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A Couple of Polyvagal Slides

A Film About Slime Mould: The Creeping Garden

The Creeping Garden - official trailer from cinema iloobia on Vimeo. Slime mould has long fascinated the cranial community. The 1950's film by W Seifriz is shown on biodynamic cranial courses worldwide. The protoplasm of slime mould shows rhythmic flow at 50...

A Solution for the Brain

One of the difficulties being human is coping with the huge amount of neural activity from an enormous brain. The human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe. And the brain is destined it seems to keep on growing...

A stillpoint says yes, a shutdown says no

Students are frequently far more creative than the tutors. The above was part of a great presentation by current CTET students Rana Ward, Claire-Cecile Desroche, Daniel Kingsley, Hilary Tulloch and Lucy Wrinn. The question was about the differences between a stillpoint and a shutdown.Here is what...

Acute Pain versus Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is nearly always a habit in the nervous system. Acute pain is an interpretation of nociceptive signals indicating tissue damage and inflammation. The tissues optimise the local repairs after a few months, so if the experience of pain persists then...

Adapting insights from the Social Nervous System model to cranial work

Sources of information into the deep brain centres that control our primitive reflexes to being overwhelmed We can frame three essential principles on how the nervous system works that are relevant to cranial work: One: Essential reflexes can highjack the functioning of...

All Roads lead to the Thoracolumbar Fascia

Where do you move your limbs from? I guess in terms of body mechanics most people would say the hip and shoulder joints along with the spine. However there’s another story, a story of fascial connectivity. You move your limbs from your...

Amazing Surgery To Repair CSF Leak

Amazing footage of an operation to repair a cerebrospinal fluid [CSF] leak. In some patients, the CSF may start leaking spontaneously. This type of leakage occurs into the ear or the sinuses. In this surgical video, you will see the repair of...

Another great video on Pain

See also http://cranialintelligence.com/2012/03/21/great-pain-video-understanding-pain-in-less-than-5-minutes/I have just discovered the site http://saveyourself.ca It looks like it has loads of good stuff on and is the source for this video.

Art of Juggling, Synchronicity and Nervous System Rhythms

Check out the link below for a remarkable adventure in human movement that barely seems possible. The juggler is an American called Michael Moschen who appeared at the Ted convention in 2002 and was a sensation. He basically revealed how his nervous...