Step 2:  Upon completion of the Level 1, please contact us if you are interested in taking the entire Foundation Training. We will then email you an application.

Step 3:  Once the Application has been completed, please email, fax, or mail the application to the Shea Education Group. Click here to see our contact information.

Step 4:  Within 7 days of receipt of the application, it is reviewed. Upon approval, an acceptance letter, learning agreements, and contracts are sent out.

Step 5:  Pay tuition and attend Level 2.

Payment Options:  The following payment options are available for the New York Foundation Training:

Deposit:  A deposit is required to reserve your space in the training. The deposit is $1,600. You must pay your deposit for the training by September 1, 2008. Make checks payable to the New York Open Center (phone - 212.219.2527).  You will receive an early bird discount ($1,450) for paying your deposit before August 17, 2008. The deposit amount covers Level 2 and Level 10 tuition.

Payment Option 1:  You can pay the remainder of your tuition, $5,075 for Levels 3 thru 9, by November 6, 2008.

Payment Option 2:  You can pay the remainder of your tuition, for Levels 3 thru 9, in seven payments of $780. For the due dates of each payment, please contact registration at the New York Open Center or go online to www.opencenter.org. There will be a $75 late fee for all late payments. Payments are considered late if they are paid within 15 days of the start of the Level you are attending. You can set up automatic credit payment.

The following are the dates for all the Levels.

BIODYNAMIC CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY

FOUNDATION TRAINING IN 10 LEVELS

Taught By:

Michael J. Shea, PhD.

Intention of the Foundation Training:

Our adult body is composed of 75% living water and only 25% solid material. Many manual therapy modalities focus on the 25% such as the musculoskeletal and myofascial systems. This 700 hour Biodynamic Foundation Training teaches the student to visualize, explore and palpate the slow rhythm in the living fluids of the body called Primary Respiration. Students are further grounded in the felt sense of subtle Stillpoints in the fluids as the guiding principle of embryonic growth and development. In this way the student is invited to reconnect with his or her original, whole and complete fluid body as it was ignited through conception and as it remains in the adult. The perfect fluid body is the pre-existing condition of our bodily existence and is the location of the most fundamental therapeutic forces of ordered movement and organized structure.

Consequently, when working with a client, the practitioner can witness, sense and hold the embryonic fluid body as it exists in the infant, child and adult without interference.  This draws forth the innate biodynamic healing processes in self and other.  The following are seven goals of the Foundation and Advanced Trainings as I teach them:

1.  To explore the movement within the stages of development of the body systems in human embryology as an expression of personal freedom and human potential in self and other.  A special focus is placed on the embryology of the heart and vascular system and its relationship to the brain.

2.   To cultivate a new perception of the whole human organism in self and other as being a three dimensional fluid body.  The fluid body, the original shape and form of the embryo, maintains its presence in the total fluid volume of the infant, child and adult. 

3.   To develop a felt sense of love and wholeness as the movement of Primary Respiration in the fluid body.  This generates the deepest healing potential in self and other.

4.  To become aware of  "Dynamic Stillness" as an intimate connection between one's self and the natural world.  This is the spiritual foundation of the training.

5.  To replace in self and other the intensity of ones personal trauma story carried in the muscles, bones and brain with one's origin story of conception, gestation and infancy.  The origin story is told through the active shaping of the fluid body as experienced by the client and heard by the practitioner's hands, heart and mind. 

6.   To revision the therapeutic relationship as primarily a coupling of two hearts and two interactive cardiovascular systems.  Secondarily, the therapeutic relationship is revised as an expression of two interactive nervous systems also linked together via skillful and sustained physical contact by the practitioner.

7. To regard the therapeutic relationship as a joint practice. The client is taught to participate in the perception of the fluid body and is equally responsible for his or her own healing.

Click on the LEVEL number, in the table below, to read a detailed description of the Course.

New York Payment Information: Please contact the New Open Center at 212.219.2527 and use option 2 from the phone system or email registration@opencenter.org

Shea Education Application Information: Contact Michael Shea's office at 561.493.8080 between 9:00am - 4:00pm EST Monday through Friday. Email: info@michaelsheateaching.com.

New York Refund Policy: Please contact the New Open Center at 212.219.2527 and use option 2 from the phone system or email registration@opencenter.org