Vancouver 2020, Canada | Craniosacral Therapy Practitioner Training Foundation Course

Body Intelligence Training offers a 2 year practitioner course in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Vancouver, British Columbia 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.

PLEASE NOTE: Participants can join the course from seminar 3. The tutor will review basic contact skills during the morning of the first day of the seminar in order to help you understand the biodynamic approach to touch. Seminar 1 and 2 will need to be attended before graduation.

Vancouver 2020 Course Dates (2020 - 2021 - 2022)

Times: 9am-5pm last day 9am-4pm

Seminar	Scheduled Date	Planned Tutor/s
Sem 1	09-Sep-2020 - 13-Sep-2020	Lauren Miller
Sem 2	11-Nov-2020 - 15-Nov-2020	Sheryl Hamilton
Sem 3	10-Mar-2021 - 14-Mar-2021	Lauren Miller
Sem 4	05-May-2021 - 09-May-2021	Sheryl Hamilton
Sem 5	30-Jun-2021 - 04-Jul-2021	Kjara Brecknell / Naomi Chuah
Sem 6	25-Aug-2021 - 29-Aug-2021	Lauren Miller
Sem 7	20-Oct-2021 - 24-Oct-2021	Sheryl Hamilton
Sem 8	15-Dec-2021 - 19-Dec-2021	Kjara Brecknell / Naomi Chuah
Sem 9	09-Feb-2022 - 13-Feb-2022	Lauren Miller
Sem 10	06-Apr-2022 - 10-Apr-2022	Sheryl Hamilton
Above dates may differ slightly due to operational reasons or unavoidable circumstances.

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Intro Talks

The Intro Talk is designed to provide a taste of this exciting and evolving body therapy science. You will explore through self experiential exercises and contact sessions the nature of Health and how to feel the expressions of Health as subtle biodynamic motions in the body. We will discuss trauma and how its effects are safely resolved with BCST. You will have a chance to meet some of the course tutors and discuss the course structure and material.

Next Intro Talks:

Online Zoom Conference

Saturday March 6th 2021, 12-130pm Pacific Time with Angela Deschaine

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For general enquiries about the course please contact Maggie 778 840 4144 or email.

Here is a link to an intro talk by Ged Sumner on the Fundamental Principles of BCST and the Body Intelligence Foundation training.

Venue

Dharma Lab, 1814 Pandora St, Vancouver, BC

Fees & Payment

This program has been approved by the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training (www.privatetraininginstitutions.gov.bc.ca). It's mission is to support quality education in British Columbia’s private post-secondary career training sector through regulating standards and providing protection to students. Body Intelligence is a registered institution with the Private Training Institutions Branch.

Fees and Registration

There is a PTIB approved payment plan offered for this training.

Payment Plan A: 10 payments of $1000 paid each module, due 30 days before each module. (Total C$10,000)

Payment plan B: C$1000 for the first module, C$4250 due 30 days before the second module and C$4250 due 30 days before the sixth module (saving of 5% of course fee)

Once you have decided to undertake the full training after seminar 1, you will need to complete a PTIB approved contract. Here is a downloadable copy of it along with the student handbook.

BC Student Contract (249 KB)

BC Student Handbook (197 KB)

NB This course no longer offers CECs for RMTs accredited with CMTBC.

Tutors

Lauren Miller

Senior Tutor

Lauren is a practicing Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist based on Quadra Island, British Columbia. She completed her BCST training with Body Intelligence teachers Ged Sumner, Steve Haines, and Sheila Kean. Her bodywork practice emerged organically from a background in biology and environmental studies, particularly marine and freshwater ecology. She began studying with massage therapists in college, later taking courses in holistic massage and anatomy, including relaxation and deep tissue massage, Trager and facilitated joint release, and Alexander technique. As her massage practice developed, she learned the importance of actively engaging clients in the healing process. Her search for deeper, more efficient and long-lasting healing modalities led her to the profound work of BCST. Lauren continues to balance her inner and outer work with human bodies and their environments, maintaining a fulfilling massage and craniosacral practice called Bodies of Water, and studying local watersheds in the Pacific Northwest. She supports her practice through yoga, Qi Kung, and spending time on and in the water.
Sheryl Hamilton

Tutor

Sheryl Hamilton has been a registered massage therapist in Canada since 1997. Before that she was a body worker in the Kripalu tradition. She has taught in the Massage Therapy program at the Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences in New York, and anatomy and neuroanatomy at the Okanagan Valley College of Massage Therapy in Vernon BC. She teaches Visceral Manipulation for the Manual Osteopathic College of Canada, as well as several continuing education courses for RMT’s that she developed. Sheryl is also trained as a Spiritual Director and a student of Jakusho Kwong Roshi at the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center in California. Her favourite thing is to meet the universe in the form of you and then play around together.
Kjara Brecknell

Tutor

Kjara began her health and wellness career in the fitness industry at an early age. In 2003, after a personal health crisis she explored craniosacral therapy through the Upledger Institute before attending a five year, (plus thesis) Osteopathic program in Vancouver. She has be practicing and teaching Osteopathy and craniaosacral courses for humans and horses since 2009, with extra focus on trauma recovery, particularly with frontline first responders. She has thriving practice in her home town of Salmon Arm as well as Vernon BC. Kjara loves all things dance, drum, horse, body and movement related. She lives on a acreage with her family and six horses and enjoys many outdoor activities as well as hosting retreats and drum and dance circles.
Naomi Chuah

Tutor

Naomi Chuah lives in Langley, British Columbia, where she practices Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and is the owner of a thriving holistic health clinic. For most of Naomi's adult life she's been curious about health, both body and psycho/emotional. She engages in lots of reading, always asking questions, always looking, listening, wondering what works for people and why. This was especially the case as health issues came up in her family. Starting with treating on a physical level, she eventually threw herself into learning how bodies heal through profoundly being seen, heard, and met through the presence and empathy of another human being.

As a Body Intelligence Graduate, Naomi continues to learn through post grads, workshops and classes about attachment theory, trauma, and the human psyche, and the intricate paradox of meeting needs, providing safety, and at the same time building tolerance to sensation and discovering resilience for all of life's experiences.

During Naomi's time off she rambles in the woods, sits in creeks, and swims in the river behind her work. She feels deeply grateful for the experience of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and loves to offer this therapy to others who are engaging in their own healing. langleycraniosacral.com