Curriculum

    • History of Cranial Work: Dr Sutherland, Et al.

    • Scientific Foundations of Cranial Work

    • The Tides and Dynamic Stillness

    • Role of Resourcing

    • Shuttling

    • How to Create a Safe Holding Field, Why the Relational Field is of Utter Importance

    • Ritual of Contact

    • Sacral Hold

    • Working with Trauma in Self and Others, a Physiological Orientation

    • Accessing Felt Resource Beginning Practitioner Verbal Skills

    • Orienting to Mid-line & Biosphere, Establishing a Safe Holding Environment

    • Establishing a Wide Perceptual Field; Listening from Neutral Being State

    • Mid-tide / fluid tide Session Orientation For Embodiment and Grounding

    • Skills for Self-Regulation

    • Energetic Space: Negotiating The Relational Field, Practitioner Fulcrums

    • Orienting to The Health / Primary Respiration with Becker Hold = Demo

    • Demo of Sutherland’s Vault Hold

    • Hand over Hand support from Teaching Team clarifying, naming Tides

    • The Holistic Shift & Inherent Treatment Plan Review

    • Cranial Bowl Motility: Flower Opening as Franklyn Sills Teaches

    • Orienting to SBJ as Automatic Shifting Fulcrum

    • Temporal, Sacrum, and Ilium Bone Anatomy and Movement in the Midtide

    • Temporal, Sacrum, and Ilium Holds

    • Parietal and Frontal Bone Anatomy and Movement in the Midtide

    • Parietal and Frontal Bone Holds

    • Demo of Integration Hold / Sacro-Occipital Hold

    • Inhalation and Exhalation Stillpoints

    • Occiput and Sacrum = Inhalation Stillpoint & Exhalation Stillpoint

    • Deepening verbal and trauma skills

    • Introduction to Embryological foundations: Mesenchyme & tissue formation

    • Mid-Tide/Long Tide perceptual exercises

    • Introduction to the Inherent Treatment Plan: States of Balance & Systemic Neutra

    • Emotional Regulation Skills: Space, Love, Resourcing, Slowing Down, Orienting to The HEALTH in Self

    • Reciprocal Tension Membrane Anatomy & Motility

    • Sutherland’s fulcrum

    • Automatic Shifting Natural Fulcrums: Lighthouse Signals to the Body

    • Embryology: Conception – 4 weeks

    • Introduction to Inertial Fulcrums

    • How We Work In the Midtide With Inertial Fulcrums Via the Inherent Treatment Plan

    • Review of Fulcrums, Force Vectors

    • Augmenting Space at Sutures

    • Augmenting Fluid Skill

    • Trauma and the Triune Nervous System Skills

    • How we Help Trauma

    • Demo working with Hyper and Hypo Arousal

    • Compression of the 4th Ventricle, and Expansion of the 4th Ventricle/ Inhalation and Exhalation Stillpoints for Hyper and Hypo Arousal

    • States Of Balance Overview

    • Stress Response and Verbal Skills

    • Trauma Skills Working with Hyper and Hypo Arousal

    • Exhalation Stillpoint as A Gateway to Dynamic Stillness

    • Taking a Case History With Your Clients

    • Cranial Nerves I- XII

    • Intro To Cranial Base Physiological Strain Patterns

    • SBJ as an Automatic Shifting Fulcrum

    • Augmentation of Space Within the SBJ

    • Intro to Birth Dynamics, Stages and Patterns Of Motion

    • Demo of Listening From the Vault with Lots of Space

    • Course Review

    • Embryology of the Midline

    • Introduction to the Quantum Midline

    • Introduction to the Primal Midline

    • Introduction to the Fluid Midline

    • Dural Tube anatomy & palpation

    • Pelvic dynamics: anatomy & motility

    • Augmenting Space at the Lumbosacral Junction

    • Vertebral Anatomy and Dynamics of the Lumbar, Thoracic, and Cervical Vertebrae

    • Augmenting Space between the Different Types of Vertebrae

    • Lumbosacral junction & Sacroiliac, Cervical, and Thoracic Clinical Issues

    • Demo of Dural Tube Perspective of Vertebral Column using Fascial Glide

    • Discussion of the shadow & the Breath of Life

    • Transferance and Countertransferance

    • Cultivation of Biodynamic Principles & The Breath of Life in Our Life and Work

    • Intraosseous occipital, temporal & sphenoid issues

    • Occipital triad: Occiput-atlas-axis

    • Introduction to CNS anatomy & motility

    • Brain, Blood, CSF/Ventricles, and Venous Sinuses

    • Muscles, tendons, and ligaments

    • Fascial glide

    • Stress Cascade

    • Neuroendocrine and Stress Response

    • HPA Axis

    • Nociception And the Stress Response

    • Polyvagal Triune Nervous System

    • Introduction to the Face

    • TMJ

    • Hard Palate: spheno-vomer-maxilla patterns, nasal & palatine bones

    • Jugular Foramen: Anatomy

    • The Social Nervous System Introduction to the face & hard palate

    • Frontal bone-ethmoid bone

    • Inherent Treatment Plan: Rhythmic balanced interchange

    • Connective tissue fields/Fluid Field Matrix

    • Transverse Diaphragms: respiratory diaphragm, thoracic inlet

    • Extraspinal Bones & Joints: anatomy & dynamics orienting to mid-line

    • Principles Of Working With Organs: motility, embryology, & nociceptive loops

    • Heart and Lungs

    • Liver, Gallbladder, Spleen

    • Stomach, Small Intestine, Pancreas

    • Genitourinary Tract

    • Practice clinical info: Concussions, Headaches, Vertigo, Tinnitus, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety

    • Organ and visceral dynamics, how the gut affects everything and especially your brain

    • Conception Ignition

    • Heart Ignition

    • Umbilical Ignition

    • Babies and Moms: What to Know

    • Practice Management: Starting a practice, further ethical & legal considerations, continuing education, RCST application and maintenance, supervision

    • Review and Completion

    • GRADUATION!!!

Detailed Curriculum

Foundational Training Curriculum

As a BCST/NA-accredited/certified teacher and practitioner, I am bound by the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America's code of ethics.

This is a young profession and the BCST/NA is an anchor to clarify this work to be taught in a coherent, consistent way.

This curriculum is based in Dr. Kate's clinical experience, professional studies, and teachers who are British Osteopaths: Michael Kern ( Author of Wisdom in The Body, and Katherine Ukleja. They have both been teaching and practicing for over 30+ years.

  • Introduction to the Breath of Life and Primary Respiration, Presence, Resources, Ritual of contact

  • The Holistic Shift & Tissue Motility

  • Reciprocal Tension Motions, Automatic Shifting & Inertial Fulcrums

  • Skills of Augmentation: Space and Fluid

  • Cranial Nerves: Especially Social Nervous System/ Vagus Nerve

  • Birth Processes & Cranial Base Patterns

  • Primal Mid-line, Pelvis & Vertebral Dynamics

  • Intraosseous Patterns, CNS Motility, Nociception & Facilitation

  • Dynamics of the Face, Hard Palate and TMJ

  • Connective tissue field, joint dynamics and introduction to organ and visceral dynamics, how the gut affects everything and especially your brain

  • Clinical Information: Concussions, Headaches, Vertigo, Tinnitus, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety

  • Ignition processes, completions, graduation, celebration!