Information
The International Institute for Craniosacral Balancing® has been founded 1986.
It offers a thorough foundation training of over 900hrs, to support and guide students through different stages of learning and development.
The craniosacral model presented in our training, is based on an understanding of the natural life forces, which organize and maintain our form and function.
This approach sustains the organism in self-regulation and reorganization and supports the forces that underlie the function of systems.
Our studies over the last 25 years in this field allowed us to deepen the work and expand it to a comprehensive practitioner training, also accredited by the association Cranio Suisse® of Switzerland, with equivalent standards to the craniosacral associations of the UK, USA, Canada and Italy.
The method is inspired by the teachings of the originator of cranial osteopathy, Dr. William Garner Sutherland, and his pioneering approach with the Breath of Life and primary respiration. We are grateful for the teachings of the many traditions that bring awareness and mindfulness to our work.
The method
The craniosacral method is an approach to bodywork based on the principle of the Breath of Life.
The Breath of Life is the life force, which connects us to our being, our core and inherent health. It is a therapeutic force expressing itself as slow and self-directed tidal movement. This subtle motion resembles a deep inner breath and is therefore also called primary respiration (PR).
It is observed that the motion of primary respiration can be sensed through the whole body and witnessed as an ordering and organizing principle, an inherent intelligence of the body-mind.
To contact and cooperate with the intelligence of primary respiration for the benefit of the client, a practitioner needs to develop a finely tuned perception, a capacity to listen with the hands and with a compassionate, friendly heart, an open non-judgmental mind and an ability to be patient and still.
The trained practitioner can perceive primary respiration and use it as a guide to evaluation and treatment.
In this professional training the fundamental principles and concepts are taught and extensively practiced. The teachings include embryology, anatomy, physiology, holistic studies and principles of trauma resolution.
The studies of these subjects have the purpose to provide the student with the necessary tools to recognize and support the expression of inherent health of the organism.
A practitioner can work with different ages and expressions of health to support maintenance and an inner equilibrium of the organism.
Who is this training program for?
It is for bodyworkers, therapists and healing professionals. For interested lay people in a time of reorientation. For anyone interested in self-exploration and inquiry through body-mind-spirit awareness.
It is also for craniosacral therapists who want to be trained in the resource-oriented fluid and potency approach.
Highly Recommended:
- Experience in a body oriented therapy form
- Personal experience of the craniosacral method
- Experience of other holistic forms of therapy
Studies of basic anatomy, physiology and pathology are needed.
Extra tuition is required, if there is no training in these subjects.
For different countries, different regulations exist. More information is available for specific foundation trainings.
Course curriculum ICSB
The craniosacral training of ICSB is a comprehensive training program.
Three distinctly different parts form the course curriculum:
- Teaching program (class room hours)
- Practice (between seminars)
- Self-studies (between seminars)
1) Teaching program
The training extends over two to three years and 500 class room hours.
The teaching hours in class are divided in
- 350 hrs. craniosacral specific teachings (content of seminars below)
- 150 hrs. method specific basic knowledge in
- embryology, anatomy, physiology, pathology, neurology
- psychosomatics, trauma resolution
- resource oriented case history intake, evaluation, ethics, hygiene
Mumbai:
The program has 7 seminars. Most of them are each divided in 2 parts with a break between the parts to integrate the material.
2) Practice
- 150 practice sessions between seminars, written up and documented. Practice sessions are given outside of class with non-fee paying clients.
- 2 extensive case studies
- 20 hrs. supervision
- 3 Feedback sessions/tutorials with teachers/assistants
- Practice days under supervision
- Receiving sessions
- 20 sessions from 3 different craniosacral practitioners (in North America 10 from RCST®)
- 40 sessions as intervision with peers
3) Self-studies
- Designated homework
- Reading of method related specific literature
- Studies of the course material
- Studies of method specific anatomy
- Completion of a written, creative research project
Practice and self-study outside the teaching hours can add up to an additional 450 hrs. and are part of the course curriculum.
Student skills and educational objectives are evaluated through:
- Feedback sessions, tutorials and supervision
- Discussion of the documented sessions, case studies and homework
Training methods
This training does not only teach anatomy or impart scientific knowledge and clinical and practice-oriented skills, but also provides opportunities for personal experience and growth.
All students experience the work on themselves. Therefore the learning occurs largely via observation and exploration. It is from this inner learning and knowing that we meet the clients.
The training methods include:
- Teachings and lectures
- Awareness and perceptual exercises
- Visualizations and meditations
- Movement exercises and creative expression
- Use of visual aids
- Session demonstrations
- Guided sessions
- Exploration and inquiry practices, either verbal or hands-on
- Small group feedback, debriefing and sharings
- Practice sessions
- Feedback sessions
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