Craniosacral Therapy II – EL304CSII

Craniosacral Therapy II-The Ground of Resource and Motion: The Holistic Shift and Motility EL304CSII (30 hours, 2.5 units)

The intention of this class is to begin to appreciate the specific manifestations of the Breath of Life and the Health inherent within the body.  Students learn to orient to a change in state within the client’s system called the holistic shift. This is an important shift from the conditions present in the system and from a superficial rhythm called the cranial rhythmic impulse (CRI), to primary respiration and inherent resources. Students explore the still point concept in order to help a client’s system access the holistic shift and inherent resources. The main emphasis of this seminar orients students to the mid-tide and tissue motility and their embryological origins. The action of primary respiration generates a palpable inner motility, or inherent motion, within all tissues and tissue structures. Initially, awareness of motility is explored within the major bony structures of the cranium and pelvis. Specific palpation sessions are undertaken orienting to the reciprocal tension membrane (the dural membrane), the temporal, frontal, parietal, occipital and sphenoid bones and the sacrum. The dynamics of the sphenobasilar junction is also introduced. Within this context, the importance of embryologically derived organizing fulcrums is explored.

Path of Study: Integrative Somatic Methods

Prerequisite: Craniosacral Therapy I EL304CSI