2020 Professional Enrichment Series

For Practitioners, Students, and Teachers of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

 


 

Enjoy these free recordings of live webinars held in 2020:

A Conversation With Franklyn Sills & Cherionna Menzam-Sills 

Embodied Sensing, with Margaret Rosenau 

Embodying the Breath of Life, with Scott Zamurut 

Remote Sessions: Another Perspective and Q&A, with Joyce Harader 

The Immune System, with Dr. Kate Klemer 

Michael Shea: Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy as a Compassion Practice

Accessing the Holistic Shift, with Franklyn Sills

Pre- and Perinatal Influences in Biodynamics, with Cherionna Menzam-Sills

The Embodiment Tide, with Scott Zamurut


A Conversation With Franklyn Sills & Cherionna Menzam-Sills
Held Tuesday, May 5, 2020

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Franklyn offers a short meditation for these times, and he and Cherionna respond to questions submitted by event attendees on various topics, including

  • Remote sessions: supporting clients remotely to settle into resource and wellness; working with babies online; using biodynamic and trauma skills in a relational field created online
  • Deepening our relationship with the midline
  • Experiencing dynamic stillness
  • Role of supervision for RCSTs
  • Our relationship with transition
  • Addressing conditions versus orienting to the whole

They also share the direction of their work doing online teaching and supervision.



Embodied Sensing, with Margaret Rosenau
Held Monday, May 11, 2020

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In this experiential session you will get a chance to drop into yourself and resource through your body. Margaret will guide participants to meet the challenges of this moment as we are experiencing them physically, and then lean into the Health that is present in us all. She will guide participants to remember and sense into Bone, Tissue, Fluid, Potency and Nerves layer by layer, to end by being with all layers simultaneously, something we all become capable of when the Breath of Life grants access. This session will last 60-90 minutes.

 Margaret Rosenau, MA, RCST®, SEP, APPis a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy teacher, who is also trained in Somatic Experiencing®, Pre and Perinatal Psychology, and Polarity Therapy. She teaches BCST at her School of Inner Health and has been seeing individual clients in her private practice since 1997.

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Embodying the Breath of Life, with Scott Zamurut
Held Monday, May 18, 2020 

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This learning session will focus on the free expression of the animating force of Life. Scott will be sharing formative stories to illuminate the root teachings of Biodynamics found in the words of Drs Sutherland and Becker, and how we can bring these teachings to our practice as a ground of simplicity. He will close this offering with an experiential integration exercise.  This webinar will be 60 - 90 minutes in duration.

 Scott Zamurut, RCST, began his study and practice of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in 1992, and has been teaching this work for 26 years. Scott served the community as a founding board member of BCTA/NA, and is a past Vice President of the American Polarity Therapy Association. 

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Remote Sessions: Another Perspective and Q&A, with Joyce Harader
Held Tuesday, June 2, 2020

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Joyce shares her experience of working with remotely with people and animals, and answers participant questions. 
(This book is referenced by Joyce during her talk: Awakening the Planetary Mind: Beyond the Trauma of the Past to a New Era of Creativity (revised edition 2011) by Barbara Hand Clow.)

Joyce Harader, RCST®, has been a Biodynamic Cranosacral Therapy Teacher since 2008. She has been helping people to realize their own healing potential for over 25 years, working primarily from a foundation of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), and incorporating other complementary modalities when needed. 

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Basic Principles of Our Immune System and How We Help, with Kate Klemer
Held Monday, June 15, 2020

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 Kate talks about how our immune system works and how Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy supports it. We will delve into general information about the immune system organs, cells, and categories. Which part of the immune system are we supporting , and when?  From this perspective, how does our work with the autonomic nervous system support a regulated and healthy immune system? How does intention of orienting to the Health influence our immune systems? 

Dr. Kate Klemer  is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy teacher, practitioner of craniosacral therapy since 1986, Genetic Nutritionist, and Doctor of Chiropractic. She has been in private practice since 1988 in Northampton Massachusetts. She opened her School of Divine Structure in 2013, and recently renovated an Odd Fellows Hall to host residential trainings, and multidisciplinary courses in the mind-body field. Learn more about Dr. Kate here



Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy As A Compassion Practice, with Michael Shea
Held Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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Michael talks about the Vagus nerve and the relationship of safety and compassion. He introduces a model he has developed called the Multivagal System, that includes four types of safety in relation to specific parts of the body.  

 Michael J. Shea is one of the preeminent educators and authors in the fields of somatic psychology, myofascial release and craniosacral therapy. He leads seminars throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. Dr. Shea received his master’s degree in Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University, and a doctorate in Somatic Psychology at The Union Institute. His books include: Somatic Psychology and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy – Volume 1 through 5, Myofascial Release Therapy and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: The Heart of the Practice.


 

Accessing the Holistic Shift, with Franklyn Sills
Held Tuesday, July 21, 2020 

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 In this presentation, Franklyn reviews the nature of the holistic shift and its importance in clinical work. He also take participants through meditations on the tides and inner awareness of the holistic shift and answers audience questions.

Franklyn Sills is the early pioneer in the development of a biodynamic understanding and approach to Craniosacral Therapy. 

 

 

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Pre- and Perinatal Influences in Biodynamics, with Cherionna Menzam-Sills
Held Tuesday, August 11, 2020  

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 This webinar explores different ways early pre- and perinatal history may arise in Craniosacral Biodynamics, both for the client and the practitioner. Cherionna will address ways to meet this material when it arises within the therapist, often as counter-transference, and/or within the client. 

Cherionna Menzam-Sills, Ph.D, RCST®, ISMETA, RSMT/E, is a prenatal and birth therapist, movement therapist, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist.  Her work draws on over 40 years of experience and an extensive background in Somatic Psychology (Dance/Movement Therapy) and Pre- and Perinatal Psychology, as well as Occupational Therapy, Massage Therapy, and intensive study of BMC and Body-Mind Psychotherapy.

 

 


 

The Embodiment Tide, with Scott Zamurut
Held Wednesday, November 18, 2020 

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This webinar explores the Embodiment Tide, a 20+ minute cycle of primary respiration. Scott Zamurut will contextualizes its place within the various Tidal expressions as recognized in biodynamic practice.  He covers the history of its discovery, reviews the attributes of its expression, and considers its clinical dimensions, including the way in which this Tide resolves subtle inertias that organize Embodiment Shock. He also offers some guidance in how to attune your perception to the Embodiment Tide in your clinical practice.

 Related Articles:  

The Embodiment Tide, by Scott Zamurut, RCST®, & Roger Gilchrist, MA, RCST®
Experiencing the Embodiment Tide - an Interview with Stephanie Abramson, by Mimi Ikle-Khalsa, RCST®

Scott Zamurut, RCST® is a founding board member of the BCTA/NA, and has served the Association in collaborating on the creation of founding principles and documents, in particular the original Standards of Practitioner Competencies, and the newly revised version called the Core Curriculum & Competencies. Scott has been teaching Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy since 1994, and also offers specialized trainings in Pre- and Perinatal Education. Scott's gift is his ability to convey the deepest principles of Biodynamics in simple, clear language.  His rigorous, spirited, and hands-on classroom style is a result of over 30 years of observation, practice, study, and the experience gained in training practitioners. 

 


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