Seminar One - Preparing the Ground: presence and palpatory awareness

• Introductions

• History and development of the craniosacral concept

• The biodynamic paradigm

• Practitioner fulcrums

• The ritual of contact – creating safety

• Presence, embodiment and mindfulness

• Practitioner neutral

• Palpation and perception

• Being to being relational field

• Touch and the relational field

• The five core aspects of the primary respiratory mechanism

• Primary respiratory system; the Breath of Life and three tides

• Orienting to the ‘biosphere’ of the client

• Perception and palpation of the three tides: the cranial rhythmic impulse, mid-tide and long tide

• Shifting perceptual fields

• Longitudinal fluctuation and cerebrospinal fluid

• Stillpoints in the fluid tide

• Trauma part 1: resources and health

• Palpation of the fluid tide

• Synchronising with the long tide