, oriented around the midline of the body.
Inhalation can be felt as an arising movement that
expands laterally and exhalation as a complementary
movement that recedes down towards the lower body
and narrows side to side. Very much like the ebb and
flow of the tide. The qualities Sutherland attributed to
the breath of life are:
• Basic constitutional energy of the body, having a
potency and healing function.
• Conveys intelligence to every cell and tissue of the
body and is the inner physician.
• Maintains order and integrity in the body.
The breath of life has several expressions that can
be palpated by the skilled practitioner. One of the most
common is the expression of primary respiration as a
tidal movement, sometimes called the Tide. Often you
will be struck by its longitudinal expression which can
feel very tidal, like an ebb and flow. The flow is a
potent surge of fluid potency that moves up the length
of the midline to the head. A strong expression of this
can feel like its pushing you out of your chair. The
other expression is the lateral widening and narrowing
that can feel like an expansion and contraction.
Sometimes the head and body feel like a balloon that is
inflating. Sometimes you have a full sense of the
movement as a rising and widening and it feels like the
balloon changes shape but not volume. It is interesting
how you perceive it and how different aspects of show
themselves to you.
As you become more adept at feeling these
expressions you can gain a sense of the nuances of the
Tide. This is the characteristic movements for that
individual. So how the inhalation and exhalation
phases are, the pauses at the change of the phases, the
drive or amount of potency behind the movement all
defines the body system and becomes the baseline for
tracking change. Being in relationship to this force of
life changes everything. There’s a chain reaction that
brings about a greater order of health. Watch the Tide
and see what happens. It’s as if the body is made of
sand and the movement of the ocean is reshaping and
smoothing out the contours. The action of the Tide
itself highlights the body’s forms and patterns and
then brings about reorganization. In a treatment the
Tide may not reveal itself all the time. If you are
following the inherent treatment process and orienting
to the body with an adaptable perceptual field you will
be in relationship to what the body wants to show you
i.e. its priorities for treatment. Then, often the Tide will
reveal itself at key moments in the treatment and bring
about deeper and more holistic changes.
Fig 4 The embryo is a very powerful motif in biodynamics. The human form takes shape from a ball of cells. The growth
movements that occur in the first 8 weeks of life give many clues for understanding how the adult body heals.
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4. We Are Shaped by Experience
Patterns of experience are imprinted on
the body
Sometimes we meet events in life that we cannot
deal with because they are too overwhelming. These
experiences are then held in the bodymind as imprints
and memories and create physiological affects. We use
the term patterns of experience to describe how the
body centres and responds to the conditional forces of
life events. Biodynamic forces represent the inherent
adaptability of the body, its continual striving for
health. How much you are affected by an event
depends on your resources and your relationship to
biodynamic health. We all do the best we can, given
our history and current circumstances. Many of our
responses are deep reflexes embedded in our
personality that are based on previously successful
strategies. Bringing awareness and choice to our
habitual responses and our deepest imprints is a huge
part of biodynamic craniosacral therapy. This is
necessarily an embodied awareness as most of our
defining experiences our encoded non-verbally and
non-consciously in our bodies.
• Fragmentation and compartmentalization
• Unable to express the primary respiration
• Lowering of potency and craniosacral motion
expressed with altered shape
Trauma
The understanding of trauma is fundamental to
biodynamics. We are all hardwired to respond to
overwhleming experiences in the same way. We
contract away from danger. The control mechanisms
(nervous, hormonal and immune) take us immediately
into states of being activated (flight or fight) or
dissociated (freeze). The good news is that we evolved
to respond quickly to trauma and have the innate
ability to process and overcome trauma. We would not
survive as a species if this were not the case.
Biodynamic craniosacral therapy is very good at
supporting safe, contained processing of traumatic
experiences. This includes ‘hard trauma’ from single
overwhelming events or the slow accumulation of
stress and tension from multiple distressing
experiences (‘soft trauma’).
Patterns of experience can be created by:
• Physical trauma - injuries
• Birth process - foetal distress, interventions
• Nutrition - deficiencies, toxicity
• Emotional trauma - abuse, neglect, lack of support
• Belief systems - strong beliefs, attitudes can fix the
body
• Environment - air, water, light
• Hereditary factors - genetic influences
They are formed when the potency of the breath of
life is unable to dissipate the effects of an
overwhelming experience. Often these patterns emerge
and resolve themselves by coming into a new
relationship with the breath of life. However
sometimes the system needs help with this and a
powerful way to help is for your client to come into a
deeper connection with their own health. Patterns of
experience are places of resistance and fixation in the
body. They are formed by the inability to recover from
an overwhelming experience. The following is a
typical sequence of events:
• Threatening event
• Contraction
• Experienced as overwhelming
• Frozen state/fixation
Fig 5 Birth is an early defining experience. It can leave a
trail of patterns in the body that affect future events and
behaviours.
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5. Curriculum
Curriculum mindmaps
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seminar 1: relational touch
• Wide perceptual fields and the Long Tide
Explores the phenomena of touch, space,
perception and Tidal forms. Looks at the craniosacral
biodynamic concept in depth.
• Practice development: skills of assessment,
diagnostic baselines, language for touch, recording
treatments
• The relational field
seminar 4: craniopelvic resonance
• Holistic shift
Explores primary respiration around cranial and
pelvic bones. Looks at how the two poles of the
midline mirror each other and create health when there
is synchrony.
• Unfoldments of the Breath of Life
• Perceptual Fields
• Stillness
• Resourcing
• Patterns of experience
• Mobility and motility of cranial vault and pelvic
bones
• Inherent treatment plan
• Patterns of experience
• Specific resonances
seminar 2: the midline
• Bipolar contact
Explores the spine as a unit of function and natural
fulcrum for the whole body’s health as well as a
conductor for the primary energies of the bodymind
system. Looks at how natural adjustments take place
around this axis.
• Embryological origins
• Original health and blueprint
• Integration and resourcing
• Bony-membranous expressions
• Core-periphery resonance: midline and limbs
• Practice development: structure of a treatment
session, treatment processes, safety in practice
seminar 5: birth, ignition and original
health
• Primal midline
• Holistic spine
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 reordering of early affects. Looks at the process of birth
and how the body shapes itself in response to this
unique event.
• The two poles - sacrum and occiput
• Spinal motion dynamics
• Fluid spine
• Key joints
• Natural states of balance
• Pre-natal experience and the psyche
• Tissues, fluids and potency
• Cranial base patterns and their resonance
• Body learning
• Whole body birth shapes and posture
• Recognising and treating trauma affects
• Understanding entrainment
• Ignition processes
seminar 3: whole body dynamics
Explores the phenomenon of holism. When the
body communicates and moves as a whole, there is
access to greater health. Looks at continuity of tissues,
whole body patterns and shapes. Also looks at
reciprocal motion through the body.
• Connective tissue
• The fascial web
• Attachment and bonding body affects
• Relating to the transpersonal
• Pacing and containment
• Practice development: developing trust in body
intelligence, diagnosing health and assessing
change
seminar 6: visceral intelligence
• Reciprocal motion in membranes
• Resolving whole body patterns
Explores how organs feel and move - their
embryological origins and primary health expressions.
Looks at how treatment can change their physiology in
a profound way.
• Trauma models
• Visceral nervous system
• Hip and shoulder joints as key nodes in fascial web
• Fight or flight response and the brain stem
• Horizontal and transverse structures
• Whole body, whole field
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seminar 9: the holistic system - the
neuro endocrine immune response
• Limbic system and emotions
• Individual organ expressions and clinical
considerations
• The gut and umbilical affects
• Physiological affects of stillness
• Practice development: acute and chronic
conditions, dealing with serious illness, relationship
with short, medium and long term clients
seminar 7: neural matrix
Explores the fluid/electrical phenomenon of the
central nervous system right at the heart of us. In
particular how the brain feels and responds to light
touch. Looks at how to relate to neural patterning to
bring about smoother neural flow dynamics.
• The whole brain
This workshop will look at how the body response
is holistic in its very nature. The nervous system,
endocrine system and immune systems are intricately
linked and complementary, co-influencing our
emotional and psychological states. Attachment theory
and neuroscience will be examined as theories to help
us understand what lies behind physical and
emotional conditioning along with practical ways to
bring this knowledge into the treatment room and
meet your client's system in a truly holistic way.
• The phenomenon of the hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal (HPA) axis
• Metabolic fields and the thyroid
• Immune system potency and the immune organs
• Neural flow
• The hormonal molecular fluid matrix
• Ventricles and deep potency reservoirs
• Blood and brain
• Regulation of the neuro endrocrine immune system
• Brain states and nerve facilitation
• Understanding the stress/inflammatory response
• Psycho-neuroimmunoendocrine response
• Practice development: building your practice, legal
requirements, ongoing development
• Stillness in the central nervous system
• Sea of stillness
• Practice development: being a successful fulfilled
craniosacral therapist, how to survive as a self
employed therapist
seminar 8: the facial complex
Explores the dynamics of the face and the special
senses. Looks at how the face functions in relationship
to the neurocranium, the whole body and a plethora of
inter-relationships. Particularly looks at the pivotal
relationship of the jaw and throat to the whole body
and how it is the fulcrum for powerful physiological
and psychoemotional expressions and repressions.
• Cranial nerves and special senses
• Motions and emotions of the face
• Hard palette dynamics
• The jaw and TMJ harmonics
• Emotional entrapment and its expressions
• Shock and the jaw
• The pivot of the throat
• Key joints of the lower body
• The empathetic practitioner
• The power of acknowledgement and non-action
• Practice development: framing the physiology of
emotion and pain, developing presence and
simplicity in the treatment session
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seminar 10: working with mothers,
babies and children **Optional 5 day
seminar**
• Labour complications, the medical model and
cranial perspectives
Pregnancy, birth and early life are profound and
formative times. These first moments can determine
many aspects of our health and nature that condition
the rest of our lives. Craniosacral therapy offers a
powerful understanding of these events and through a
unique and deep contact with the human system can
help the expression of the innate life force within each
individual. To be able to use these skills effectively can
help the development of the embryo, foetus, baby and
mother.
• Postnatal period and the changes that occur
• Mother and baby resonance
• Caesarian section birth
• Treating mother and baby for the first time
• Health expressions/trauma expression in mothers,
babies and children
• Physiological differences in the young child
• Treating mobile infants
• Maintaining practitioner neutral under challenging
circumstances
• Talking to parents about BCST and their child
• Treating the pregnant woman and acknowledging
the baby's presence
• Physiological changes during pregnancy
• Clinical practice (including case studies and clinic
videos)
• Daily table work to support each days learning
• Conditions that can develop in the antenatal period
• Class demonstration of a treatment when possible
• Natural labour
• Pain relief
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6. About Body Intelligence
Training
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 allowing innate
intelligent processes to emerge and bring about
authentic change. These changes are 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 informed
hands. Biodynamic craniosacral therapy takes a wholeperson approach to healing and the interconnectedness of mind, body and spirit are deeply
acknowledged.
Intention of the training
The intention of the training is to provide a life
transforming educational process that creates
practitioners of excellence. The training is in-depth and
comprehensive and honours the classical roots of the
work along with recent developments in the field.
Emphasis is placed upon the development of
palpatory, perceptual and treatment skills which the
student practitioner can integrate in a step by step
process. The course is designed so that the information
and skills gained in each seminar are layered and built
upon during subsequent seminars. There are a number
of elements running through the course that create a
basis for successful practice: contact and treatment
skills, clinical understanding, practice management
and self-development. The training’s goal is to
facilitate student practitioners in the application of
skills and theory to the practice of craniosacral therapy
in order to provide effective and safe treatment.
Living anatomy
In order to become aware of subtle motions and
qualities in the body it’s necessary to develop a high
degree of sensitivity. To enable this, the course places
an emphasis on body awareness exercises and covers
anatomy through self-experiencing. This opens up
ways of becoming more body conscious and creates an
ability to differentiate tissues and structures within
your own body and ultimately in your client’s.
Learning process
The training is offered in a format of nine 5-day
seminars over two years with an optional tenth
seminar. This period of time is necessary to allow key
skills to develop through regular practice. The
seminars are powerful experiences and are a mixture
of verbal teachings, discussion, small group
explorations
and
hands-on
bodywork.
The
development of practical skills is based on the student
practitioner’s own explorations and experience of the
work, supported by supervision from tutors.
Biodynamic craniosacral therapy is a process-oriented
practice and requires practitioners to be skilled at
working with their own somato-emotional patterns as
well as with a client’s. The deep listening that is
offered in the work allows the experiences that are
held to arise as body and mind processes. The contact
sessions in the seminars will naturally engage with
your deeper patterning, which is both personally
transforming and a key learning experience for
becoming a therapist. Most of the deeper
understanding of the work emerges from the
experiential work on the course. It’s necessary to
continue this process between seminars with personal
one to one treatments throughout the duration of the
course.
Study and Practice
The training includes homestudy that is a mixture
of reading, writing, and hands-on practice. Written
work and practice write-ups help you and the tutor
team understand how you are progressing. The written
work includes craniosacral oriented anatomy,
philosophy and clinical material. The training offers a
continuous assessment with regular feedback on your
understanding and skills. At the end of the first year
there is a self-assessment program to help clarify any
areas of uncertainty. In the second year there is a case
study program offered to help develop your
understanding of practice and treatment processes.
There is also a regular student clinic to create
confidence in practice. There is regular hands-on
feedback at tables and opportunities to put your hands
on tutors. Comprehensive course notes are provided to
support the learning process.
Accreditation
Upon successful completion of the training you will
be certified as a biodynamic craniosacral therapy
practitioner.
The training is accredited by the Pacific Association
of
Craniosacral
Therapists
(www.biodynamiccraniosacral.com) which maintains standards of
practice in Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia.
The training is recognized by the Association of
National
Health
Practitioner
of
Canada
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(www.nhpcanada.org) which sets competency-based
standards for natural health disciplines and modalities
in Canada.
The training is provisionally accredited by the
Craniosacral
Therapy Association
(CSTA),
a
professional body which maintains standards and
represents therapists in the UK.
Ged Sumner is a recognized teacher of the
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of
North America (www.craniosacraltherapy.org) which
sets standards in practice and education.
The training is a member of the International
Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings (IABT) which
sets standards in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
courses
(www.biodynamic-craniosacral.org).
The
designation BCST (Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist)
is awarded to graduates of the Body Intelligence
Foundation Training.
Optional seminar
The training offers an optional tenth seminar on
‘Treating Mothers, Babies and Children’ which is a
specialized approach for individuals interested in
working in this area. The therapy offers a powerful
approach to birth trauma resolution and helping
women move through pregnancy in touch with their
health. Many practitioners may be interested in
working in this way therefore it is included in the main
schedule. The seminar will be separately certified and
run if there is enough interest.
What the course oﬀers
• Experienced tutor team who create an open and
exploratory learning space
• Excellent student/tutor ratio that produces healthy
and supportive group dynamics
• Appreciation of the holistic nature of the human
experience
• Clear and sensitive feedback and supervision
• Safe environment to grow in
• Emphasis on producing effective successful
practitioners
Trainers
Senior Tutors
Ged Sumner – is the Director and Founder of Body
Intelligence Training. He is a practicing craniosacral
therapist. He has also studied shiatsu, healing and
attachment based psychoanalytical psychotherapy. He
has taught biodynamic craniosacral therapy as a senior
tutor and course director for the Craniosacral Therapy
Educational Trust’s (CTET) practitioner trainings in
London and as a senior tutor for Resonance Trainings
courses in Australia and New Zealand. He set up the
Fountain Clinic in London which is a specialized
craniosacral therapy clinic (www.fountainclinic.com).
He also set up and directed the ‘Living Anatomy’
training for CTET offering an holistic view of the
body’s anatomy and physiology.
He is a director of the Healthy Living Centre
(www.thehealthylivingcentre.co.uk),
a
multidisciplinary alternative therapy practice in London. He
is also director of the College of Elemental Chi Kung
offering Chi Kung classes, workshops, retreats and a
Chi Kung teacher training program worldwide
(www.elementalchikung.com). He is the author of
‘Body Intelligence – Creating A New Environment’
and co-author of ‘Cranial Intelligence - A Practical
Guide to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy’. He has a
degree in Chemistry and has three children.
Steve Haines – is an international teacher of
biodynamic craniosacral therapy and co author of
'Cranial Intelligence - A Practical Guide to Biodynamic
Craniosacral Therapy'. (www.cranialintelligence.com)
He has been with Body Intelligence Training since its
inception and is also currently a senior tutor and post
graduate trainer at the Da Sein Institut in Switzerland.
He has taught extensively at CTET, spent two years at
Karuna and taught cranial work at the University of
Westminster. He is a Level 3 teacher of TRE
(www.trelondon.com)- Tension and Trauma Releasing
Exercises - designed by David Berceli. His background
includes eight years' working with people with mental
health problems and bodywork with people with
immune disorders. He is a UK registered Chiropractor
and also completed a 3 year shiatsu training. He is
married, lives mostly in Geneva, likes travel and skis
as much as possible. He runs cranial clinics in Geneva
and
once
a
month
in
London,
see
www.stevehaines.net.
Sheila Kean – is a senior tutor in craniosacral
therapy and has been teaching since 1992, working in
Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand with
Resonance Trainings. She has had a busy practice in
Stroud, UK since 1986. Sheila also runs a massage
school in Stroud. She was a National Childbirth Trust
teacher educating couples for birth of their babies.
Sheila is deeply committed to imparting the simplicity
and truth at the heart of this work . She aims to bring
the wealth of information gleaned from her clinic
practice into her teaching, equipping students to move
into practice with confidence. Her practice reflects this
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interest and experience. She lives with her partner and
has two children.
Katherine Ukleja - practised osteopathy for many
years before qualifying as a Craniosacral Therapist.
Her extensive cranial training began in 1987 and
culminated in studying under Franklyn Sills at the
Karuna Institute. Katherine’s interest in health and
healing originated in a desire to understand why
certain people survive extraordinary circumstances
and overcome ‘incurable’ disease. Three decades on,
she feels the principles of Craniosacral Biodynamics
come close to the answers. She is a principal teacher in
this field on both sides of the Atlantic, with a
reputation for making complex material lively and
accessible. Additionally, she runs a busy craniosacral
practice in Devon UK.
Colin Perrow – is a renowned international teacher
and pioneer of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. He
has been a course co-ordinator at the Karuna Institute
and was one of the teachers at the institute who helped
to create the biodynamic approach. Colin has practiced
Zen and Mindfulness for 30 years which enables him
to bring clarity and humour to his work. His teaching
is grounded in his 20 years experience of running a
successful private practice in South Wales. Before he
graduated as a craniosacral therapist in 1990, he was a
successful healer and one of the leading practitioners
of Kirlian photography in the UK. This energy
photography gave him valuable insights into the
relationship between mind body spirit dynamics and
the nature of health. This early research came to
fruition in biodynamic cranial work and the creation of
Heartfulness Trainings. This could be summarized in
the statement; that in order for us to be well we need to
attend to all aspects of our nature and life - ”Leave
nothing out”. He is particularly interested in teaching
people to become aware of their own experience in
cranial trainings and to create a learning environment
where this is supported rather than a more traditional
top down approach where the teacher instructs the
student into how their experience should be.
Application
Interested individuals should complete the
attached application form. There are no formal criteria
for entry to the training. However, it is important that
prospective candidates have the right intentions and
experience to take on the training, as it is personally
and therapeutically demanding. Each application will
be assessed on an individual basis and all applicants
will be interviewed for suitability. It is highly
recommended that you attend an intro day so you can
be sure this is the right training for you.
The course includes an anatomical perspective
however if you have no previous knowledge or
training in this, it may be necessary for you to
complete additional anatomy and physiology studies
as part of the course homestudy program to enable
you to have a fuller perspective of the body’s physical
processes and to graduate. The training's accrediting
bodies require a minimum of 80 hours of study.
See
online
application
form
at
www.bodyintelligence.com along with details of venue,
dates and fees for all course locations.
Postgraduate courses
Body Intelligence Training offers an extensive
postgraduate program for practicing Craniosacral
Therapists. The intention of the program is to provide
an exploratory learning space that enquires into the
nature of the work and maintains the context of the
clinical environment, keeping practitioners in touch
with the latest evolutions in the biodynamic field. In
recognition of continued professional development
and effort towards practitioner excellence, Body
Intelligence Training will certify practitioners who
have attended five advanced workshops with an
Advanced Diploma in Biodynamic Craniosacral
Therapy in accordance with IABT guidelines. See
website
for
current
post-graduate
schedule
www.bodyintelligence.com
Contact and Administration
Courses are currently available in UK, Ireland,
Norway, Malaysia, India, Israel, Canada, USA, France,
New Zealand and Australia.
For any enquiries please contact:
For Dublin, Oslo and London:
[email protected]
Rest of the World:
[email protected]
www.bodyintelligence.com is the best source for
dates, venues and prices for individual courses.
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