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Introduction To Biodynamic Practice: Primary Respiration
 
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Introduction To Biodynamic Practice: Primary Respiration
A Professional Training

This 4-day or 5-day (depending on location) course for healing and bodywork professionals seeks to impart the skills necessary to begin to work with "primary respiration," a therapeutic tidal-like movement in the fluids of the body named by Dr. Sutherland, the founder of Cranial Osteopathy. Working with it requires a still heart and deep perception and listening skills. We will learn practices that will permit us to establish "presence" and "grounding" and to sense subtle movement in the fluids of the body. We will also cover:  appropriate therapist/client boundaries; the theory underlying the Biodynamic Craniosacral approach (the view of the body as a fluid structure of living water, and how it communicates its stresses, patterns of resistance and past traumas); the four stages of dynamic morphology based on the development of the human embryo; palpation of the "long tide" (primary respiration) by contact with the shoulder, pelvis, feet, sacrum and spine; and how to decompress the structures around the heart and how this manual work relates to the psychospiritual dimensions of the human heart. The focus of this class will be on the development of the heart and the therapeutic implications of the biodynamic approach to craniosacral therapy. 

Educational Objectives :

  • Differentiate the biomechanical and biodynamic models of craniosacral therapy: The history of Craniosacral Therapy.

  • Explore biodynamic theory: The soma, the fluid body of potency, the tidal body of Primary Respiration and the state of Dynamic Stillness.

  • Learn the four stages of the Dynamic Morphology of the human embryo.

  • Palpation with the shoulder and pelvic girdles, feet, sacrum and spine.

Course Locations: New York, NY;  Jupiter, FL;  Portland, OR, Siler City, NC

New York, NY
Taught by
Michael J. Shea, PhD.
Tuition:
$460 Members/$490 Non-members
Registration & Refund Policy: Contact OpenCenter.org

Siler City, NC.
4-day Class (28 Contact Hours).
Taught by
Michael J. Shea, PhD.
Tuition:
$585.
Registration & Refund Policy: Contact Enroll@bti.edu.

Jupiter, FL; Charlottesville, VA; Portland, OR
Taught by
Valerie Gora
Tuition -
$525 for the course
Registration & Refund Policy: Contact valerie@michaelsheateaching.com

 

 

Class Size: 20-30 Students depending on location

Class Prerequisite: Required reading: chapters 1,2,5,12, 13-15 of Michael Shea's textbook, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Volume 1.  This course is for students with little or no prior training in craniosacral therapy and is a requirement for the long-term training in biodynamic craniosacral therapy with Dr. Shea and staff.

Shea Educational Group, Inc. 2009 | 13878 Oleander Ave. | Juno Beach, FL 33408
Phone: 561-493-8080 | Fax: 561-625-3775 | info@michaelsheateaching.com