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Cranio-Sacral Therapy

An Integral Medicine Approach

Introduction 

Try to think of one thing in your client’s life that has absolutely no influence on their health. No matter what your modality, when you are working with your client, you are working with a whole person who is having a whole life. And anything or everything in their life may be at the root of the health issue for which they are consulting you.

How would you like to have a practical, hands-on, learnable methodology for helping your client identify and treat the root causes of their health issues, whether those roots reach into their biochemistry, their beliefs, their energy or social situations? How would you like a methodology that allows you to treat your client as a whole person: able to work not only with their body, with its alignment, muscle and fascial tension patterns, fluid flows and organ functions, but also with their body memory, cognitive memory, hidden beliefs, energy flows and blockages and, best of all, connect their conscious mind to their own deep source of knowing? This is what advanced Craniosacral Therapy practiced from the perspective of Integral Medicine has to offer you.

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What is Craniosacral Therapy?

Originally conceived as practicing osteopathy in the cranial field, Craniosacral Therapy can be thought of as a subspecialty in Osteopathic Medicine. Developed over many years of study and practice by William Sutherland, D.O. and a dedicated group of practitioners studying under him, for the first seventy years, cranial work was kept mostly to a small group and was barely known even by osteopaths. In the Seventies, John Upledger, D.O. did more basic research on the fundamentals of cranial osteopathy and started teaching its principles to a much wider audience. Craniosacral Therapy is the name Upledger gave to his style of the work and though there are now several different styles of cranial osteopathy, Craniosacral Therapy is the name generally used because it has the greatest name recognition in the community.

Defying explanation, the body generates subtle rhythmic movements that do not depend upon muscular or other contractile tissues. Three rhythms have been identified so far, the craniosacral rhythm being the most obvious. Craniosacral therapy teaches you to assess these rhythms by palpation and apply a host of therapeutic approaches to balance and harmonize these rhythms. In the process, the client’s own natural forces for health are accessed, limiting beliefs are corrected and isolated aspects of the client’s body and psyche are integrated.

The palpation and observation skills necessary for the practice of Craniosacral Therapy can be taught and practiced; as can the suggestions used to facilitate the client’s own healing.

What is Integral Medicine?

Integral Medicine is a system of medicine that has a place in it for every valid healing concept and therapeutic approach. Integral Medicine is arrived at by applying Ken Wilber’s Integral World View to the field of human health. It gives us, as practitioners, a way of helping our clients survey their personal subjective experiences, objective experiences and cultural collective experiences as they relate to their health. It also reminds us to use all three (monological, dialogical and translogical) ways we know things as we work with our clients.

Integral Medicine provides the philosophical framework for unifying conventional and alternative medicine. It is Holistic Medicine in the truest sense of holism.

Course Description

Craniosacral Therapy: An Integral Medicine Approach will equip you with the basic tools and concepts needed to work with your clients on an advanced level. Taught as ten two-day modules with roughly a month between each module, you will have time to read, practice and really incorporate the information presented in class. The class will be limited to a maximum of twelve people to allow for plenty of personal time with the instructor.

The class format is a balance of lecture, demonstration and supervised practice. Students will take turns practicing the techniques and concepts on each other. There will be assigned and suggested reading. Handouts will be provided for each class. Appropriate grasp of the skills and concepts will be assessed during practice sessions. No grades will be assigned. Certification is available upon successful completion.

Prerequisites: A working grasp of human anatomy would be a real asset but is not absolutely required, as the pertinent anatomy will be reviewed for each technique. If, at the end of the course, you want to practice Craniosacral Therapy on clients and get paid for it, a valid state-issued license that allows you to touch clients is required. You do not need such a license to take the class.

After the successful completion of this course, you will:

1. Have the clinical skills and confidence to utilize Craniosacral Therapy on an advanced level.
2. Have a thorough working knowledge of the Seven Tools for Healing and be able to recognize which tool your client is utilizing when and be able to coach them in advancing their skills to be able to do their own healing work on themselves.
3. Have a clear understanding of how to use Craniosacral Therapy with any other therapeutic modality in which you have been trained.

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Since we pair up and practice on each other, your classmates’ experience depends upon your attendance. Please make being present for each class a top priority in your life. Classes are Saturday and Sunday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM with a break from 12:00-1:00 for lunch.

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Mar 17/18
Apr 21/22
May 19/20
Jun 9/10
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Dec 8/9

 

• General tuition: $3000.
• Part-time students or licensed practitioners within three years of graduation: $2500, with a letter from the Dean of your school documenting enrollment or a copy of your diploma.
• Full-time students: $2000, with a letter from the Dean of your school documenting enrollment.

A deposit of ^$500 will hold your seat in the class, the remainder is due on the first day of class. Payments may be made by cash, check, Visa or Mastercard. Payment by installment may also be arranged individually. Refund policy: if you withdraw before one week before class starts, you will get a full refund of your deposit. If you withdraw after one week before class starts but before the fifth weekend, you will get a refund minus the ^$500 dollar deposit and minus a pro-rated portion of the remaining tuition. If you withdraw after the fifth weekend, you will receive no refund of tuition.

1. Hugh Milne, The Heart of Listening, Vol. 2, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, 1995. A bone by bone description of the anatomy and treatment techniques for the Sacrum and the Cranium.
2. Michael Kern, Wisdom in the Body, Thorsons, London, England, 2001. A very accessible description of Biodynamic cranial work.
3. Franklin Sills, Craniosacral Biodynamics,Vol. 1, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, 2001. A very detailed description of Biodynamic cranial work.
4. John Upledger, SomatoEmotional Release and Beyond, UI Publishing, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 1990. An excellent presentation for how to use Craniosacral Therapy to access the body memory and hidden beliefs and start the process of real change.

1. John Upledger and Jon Vredevoogd, Craniosacral Therapy, Eastland Press, Seattle, WA, 1983. A classic in the field, presents the same material as in Milne but from a more traditional perspective.
2. Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything, Shambala, Boston and London, 1996. An accessible brief presentation of the core of Wilber’s Integral Worldview.
3. Ken Wilber, The Marriage of Sense and Soul, Random House, 1998. A clear presentation of a philosophical basis for the integration of science and spirituality, an approach that can be directly applied to the integration of Conventional and Alternative medicines.
4. Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief, Elite Books, Santa Rosa, CA, 2005. An excellent summary of the research that supports the view that Consciousness is primary and physicality follows.
5. Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision, Shambala, Boston and London, 2007. A very short introduction to the Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe and Everything.
6. William Sutherland, Teachings in the Science of Osteopathy, Rudra Press, 1990.

Contact

For more information please contact Steven M. Hall, MD by leaving a message on his voice mail at 425-557-7706 or Email at treatthecause@gmail.com.

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Taming the Bear: Take the Bite out of Stress

Stress Management Classes

Stress is an unavoidable fact of life. To stay healthy, you have to learn how to recognize your individual stress response and then learn new skills with which to approach stressful situations. This class will help you change your response to your environment so you will handle stressful situations differently. Psychological and emotional stresses can become challenges, curiosities, or opportunities to learn.

By learning how to keep psychological and emotional stresses in the mental arena, you can deal with most life situations and maintain your body’s healthy balance. When you learn specific, practical skills (such as those taught in this class) and you practice them so much that they become second nature, your body can stay relaxed and do its job. Keeping your body relaxed encourages it to maintain its natural health and vitality.

(More reading: Why worry about managing stress?)

After successfully completing Taming the Bear: Take the Bite out of Stress Course you will be able to:

• Understand how stress works in your body and your life.

• Realize what triggers your stress response and how to stop it before the damage is done.

• Learn the Seven Tools of Healing and how to apply them (For more information about the seven tools, click here.)

• Embrace proven stress management techniques to reduce your risk of stress-related illnesses, including heart disease.

• Uncover and transform your perceptions and deeply held beliefs that cause emotional stresses to trigger your body's physical stress response.

• Naturally use skills that actually work and effect lasting change in your life

• You can manage your stress and transform the frustrations of everyday life with the wisdom of the Seven Tools

You really can change your life by changing your relationship to stress. Class registration is limited to ten students to ensure personal attention and positive results.

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Class structure:

Taming the Bear: Take the Bite out of Stress Course meets weekly for six months.

Research shows that it takes at least six months of focused practice to create lasting change. Our classes are designed to allow you the time you need to make a meaningful change in your life. A weekend class or evening seminar can give you good ideas, but then it falls on your shoulders to actually integrate these ideas.

A weekly class, such as Taming the Bear: Take the Bite out of Stress, provides continuing opportunity for practice and deepening your understanding of fundamental concepts. The concepts taught in the class may sound easy, but experience teaches us that it takes diligence and commitment to learn how to apply them skillfully and effortlessly.

Class size:

Each class has a maximum enrollment of ten students. The small group format allows plenty of individualized attention and encourages personal accountability and participation. Regular homework assignments keep the class momentum alive all through the week.

Curriculum:

The unique concepts presented in this class were derived by Dr. Hall during his 20+ years of clinical practice focused on helping people get to the root cause of their health concerns. Extensive study of healing modalities and philosophies from around the world inform his work. The course is both practical and formative. Change happens organically on a fundamental level as people work through the process of applying the seven tools of healing to their lives.

It is exciting to be part of a cohort group where people are finally making the changes they have longed to achieve for years. The process is contagious. Group members support each other and model change for each other in ways that give us permission to make our own changes.

Instructors:

Dr. Hall and his associates have all ‘done the process’. Each instructor brings their own life’s work of group facilitation and healing to their class. And they have all incorporated the seven tools into their daily lives. They speak from experience.

When:

Call Dr. Hall for more information regarding the starting dates for classes.

Cost:

$2,000 This can be paid in three installments of $667 during the first, second and fourth months of the class. Or if you choose to pay up front, there is a 5% discount for credit card payment and 10% discount for cash or check.

A two hundred dollar deposit is required to hold your seat in the class, refunded in full if the class is cancelled, 80% refunded if you withdraw up to two days before the start date. To receive the pre-payment discount, payment must be received in full two days before the start of class

If you have questions or want to register, please call and leave Dr. Hall a message at (425)557-7706. Depending upon the demand, other class times may become available.