Professional Training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
TRAINING CURRICULUM
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1.
Palpation and perceptual skills
2. Embryology
3. Reciprocity and accessing states of balance
4. Anatomical relationships and clinical connections
5. Fluids
6. Stillpoints
7. Central Nervous System
8. Reciprocal Tension Membrane System
9. Cranial Bones
10. Whole body Organisation
11. The Spine and Pelvis
12. Joints and Body Spaces
13. The Face and Neck
14. Visceral relationships
15. Babies, Children and the Family unit
1. PALPATION and PERCEPTUAL SKILLS
The development of 'awareness and perceptual skills' are the heart of the course work and are the ground for all subsequent learning. Practitioners learn to create a neutral centre from which to meet and relate to the patient's system.
•
Establishing client / practitioner boundaries.
• Touch as a process of communication, listening, receiving and accepting.
• Skills relating to Presence and Contact.
• Palpating Quality, Symmetry & Motion of the tissues, structures
& systems of the body.
• Skills relating to Pacing and Containment.
• Palpation of ‘Long Tide’, ‘The Mid Tide’, &
the ‘Primary Respiratory Impulse’.
• Ability to recognise the corresponding fields of perceptual awareness
that relate of the different Biodynamic tides
• The Primary impulse as a subtle physiological & energetic system.
• Self-awareness skills and Relational skills
• An awareness of practitioner and client’ needs.
• Understanding the role of Stillness in
healing.
2.
Embryology
A/. Its relationship to cranial work and the body’s
self-healing process
• Stillness
• Creation in motion
• Form & space
• Rivers of life
• Mapping change & Development
• Fluid continuity
• Neural Intelligence
• The heart of movement
• Formation of body spaces
3.
Reciprocal Motion and States of Balance
B/.
States of Balance
• Developing a palpatory language that relates to States of Balance
• Discovering the ‘Treatment Plan as it unfolds’
• Treatment responses
• Skills related to fluid Dynamics
• Working with ‘Fluid Potency’
• Awareness of tissue & fluid orientation as an organisational principle
in the body
• Deepening awareness of Stillness as a therapeutic skill
• Promoting higher levels of vitality in the body
• Facilitating States of Completion & Integration
4. ANATOMICAL RELATIONSHIPS & CLINICAL CONNECTIONS
The early part of the training program focuses on the development of practitioner skills and palpation skills. With this ground of experience, the practitioner begins to explore the following anatomical relationships and their inter-relationships in the body.
Each study area is developed gradually and later reviewed and combined together with their inter-relationships. The goal is to develop a depth of receptivity and the ability to engage the patientıs system at the level required to be therapeutically beneficial.
All of the following study areas will contain specific detail on :
Fluid
and Tissue Motility
• Palpation of the three Biodynamic tides within the tissues and fluids
of the body.
• Ability to palpate & discriminate between the different tissue &
fluid layers of the body.
• Awareness and palpation of the Reciprocal Nature of Tissue & Fluid
movement
• Palpation of Longitudinal & Lateral fluctuation within the fluid
volumes of the body.
• Stillness & Still points ~ their therapeutic value in relationship
to the tissues and structures of the body, and their relationship to physiological
balance.
8. RECIPROCAL TENSION MEMBRANE SYSTEM
13. RELATIONSHIPS of the FACE and NECK
15. WORKING WITH BABIES CHILDREN AND THE FAMILY DYNAMIC