Ready to Rock?

So you’re interested in learning CranioSacral Therapy, you’re already a qualified hands-on therapist and you’ve found your way here. Cool!

We are therefore assuming that you treat clients regularly, have a qualification in anatomy & physiology (of a level 3 or higher) and insurance to practice?

Awesome. You are all set for our CORE training PACK.

If this is not the case you may need our Training from Scratch programme and / or an anatomy and physiology training (see the Q in the green box!).

What is the Core Pack?

It’s the classes and resources that you will need to become a CranioSacral Therapist, served up with some really juicy extras that will exponentionally support you along the way!

It includes the core CranioSacral Therapy training, made up of four 4-day modules and one of 5-days held on retreat. 

After you take each class, you will need to dive in, absorb and practice everything you learned, before you move on to the next. So there is no set time frame, although we suggest 3-6 months in between each (assuming you are able to get enough practice).

The Core Pack will also supply you with the initial books you’ll need, zoom sessions one month after each class, the first level exam we call the Techniques Certification and some other super-helpful BONUSES to uplift and support your training (you’ll see the full list below…).

These 5 classes and successful completion of this exam is what you need to become qualified in the UK.

Says who?

The Cranio Sacral Society, our professional practitioner association and accrediting body for our training.
(Why we have our own governing organisation is a long story that started in the late 1990’s when the government asked complementary therapies to figure out their own journeys to self regulation… and a meaty tale for another time.) You will need to maintain membership for your qualification status. But we’ll fill you in on more about that later. 

The Core Classes are:

CranioSacral Therapy 1 & 2; SomatoEmotional Release 1 & 2; Advanced CranioSacral Therapy 1 – and you need to do them in that order. On the Core Pack you’ll also get the bonus zoom check-in call one month after each one as well. 

What will you get in each class?

CST1:

We will start with teaching you techniques that will help you to treat areas of the body you likely have not included before – the fascia in the head and spinal cord, that give you a way into learning the touch, how to follow the tissue, how to listen to the body. These are skills that we need to learn, waking up the proprioceptors in our hands to be attuned to more, fine-tuning our brain’s (or body-mind-spirit’s) ability to listen. A bit like a musician learning and practicing scales or studies.

CST2:

After a few more ‘protocol-like’ techniques to address a key bone in the cranial vault – the sphenoid, and the the bones of the hard palate and face, along with more refinement of touch and listening skills, we will venture ‘off-piste’. Want to know where a body wants / needs you to start and to treat? We will start exploring how to evaluate the body as a whole and know exactly where the body wants us to start.

SER1:

This class takes us more deeply into releasing what Dr Upledger called ‘the avenue of expression’, the tissues of the throat and floor of the mouth. We begin our steps into learning about the ways emotion can be held in the body, introducing ways to work when emotions surface from the tissue release work (ie somato – body tissue – emotional release or SER). This includes introducing concepts of using a client’s images and dialogue. Things we need to work on in ourselves also have a way of surfacing.

SER2:

To expand on the possibilities present within dialoguing with a person we show how we can integrate aspects of psychosynthesis and Gestalt and Jungian psychologies, with our approach to imagery and dialogue. These inform ways we can invite, maintain and discover the purpose of images a client may bring. We also consider the ways we are facilitating dialogue between the patient’s levels of consciousness and explore exercises in active imagination, archetypes, self awareness and dialogue and facilitated imagery

ADV1:

There is an ongoing emphasis on the importance of getting on the table ourselves, to do our own work and this is certainly a big part of what serves our journey deeply and is a vital part of our growth as practitioners (ADV1). This is how we know when we need to be still with a client, when we need to employ a technique, when we need to converse or whatever else their system might be asking for from us to support its healing. The Advanced class, on retreat for 5 days, enables us to journey further into ourselves, do our own inner work and become more proficient at holding the space for others to do so  alongside us.

Do you want to know more about our training first? Get started right away? Check out our free mini course…. 

Anatomy, elements of our practical approach, what is neutral and melding… we will give you a taster of some fo the aspects of our training. 

OR,  

Feel free to email or call the office with any more questions you have. We’d also be happy to jump on a zoom with you or let you know when the next introductory webinar is.

Let us know what you need to be able to make your decision.

Let me remind you what you will get from working with us:

• Training in a therapy that will bring profound change to your clients
• Skills that will continue to grow and evolve
• Lots of opportunity for you to do your own work which contributes to that evolution…
• A light touch modality that will be easy on your hands and body as that clock ticks forwards…
• Ways to work with the body-mind-spirit – as Dr John said ‘tell me, where exactly does the mind end and the body begin…’

Do you want to know more about our training first? Get started right away? Check out our free mini course…. 

Anatomy, elements of our practical approach, what is neutral and melding… we will give you a taster of some fo the aspects of our training. 

OR,  

Feel free to email or call the office with any more questions you have. We’d also be happy to jump on a zoom with you or let you know when the next introductory webinar is.

Let us know what you need to be able to make your decision.

Let me remind you what you will get from working with us:

• Training in a therapy that will bring profound change to your clients
• Skills that will continue to grow and evolve
• Lots of opportunity for you to do your own work which contributes to that evolution…
• A light touch modality that will be easy on your hands and body as that clock ticks forwards…
• Ways to work with the body-mind-spirit – as Dr John said ‘tell me, where exactly does the mind end and the body begin…’

Wait! I don’t need the whole thing… Can I just do one course at a time?

Yes. If you are already a therapist and the Core Pack is not what you are looking for because you just want to do one course at a time you absolutely can. You can still add in some of the other pieces that are offered along the way.

To book onto CST1 go to its shop page here:

CST1

But please do contact us if you want to talk it through!