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Are you looking to upgrade your skills and
leave a lasting impact on your clients?
If you’ve found your way to this page you’re probably already a qualified, insured hands-on therapist, interested in adding CranioSacral Therapy to your treatments.
Want to know what the Upledger training is like?
Most of our students say:
‘It’s a Journey…’
And every journey begins with the first step, right?
Your first step on this journey is our 4-day CranioSacral Therapy 1 class.
You can sign up for that whenever you are ready. (Find upcoming dates on the Calendars page and also on the CST1 sign up page.)
To continue training and get qualified, we have 4 more core curriculum classes.
We call them CranioSacral Therapy 2, SomatoEmotional Release 1 & SomatoEmotional Release 2; and Advanced CranioSacral Therapy 1.
You need to do them in that order.
And have time in between to practice (see below).
But do you want to be ALL IN? Do you just know that this is something you want to commit to and master?
Further down this page you will find out about the CORE PACK, our unique offering that gives you all the courses, lots of study resources, a slew of bonuses AND saves you £££.
Or you can still do the courses one at a time.
If you’re not sure yet, come to CST1 and then decide!
And then there’s the other part of the journey.
The more personal one, that you probably can’t predict or anticipate,
other than knowing that to help your clients find their path to healing, you have to find yours first…
So what will each class give you?
CranioSacral Therapy 1
A complete treatment protocol that embodies the essence of the CST approach
Your hands find a new way to work.
You feel new rhythms and ‘hear more’ with your hands – using less pressure than you may expect.
You explore different ways to treat fascia – the connective tissue that runs all through the body – including (probably) new areas like the head and spinal cord.
Your hands’ proprioceptors wake up further and their feeling sense reaches a new level.
You come out with a ’10 Step Treatment Protocol’ to take away and practice LOTS. Like a musician learning and then practicing scales and studies until they are fluent.
Even this first level of skills can be a game changer for your clients.
CranioSacral Therapy 2
Connect even more deeply with clients to help their body make even deeper structural and energetic change
Firstly you see why a hugely important bone in the skull – the sphenoid – is so important.
Then you experience the transformation that can come from treating the bones of the face and hard palate…
After that, you venture ‘off-piste’.
Would it be helpful to know EXACTLY WHERE a body wants / needs you to start and to treat? Learn exciting ways to hone right in, every time… And a few more awesome ways to work when you are there.
SomatoEmotional Release 1
Reach deeper into you – hold a more potent space for clients.
After LOTS more practice of all the work from the previous classes, this next level demonstrates the extraordinary value of releasing what Dr Upledger called ‘the avenue of expression’ – tissues of the throat and floor of the mouth.
You learn more about the ways we hold emotion in the body and how to work with emotions that surface with hands-on tissue work (ie somato – body tissue – emotional release or SER).
Imagine becoming confident to work with feelings, images or experiences coming up for the client. It’s a lot about learning how to hold space. Empower the client. Not fixing anything for them but sitting alongside them on their journey.
To do this well? Things we need to work on in ourselves also have a way of surfacing…
SomatoEmotional Release 2
Now you are cooking! Developing the craft, deepening the art form…
In this class you expand and deepen the possibilities you offer your clients, exploring how to integrate aspects of psychosynthesis, Gestalt and Jungian psychologies with our bodywork approach.
This brings you different tools and possibilities to help clients discover more about themselves and improve their body-mind-spirit wellbeing at an even deeper level.
All while we are still working hands-on, deeply observing changes in the tissue.
Advanced CranioSacral Therapy 1
Commitment. To your work. Your clients. Yourself.
You will continually hear us emphasize the importance of getting on the table ourselves, getting treatments, doing our inner work. It is a vital part of our growth as practitioners.
This class delivers this in spades: working multi-hands for 5 days on retreat.
You experience when to speak, when to employ a technique, when to be silent… to follow what their system is asking for to support its healing.
In your turn on the table you dive in to yourself, and come away more proficient at holding the space for others.
And after that?
Those are the classes in our Core Curriculum.
You will typically need 3 – 6 months in between each class to practice and embed what you have learned (guidance is given in each class).
Qualification = Core curriculum classes + Exam + CSS
These 5 classes and successful completion of what we call the Techniques Exam (see link) is what you need to become qualified in the UK.
Says who? The Cranio Sacral Society, which is the 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.
Our students’ view about each of the classes
So then…. What’s the Core Pack?
The BEST (best price – most thorough – most supported) way through our training.
It’s everything you need to get competent, qualified and rocking it in your therapy business!
What is the Core Pack?
The BEST (best price – most thorough – most supported) way through our training.
To take advantage of it you have to have a level 3 or higher qualification in anatomy & physiology and insurance to practice.
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!).
It includes:
All the classes and resources that you will need to become a Qualified CranioSacral Therapist, served up with some really juicy extras that will exponentionaly support you along the way!
It includes the core CranioSacral Therapy training, the first four are 4-day modules and last is 5-days held on retreat.
It’s 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 (see the full list below…)
It’s a commitment – from you to this training, from us to you – to ensure you get to where you need to be: competent, qualified and rocking it as a successful CranioSacral Therapist!
Q
I have previous healthcare experience but I’m not sure if it is enough?
If you have a background in some form of healthcare but either:
- not to a nationally recognised level of qualification,
- without the required level of anatomy, physiology and pathology (level 3 or above) or if
- you have not had a ‘hands-on’ element to your work (eg if you are a yoga, pilates or fitness instructor, nurse, dentist etc)
then you may need to do the Training from Scratch programme, with or without the Foundation Certificate in Body Science (anatomy, physiology & pathology).
We work this out on a case by case basis. Have a look on this page and on the Training from Scratch page and if you’re still not sure then please give us a call so we can help!
The Full Details. The Core Pack will give you:
- A place on each of our Core Curriculum classes: CST1, CST2, SER1, SER2, ADV1 (you choose the dates)
- The Techniques Exam Process, whenever you are ready to start it
- A Goody Bag crammed with lovely things CST including:
- Books: Your Inner Physician and You; CranioSacral Therapy (brown book) CSTII Beyond the Dura (blue book) SER and Beyond (green book)
- Craniosacral System Poster
- Still Point Inducer (we’ll explain in CST!!)
- Mini 10-Step Protocol poster (A4 size)
- 50 Personalised Leaflets (usually after CST2)
PLUS all these BONUSES:
- 5 online zoom study groups – one a month after each class (recordings will be available)
PLUS you will be welcome to attend the zoom sessions a month after any class if you are on the Core Pack. If you are not they will cost £30 each.
(You could save roughly up to 20 x 30 £600 if you came to them all!) - 4 x anatomy masterclasses (on the TMJ, sphenoid, craniosacral system, one other)
- 3 x Exam Preparation classes (pre-recorded)
- 4 ‘Deep Dive’ sessions over the course of the training
- Opportunity to resit CST1 and 2 at the exam fee price of £235 and £279 (instead of £348 & £398) (resitting is a great way to consolidate your learning and understanding)
- There will be a few other extra surprises thrown in as we go along too….!
All of the above is valued in excess of £6500. You will get added support AND be able to cover the costs in small regular amounts AND save money by being on the Core Pack!
Wow! So how much?
The cost of the core pack is £4997.
If you pay in full you will get a FREE repeat of either CST1 or CST2.
Or pay a £300 non-refundable deposit with a regular standing order (£150 – £250 per month, depending on how fast you are moving through classes – note that each class must be fully paid for before it is taken).
Q
Sometimes we get asked by students who have done other CST trainings (or part of them) at another school, if they can join our further courses, or continue their training with us. Unfortunately this is not possible as, although there will be some crossover, there will also be differences, and we need everyone to be on the same page when they are in any class beyond CST1. If you do decide to join our training too we guarantee you will still learn lots to add to your practice!
What a gift you’ll be giving yourself.
What a space you’ll be able to hold for clients.
Are you in?
Not sure you want to fully jump in yet?
Get a FREE taste of what we do with our 5-Day Mini-Class.
Dip a toe in to explore:
- How to FEEL the craniosacral rhythm
- The Anatomy of the head it will be crucial TO KNOW
- What is different about our TOUCH
- What does NEUTRAL mean in the CST world? What is MELDING?
- What is our training ACTUALLY LIKE?
Click the green button, tell us where to send the info and we’ll deliver straight away!
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.
5-day Mini Class
Start Now.
Wait! I don’t know if I want the whole thing… Can I just do one course at a time?
Yes. If you are already a therapist and the time is not quite right to commit to the Core Pack you can indeed do one course at a time.
And you can still add in some of the other pieces that are offered along the way (it will just cost more!).
You can also do the first course and then see if it feels right for you. You have up to one month after your CST1 to join the Core Pack.
To book onto the CranioSacral Therapy 1 class go straight here:
CST1
But please do contact us if you want to talk it through!
Or grab our training prospectus to have a online or offline read…
Hold Our Training in your Hands!
We have a lovely prospectus which we are happy to send you in an old fashioned envelope, through the mail (I know!), by email as a pdf – or hey, push the boat out and do both.
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 (and delight you for years!)
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…
Exciting ways to work with the body-mind-spirit… as Dr John said:
‘Tell me, where exactly does the mind end and the body begin?’
I could go on… Have you had a session or three with an experienced therapist?
If possible, go and experience it for yourself if you haven’t yet. Then decide.
Or if you know:
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