It has been a busy time.
I did a guest appearance at a cranial study group. These therapists all took my Advanced Cranial Therapy courses. It was a great pleasure to see them studying and practicing their skills.
It was great to discuss the experiences they have had and to give support and direction where needed. We talked about appropriate approaches for various situations such as assessing base strains in small children and the necessity of using a dynamic assessment versus a static assessment of the lesions.
Next we got to the table and did some fascial work with the horizontal diaphragms of the body. It is fun to integrate feeling the cranial rhythmical impulse throughout the body and overlay that with feeling motility patterns of the diaphragms as a assessment tool. Learning how to change your "filters" of your brain to tell your hands what you want to feel is always an excellent skill to develop and fine tune. It seemed everyone enjoyed feeling the connection of the bone and connective tissues.
I also finished teaching another term at Utopia Academy. It was a wonderful time for me again. I must say it is a real pleasure teaching there, The students and administration are welcoming and gracious and everyone seems to get along smoothly. Either the students are getting extremely bright or I'm a suberb instructor because they all caught on to the cranial concept rapidly. It sure makes my job easy!
On a personal note, my study group is continuing into it's third year of study and mentor ship into Biodynamic Cranial. Howard Jones has been meeting with us for about seven hours once a month. It has been an eye-opening experience. We are now diving into biodynamic embryology. A subject that will probably take us a solid year to cover. Anyone interested in this topic I highly recommend:
The Ontogenic Basis of Human Anatomy. A Biodynamic Approach to Development from Conception to Birth. By Erich Blechschmidt.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ontogenetic-Basis-Human-Anatomy/dp/155643507X#_
That's all for now. I will talk soon about my plans to introduce a year long cranial course with mentor ship components.
