Become a

CranioSacral Therapist


Learn leading-edge skills towow your clients
& continually evolve your practice.

CranioSacral Therapy: bodywork with a game-changing light-touch

You’re a therapist and you love what you do.

You’re passionate about helping people heal. Perhaps you’ve dedicated your life to it.

But do you have those quiet moments where you ponder, maybe wonder if there’s more you could do…? 

Excited moments where you just want to learn EVERYTHING YOU CAN about working with these amazing body-mind-spirits we have? 

Are you looking for more pieces of the ‘treatment puzzle’ to unlock deeper healing?

Or…

Are you on the brink of a new career, ready to embark on a journey that transforms not just your clients, but you, too?

Whether you’re an experienced therapist or wanting to become one, you’re in the right place.

Welcome!

‘I felt CranioSacral Therapy would take my work and life to the next level. I was right. The physical, mental and emotional release, from such a deep place, has been transformational, personally and professionally.’

Katie Light

Imagine…

  • Helping clients get to the core of their issues, moving beyond symptom relief to genuine, long-lasting change.
  • Trusting… knowing… that your treatments are spot-on, effective and truly holistic.
  • Easily integrating this way of working from the start, adding new dimensions and extra-special somethings to your sessions.
  • Feeling your confidence and competence grow, knowing you’re becoming the best therapist you can be.
  • Loving what you do – every day…

CranioSacral Therapy: a gateway to a deeper, inspirational, more purposeful practice.

This isn’t just another technique—it’s a transformative approach that will up-level your entire practice.

Through our CST training:

  • You’ll learn how to treat all areas of the body – especially the fascia, the central nervous system, the bones of the head, face and back… feeling the craniosacral rhythm and other subtle ways to evaluate and treat.
  • You’ll communicate with clients’ ‘inner wisdom’ – the part that knows exactly what is needed, allowing you to follow its lead and release the need to figure out what to ‘do’.
  • Using the knowledge and tools of SomatoEmotional Release or SER, you’ll safely support your clients in releasing deep-seated trauma and long-stuck emotional blockages that have held them back in their lives. Witness them experience breakthroughs in their health and wellbeing they never thought possible.
  • Clients will find what they didn’t even know they needed and be so much more able to gently untangle the physical, mental and emotional stresses affecting their health and life.
  • Your practice will become an appreciated place of transformation…

CranioSacral Therapy: a magical paradox of light physical touch
that creates deeply profound change.

Dr John Upledger – one of TIME magazine’s 2001 ‘Next Wave of Innovators’ for the development of CST

CranioSacral Therapy Training: Why Choose Us?

We are the original CranioSacral Therapy training. Dr. John Upledger wrote the foundational text book, CranioSacral Therapy, in 1983, and officially started the Upledger Institute in 1985.

We offer an unrivalled depth of knowledge from an international team of teachers…. our courses run in over 100 countries.

Our approach isn’t biomechanical or biodynamic – it may incorporate either or both – in essence we go wherever a client needs us to (and teach you how to know where this is!).

Courses are modular and flexible to fit around your life – get through them faster or slower according to what suits you.

We have many ways to support you: Study Groups across the country, mentors, online monthly catch-up meetings, optional recorded materials, review classes and more…
 
Our two levels of qualification as a CranioSacral Therapist (CST-T = Techniques, CST-D = Diplomate) are awarded through Upledger Institute International and accredited in the UK by the Cranio Sacral Society – the practitioner organisation that was set up specifically to support Upledger’s work and approach.

Knowledge – skill – impact – from our hands to yours…

CranioSacral Therapy… a way to heal at a deeper level yourself, so you can
create profound space for your clients to do the same


Here’s what some of our students have said…

Jo B

‘CST has helped me sooth my frazzled nervous system layer by layer, piece by piece over the years and helped me feel calmer and less reactive’

Dan B

I have loved soaking up the energy of learning again in real life. I am able to connect so much more deeply in treating – Thank You!

Heather H

‘CST has helped me be a better therapist by really teaching me to slow down and listen to the client’s body, words and energy.’

Sheila C

‘It has given me a depth of self-awareness that I have never felt’

Tundi

‘CST is my life-line, because to work on myself before anything else is very important… then the magic happens…’

Mark S

I came to CST as a requirement for another course. What I thought was an end turned out to be only the beginning of a journey…! I feel so fortunate to have found this profound work.

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Caro O

‘The training is never-ending and growth is 5-dimensional!’


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And… becoming a qualified Upledger CranioSacral Therapist brings YOU so much more…

You receive lots of treatments – as well as giving them – a hugely important part of the training, so that you experience, first-hand, the change and transformation CST can bring about.

You do your own inner work, improving your own health on every level. As you dive into the process more deeply, you’ll emerge as a more grounded, resilient healer – a great win-win!

Along the way you forge friendships and relationships that often stay with you far beyond your early training days.

Your journey with CST is as unique as you are.

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So where do I start? 

All of our training starts with CST1, the foundational class.

Already a Therapist? You also have the option of the Core Pack, which includes all the things you’ll need to add CST to your practice: get confident, competent and qualified.

No previous experience? No problem. Training From Scratch, is your pathway, designed to help you build a thriving, joyful practice that resonates with your soul’s purpose!

Already a Therapist?

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No Therapy Background?

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Curious but Not Yet a Therapist?

Want to discover how CST could transform your practice?

Our FREE 5-Part Email Course spills the beans!

  • Discover how we get lasting results – working with less effort
  •  Learn how we help release invisible barriers & deep-seated issues that have kept clients stuck – often for years
  • Tune into the craniosacral rhythm – a vital body system, missing from the text books. Feel how this changes the game for our clients.
  • Dive into a crash-course on anatomy you’ll need AND
  • Understand what’s different and unique about our training.

So, if you’re Cranio Curious, this is the perfect way to get started – just fill in your email and check your inbox for those beans!

    “My clients LOVE CST. It’s not just transformed my practice, but also changed ME in a way no other training ever has.“

    Meet Caroline

    Hi, I’m Caroline Barrow. I run the Upledger Institute UK.

    I remember the moment I decided to become a therapist.

    I’d always been fired up by living life to its fullest potential, how these miraculous bodies of ours work and how we can help and support others along our journeys. Late one night, contemplating what I wanted to do next in my life, I was suddenly hit by the realisation that becoming a hands-on therapist was a path that would tick these boxes. I felt inspired and excited.

    I did some amazing training and learnt some awesome ways to treat, but there were sessions that seemed to lack something, I still didn’t feel I was good enough at what I was doing. I knew I could trust my hands as I worked, and wanted to be more effective, but couldn’t figure out how.

    Then I found CranioSacral Therapy (or did it find me?!). It changed the game. It gave me the science to back up what I was feeling. It gave me a new lens to see what was happening in my practice. It taught me techniques that moved the needle for my clients which increased my confidence.

    And now it continuously helps me to become a better therapist – a work always in progress of course. I never dreamed I’d be running the institute in the UK, organising the classes and teaching, but here I am, constantly spurred on by those moments when people’s faces light up with delight from the new things that they are feeling.

    Twenty-five years on, what CST brings to the table still blows me away: I am left awed by clients, inspired by students and always deeply grateful.

    On mission to:

    • Hold a space for this amazing work, filled with integrity and love.
    • Support our students in becoming the best CranioSacral Therapists they can be.
    • Change the world, one gentle touch treatment at a time… 

    Caroline Barrow

    hang on… What actually is CST?

    Want to know more about CST first? 

    Maybe you have just heard about CranioSacral Therapy and want to know more about what it is and what it might be like to receive.

    No problem… 

    we explain it all here.