Vancouver Training

Body Intelligence Training offers a 2 year practitioner course in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Vancouver for existing health professionals considering adding a new modality to their work as well as individuals wanting to start a career in an exciting and evolving therapy. Click on the links below to jump to the relevant section:

Venue | Fees | Payment | Intros | Tutors | Accreditation | Contact

Dates

seminars 6-10 dates tbd

Times 930am-530pm 

FIRST SEMINAR Participants can attend the first seminar without committing to the full course. This seminar is an introduction into basic contact skills and relating to biodynamic movements and will provide an opportunity to experience the approach and appreciate the extent of the curriculum.

Venue

YWCA, 733 Beatty Street, Vancouver

Fees

For the whole training sem 1 through sem 9 the fee is C$9,000. The training is non-residential. The fee for seminar 1 is C$1,000. The fee for the optional seminar 10 is C$1,000.

Payment

The training offers three ways of paying. For payment of the full course fee up front there’s a discounted fee of C$8,550. Or there are two payment plans offered.

Payment Plan

Deposit of C$1000 (non refundable) is required upon acceptance. Remainder to be paid according to the following payment options:

Payment Option 1 - 3 x Instalments
First Instalment C$2666 due 1 week before start of seminar 1
Second Instalment C$2666 due 5 months after 1st instalment
Third Instalment C$2666 due 5 months after 2nd instalment
Full amount comes to C$9,000 with the deposit.

Payment Option 2 - 18 x Monthly Instalments
18 monthly instalments of C$467 (includes 5% administration fee). First instalment is due one week before the first seminar.

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Intros

Intro day scheduled for:

Sunday 25 July 10-5pm

at the YWCA, 535 Hornby Street, Vancouver

Price C$100.  Use Pay Pal to pay now

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Tutors

 Ged Sumner – is a practicing Craniosacral Therapist and Chi Kung teacher. He has also studied shiatsu, healing and attachment based psychoanalytical psychotherapy. He has taught biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy as a senior tutor and course director for the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust’s (CTET) practitioner trainings in London and as a senior tutor for Resonance Trainings courses in Australia and New Zealand. He set up the Fountain Clinic in London which is a specialized Craniosacral Therapy Clinic (www.fountainclinic.com). He also set up and directed the ‘Living Anatomy’ training for CTET offering an holistic view of the body’s anatomy and physiology. He is a director of the Healthy Living Centre (www.thehealthylivingcentre.co.uk), a multi-disciplinary alternative therapy practice in London. He is also director of the College of Elemental Chi Kung offering Chi Kung classes, workshops, retreats and a Chi Kung Teacher Training program in Europe, N.America and Australasia (www.elementalchikung.com). He is the author of Body Intelligence – creating a new environment (www.bodyintelligence.com). He has a degree in Chemistry and currently lives in Australia with his partner and has three children.

Steve Haines – is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and Chiropractor. He also trained as a Shiatsu practitioner. He is senior tutor on the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust (CTET London) practitioner training and a tutor at the Karuna Institute (Devon). He is the current director of CTET's Living Anatomy course. For 2 1/2 years he coordinated the CTET teaching clinic for final year students. He has taught anatomy, physiology and pathology at the College of Practical Homeopathy, and taught on the craniosacral module at the University of Westminster. His background includes eight years' working with people with mental health problems and bodywork with people with immune disorders. He has just moved to Geneva but still runs a busy practice once a month in London.

Sheila Kean – while working as a science teacher, Sheila became fascinated by complementary therapies following a treatment that completely changed her life-style. In response to this, she studied massage and then Craniosacral Therapy. Since 1986 she has had a busy practice in Stroud, UK. For many years she was a National Childbirth Trust teacher, working with couples prior to the birth of their children and her practice reflects this interest and experience. Sheila runs a massage school with her partner and has been involved as a teacher of Craniosacral Therapy since 1992, working in the UK, Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand. Sheila is deeply committed to imparting the simplicity and truth at the heart of this work. She aims to bring the wealth of information gleaned from her clinic practice into her teaching, equipping students to move into practice with confidence. She lives with her partner, has two children, spends her spare time gardening, walking her two dogs and going on holiday!

Assisted by:

Heidi Lauber – has been practicing manual therapy as a licensed massage therapist for over 13 years. She has been especially interested in the fasciae from the time she studied at the West Coast college in Vancouver and has specialized her manual skills, knowledge and teaching capacities to this end. Her love for the fasciae drew her more deeply into a relationship with the intelligence of the human organism which she is perpetually amazed by. This led her to study craniosacral therapy with the Upledger Institute a decade ago. She continues to deepen her understanding of this work by studying biodynamic therapy with Dr. Michael Shea as well as with Body Intelligence Training. Heidi is licensed in British Columbia but lives and practices in Calgary, Alberta where she, her husband and their dog play in the mountains and the snow.

Accreditation

Upon successful completion of the training you will be certified as a biodynamic craniosacral therapy practitioner.

The training is recognized by the Association of National Health Practitioner of Canada (www.nhpcanada.org) which sets competency-based standards for natural health disciplines and modalities in Canada.

Ged Sumner is a recognized teacher of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (www.craniosacraltherapy.org) which sets standards in practice and education.

The training is accredited by the Pacific Association of Craniosacral Therapists (PACT), a professional body which maintains standards and protects both craniosacral practitioners and their clients (www.biodynamic-craniosacral.com). 

The training is a member of the International Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings (IABT) which sets standards in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy courses (www.biodynamic-craniosacral.org). Member colleges offer the designation BCST (Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist) to graduates of its foundation training and also a post-graduate designation ABD (Advanced Biodynamic Diploma) indicating an additional 300 hours of training.

Contact

For any enquiries or a brochure please either email training@bodyintelligence.com or call Heidi on 403-313-7923

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