Ged Sumner, Steve Haines

Cranial Intelligence (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

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Produktbeschreibung

At the deepest level of our physiology, all living tissues and fluids expand and contract with the 'breath of life'. Through gentle touch, the skilled practitioner can interact with these subtle rhythms to address physical aches and pains, acute or chronic disease, emotional or psychological disturbances, or simply to promote enduring health and vitality.

This new and important textbook demystifies the biodynamic approach to craniosacral therapy and shows how and why it can be so effective at bringing about a natural realignment towards optimal health. The authors describe how to 'listen' and respond appropriately to each client's system, how to create a safe space for working with different kinds of trauma, and how to address specific states of imbalance to support deep-felt and lasting change. Throughout the book, experiential exercises encourage the reader to practice their newly-acquired skills, and refine their knowledge of human anatomy and physiology. A final chapter on practice development covers issues pertinent to practitioners trying to set up and maintain a successful practice.

This intensely practical textbook will transform the practice of craniosacral therapists, and contains much that bodyworkers of all kinds will find useful.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857010124
• Artikelnr.: 52377042

Autorenporträt

Ged Sumner is a practicing craniosacral therapist, and teaches craniosacral therapy and chi kung. He has also studied shiatsu, healing and attachment based psychoanalytical psychotherapy, and has a degree in chemistry. He is the director of Body Intelligence Training, which offers biodynamic craniosacral therapy practitioner courses in Europe, North America, Australasia and the Middle East (www.bodyintelligence.com), and is also the director of Natural Movement - Elemental Chi Kung (www.naturalmovement.info).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Foreword by Franklyn Sills. Preface. 1. Relational Touch.
1.1. The Relational Field. The phenomenon of contact. Attachment,
neuroscience and relational touch. The influence of another pressure.
Awareness Exercise: Touching ourselves. Treatment Exercise: Where do we
touch from? 1.2. What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy? Overview. A brief
history of cranial work. Biodynamics. Clinical Highlight: Cultivating
patience and being present. Breath of Life. 1.3. Key Skills 1: How to come
into relational touch. Expanding your perceptual field. Awareness Exercise:
Exploring space and perceptual fields. Awareness Exercise: State of
Balanced Awareness. Treatment Exercise: How much space do you need? Using
Self Other Field to help create space. A ritual of contact. Making contact
from a State of Balanced Awareness. The inherent treatment plan reveals
itself. Becker's 3 stage process. Differentiating tissues, fluids and
potency. Treatment Exercise: Differentiating tissues, fluid and potency via
sacrum and occiput. Awareness Exercise: Feeling tissues and fluids.
Biotensegrity and tissues. Fluid form. Awareness Exercise: The fluid
electric body. Stillness. Clinical Highlight: Cultivating Stillness.
Clinical Highlight: What happens when we feel nothing? Summary of Chapter
1. 2. The Midline. 2.1. Embryo, midline phenomena and original health.
Embryo. Midline and the Early Embryo. Awareness Exercise: Fluid midline
versus primal midline - moving between the neural cavity and the vertebral
bodies. Treatment Exercise: Primal midline with client sitting. Original
health. Treatment Exercise: Fluid midline from feet and shoulders. 2.2. Key
Skills 2: States of Balance. States of Balance. Treatment Exercise: State
of Balance via a spinal segment. How to support a state of balance.
Orienting to tides. Treatment Exercise: Primal midline and long tide.
Clinical Highlight: Sacrum and Occiput Holds. 2.3. The Spine. The spine
overview. Treatment Exercise: Fluid midline from the occiput and sacrum -
side position. Awareness Exercise: Surface anatomy of the axial skeleton.
Each vertebra is potentially significant when treating the spine.
Facilitation of vertebral segments. Clinical Highlight: Two handed contact
on the spine. Clinical Highlight: Treat the spine more often. Summary of
Chapter 2. 3. Resources and Overwhelm. 3.1. Resources. 3.2. A first look at
trauma. 3.3. Dissociation. 3.4. Activation. Summary of Chapter 3. 4.
Stillness and Potency. 4.1. Long tide. Cellular potency. Awareness
Exercise: Cellular Intelligence. Awareness Exercise: Hierarchy of Levels.
The uncarved block of wood. Awareness Exercise: Long Tide. 4.2. Dynamic
Stillness. 4.3. Biodynamic Potencies. The underlying force of life. The
potency field of the body. Awareness Exercise: Connecting to your potency
field. 4.4. Spirit and cranial work. Know your own model. 'A higher power'.
The soul. 'It's all energy'. Science and research. 4.5. Perception and
Consciousness. Phenomena and perception. Consciousness. Perceiving the
whole body. Summary of Chapter 4. 5. Whole Body Dynamics. 5.1. Reciprocal
Tension Membrane. The Core Link. Bone and Membrane. 5.2. Arrangements of
fascia in the body. The Transversal. Awareness Exercise: Reciprocal tension
in the respiratory diaphragm. Respiratory diaphragm. Treatment Exercise:
Relating to the respiratory diaphragm as the natural fulcrum for the
connective tissue field. Pelvic Diaphragm. Thoracic Inlet. Other transverse
diaphragms. Awareness Exercise: Feeling your deep fascia. The Longitudinal.
The falx. The dural tube. The spinal ligaments. The sock of ligaments
around the sacrum. Muscle sheaths. Treatment Exercise: Fascial drag and
glide from the feet. Spirals and diagonals. Membranes, cavities and bags.
5.3. The Fascial Matrix. Fascia anatomy. Awareness Exercise: The living
matrix. Cells talking to cells via the living matrix. Summary of Chapter 5.
6. Craniopelvic Resonance. 6.1. The Vault. 6.2. The Pelvis. 6.3. Feeling
Craniopelvic Resonance. Summary of Chapter 6. 7. Birth. 7.1. Birth. Birth
Overview. Cranial base patterns. Treatment Exercise: the head as a fluid
membrane bag. Treatment Exercise: Supporting space at the SBJ. Sphenoid
anatomy. Adult sphenoid. Sphenobasilar junction SBJ. Whole body shapes.
Attachment. Pacing and containment. Clinical Highlight: Contact at the SBJ.
7.2. Intraosseous patterns. Overview. Common patterns within the major
cranial bones. General approaches to intraosseous patterns. 7.3. Ignition.
Prenatal ignitions. Birth ignition. Awareness Exercise: Three ignitions.
Ignition in treatment. Potency ignition spaces. Summary of Chapter 7. 8.
Visceral Intelligence. 8.1. Organs Overview. Introduction. Principles of
working with organs. The gut as a tube. Awareness Exercise: The gut as a
tube. Cavities and membranes. Thoracic cavity. Abdominal cavity and the
diaphragm. Pelvic cavity. Awareness Exercise: Feeling the cavities.
Membranes. Awareness Exercise: The cavities and the diaphragm. Treatment
Exercise: Biotensegrity of the peritoneum. 8.2. Organ Anatomy and Dynamics.
Thoracic cavity. Lungs. Heart and pericardium. Abdominal cavity. Liver.
Treatment Exercise: Working with the liver. Stomach. Pancreas. Spleen.
Small Intestine. Large intestine. Kidneys. Pelvic cavity. Bladder. Uterus,
Ovaries and Prostrate. Clinical Highlight: Working with organs. Summary of
Chapter 8. 9. Neural Matrix. 9.1. Neural Matrix Overview. Treating the
brain. Brain motion. 9.2. The Fluid Brain. Embryology of the brain.
Awareness Exercise: Differentiating parts of the brain. Ventricles, CSF and
deep potency. 9.3. The Brain and Blood. Blood supply to the brain.
Awareness Exercise: The carotid flow. Blood return. Treatment Exercise:
Relating to the venous sinuses. 9.4. Emotions and the Limbic System.
Introduction to emotions. Clinical Highlight: Evidence for mind body
connection. Universal emotions. The unique processing of fear. The Felt
Sense. Clinical Highlight: The empathetic practitioner. Treatment Exercise:
Ventricles and limbic system. 9.5. Stress and Neuro-Endocrine-Immune
Responses. The brain stem and activation. The Hypothalamus Pituitary
Adrenal (HPA) Axis releases cortisol. Clinical Highlight: Causes of stress.
Clinical Highlight: Stress Signs. DHEA. Clinical Highlight: Cortisol
effects. 9.6. Pain. Pain is complex and always involves emotion. Treatment
Exercise: Nerve flow and spinal cord facilitation. The anatomy of pain.
Clinical Highlight: Treatment strategies based on understanding inhibition.
10. The Facial Complex. 10.1. The Face. The complexities of the face and
the maxillae. Physiology of the face. Treatment Exercise: Intraoral contact
on the maxillae. Zygomatic bones. Orbits. Awareness Exercise: Following the
diaphragm of the face. Midline of the face - ethmoid and vomer. The
sphenoid and the face. Awareness Exercise: How the sphenoid interacts with
the face. The neural face. Cranial nerves that supply the face. Motor
supply detail. Sensory supply detail. The metabolic fluid fields of the
face. Treatment Exercise: Orienting to the nerve flow and deepening into
the fluid fields of the face. 10.2. The Eyes. Overview. Eyes and posture.
Eyes and the nervous system. Eye muscles and movement and associated
somatic nerves. Optic nerve. Autonomic nervous system and the eyes. The
sphenoid and the orbit. Treatment Exercise: The eyes and the sphenoid.
10.3. The Jaw and the TMJ. Clinical Highlight: TMJ self test. Alignment of
the jaw via the temporals. Treatment Exercise: Orienting to the temporal
bones and alignment of the jaw. Development of the lower jaw. Muscles of
the jaw. Ligaments and disc of the temporal mandibular joint. 10.4. The
Throat. The hyoid. Awareness Exercise: Posture and the throat. The facial
complex and the social nervous system are essential to expressing emotion.
Treatment Exercise: The hyoid. Summary of Chapter 10. 11. Joints. 11.1.
Introduction to Joints. Synovial joints. Fibrous joints and Cartilaginous
joints. Awareness Exercise: Global joint exercise. 11.2. Treating Joints.
General principles for working with joints. Treating limbs. Clinical
Highlight: Nerve flow. 11.3. Key Joints: Axial Skeleton. Occipital Atlantal
Junction OAJ. Treatment Exercise: The occipital atlantal junction (OAJ).
Lumbo sacral junction (LSJ). Sacro iliac joints. 11.4. Key Joints: Lower
Limb. Hip joints. Hip anatomy. Knee joints. Knee anatomy. Clinical
Highlight: Common patterns in the misalignment of the knee according to Dr
Mark Charrette DC. Ankle and foot joints. 11.5. Key Joints: Upper Limb.
Shoulder. Shoulder anatomy. Elbow, wrist and hand. Elbow, wrist and hand
anatomy. Summary of Chapter 11. 12. Practice Development. 12.1. Why do you
want to become a craniosacral therapist? Know your purpose. 12.2. How to
earn a living as a craniosacral therapist - some thoughts on being in
practice. An overview of creating a practice. Be energetic. Make
connections. Word of mouth. Sell yourself and cranial work. Short sessions
and a course of treatments. Make good decisions at the start. What kind of
therapist do you want to be? Making a living out of it. Creating a BCST
introduction talk. Creating a brochure and a website. A simple model for
change: 'Take the loads off the back of the donkey'. 12.3. Professional
considerations. Ongoing training and support. Legal considerations. 12.4.
Taking case histories. Treatment records. Clinical Highlight: Some guidance
on taking a case history. Useful information - short version. Useful
information - long version. 12.5. Assessing your client's health. Clinical
Highlight: Basic assessment - how to form a clear picture of someone from a
touch perspective. Clinical Highlight: Craniosacral assessment - how to
form a clear picture of someone from a craniosacral perspective. Language
for touch. Words for change. Words for difficulty. Words for health. Words
for process. "How many sessions do I need?" 12.6. How to be a Practitioner
of Excellence. Safety in practice. Structure of a treatment session. Being
skilled. Developing trust in deeper intelligence. References. Glossary.
Index.