Body Intelligence Training offers a 2 year practitioner course in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Bellingham, Washington for existing health professionals considering adding a new modality to their work as well as individuals wanting to start a career in an exciting and evolving therapy. 

Seminar 5 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