Auckland Training

Body Intelligence Training offers a 2 year practitioner course in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Auckland 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. Click on the links below to jump to the relevant section:

Venue | Fees | Payment | Intros | Tutors | Accreditation | Contact

Dates

seminars 6-10 dates TBA

Times 930am-530pm

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Venue

Soul Centre, 18 Huia Rd, Titirangi, Auckland

Fees

For the whole training sem 1 through sem 9 the fee is NZ8,500. The training is non-residential. The fee for the optional seminar 10 is NZ$755.

Payment

The training offers three ways of paying. For payment of the full course fee up front there’s a discounted fee of NZ$8,025. Or there are two payment plan offered.

Payment Plan

Deposit of NZ$944 (non-refundable) is required upon acceptance. Remainder to be paid according to the following payment options:

Payment Option 1 - 3 x Instalments
First Instalment NZ$2519 due 1 week before start of seminar 1
Second Instalment NZ$2519 due 5 months after 1st instalment
Third Instalment NZ$2519 due 5 months after 2nd instalment
Full amount comes to NZ$8,500 with the deposit.

Payment Option 2 - 18 x Monthly Instalments
18 monthly instalments of NZ$440 (includes 5% administration fee). First instalment is due one week before the first seminar.

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Intros

15 December 2009 and 15 February 2010

10.30-5.30pm, NZ$80 at Soul Centre, Titirangi, Auckland. Booking essential.

Tel. 09 8173051

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Tutors

Ged Sumner – is a practicing Craniosacral Therapist and Chi Kung teacher. He has also studied shiatsu, healing and attachment based psychoanalytical psychotherapy. He has taught biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy as a senior tutor and course director for the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust’s (CTET) practitioner trainings in London and as a senior tutor for Resonance Trainings courses in Australia and New Zealand. He set up the Fountain Clinic in London which is a specialized Craniosacral Therapy Clinic (www.fountainclinic.com). He also set up and directed the ‘Living Anatomy’ training for CTET offering an holistic view of the body’s anatomy and physiology. He is a director of the Healthy Living Centre (www.thehealthylivingcentre.co.uk), a multi-disciplinary alternative therapy practice in London. He is also director of the College of Elemental Chi Kung offering Chi Kung classes, workshops, retreats and a Chi Kung Teacher Training program in Europe, N.America and Australasia (www.elementalchikung.com). He is the author of Body Intelligence – creating a new environment (www.bodyintelligence.com). He has a degree in Chemistry and currently lives in Australia with his partner and has three children.

Assisted by:

Lynne McKay - Lynne has worked for the last 18 years from a busy home based, multi disciplined clinic in Papakura NZ. She works with a wide range of clients and conditions. Her specialty areas are working with new and old accident trauma, and mums and babies, working along side local midwives and maternity hospital. She trained after leaving school as a registered general and obstetric nurse working in maternity and gerontology for 15 years, and as a school nurse for a further 5 yrs. While starting a family she retrained in Therapeutic Massage and spent 12 years in this field training through this time in Hawaiian bodywork and the Kahuna Sciences as well as discovering Craniosacral Therapy in the early 1990s doing yearly workshops and finally training in 2002, receiving her advanced diploma in 2004 through Resonance Trainings (UK).

Angela Wheeler - Angela has a NZ certificate in Medical Science and specialized in Biochemistry and Immunology. She was involved in Adult Education and this is an area that still holds her interest.  After starting her own family, Angela studied a Certificate in Complementary Therapies. She trained as a Childbirth Educator and contracted to Parents’ Centre, teaching Antenatal and Baby classes. Craniosacral Therapy became of interest to Angela after the birth of her fourth child. She qualified as a Craniosacral Therapist and has had her own practice since 2002. Other interests include volunteer work for South Auckland Hospice as part of their Bereavement team, her family, their farm (including horses and motorbikes), distance running, yoga, gym and dancing( Contemporary, Jazz and Hip-hop).

Rielle Friedrich - Rielle is a Health Practitioner and Tai Chi Chuan / Qi Gong teacher based in Paeroa, Coromandel.  She qualified as a Physiotherapist in Germany, and has specialized in Craniosacral Therapy for the past 13 years. She has completed a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Training and Post Graduate Training and has assisted on previous Breath of Life School Craniosacral Therapy courses. She has also studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, is a registered Physio-Acupuncturist and runs a Tai Chi School. Rielle lives with her partner and Tibetan Spaniel on a 10-acre lifestyle  block, and counts health care and spiritual well-being among her personal interests.

Accreditation

Upon successful completion of the training you will be certified as a biodynamic craniosacral therapy practitioner.

The training is recognized by the Association of National Health Practitioner of Canada (www.nhpcanada.org) which sets competency-based standards for natural health disciplines and modalities in Canada.

Ged Sumner is a recognized teacher of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (www.craniosacraltherapy.org) which sets standards in practice and education.

The training is accredited by the Pacific Association of Craniosacral Therapists (PACT), a professional body which maintains standards and protects both craniosacral practitioners and their clients (www.biodynamic-craniosacral.com). 

The training is a member of the International Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings (IABT) which sets standards in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy courses (www.biodynamic-craniosacral.org). Member colleges offer the designation BCST (Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist) to graduates of its foundation training and also a post-graduate designation ABD (Advanced Biodynamic Diploma) indicating an additional 300 hours of training.

Contact

For any enquiries or a brochure please either email training@bodyintelligence.com or call the Soul Centre on 09 8173051

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