This advanced 3-day workshop, designed for experienced craniosacral practitioners, adds CranioSomatic concepts and techniques to attendees’ previous craniosacral knowledge and skills.  CranioSomatics will revolutionize your approach to bodywork and provide a structural aspect to your existing craniosacral skills base.  Essential craniosacral material will be briefly reviewed as new concepts, evaluation procedures, and treatment techniques are introduced and integrated into your current knowledge base.  This workshop will expand your cranial understanding into a global neuromusculoskeletal paradigm - CranioSomatics.

The material presented is normally covered in our CranioSomatic Foundations I & II program.  This is not a beginning craniosacral workshop and basic craniosacral skills and techniques will not be taught.  Therefore, attending participants should meet the following requirements:

• Prior completion of a craniosacral program (e.g., Upledger’s CST - I & II).
   
• Clinical use of craniosacral techniques for six (6) months or more (using craniosacral SBS patterns as an integral part of therapeutic practice).
   
• Comfortable with palpating cranial and body rhythms.   

Participants' qualifications will be verified / approved by the instructor.

Participants will learn:

• Additional methods for identifying sutural restrictions and SBS strain patterns, how to correlate these with neuromuscular dysfunctions and associated postural compensations, and new treatment procedures for releasing these patterns.
   
• To correlate sutural restrictions and SBS strain patterns with spinal and peripheral joint dysfunctions.
   
• To use manual muscle testing, therapy localization and challenge, palpation, range of motion, and other procedures to identify dysfunctions, and for pre- and post- treatment evaluations.
   
• To differentiate between sutural restrictions and SBS strain patterns, which respond to typical craniosacral and other cranial treatment procedures, and Primary Compensatory Patterns, which require treatment with CranioStructural Integration.
   
• Skills that are pre-requisites for attending our advanced programs - CranioStructural Integration and Facilitated Pathways Intervention.

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CranioSomatics for Experienced Practitioners (CS - EP)

Workshop Outline

Introduction and Overview of Workshop Objectives

Introduction to CranioSomatic concepts

            ·  Structural / functional paradigm versus energy paradigm

            ·  Reciprocal global interrelationships

            ·  Types of cranial dysfunction

Introduction to CranioSomatic Therapies

            ·  Functional CranioSomatic Therapy

            ·  CranioStructural Integration (CSI)

            ·  Facilitated Pathways Intervention (FPI)

Review of Craniosacral Concepts

Validating Outcome-Oriented Therapy

            ·  The need for pre- and post-treatment evaluation

            ·  Managing the iatrogenic aspects of manual therapies

            ·  Review of evaluation procedures used previously

Introduction to Concepts and Applications of Applied Kinesiology

            ·  Applied Kinesiology - history and clinical applications

            ·  AK evaluation procedures: Muscle Testing, Therapy Localization and Challenge

            -  Manual muscle test procedures and student practice - shoulder muscles

            -  Manual muscle test procedures and student practice - hip muscles

Review of Vault Bone Anatomy, Movement and Simple Sutural Releases

            ·  Review of suture types and nomenclature

            ·  Review of 8 vault bones, their sutures, and physiological movements

            ·  Review of simple release techniques for selected vault sutures

            ·  Student practice in the identification and correction of vault sutural restrictions

Review of Facial Bone Anatomy, Physiological Movement and Simple Sutural Releases

            ·  Review of 14 facial bones, their sutures, and physiological movements

            ·  Review of facial cavities: orbital, nasal and oral

            -  Review of simple release techniques for selected facial sutures

            -  Practice in identification and correction of facial sutural restrictions

Review of the Compensatory Patterns of the Sphenobasilar Synchondrosis (SBS)

            ·  Review of direct and indirect treatment procedures for SBS patterns

            ·  Handholds: vault and fronto-occipital handholds

            -  SBS patterns with bone models, using the fronto-occipital handhold.

            -  Partner activities using the fronto-occipital handhold

Compound Sutural Releases

Vault Decompression Techniques (6)

• Student evaluation and treatment using TL and Vault Techniques

Craniofacial Decompression Techniques (3)

• Student evaluation and treatment using TL and Craniofacial Techniques

‘Clearing Routine’ Protocol

• Introduction of ‘Clearing Routine’ protocol

• Clearing Routine techniques and usage

• Student practice using the Clearing Routine protocol

Introduction to Quadrant Analysis (of peripheral cranial bones) for SBS Strain Patterns

Review of compensatory SBS strain patterns (and their effects on cranial quadrants)

• Review of the 10 SBS strain patterns

• Quadrant analysis for each of the 10 strain patterns

• SBS strain patterns with bone models, using a fronto-occipital handhold

• Partner evaluation of SBS strain patterns using a fronto-occipital handhold

Cranial / SBS Evaluations Using Therapy Localization and Challenge

• Identifying relationships between SBS strain patterns and restricted sutures

• Identifying relationships between SBS strain patterns and patterns of cranial bone compensations

• Student practice in treatment of SBS strain patterns and confirmation of corrections

Compound Sutural Releases with SBS Assist (7)

• Introduction of Compound Sutural Releases with SBS Assist (7)

• Student evaluation and treatment using therapy localization and Compound Sutural Releases with SBS Assist

TMJ and Mandible

TMJ function: normal vs. pathological

Review of muscles associated with mastication and their actions

Evaluating mandibular movement using active challenge

Intra-oral techniques for the palatine and zygomatic bones

• Introduction of techniques

• Student evaluation and treatment using these intra-oral techniques

Craniofacial Development

• Concepts of facial development (Enlow’s)

• Angle’s classification types and cranial correlations

The Orofacial Complex and CranioSomatic Relationships

• The importance of the dental occlusion (to posture and global compensations)

• Visual analysis of vault and facial bone alignment

CranioSomatic Relationships

Homolateral somatic relationships

Somatic compensations and SBS strain patterns

• Evaluation of somatic compensation patterns relating to each SBS strain pattern using MMT, TL and CH

• Student testing and evaluations of these somatic compensations using muscles of the upper and lower extremities

Relationships between OM sutures and the pelvis (4)

• Student practice using therapy localization and challenge

Relationships between sphenoidal and temporal sutures and shoulder muscles (4)

• Student practice using manual muscle testing and therapy localization

Spinal compensations and treatment

• Vault sutures and related spinal compensations

• Treatment techniques for spinal compensations

• Student practice identifying and correcting spinal compensations

Establishing a treatment plan

Introduction to CranioStructural Integration (CSI)

Introduction to Facilitated Pathways Intervention (FPI)

Closing: Recap and Question & Answer

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