Vernon 2020
Vernon 2020 Course Dates (2020 - 2021)
Times 9am-5pm
Seminar | Scheduled Date | Planned Tutor/s |
Sem 1 | 11-Mar-2020 - 15-Mar-2020 | Lauren Miller |
Sem 2 | 13-May-2020 - 17-May-2020 | Marianne D'Amore |
Sem 3 | 29-Jul-2020 - 02-Aug-2020 | Marianne D'Amore |
Sem 4 | 16-Sep-2020 - 20-Sep-2020 | Ged Sumner |
Sem 5 | 11-Nov-2020 - 15-Nov-2020 | Lauren Miller |
Sem 6 | 06-Jan-2021 - 10-Jan-2021 | Ged Sumner |
Sem 7 | 03-Mar-2021 - 07-Mar-2021 | Lauren Miller |
Sem 8 | 28-Apr-2021 - 02-May-2021 | Marianne D'Amore |
Sem 9 | 16-Jun-2021 - 20-Jun-2021 | Ged Sumner |
Sem 10 | 11-Aug-2021 - 15-Aug-2021 | Lauren Miller |
Above dates may differ slightly due to operational reasons or unavoidable circumstances. |
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.Intro day scheduled for:
Next Intro Talks:
Here is a link to an intro talk by Ged Sumner on the Fundamental Principles of BCST and the Body Intelligence Foundation training.
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.
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)
Tutors
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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.
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Marianne D'Amore
Senior Tutor
Dr D’Amore has been practicing her dynamic blend of acupuncture, nutritional counseling, chiropractic, meditation, yoga and Tai Qi for more than 30 years in Newport Beach, California. Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy brings the dimensions of wholeness, resonance, stillness and vitality to her practice in one complete package. Her philosophical foundation is based on the principle that the life force (aka as Qi, Prana, the Breath of Life) will find its most optimal state of well being and will move towards a deepening of vitality as its natural rhythmic powers are supported and the constrictions of trauma, be it physical, mental, emotional or psychic, are softened and reduced. That all things throughout the multiverse resonate as an interconnected whole and that the infinite, unbounded, nonjudgmental nature of love and oneness motivates the path towards wellness and optimum functioning for all. It is her desire to increase the well being of all through self-awareness and resonance with nature and to bring wisdom and appreciation for the beauty and fullness of the earth as Gaia so to achieve a sustainable, peaceful and bountiful existence for all beings.
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Ged Sumner
Senior Tutor
Ged Sumner is a practicing Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and Chi Kung Teacher. He has also studied shiatsu, healing and attachment based psychoanalytical psychotherapy. He has taught Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy since 1995. He is the director of Body Intelligence Training which offers BCST courses internationally. He regularly teaches postgraduate workshops. He also teaches Elemental Chi Kung in the form of workshops and retreats. See his Natural Movement website for current workshops and his book on Chi Kung called 'You are How you Move: Experiential Chi Kung'. He is the author of 'Body Intelligence – Creating a New Environment' which explores felt sense anatomy. He is co-author of 'Cranial Intelligence - A Practical Guide to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy' which is a foundational guide to BCST. His book on felt sense meditation called 'Body Intelligence Meditation: Finding presence through embodiment' is offered as a meditation workshop programme internationally see BI Meditation website. He has a degree in Chemistry.
Accreditation
Upon successful completion of the training you will be certified as a biodynamic craniosacral therapy practitioner.