What is BCST v8 - Body Intelligence Training
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What is BCST v8 - Body Intelligence Training
body intelligence training: what is bcst? what is biodynamic craniosacral therapy? a brief introduction contact: courses: wiki: book and blog: [email protected] www.bodyintelligence.com www.bodyintelligencewiki.com www.cranialintelligence.com steve haines oct 2013 1. Touch and Presence 2 seminar 6: visceral intelligence 10 The influence of another presence Craniosacral touch 2 2 seminar 7: neural matrix 11 seminar 8: the facial complex 11 2. What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy? 3 Overview A brief history of cranial work Biodynamics 3 3 5 3. Breath of Life 6 4. We Are Shaped by Experience 7 Patterns of experience are imprinted on the body7 Trauma 7 5. Curriculum 8 Curriculum mindmaps seminar 1: relational touch 8 10 seminar 2: the midline 10 seminar 3: whole body dynamics 10 seminar 4: craniopelvic resonance 10 seminar 5: birth, ignition and original health 10 What is BCST v8.pages! seminar 9: the holistic system - the neuro endocrine immune response 11 seminar 10: working with mothers, babies and children **Optional 5 day seminar** 12 6. About Body Intelligence Training 13 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 13 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 15 15 15 © Body Intelligence Training! 1 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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. What is BCST v8.pages! 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. © Body Intelligence Training! 2 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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. What is BCST v8.pages! 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. © Body Intelligence Training! 3 body intelligence training: what is bcst? Fig 2 Sutherlands’ initial five phenomena making up the craniosacral system. What is BCST v8.pages! © Body Intelligence Training! 4 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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. What is BCST v8.pages! © Body Intelligence Training! 5 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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. What is BCST v8.pages! © Body Intelligence Training! 6 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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 What is BCST v8.pages! Fig 5 Birth is an early defining experience. It can leave a trail of patterns in the body that affect future events and behaviours. © Body Intelligence Training! 7 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 5. Curriculum Curriculum mindmaps What is BCST v8.pages! © Body Intelligence Training! 8 body intelligence training: what is bcst? What is BCST v8.pages! © Body Intelligence Training! 9 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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 What is BCST v8.pages! © Body Intelligence Training! 10 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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 What is BCST v8.pages! © Body Intelligence Training! 11 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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 What is BCST v8.pages! © Body Intelligence Training! 12 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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 What is BCST v8.pages! 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 © Body Intelligence Training! 13 body intelligence training: what is bcst? (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 What is BCST v8.pages! 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 © Body Intelligence Training! 14 body intelligence training: what is bcst? 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. What is BCST v8.pages! 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. © Body Intelligence Training! 15
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