Channukah Workshop ASP1 (The Art of Subtle Palpation)

What? The Art of Subtle Palpation, Part 1

When? Channuka, 13-16 December 2009

When? Youth Hostel, Shlomi, Near Nahariya, Galilee – Intensive, live-in course

Facilitators? William Livingstone, BSc, Naturopath; Shmuel Berger, PT

What is Cranio-Balance Therapy?

Gentle, non-invasive manual therapy enabling evaluation and enrichment of the physical body system known as the Cranial Sacral Mechanism. Cranio-Balance Therapy integrates various holistic therapies to create a unique method of treatment for the empowerment of the natural healing processes of the body. It has been shown to be effective in a wide range of medical ailments related to pain, dysfunction (including genetic, hereditary and trauma-related disabilities) and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).

In the first course, ASP1, we introduce the “3-constituents of the body” model:

 

• Bones and joints
• Fascia / Soft / connective tissue
• Cranial Wave

 

We also learn how energy enters the body, the 3 types of intention and touch required to listen and treat each one of the body constituents.

 

And finally, we dealt with the creation of a safe healing area.

 

The course will be integrated together with mind-body practice to create a unique learning experience

 

Further details, Registration

 

William Livingstone,   054 462 0254 wgw@012.net.il

 

Shmuel Berger,           050 468 7005  bergerhealth@yahoo.com

Quote for the Day

I just received this email from William and I feel it summarizes our greatest wish for not only ourselves but also our students and clients. So go ahead and be extraordinarily your limitless Self.

Dear Shmuel,

This is one of my most favourite quotes – I think I’ll use it daily from now on:
William
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary
project, all your thoughts break their bounds: your mind transcends
limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find
yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and
talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Patanjali

Latest News: 1) Summary of ASP3 2) New Cranial Balance Pediatrics Course to be Offered 3) Free Cranial Infant Screening Karmiel, October 9, 2009

Last week, CHI taught Level 3 of The Art of Subtle Palpation in Shlomi to 4 of our advanced students.Through presentations, demos, meditations, and plenty of hands on practice, we delved into the anatomy, structure, and energetics of the bones and sutures of the mouth and face. In addition, we integrated the Cranial Wave as the “voice of the Soul ” with tissue unwinding. Finally, we learned and practiced Cranial Diagnostics to objectively quantify our findings and applying it into clinical practice.

Due to popular demand we will be offering a 3 Day Course in Cranial Balance Pediatrics to be held in Karmiel at the Derech HaTeva Health Center of Shai Ben Nun, October 7-10. The first two days will be classroom instruction and demo. The final day we will be offering free Cranial screenings to infants at Shai’s center and course participants will be able to first hand assist and observe Stuart and William in a clinical setting. More info to follow.

Cranial Balance Therapy – Art of Subtle Palpation 1 Presented by CHI –Cranial Healthcare in Israel

10/08/2009

Shalom Rav,

We are pleased to offer another First Level Course in the series, The Art of Subtle Palpation.

When? Wednesday, 26 August, 9 am to Saturday, 29 August, 3 pm

Where? Shlomi, Rehov Zabotinsky 23

Course Description

In this first course, ASP1, we will be introducing the “Cranial Balance Model”, and the three constituent tissue types:

• Bones and joints
• Fascia / Soft tissue / connective tissue / internal organs
• Cranial Wave

We will learn

• how energy enters the body and flows through each one of the three types
• the 3 types of intention and touch required to listen and treat each type
• the creation of a safe healing area
• a full treatment protocol which can be used immediately to provide help and support to your patients

Facilitators Shmuel Berger, PT       William Livingstone, BSc, Naturopath

Both facilitators are highly experienced practitioners and teachers, and their synergy brings a truly unique experience to course participants

Cost 2000 NIS + VAT (incl. workbook)

Food Kosher, light vegetarian / fish lunch at a reasonable extra cost

Accomodation is available in the Shlomi Youth Hostel and the many Tzimmerim in the area.

So, sharpen your skills as a therapist and bring lots of healing, light, and positive energy to Israel.

For more information, and to register, please respond as soon as possible to

Shmuel Berger              bergerhealth@yahoo.com Tel: 050 468 7005

William Livingstone                   wgw@012.net.il

New Facebook Group- Cranial Healthcare in Israel

We have created a Facebook Group – Cranial Healthcare in Israel – and we invite you to take a look, and, if you feel adventurous – join…. Here’s the link http://www.facebook.com/friends/?ref=tn#/group.php?gid=134597496153

We would be delighted to hear from you, by phone, e-mail or other.

Have a great day.

William Livingstone and Stuart Berger

ASP2-”The most amazing course that I ever participated in!”

זה היה הקורס הכי מדהים שהיתי בו גם מרצים מעולים וגם חברה שכייף להיות בחברתם

מי שלא עושה מפסיד… ניתראה בשלב 3 בעזרת השם

“This was the most amazing course that I ever participated in. The Instructors were outstanding and it was a pleasure to be with the group of students. Whoever doesn’t take this course really misses out… see you in ASP third level with God’s help. “

Asher Hevroni, 4th year student of Naturopathy

אשר חברוני, סטודנט לנטרופטיה, שנה ד

ASP2 at Shlomi July 2009

Matt “keeps it light”

Inducing Altered States of Consciousness

Practicing the feel of bone, fascia, and cranial wave

Shai lifting Asher’s Frontal and intending into the Falx Cerebri

The Gang

ASP2 Students with William

ASP2 Students with Shmuel (Stuart) Berger

Asher Hevroni frontal lifting Shai Ben Nun

ASP2 in Shlomi “A Spiritual and Uplifting Experience”

Shalom, Shmuel!

Thank you and William for the course, it was great. We really had cranio-sacral and we did have some experience. You are right – to learn this material for several hours once a week for several months wouldn’t work. You really need to leave the world behind and to get into the experience of giving and receiving craniosacral therapy. It’s a very spiritual and uplifting  experience.

I think that most of my patients in ICU started to develop little imbalances in their bodies, however, medical doctors don’t have the tools to recognize  them . If we don’t get little hints, we get hit harder . I have learned from the course that Craniosacral can be done for everyone to predict and prevent physical  health and psychological problems. It’s  very delicate work that can determine the  root of many health problems.

I had a very interesting experience working with the  Sphenoid bone – when I was doing the unwinding on the  sphenoid of my client, I had a feeling like somebody’s hands were on my sphenoid and they were directing the movements of my arms on the Sphenoid of the client. That was really a strange and interesting experience.

So if there will be the third course on 18/08/09, I will be happy to come again to Shlomi, beezrat Hashem.

Hope to see you soon,

Asher Levine,RN Bnei Brak

The Ebb and Flow of the Soul-The Cranial Wave

Cranial Wave/Fluid-Energetic
Background: In all my years in the healing arts, I have found the CranioSacral Rhythm or Cranial Wave to be the most accurate indicator of the client’s overall health and well being on the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual planes.In addition,we  each  have an individual cranial wave pattern that is uniquely imprinted on each and everyone one of us.
In ASP1, we learned that  there are 4 parameters in which we measure the CSR. These parameters of CSR are Symmetry, Quality, Amplitude, and Rate (SQAR).
Symmetry: We assess the in the skeletal system left vs right side. In the C-S System, we assess not only the difference in the paired bones (eg.parietals, temporals ), but also the singular bones (occiput, frontal,sphenoid) may exhibit many times an asymmetry in the movement in the bone itself.
In addition, there exists  a Neutral Zone in the CSR which is a brief pause between the end of the flexion phase of cranial motion as it returns toward the center range and before it enters the extension phase of cranial motion. There are 2 neutral zones per cycle. In normal conditions the extension and flexion cycles should also be symmetric. This assessment is vitally important when we are evaluating the Spheno-Basilar Joint.

Quality: While more difficult to assess , the CSR should have a smooth, liquid feel to it. It should feel like a gentle wave flowing up and down in a rhythmic pattern.

Amplitude:The greater the amplitude, the greater the vitality of the area being assessed. It also indicates a greater potential for healing. Vibrant , positive people have a greater amplitude in their CSR.

Rate: The CSR ebbs and flows at a rate of 6-12 times per minute.

In addition, to the active ebb and flow yang phase of the CSR, ,  throughout the course of the day,  stoppages of the CSR occur. This pause in the Cranial Wave can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes and is called a Still Point.These pauses in the normal CS cycle are the body’s attempt to recalibrate and reorganize itself. It is the time when the body/mind / spirit comes to a state of deep relaxation and rest. It is a time of nourishment , peace, tranquility and a return to ones soul. As a rule, the healthier the individual, the more and deeper Still Points he will experience.
As Hugh Milne describes so eloquently and poetically, “Still points are to the cranial wave as sighs are to the breath-autonomic releases that ‘let off steam’. They also allow a return to natural rhythm after a period of overload, or trauma. During the still point the dreambody makes profound physiological recalibrations… The still point is much more than a physiological pause…

The still point is spaciousness.
It is timelessness.
The still point is close to death, and
deathlessness, both.

When the still point occurs in the “yoga of daily life’, this apparently spontaneous cessation of the cranial wave is a moment of satori, of spiritual oneness, even ecstasy.”

Origin of the Cranial Wave:
Sutherland believed that the origin of Cranial Movement was the contractile properties within the brain itself. The brain cells , he believed, pulsated was the driving forc behind the rhythm. Scientific research has since proved this untenable.
In 1970, Dr. Upledger, while assisting in surgery to remove calcification of the dural tube in the cervical region, felt the rhythmic ebb and flow of the cerebral spinal fluid in the dural tube which was the same rate of  movement of the Cranial Bones. using his palpatory skills, keen intelligence and intuition, and years of research with Zvi Karni and others from 1975- 1978 at
Michigan State University, he developed the Pressurestat Model. In short the driving force of the wave is the inflow and outflow of  CSF through the water proof and relatively inelastic Dura Mater. The regulatory system for the rate of fluid is the stretch receptors located at the sagital suteres which communicate with  the choroid plexuses which control production of the CSF at its blood brain barrier. Upledger  was the first to link the movement of the cranial bones  with the dural membranes and hydrostatic pressure of CSF.

However, the BioMechanical Model that Upledger presented cannot explain the nonlocal spiritual properties of the Cranial Wave. Milne developed his Visionary CranioSacral Therapy with the understanding that cranial bone motility is the movement of the fluctuating field…”This fluctuating field is the spirit. It is a field of information and of intelligence, a single unified system of energy, whose fundamental texture is expressed in the quality of feeling we call love… The spirit is a quantum field of energy.”
The ancient Chinese depicted the fluctuating field with the symbol of yin and yang energy dancing around a still center, the two perfectly overlapping. The ancient Hindus depicted the same dance as two serpents ascending intertwined of the kundalini. The Kabbalists recognized this dance as the intertwining of the male heaven energies intertwined with the female earth energies.
Fritz Smith provides us the energetic model of these universal energies through the bones and joints and brings together his Zero Balancing and gives structure to energy and brings energy to structure.
CranioBalance  sees the Cranial Wave as the sum total of energy movement through the bones, fascia, and into all the cells, molecules and atoms.  The electromagnetic field that is produced by the energy movement in the body is the Cranial Wave. The Cerebro Spinal Fluid, as the highest known element of the human body (A. T. Still) , is able to contain the ebb and flow of the cranial wave. In the words of the Spiritual Osteopaths, “The Soul swims in the Cerebral Spinal Fluid.” In a similar way, the blood contains within it the ebb and flow of the spirit and the health of the organs. Like the Chinese Master who is able to pick up imbalances in the body/ spirit through a pulse diagnosis, the CranioBalance practitioner can tune in to the Cerebral Spinal Fluid and feel the state of being of his client.

Cranial Wave Contact: The 25 micron amplitude ( half the thickness of writing paper) of the cranial wave is so minute that we need different parameters to sense , feel, experience, and affect it. The Cranial Wave can best be felt in an expanded , meditative state of consciousness. In that state, we can “see” the movement of the cranial wave, we can “hear” the inner  voice of the spirit being expressed, and feel the individual imprint of the soul flowing through the body.
The optimal contact is about 5 grams of pressure.
Be in passive , listening  mode.
Allow the wave come in to your hands.
Blend in with the fluid component.
Be still, be silent , and be one with the core of the client.

CHI offering Second Level Course in CranioBalance Therapy (ASP2)

Cranial Balance Therapy – Art of Subtle Palpation 2

Presented by CHI – The Centre for Health in Israel

Our next course will take place:

When? Tuesday, 14 July, 9 am to Friday, 17 July, 3 pm

Where? Shlomi, Rehov Zabotinsky 23

Course Goals

In the first course we were introduced to the “3-constituents of the body” model:

• Bones and joints
• Fascia / Soft / connective tissue
• Cranial Wave

We also learned how energy enters the body, the 3 types of intention and touch required to listen and treat each one of the body constituents.

And finally, we dealt with the creation of a safe healing area.

In the second course, we shall further develop the principles and concepts with which we are already familiar.

We will delve deeply into the cranial system, comprising of the skull bones and sutures, the soft tissue surrounding the brain and the spinal cord, and the cranio-sacral fluid.

Working with the complex techniques which we will learn in this course, we will be able to treat such conditions as autism, depression, learning disabilities, allergies, headaches, and problems related to both emotional issues and the endocrine system.

Advanced Preparation for the Course

In order to get maximum benefit from this course, we request you to prepare yourself adequately. Here follows a few tasks which will help you understand better the course material:

1. Study the 21/22/23/29 (depends on the source ..) bones making up the skull, their anatomical position and shape, and the other bones which articulate with them.
2. Specifically study the sphenoid and the occipital bones.
   1. Here are a few questions which may help you study

1. i.      What are the names of the sutures joining the frontal bone to the parietals and the occiput?
2. ii.      Which bones articulate with the sphenoid? – their names and their anatomical positions
3. iii.      Which cranial nerves pass through the sphenoid bone?
4. iv.      Where is the Foramen Magnum and what tissues pass through it?

1. We also request you to review as many times as possible the treatment protocol we learned in ASP1.

The following sites may prove of interest and great use:

http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio201/skull/skulltt.htm

http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/Module/skull.html

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/CliffsReviewTopic/Skull-Cranium-and-Facial-Bones.topicArticleId-22032,articleId-21909.html

Questions, comments, requests? Please get in touch –

William Livingstone 054 462 0254

Shmuel Berger           050 468 7005

ASP 2 – Synopsis

Day 1 Morning

• Review of the 3-component model
• Full treatment protocol

Day 1 Afternoon

• The cranial soft tissue system
• Occipital release
• Lumbar Sacral Release

Day 2 Morning

• Frontal, Parietal and Temporal Bones
• Full treatment protocol

Day 2 Afternoon

• Spheno-basilar Lesion Patterns

Day 3 Morning

• Spheno-basilar Lesion Patterns

Day 3 Afternoon

• Deep Mouth Work

Day 4 Morning

• Deep Mouth Work

Day 4 Afternoon

• Full Treatment Protocol
• Conclusion and Parting