Workshops

CRANIOSACRAL BIODYNAMICS WORKSHOPS

The Transformative Power of Presence, exploring BCST ( in french)

DATES TO BE DETERMINED – PLEASE SEE OUR SEPTEMBER SEMINAR – IT IS OPEN TO ALL

In this 2-day intro workshop, you’ll discover the profound, gentle, practice of Craniosacral Biodynamics. The roots of this work lie in structural osteopathy. The biodynamic practitioner listens to the underlying forces that create form and works with natural processes that facilitate healing. Theory, practice, meditations, and visualizations are included.

Learn about the legacy and evolution of this health-oriented approach. Get a sense of the space and the teaching team and see if the 2-years training is for you.

This training is for all health professionals – osteopaths, massage therapists, yoga teachers, midwives, acupuncturists homeopaths, and more, wishing to add a deeper dimension to their practice, as well as those wishing to start a career in a continuously evolving field.

Topics include:

The power of stillness
Resources and the felt sense
Biodynamic principles and the breath of life
The wide perceptual field and a balanced state of awareness

Address: 5333 Casgrain, #707 – Montreal, QC, Canada- Free parking Saturday & Sunday

Cost: $321 (tax incl.)

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Nurturing Resilience: Theory and clinical applications of the Polyvagal theory

Postponed to 2021

A 2 day workshop for therapists and bodyworkers of all disciplines.

This workshop presents the newest developments in our understanding of the autonomic nervous system and how to use this new information in your practice.

Learn how to support clients to:
Build capacity for regulation
Develop resilience
Re-pattern the nervous system
Create autonomic pathways of safety and connection

Our autonomic nervous system serves as our personal security system. It informs us of threats and responds to keep us safe in the world. All its complex reactions are completely involuntary. Some are hardwired at birth and common to us all. Some develop as we grow and encounter our environment. These involuntary nervous pathways largely determine our emotional reactions, sense of safety and response to life.

Traditionally the ANS has been described as having two branches, sympathetic and parasympathetic. These were described as working in alternation, the effects of one balancing the effects of the other. We learned about the fight or flight response and the freeze response.

In 1994, Dr. Stephen Porges, director of the Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago introduced the Polyvagal Theory. His research proposes that there are not 2 but 3 pathways for the ANS. This theory changes completely how we understand emotions, attachment, communications and self regulation. There are very important implications for practitioners in all disciplines.

In this workshop, we will explore the anatomy and physiology of this triune nervous system, learn ways to track our own and clients responses and state. There will be theory as well as practical and experiential exercises.

Cost: $350 (tax incl.)

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4-Days Seminar 1: Preparing the ground

Sept 17th to 20th, 2020

This is when the training starts but it is also an opportunity to take a 4-day workshop, as it is open to all. It allows you to get a deeper introduction and decide whether you want to continue the training or not. This seminar is in French. Welcome to bilingual students as we have manuals in English and homework can be done in English too. Our main books are in English.

Seminar 1 is health and resource oriented providing many tools to use already in your practice. Emphasis is placed on the preparation of the practitioner, creating safety, negotiating appropriate contact. Establishing a connection to our own sense of wellbeing is essential to the therapeutic relationship and much more. This training is recognized by many associations in Quebec, Canada and in North America. (BCTA/NA).

Content:

History and evolution of the work
Building a safe therapeutic relationship
Resources and developing the felt sense
The practice of presence
Dynamic Stillness
Orienting to health
Establishing a wide perceptual field
Practitioner neutral
Practitioner fulcrums
Intro to the relational field
Beginning practitioner verbal skills
Exploring touch history, nurturing touch/toxic touch
The ritual of contact
The Breath of Life, Primary Respiration and Biodynamic principles
Anatomy and physiology of Primary Respiratory mechanism
Palpation and perception; general listening contacts, Pieta and feet

Cost: $642