Advanced Biodynamic Diploma courses Body Intelligence Training offers a postgraduate programme for practicing biodynamic craniosacral therapists. The intention of the programme is to provide an exploratory learning space that enquires into the nature of the work and maintains the context of the clinical environment, keeping practitioners in touch with the latest developments within the biodynamic field. August 2010 the holistic system - the neuroendocrine immune response - New Zealand 12-15 August 2010 with Ged Sumner @ Soul Centre, Titirangi, Auckland. Price NZ$755.
February 2011 the heart in biodynamic practice - New Zealand 9-13 February 2011 with Michael Shea @ Blockhouse Boat Club, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland. Price NZ$940.
March 2011working with mothers, babies and children - Canada 03-06 March 2010 (4 days thu-sun) with Sheila Kean @ Sunshine Yoga Academy, #203, 5917-1A ST SW, Calgary. Price C$800.
March 2011 working with mothers, babies and children - New Zealand 24-27 March 2011 (4 days thu-sun) with Sheila Kean @ Soul Centre, Titirangi, Auckland. Price NZ$800.
September 2011 trauma, embodiment and the holistic shift - New Zealand 01-04 September 2011 (4 days thu-sun) with Simon Gosling @ Soul Centre, Titirangi, Auckland. Price NZ$800.
All workshop times are 930-530pm Booking details In order to book a place on any of the workshops a non-refundable deposit of NZ$150 is required. To book or enquire please send an email to training@bodyintelligence.com Course Leader Biographies Michael Shea  Michael J. Shea is one of the preeminent educators and authors in the fields of somatic psychology and craniosacral therapy. He presents seminars throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. He received his master's degree in Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University, and a doctorate in Somatic Psychology at The Union Institute. Dr. Shea was certified in 1986 as one of the first Full Instructors of CranioSacral Therapy by the Upledger Institute. He is currently adjunct faculty and teaches human embryology in the pre and perinatal psychology doctoral programs at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute in California. He is the author of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Vols 1 and 2.
While working as a science teacher, Sheila became fascinated by complementary therapies following a treatment that completely changed her life-style. In response to this, she studied massage and then Craniosacral Therapy. Since 1986 she has had a busy practice in Stroud, UK. For many years she was a National Childbirth Trust teacher, working with couples prior to the birth of their children and her practice reflects this interest and experience. Sheila runs a massage school with her partner and has been involved as a teacher of Craniosacral Therapy since 1992, working in the UK, Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand. Sheila is deeply committed to imparting the simplicity and truth at the heart of this work. She aims to bring the wealth of information gleaned from her clinic practice into her teaching, equipping students to move into practice with confidence. She lives with her partner, has two children, spends her spare time gardening, walking her two dogs and going on holiday!  Simon has been a practicing Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist for the last 15 years. He studied with Franklyn Sills at the Karuna Institute in Devon, UK. He became Franklyn's personal assistant for 5 years during the formation of the biodynamic approach assisting Franklyn on many advanced courses. At this time Simon also tutored with the CTET. Simon has taught in Spain, Australia and New Zealand where he now has a busy practice in Motueka on the top of the South Island and teaches Advanced Courses to other Biodynamic practitioners.
Current Workshopsthe heart in biodynamic practice This advanced seminar will detail the basic shape of Primary Respiration in the fluid body in relationship to the heart. The embryonic heart is linked to the development of the face and brain as one complex. An introduction to the sequential development of the embryonic heart and blood will be presented. This includes palpation skills to contact the fluid fields of the trunk and shoulder girdle surrounding the adult heart. This advanced training will also focus on new research in the embryonic development of the heart and its implications for biodynamic practice. The relationship of the developing heart to the developing brain in relation to the gut will be the specific focus of this class. Face work strongly influences the brain and cranium. The heart grows at the top of the gut tube which is the face. There is a direct relationship between the face in front of the heart and the brain in back of the heart. The heart, brain and face are linked together as one unit of structure and function embryonically. Specific skills for decompressing the fluid body will be taught in order to balance the face, brain and neck. Educational Objectives: - Palpation of the newly discovered metabolic heart fields of the embryo.
- Learn the skills of balancing the face, neck, heart and brain with Primary Respiration.
- Study the relationship of embryonic heart development to infant heart-brain development
- deepen an understanding of biodynamics being a heart centered practice
trauma, embodiment and the holistic shift
A post-graduate course designed to deepen your understanding of working with Trauma. The course aims to equip practitioners to recognise when their patients have a charge running through their autonomic nervous system making it impossible for them to enter the Holistic Shift where they can settle into the deeper tides.
Once we have defined shock and trauma we will look at Eugene Gendlin’s work of Focusing, the basis of our understanding of the ‘felt-sense’. We will examine Peter Levine and Franklyn Sills’ work on the trauma and healing vortices, tracking and titration, over and under coupling and recapitulation.
This course aims to provide practitioners with skills to work with both hyper and hypo arousal states safely and clinically with special reference being made to working with babies and infants. Open to professional biodynamic craniosacral therapists only. the holistic system This workshop will look at how the body response is holistic in its very nature. The nervous system, endocrine system and immune systems are intricately linked and complementary, co-influencing our emotional and psychological states. Attachment theory and neuroscience will be examined as theories to help us understand what lies behind physical and emotional conditioning along with practical ways to bring this knowledge into the treatment room and meet your client's system in a holistic way. Areas explored: - the phenomenon of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis
- metabolic fields and the thyroid
- immune system potency and the thymus
- the hormonal molecular fluid matrix
- regulation of the limbic system
- understanding the stress/inflammatory response
working with mothers, babies and children Pregnancy, birth and early life are profound and formative times. These first moments can determine many aspects of our health and nature that condition the rest of our lives. Craniosacral Therapy offers a profound understanding of these events and through a unique and deep contact with the human system can help the expression of the innate life force within each individual. To be able to use these skills effectively can help the development of the embryo, foetus, baby and mother. - Mother and Baby Resonance
- Treating Mother and Baby for the first time after the Birth
- Health Expressions/Trauma Expressions in Mothers Babies and Children
- Postnatal Period and Changes that Occur
- O-A Birth
- Natural Labour
- Paediatric Conditions
- O-P Birth
- Labour Complications and the Medical Model
- Pain Relief
- C-S Birth
- Antenatal Care Profile – Women’s Choices
- Physiological Changes during Pregnancy
- Treating Pregnant Women & Acknowledging the Baby’s Presence
- Conditions that developed in the Antenatal Period
- Clinical practise
- Case taking of the Woman and Baby on the first visit
- Treating Mobile Infants
primary respiration and the fluid body This class is designed for students who wish to deepen their perception and practice of Primary Respiration. This is also known as the Long Tide, which is a 100 second cycle recognized in the cranial osteopathic community since the time of Dr. Sutherland. The focus is to learn to distinguish in clinical practice the importance of Primary Respiration and its movement in the fluid body. The fluid body is the sum of all the different fluids in the body and is over 70% of the human body. The fluid body is also based on an understanding of the early development of the human embryo. The student learns to sense Primary Respiration in his or her own body first and then the client. Primary Respiration is the foundation of health in the body. This health is interconnected with and integrates through the embryological midline of the notochord still present in the adult.
Understanding and perceiving multiple aspects and layers of experience associated with both the stillness of the midline and Primary Respiration will be taught with meditation and visualization practices.
An introduction to the dynamic morphology of the human embryo will be explored theoretically and with table work.
Students will study the difference between embryonic radial symmetry – the arising of orienting fulcrums, and axial symmetry – the arising of an orienting midline. This process begins at conception and is maintained throughout the lifespan via Primary Respiration and stillness.
• The advanced biodynamic treatment process of orienting, synchronizing, attuning, ignition and disengagement
• The 4 stages of embryonic morphogenesis – compression, decompression, embodiment and folding and unfolding in the fluid body
• The notochord as primary organizer of the structure and function of the body
• The 3 bodies of the Primary Respiratory System – fluid, tidal and soma the spine and nerve flow The spine is a very powerful place. The spine is the one of the clearest expressions of midline dynamics in the body. Developing confidence in how to spot and treat fulcrums within the spine can dramatically enhance practitioners ability to treat a wide range of painful conditions. Sutherland and Becker, as osteopaths, would have had fantastic skills around working with the spine. I trained as a chiropractor and spent 5 years studying and learning to adjust the spine as the main focus of treatment. This workshop represents how I have integrated this knowledge into a biodynamic craniosacral practice. The aim of the workshop is highlight some easy, effective ways of orienting to and treating this key structure. dissociation and activation
This workshop is both a review and a deepening of biodynamic cranial skills to work with trauma and overwhelm. Dissociation is always a clinical priority. It is very hard to support healing processes if someone is not embodied. It is something that responds extremely well to the biodynamic approach. We will cover easy, safe ways to help create greater choice for clients to become more embodied. Activation is something that can occur as clinic work unfolds or can be the basic state of your client when they first come for sessions. Understanding the physiology of being safe and gaining confidence in skills to slow down and contain activation can really enhance the healing process. dynamic stillness Levels of stillness are abundantly available in the body and mind. We will look at opening up the field of possibilities for accessing the deep space of stillness that brings your body into a state of timelessness. The mysterious state of stillness takes you beyond your self and connects you with a universal order. The work will create a deepening in your relational field that opens up a new dimension for healing within your clients systems. biodynamic potencies This is a two day workshop exploring your relationship to the biodynamic potencies of the body and how to connect to them as regular phenomena in the fluid/tissue matrix. You will learn to be familiar with potency as a felt-sense experience so that the relational field you create is always informed by it. This will open up huge resources for your client's system. The workshop will look at places of potency with particular reference to the ventricles as deep potency spaces, potency in interstitial fluids and the potency field around the body. The two days will help you discern the different levels and qualities of potency expressed in the human system and enrich your practice whether you are an experienced practitioner or newly graduated.
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Steve Haines is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and Chiropractor. He also trained as a Shiatsu practitioner. He is senior tutor on the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust (CTET London) practitioner training and a tutor at the Karuna Institute (Devon). He is the current director of CTET's Living Anatomy course. For 2 1/2 years he coordinated the CTET teaching clinic for final year students. He has taught anatomy, physiology and pathology at the College of Practical Homeopathy, and taught on the craniosacral module at the University of Westminster. His background includes eight years' working with people with mental health problems and bodywork with people with immune disorders. He has just moved to Geneva but still runs a busy practice once a month in London 
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 (