Seminar Two – Life and Motion: the fluid body and potency

• Palpation skills: listening hands, diagnostic touch, therapeutic touch

• Embryology part 1: from conception to the development of the notochord

• The midlines part 1:

  • as a fluid core

  • cerebrospinal fluid

  • fluid within the fluid: potency and liquid light

  • primal midline and the notochord

• Orienting to wholeness and the ‘holistic shift’; gateway to the inherent treatment plan

• The ‘fluid body’ – longitudinal and lateral fluctuations

• Tidal motion and disordered fluid motion:

  • as the river flows: stasis, stagnation, rapids, whirlpools and lateral fluctuations

  • fluid fulcra; identification and holding in a wide perceptual field

• Interacting with fluids: augmentation skills

• Perceiving the role of stillness in the healing process

• Trauma part 2:

  • safety, danger and life-threat

  • resources and overwhelm

  • shuttling

• Supporting safety during practice sessions

• Reciprocal tension membranes and reciprocal tension motion

• Orienting to the biosphere and widening to the long tide, transmutation and dynamic interchange