I don't know what CST-T or CST-D is , but I'm a certified craniosacral therapist and an R.P.P. (registered polarity practitioner). Polarity is energy medicine..ayurvedic hands on.
I do believe Craniosacral Therapy ( and Polarity for that matter ) to be an art and I call myself a healing artist. It involves a subtle sensitivity, fluid movement , expression ,presence, spaciousness, stillness,awareness,and openness with absolutely no ego involvement. We assist the body's natural capacity for self repair / self healing using techniques such as unwinding and myofascial mobilization. I sometimes think that my "listening hands " are more like jumper cables , adding just enough energy to the body to jumpstart the self healing process. I am a neutral, empty vessel through which energy flows. I myself get healed from a session that I give. It is Divine. I think all artists work in such a fashion...can one even call it work ? I am grateful.

CST-T and CST-D are levels of certification awarded by Upledger Institute in the Modality of CranioSacral Therapy.

Hellow CST Group members,

I'm a new member and I wanted to say I am enjoying reading about everyone's perspectives and ideas. I agree that CranioSacral therapy is an art and the descriptions from several of you who practice and love your work are beautiful. Thank you. I would like to say, that is it also a science and I think it is important to have a foundational understanding of that also. So for those of you out there who are new (I am) and have not yet reached the level of sensitivity and art form that others are writing about, please do not feel put off. Trust yourself. Some people are simply more sensitive, others need to work at it. If you are committed to this work your listening skills will increase in time. If your intention is to do work that is beneficial to your clients they will benefit.

I am new myself. Some days and with some clients (or willing practice persons) I feel a rhythm, other days I do not. When I do not I just trust my client's body to take what it needs and guide my hands, and most often I get positive feedback. So if I or you need to follow a 10 step protocol to build skill, that's an OK place to start. The rest will come in time and some day perhaps you will be here writing poetry as well.

Jeanne Riley, you are so correct. The 10 steps are the scales that we practice over and over until they are a habit. If you do not have that scientific foundational program the you do not have the solid base from which the art is created! There is alway a place to start to build from... and jeanne, that is something we should all remember. I have been working with CranioSacral Therapy for three years and at least monthly, I review the 10 step protocal and still learn new things from it.

Herewith is an article by Candice Marro which was published in the Cranial Wave Magazine, It is also on Michael Kern's website . I think that it is truely inspirational :

First tell me, do you have a quest?
Do you want to explore the moving waters of your existence? Do you like to dive deep into the unknown? Do you have in your heart nostalgia for something you can’t name?
Then, open your eyes, take a deep breath, widen your attention, listen, feel, sense, taste, smell and prepare yourself. A mystery is waiting for you; something is waiting to engage with you, something that you can’t imagine, you can’t create, that you can only discover. You may be afraid to answer this call, you may prefer to skim the surface of the water, its uncomfortable but familiar fluctuations and its predictability. You may prefer to stick to your symptoms, resistance, identification, complexity for at least you have got used to them. You may argue that this is as good as you could do anyway, it is as far as you could go, as you are not equipped for deep exploration. And what lies beneath? Is it worth the diving, the risk and the letting go? You’re attracted to this unknown, this darkness, but you keep coming back to your familiar surroundings.
This is familiar but you feel lonely, isolated, fragmented and tired to be pushed from one wave to another, to go from one experience to another without finding the sense of it all. When you think you’ve managed to get some stability, when you think you are in control of your life, when you think you can explain and fix things, a force and the play of its groundswell takes it all away from you. So you get more and more tired of fighting, losing, gaining and losing again as you try to grasp emptiness. You keep a smile on your face, but despair and fear are ruling in your heart. You wouldn’t admit it but you’re lost. Can’t you see that this world of shapes you cherished and believed in is ruled by impermanence only?
So start your quest - use your grief and anger to find the strength to explore new layers. Deepen your breath, slow down your pace, get grounded and start your journey with a fellow explorer who is also not satisfied with the answers given so far and who wants to go deeper.
From the sea of impermanence to the still heart of the ocean
How to give it a try? You are going to use your hands as the servants of your heart. Your hands will be the eyes, ears and medium of your heart; not your confused and emotional heart but the heart of your heart, your Still Heart, your all-knowing and all-encompassing Heart. What is the gateway to this place within yourself? Find a neutral, a place within you where there is balance, calmness, availability. There is always such a place but not always the same one. Search for that place and settle into it. Let the neutral gradually spread to your whole system. Then open to your friend on this journey, this friend who is going to be both your client and your teacher. This is it, you have found a sense of stability within yourself and you have established your fulcrum, casting the anchor that will provide a sense of safety on your journey. Now open your perceptual field to the third presence that will be with you both, that is generated by your coming together: the relationship. Then start your exploration.
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Leave your fears and uncertainty behind, focus on your breath until you meet or are being met by The Breath, a deeper and slower inhalation and exhalation. The Breath breaths through you - actually it is breathing you. Can you feel it?
Stay with it. You are now invited to follow the cycles of primary or universal respiration. You are invited to trust the Breath of Life. Yes, the Breath that carries Life expressed to you as motion. This primary respiration leads you into the realm of life forces and principles. Let yourself be rocked by the long immutable rhythm of primary respiration. It is your fundamental support, a living presence that has always been there and will never cease.
Can you feel a shift happening? Can you feel your confusion, your noise and your fears now floating into the distance? Can you feel the relationship is orienting you both towards a place of resource, a place where the different layers of function work as a unit and are interdependent? However, this is not yet the place where you are One. But here, at least, you are not fragmented anymore. You are still in contact with tissue memory, symptoms and shapes but something more is there: organising forces.
In this realm you have allies: fluids and the potency within fluids. Yes, you can start to sense potency within the fluids, the ocean. Fluids that pass everywhere, go around any obstacles and patiently try to erode the barriers. And there is the fluid at the core of all fluid: a golden, subtle, potentized fluid that will teach you to be an alchemist. Can you now feel that your hands have become like antennas, more receptive, more empowered and potentized? Do you notice that one part echoes the whole, that the smallest fragment in the system is vital to the whole and plays a key role in maintaining balance?
But beware for these fluids are being moved and crossed by deep forces at work that you now start to feel; deep forces of creation, forces of health and forces of inertia. The fluid may be your ally provided that you learn its language, know how to work with it and know the nature of these forces that move it.
Because Stillness attracts Stillness
There is another discovery for you to make: this is the place where you can observe the ballet between biodynamics and biokinetics, out of which symptoms and shapes are organized. Simultaneously, you can now collaborate with and rely on your inner physician and that of your friend, your intrinsic intelligence that is constantly looking for the best possible dynamic equilibrium.
If you find congestion or a place of lesion, don’t try to fix it. Try to see, feel, question the inner intelligence and its medium the fluid, so that they can show you what causes this strain. If you hold your enquiry with spaciousness and without expectation, if you work as a humble but active servant of the Breath of Life, then fluids (or something else) will take you to the center of inertia. This may frighten you, for the area may seem dense, dark, locked and almost without any life or light, but as you approach you may feel deep forces at play expressing a certain pattern. This is when you can work with the fluids, gently supporting or encouraging their lateral fluctuation. You can also learn the art of generating space. But the critical thing is to deepen into your own stillness. Why? Because stillness attracts stillness and at the heart of this fulcrum, stillness and health are waiting to be liberated. So, don’t fight inertia as you would reinforce it. Rather, increase stillness and resources. Again, find a neutral, suggest balance between the forces until you feel an opening and a way through. Deepen into this neutral and this dynamic equilibrium and wait to see how far these forces want to reorganize. If it’s too early, just establish more peaceful conditions in the area and come back later.
So you see, you are going to spend time learning how to listen and how to be with what you find, getting to know the territory, developing your perception based on experience. Get familiar with the embodied forces and their different qualities: dark, light, luminous, heavy, dense, clear, congested, compressed, etc. The main danger for you is to end up chasing shapes, you would only be chasing ghosts. Remember the Knight’s example: always look for the heart of the dragon. If your sword cuts pieces, limbs and parts, you would be so exhausted by the time you get to the core, you wouldn’t be able to see the door. You would have used up all your resources in the fight as well as run down your friend’s battery. Always work with potency, even at the heart of the fulcrum. Always look for the origins rather than the effects. Learn to collaborate with the inherent plan that unfolds its priorities for you, rather than trying to order the chaos. Chaos will always ultimately reinstall its supremacy, unless … you discover the inner principle present at its heart. And trust this luminous darkness that will unfold between your hands and know perfectly how to achieve balance and integration.
Wait until you are invited
What do you have to do now? Follow an elder’s advice. He’s been there before and knows what he’s talking about; “Trust the Tide and get out of the way!” Dare to participate and be contemplative; a humble servant always ready to engage. Don’t be afraid of inertia as it always leads you to Health. And wait, wait for a mysterious gateway into the unknown. Yes, you have come to a point when you feel your heart is longing for something more to happen, for the presence of the beloved. And you suspend your breath with both anguish and joy.
But wait, wait, wait … until you are invited. Get to rest. Be alert, be passionate, hold your quest and your faith deep in your heart.
The gateway is quite unexpected, it is as small as the eye of a needle but has the power to create stillness in the whole environment. Now there is a pause, as if everything is holding its breath. Something happens, quick! Go with the potency and fluids, take a deep breath, hold on and close your eyes. Open them now. Through this infinitesimal, localised place you have arrived at the Infinite Realm. You are at the heart of Life’s organizing forces, at the heart of the cellular information. There is an incessant activity and there is stillness. This is where the airy and infinite space meets with the dark and deep ocean. From this meeting, form is generated!
You don’t know where to go, you’re lost and overwhelmed, but you know this place, you remember it. Information seems to explode at the heart of your cells as the original blueprint within you meets the blueprint within the universe.
Come now, a presence is taking your hand. Many beings are welcoming and engaging you. They are so happy you’re here! They are leading you to a lotus flower at the center of which you sit. At this point, you realize you are naked, like at the beginning and at the end. You explore this realm, its infinite space, its spirals and its uni-directional, centripetal and centrifugal forces, its vacuums, its majestic darkness, its musical silence, its darker and darker yet dynamic Stillness. From this Stillness, you see life arising, materializing all shapes and forms, filling them with potency. You also see these shapes, forms, fluids and potency being reabsorbed back into the heart of Stillness. Can you see these mid-lines from which everything seems to be suspended in perfect balance? You observe the different rhythms of unfoldment, cycles of life and death and how all forms are bound together by a subtle liquid substance, a crystalline matrix. Yes, this is this subtle network that maintains form and dissolves it. And, this is just the beginning of your exploration.
Tell me, do you feel lonely in this place where you feared to go to? Open you ears, can’t you hear the murmur of a song that seems to be meant for you? You feel wrapped by a presence; a presence that comes closer as you surrender your fears. Now look - facing you, omnipresent, She is here, holding you in the palm of her hand that is also the center of her heart. Now, you know she is looking both at you and within you. You see majesty, beauty, silence. You see what you will never be able to describe.
© Candice Marro 2003

This is one of Robin Landsong's paintings. A cranioscaral therapist. This quotation is taken from her website: I love my work. When I am in the studio, I surrender to the Great Mystery and see what wants to be drawn. Its about making the invisible into the visible. Audre Lord has a great quote that I have summed up as “Be scared and do it anyway”, that it matters less and less if we are afraid. Sometimes I tremble or resist when Creator is asking me to draw something really powerful. I tell myself take a deep breath and do it anyway. Eat more chocolate, play around doing something else, but after a bit the pencil has to be picked up and make a mark, and then another, till I am amazed at the level that I am guided.

I pray to the animals that I draw and ask them how they want to show up. I dream about them, and they come and tell me stories, thank me for drawing them. It is a relationship that changes me every time. When people tell me what they see in the art it creates even more relationship, more interconnection in the web.

I do a ceremony with a great group where we dance and sing for several nights to help visions come through. At the end of my first dance we did a closing prayer saying what we are grateful for. I went down on my knees in tears of gratitude that I get to be an artist in this lifetime. So grateful. On top of that I get the gift of this powerful Medicine Singing Voice.

Thank you to the ancestors and people who support me in my work. I am honored. It is good to be home. Home in the Web of Life. It is all about joy and the beauty of interconnection.
Ray

I came across a great paper a few months ago entitled SWEDENBORG’S BRAIN AND SUTHERLAND’S
CRANIAL CONCEPT by David B. Fuller It can be read at http://www.lukerickardsosteopath.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Ful...
Its well worth a read.. Further, another site worth looking at is http://www.lukerickardsosteopath.net/the-father-of-osteopathy-in-th...
Happy reading
Don Solomon, RMT (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Thanks Don for posting this. I can't wait to get some more ink so I can print it for my library.
Also, I would like to say I gave a 43 yr young gentleman that suffers with severe BPD bipolar disorder and scoliosis, who says he in in pain 24 7 a full body massage to include cranial sacral therapy, reflexology and aroma touch technique which is similar to Raindrop therapy. His wife saw me on FB tonight and said he has not stopped saying how good he felt, no pain and constantly relaxed. So for those of you that do not use the 10 step protocol within each of your massage sessions, your clients are missing out.

I'd like to know if there are any other pediatric craniosacral therapists here, and where your practice is located. It seems as if we are extremely few and far between, and it's nice to know who's out there that has pediatric training and experience when someone asks for a referral for various areas.

Hi Carol, I'm a pediatric CranioSacral Therapist. My practice is based in Hastings on Hudson, NY.

Carol, one why to find other pediatric CranioSacral Therapist is through the International Association of Healthcare Practitioners at www.iahp.com. This is the find a therapist site for Upledger Institute educated practitioners.

I'm curious about other people's experiences of taking their massage therapy practice to CranioSacral Therapy. I love the craniosacral work, and find it might be just what I need to stay in the bodywork arena. I've been practicing massage therapy for about 7 years now, and burnout is imminent. I'd love to hear how other therapists have taken their massage practices into a CST practice. I'm new to the online communications and boards and such- should this be a seperate topic under "Start Discussion"?

We wanted to let everyone know that we've been give permission by Amina Re to utilize the beautiful image inspired by Craniosacral therapy for this context. Also, Amina is an ASIS graduate and prints of her work can be found at http://aminare.com/AminaRe-JeanPerkins-Home.html.

New here...some Upledger but more depth Sutherland's cranial osteopathy at uni in Australia.
Just got my LMT AZ . Nice to see there's a forum..
AJ

Welcome to the group AJ anf congrats on getting your AZ LMT
Kelly

Thank you to everyone that has joined this group! It's nice to a strong support for CS work.

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Hello. I am not a craniosacral therapist, however my sister-in-law has Parkinson's, and she has found craniosacral to be especially helpful, so I'm hoping that I'll find others who have done bodywork for Parkinson's patients here in this group. I've been doing some of my Trager Mentastics fieldwork sessions for her, and we've had a few questions arise. Anyone care to start a discussion?

Greetings! I am somewhat new to the world of craniosacral therapy, took CST1 through Upledger in 2/10. I am an occupational therapist working mostly with patients who have chronic or traumatic hand/arm injuries. I have found using CST in my practice helps alleviate a lot of the discomfort my patients are experiencing. It is nice to see a group of therapists practicing this wonderful work! I look forward to sharing and learning from others experiences.

If anyone that practices/performs a cst eval during their sessions would like info on using essential oils to boost the outcome, contact me off list at sks8761@bellsouth.net

Dear colleagues,

I am happy to invite you to join my group:” Medical and Sports Massage” including FREE Medical and Sports massage lessons. Not alot of practitioners in the US are familiar with Russian Medical and Sports massage as it was proposed by a Russian physician professor of medicine Anatoly Sherback . I'm happy to offer you information about this methodology as well as some additional information about me. I hope that our friendship will be pleasant and mutual beneficial. I believe in sharing knowledge. In such a case you will be able to learn from me as well as I can learn from you . If after reading information about medical and sports massage, or viewing lessons you will have any question I'm encouraging you to make comments or initiate discussion topic . In such a case my replies will be available for many to read, as well as your replies. Looking forward for great relationship.

Best wishes.
Boris

I have been practicing massage therapy for last few years and just started integrating more of the CS work. I have always included energy work in some form since I learned the art of massage and Cranial work has been really calling me. It is nice to have a forum to connect to.

I will be attending a workshop offered by Don Ash, PT in CST facilitation of death and dying. It also includes helping people transition from major changes, like divorce, loss of a pet or loved one. I have heard the class is fantastic, and Don will be offering the class in California later through the Upledger Institue.

In reply to Sara Firman Sulis; who wrote:
recently purchased an Upledger Stillpoint Inducer and am wondering if anyone can add more detail to the instructions for positioning: '2-3 inches about the base of the skull in line with the top of the ears.' Online I found the suggestion that it should lie along the lambdoidal suture. This seems quite high on the skull when I try it. Also I am wondering about the best body position - legs outstretched or knees bent up - if that matters. The instructions indicate that a soft surface (bed) would be fine. I am not very familiar with craniosacral work and would appreciate input. I am already finding relief from cervical crepitus but a mild degree of skull discomfort.
Sara position the the cradle where the notch cradles each side of the occipital process (the knot on the back of the head just above the top two vertebrae.)

yes Ganapathy, CST will help but if her paralysis is from right side head injury she will also need some i/e stimulation treatments. After my head injury I too was left side paralyzed, my hand and fingers were frozen closed. The PT/OT at the rehab hosp treated my left inner forearm with e stim and my fingers and hand opened. That was 13 yrs ago and I had to do a lot of strengthening exercises to keep it flexible.

e stem is electronic stimulation. My OT/PT placed two sticky pads with copper or metal inserts on my inner forearm, then pressed them with this metal rod thing. It didn't shock per se but did cause tingling. I guess that was a synapses the brain needed to cause the extensor muscles to release. I stem is one of those pulsating pads placed on your back to release chronic pained muscles.

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I just wanted to say Hi. I am a MT in West Boylston, MA. And my office is called Deep Relief Massage Therapy. I just started taking CST training at The Bodywork Education Project and it has been a very exciting adventure for me.

Jessica;

Just wait until the first time you get to do the 10 step protocol on a classmate then evaluate them after you do it.  You will be totally amazed at the changes, I was.  I suggest you do a full postural assessment before and very carefully studying their facial features as well as anatomic posture, then do it again afterward.  Just the changes in posture and facial features amazed me and still do even 8 years after taking CST 1.

Kelly

Welcome to the world of cranial work Jessica! It truly is an adventure. Even after practicing for nearly 19 years and receiving training in all three branches of the work I am still amazed and awestruck often.

   I am very excited to have been contacted by a friend to work on her 11 year old son who has been dx: ADHD and most recently with sensory processing disorder.  He sees an OT several times a week and has started down a path of medication for the ADHD and anxiety.  I was aware of the problems her son was having and had been wanting to suggest CST but knew she was overwhelmed with everything going on and was hesitant to suggest it.  I was overjoyed when she contacted me about working on him.  She read about CST in information she received and thought it sounded perfect for her son.  I had a consultation with him last week to talk with him about it, show him the session room and answer his questions.  He's set to come see me next week for a session.
   An interesting side-note is when he was born the delivery was very difficult and the doctor ended up using suction in order to bring him into the world.  The suction was so intense that for the first two years of this boy's life his skull was badly misshapen.  His Mom believes this factors into his behavioral problems and influences the difficulties he is having at school and with life in general. 

   I'm curious if anyone else has worked on this age group with similar types of issues and would you be willing to share your experience?  What types of progress did you see?  Were there any setbacks?  Did you do a series of appointments within a short time span or spread them out over several months?

   I welcome suggestions or links to additional information pertaining to CST and learning/behavior disabilities.

Kathy;

I have several clients much older than your new client with ADHD two take ritalin to help with their anxiety, one gets a CST treatment to include massage about once a month,  The other gets a CST eval once a week.  The reason is that I am also her daily support person and she is a tbi survivor like myself.  CST works really well with fibromyalgia, several autism spectrums and just in general...

Hi Kathy, I have worked with clients of this approximate age with this diagnosis.  I started treatment with the clients a 20 min sessions 2 times a week (the children I work with were younger)  I did this to keep them from getting restless but I also took my cue from the client.  Several times with several clients these session lasted longer than 20 min as we were "in the zone" as it were.  

 

In all but two cases, the parents have noticed marked improvement.  In most cases, I either see the child as needed or no longer see them.  Only one case that I am aware of have they clients gone on to take a prescription dealing with the issue.  

 

Craniosacral can have vast healing capabilities, especially with children who often don't have a blocked belief system in what will work and what won't.  Children often immediately recognize the benefit and often go "to the source" of problem much quicker and without a lot of avoidance than adults do. =

 

I hope you enjoy your client and I wish every success!

Thank you Kelly and Michele.  I have seen amazing results for many adults I've worked on but my practice on pediatrics has been fairly limited; I have worked on my own son, a set of collicy twin infants and a 4 year old toddler who was under extreme stress.  All but one of the infants showed marked improvement when the session was finished which gives me great hope this young man will find some much needed peace and tranquility after his first session.

Kathy,

I have treated several young clients with these issues - all with good results. Treatment plans varied according to how their system was to begin with and how it responded to care. Typically a second visit  with me is within 10-14 days with subsequent visits set according to how their system did in that time frame. Setbacks occurred with increased stress to their system, but not with a full loss of progress. Most ended care completely once they stabilized, which greatly varied, with some continuing on an as need basis (ideal). 

May it go well.

 

Hi, I live in Michigan and have searching for some training in Craniosacral massage. If anyone has any information for a school in my state I would appreciate it, Thank you

 

Hi Kathy,  Part of what led me on my journey into bodywork was my experience with my own son.  He was diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder at 4.6 after years of struggling with the disorder undiagnosed.  At the time I was told that therapy would help him but this was something that could not be cured and at best he would learn to deal with it as his neurological system matured.  Fortunately we found our way to a wonderful OT who was trained in CST.  She completed 3 CST sessions with him.  Following the third session he had his first of 3 grand mall seisures.  I could see the difference in him after the first seisure.  He was finally out of pain for the first time in his life.  He also had a traumatic delivery and I believe in hindsight that his occipital bone was likely wedged onto his spine. Once free I believe the seisures were the happy result of everything readjusting to being free to flow.  By the age of 6.5 he was in fact cured and happy and wonderful.  He is 14 now and has not had any further problems.  Kathy, if you would like to talk further to understand more about what Sensory Processing Disorder is, and looks like, let's connect as friends and we can talk further.  Also, a wonderful book you can read on the topic of sensory processing disorders (previously referred also to Sensory Integration Disorder) is "The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz.  Good luck Kathy.

I live in new mexico and was wondering which school is the best to take craniosacral?

The best place to gain the correct informational training knowledge is through the developer of said training you wish.  Visit www.upLedger.com click on CEUs and search CST1 for times, price location in your area to beging the CST training.

Great Luck to you, CST is truly an awesome modality especially when integrated with other techniques like MFR, reflexology and aroma therapy.

Keep in mind that while the Upledger Institute has a fabulous program and is considered an industry leader, there are other teachers and philosophies pertaining to Craniosacral that also are worth learning and studying.  Dr. Upledger has been the biggest force behind popularizing Cranio but it was Dr William Sutherland who developed the work and some of his techniques and theories are not taught in the Upledger programs.

I agree with you Michele. I have been blessed to receive training in biomechanical (early Sutherland), biodynamic (later Sutherland) and visionary approaches. Each quite unique and profound.

Christine,  may I suggest you look into each approach & try to receive sessions before you spend too much time or money going a direction that isn't a good fit for you.

I agree Michelle but in the UpLedger CST1 I was in the instructor did approach Dr. william Sutherland and how he as an osteopathe discovered that the cranial bones do move.  Dr. John studied Dr. Sutherland's writings and research and that is how he developed the CST protocol.

does anybody know about the new mexico school of natural therapeutics with don cornwell.and  cranial-sacral?

Hi Kelly, Yes you are right Dr. Upledger did study Dr. Sutherland and several other physicians & chiropractors who were working with cranial manipulation.  I only meant that the Upledger protocol doesn't emcompass ALL of Dr, Sutherlands theories or practices.  There so many different ways into the central nervous system and all of them are vital because different clients respond to different approaches.

Char or Michele, so where would I find the additional training that you are talking about in biomechanical (early Sutherland), biodynamic (later Sutherland) and visionary approaches.  I thought the Upledger training I have received so far was wonderful and plan to continue that journey when a class is running near my home but that is not as often as I would like, and I would love to followup on other training options.  I really have not seen these classes mentioned anywhere.  Where have I not been looking.

After I took some of the Upledger classes I did a year-long apprenticeship with a therapist in my area named Ken Dipersio.  He had received his training through Upledger and another teacher named Jim Greene.  Both of these guys teach a lot about the different "tides" of the body, the different rhythms of the body that can be palpated and used for diagnosing and healing.  Here are the links below. These guys would be a good start and good people to contact for more advice.

 http://www.acornseminars.com/home.html

http://www.findaseminar.com/event1.asp?eventID=7947

Last year I won a local award for best Craniosacral Therapist from a local magazine.  It was quite an honor and was completely unlooked for.  The reason I bring it up is because I believe that getting my start in Upledger and then learning more "outside the box" as it were has made me a better therapist and has given me more "tools in my toolbox" to use with clients.  Education is power!

Jeanne,

For instructors or therapists in biodynamic go to www.craniosacraltherapy.org ,

and www.milneinstitute.com for info on visionary cst. It will probably be easier to find someone close to home that teaches biodynamic but will have to travel some to get to Hugh Milne. There are books available too. Franklyn Sills wrote a two volume set called Craniosacral Biodynamics, Michael Shea wrote Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: A Primer; and Hugh wrote a two volume set The Heart of Listening. Even if you never take a class of his, I strongly recommend his volume 1 to further develop any therapist, he is amazing!

Thanks Michele and Char,  I'm so glad I happened to log on at the right time to catch your conversation thread.  I will look forward to following up.

 

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