This is a unique and unusual class that will greatly expand your awareness of the healing potential of cranial work, and therefore improve your professional skills. Cranio-Sacral work is very effective at resolving trauma as it subtly allows the body to work out and release the cellular memories of trauma. In this class we will first learn how to establish resources as a foundation for working with trauma in a safe way. Then we will look at how injuries physiologically turn into trauma, and learn effective ways of releasing them, even years after they occurred. We will work with the fascia to increase the flow of the cranial fluids in order to free up blocked energy. An important focus is given to hyoid and mandible to unlock expression and creativity, which are often stifled through trauma. Then we will support the body in releasing often debilitating cellular memories of trauma in long unwinding sessions. Some of these sessions are held in a swimming pool, working in practitioner dyads. The work in water enhances the natural fluidity of the body found in the cranial tides and is very freeing and revitalizing. Working as practitioner pairs is wonderfully healing for the recipient of the work, and deeply and enduringly informative for both practitioners. As we will learn on many levels in this class, you will also personally heal.
In this class, you will:
- Learn to establish a safe container for your clients to do trauma work.
- Develop a theoretical understanding of the body's response to injury and trauma, and develop skills to help you client resolve old trauma.
- Learn to work with the fascia, a missing piece in most cranial programs.
- Learn advanced cranial techniques for working with the throat soul, mandible and hyoid to help your clients unlock expression and creativity.
- Experience wonderful, long unwinding sessions in the safety of a warm swimming pool to inform you about the extraordinary beauty of fluid movement, of the cranial tides.
- This will expand your experience of unwinding and therefore help you with your clients.
- Increase your confidence in your perception of the cranial tides as a result of working in practitioner dyads.
- Heal some of your own traumas.
Limited to 12 people per class.
Pre-requisite: Students need to have taken the Introductory workshop or have permission from the Instructor.
Reviewers: Two spaces are reserved in each class for people who have previously taken this class with Ursula but want to review at $300 tuition! If you are a reviewer, please call 206.853.6875 to register.
Deposits and Registration Options: Payments can be made to the Therapeutic Training Center by cash, check or credit card (click HERE to learn more). A deposit of $100 may be made on any of the Introductory Workshops or Advanced Bodywork Classes to guarantee a spot as long as full payment is made by the first day of class. To make a deposit on the class, please call 206.853.6875 or follow the instructions for mailing in a check payment. Unfortunately, the website will not handle partial payments so deposits cannot be made online.
Student Contract: Please print out the Cranio-Sacral Introductory Workshop and Advanced Bodywork Contract and fill it out. Either fax it to 206.243.5185 or mail the contract to: Therapeutic Training Center, PO Box 66864, Seattle, WA 98166. Registrations are complete when the Therapeutic Training Center receives the contract and full payment. The student will be mailed back a copy of their contract.
What to Bring: meditation cushion/pad; a flower; writing utensils and a journal/notebook; a sheet and a blanket (can be used as meditation pad); wear loose clothing
Instructor: Ursula Popp, L.Ac., VCST, RC; NCBTMB #322123-00
Class Date: April 13-16, 2011
Class Times: Wednesday-Saturday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Natural Health Resource Center (click location for details)
Cost: $545
Cost/Hour: $19.46/hr
Hours: 28
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Note: If you are reviewing this class, the class fee is $300.
Please call 206.853.6875 to register.
Cranio-Sacral work is very effective at resolving trauma as it subtly allows the body to work out and release the cellular memories of trauma. In this class we will first learn how to establish resources as a foundation for working with trauma in a safe way. Then we will look at how injuries physiologically turn into trauma, and learn effective ways of releasing them, even years after they occurred. We will work with the fascia to increase the flow of the cranial fluids in order to free up blocked energy.
Instructor: Ursula Popp, L.AC., VCST, RC; NCBTMB #322123-00
