Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is one of the most profound approaches to healing available. Craniosacral Biodynamics goes beyond more mechanical approaches in craniosacral therapy by emphasizing the dynamic processes at play in the therapeutic process. We provide the details of traditional skills drawn from osteopathic medicine along with modern insights which increase your effectiveness. Craniosacral Therapy lets us work in direct relationship to the physiology and structure of the body. Craniosacral Biodynamics emphasizes that health is inherent in the body and explores how health expresses itself in every living process. Challenges to health such as injury, illness, or trauma are held in the energy dynamics in the body along with the physical structure. The beauty of the Biodynamic approach in craniosacral therapy is that it utilizes the client's inherent resources for change and healing.

We acknowledge the original principles of the cranial tradition, based in osteopathic medicine. Dr. William Garner Sutherland, the founder of cranial osteopathy, clearly described a primary energy impulse in the body that he called the Breath of Life. This primary energy expresses a potency and an inherent ordering principle into the cerebrospinal fluid and structure of the body. The training in Craniosacral Biodynamics details ways to work with the living forces within the body to restore functioning and improve compromised states of health. Craniosacral Biodynamics works simultaneously with structure and function, bones and membranes, fluid dynamics, and the ordering principle of the Breath of Life. Working with inherent life energy and its organizing capacity helps the conditions in the body reorganize into more open expressions of health and well-being.

Our professional training, Craniosacral Therapy and the Energetic Body places great emphasis on the energy dynamics of the living system and how to work with them therapeutically. The interface with the core of the Human Energy System, the yogic chakra system, how potency and life energy is held within the cerebrospinal fluid and the ventricles of the brain, and how the potency of the Breath of Life is expressed to each cell of the living body is explored throughout the course.

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Course Description for Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Professional Diploma Training
This ten class series provides a complete foundation training in Craniosacral Biodynamics. Important differences in this approach include an awareness of energy dynamics within the craniosacral system, specific clinical skills drawn from osteopathic medicine, and an emphasis on practitioner presence in the therapeutic process. This extensive course allows time to cultivate these qualities. All the relevant features of craniosacral work are explored in detail, including bony dynamics, dural membrane function, cerebrospinal fluid and the potency within it, connective tissue relationships throughout the body, the central and autonomic nervous systems, and much more. Take your existing skills to deeper levels and develop a wider perspective in the work. Traditional osteopathic skills leading to great precision in clinical practice will be taught and refined throughout the course. A detailed course description is sent with your Application Packet. Graduates are eligible to receive the RCST® credential from the Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America.


Brief overview of class content in the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy professional training

Craniosacral Therapy and the Energetic Body
Inherent motion of cerebrospinal fluid and entire body, facilitating stillpoints, and beginning skills to resolve inertial patterns that compromise health.

Presence, Palpation, and Perception
Improved palpatory skills differentiate between membrane strain and bony dynamics, emphasis on relationship and presence in the healing process, perceptual exercises to orient to specific features of living function.

Body Architecture and the Craniosacral System
Craniosacral motion of specific cranial bones, relationship to the dural membrane, and increased therapeutic skills and details of when to apply them. Point of balanced tension; states of balance.

Cranial Base Patterns and Whole Body Dynamics
The cranial base as the quintessential structural fulcrum for the entire body. Ways to work with traditional SBJ patterns. In-depth sacrum and pelvis work. Transverse diaphragms and connective tissue dynamics outside the craniosacral system.

Central Nervous System Motility
Craniosacral skills for working with the central nervous system and factors that affect it, the condition of the cerebrospinal fluid, ventricles of the brain, and venous sinus drainage.

Stillness, Motion and the Breath of Life
Layers of the living system as holographic functions and therapeutic implications of each layer: dynamic stillness, primal midline, long tide, potency, fluids and tissues.

The Inherent Treatment Plan
A valuable paradigm shift in health care! The treatment plan is held biodynamically within the disturbance and can be accessed there. This creates a truly holistic, client-centered therapeutic process.

Facial Dynamics and TMJ Issues
Structure and function of the face in relation to craniosacral biodynamics. Special skills for working with facial bones, also the temporomandibular joints in relation to the face, neck, and throat.

Visceral Dynamics and Embryological Development
Internal organ work, connective tissue envelopes, and embryology of each organ.

Birth Dynamics and Integration in Craniosacral Therapy
Birth dynamics create the formative structural patterns of the body. Special skills for working with infants and children. Integration of complete course material. Graduation during this seminar.