Seminar Four – Cranial Motility and Health: organising forces and augmentation skills

• Cranial bowl and the unity of structure and function

• Embryology part 2: cranial mesenchyme

  • continuity of bone and membrane

  • the cranium as a fluid filled membrane with islands of bone

• Motility of individual bones and disengagement of cranial sutures: temporal, parietal and frontal bones

• Augmentation skills

• The principle of “doing not-doing”

• Dr. Becker’s 3-step healing process: (1) tissues, fluids and potency seek a state of balance; (2) perceiving expressions of health within states of balance; (3) perceiving tissue and fluid re-organisation

• Orientation to the Teaching Clinic

• Working with the continuity of cranial bones and membranes

• Focusing: as a regulation skill for practitioners

• Deepening into stillpoints: CV4 from sacrum