Seminars 2026
This is my final year of teaching. Below is the complete list of seminars on offer.
The seminars are open to qualified craniosacral therapists as part of continuing professional development. Seminars are taught in English with translation into the local language.
15 - 18 & 22 - 25 January
Wrocław, Poland
Behind the Smile
The Polyvagal Theory of Stephen Porges reinterpreted for Biodynamic practice.
The cranial nerves behind Neuroception and social engagement.
Our feelings and emotions are revealed on our face and in the tone of our voice. Musculoskeletal structures of the face, the ear and throat share a network of nerves, known as the Social Nervous System. This system co-ordinates facial and vocal expression with the regulation of heart rate and breathing. It enables orientation, communication, co-operation and empathy. Healthy function of this system supports a wide range of emotional responses; malfunction can result in anxiety, depression, isolation and anti-social behaviours, which are all common features of traumatic and developmental stress disorders. Central to the Social Nervous System is the Vagus Nerve. This massive and intricate cranial nerve is best known for its rest and digest function. Not only is its motor output much more complex but the nerve is 80% sensory. Vagal input to our brains is instrumental in our perception of safety and our emotional flexibility.
11 & 18 February
Two-part Seminar - Online Only
Touch
Touch is the primary tool of craniosacral therapists. Dr Sutherland, the originator of cranial osteopathy, frequently talked about ‘wise, seeing, feeling, thinking fingers’ and was convinced that ‘finger-seeing is the only possibility for reading diagnostic messages from the body’.
In these two seminars we will explore relational touch, diagnostic touch and therapeutic touch.
Relational touch - the quality of the practitioner’s touch sets the scene in which the client can experience safety, perhaps for the first time in her or his life. Relational touch is compassionate and without judgement, it signals unconditional acceptance of the client.
Diagnostic touch – reading the ‘nuances of the tide’ is a key skill for cranial practitioners. Tidal motions of fluids and tissues carry the imprints of individual experience. Listening hands can recognise these patterns of experience but also the deeper felt sense of that experience. This often carries an emotional charge but also the meaning of this experience from the past and how it impacts the client’s life in the present.
Therapeutic touch – simply hearing the story told by the body through our ‘listening hands’ can have a deep healing effect. In this seminar we will revisit the subtle territory between ‘doing’ and ‘not doing’ and experiment with ‘touching beyond listening’.
​Our quest: to refine the art of ‘knowing fingers’
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These seminars are offered by Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America
14 - 15 March
Circle Cranio - Exeter UK
The Voice and the Hyoid
In this seminar we will explore the larynx and vocal cords – the mechanism and psychology of voice production. Can we speak up for ourselves, be heard? Are we silenced by fear or emboldened by rage? And the role of the hyoid.
Formed from two pharyngeal folds in embryo, the hyoid bone is the anchor of tongue. It is a central anatomical component of the throat, a solid strut in its tensegrity structure and the root of many muscles. In practice we often feel that the head is cut off from the rest of the body, representing a loss of connection between our instinctual gut brain and our rational head brain and between our ability to act and to feel. Intimate work with the hyoid is vital for resolving throat inertia to help ‘reconnect the head to the body’.
20 -22 March, Part 2
Da-Sein Institut, Switzerland
Visceral Dynamics
Primordial body, primordial brain
The internal organs located in the anterior body cavity have a particular way of being and functioning with primary respiration. Governed by the much more ancient enteric and autonomic nervous systems they are somehow more primitive, more animal than any other part of the body. They go hand in hand with our emotional intelligence rather than our rational faculty.
With the prevalence of digestive disorders, heart disease and reproductive issues, a deep, practical understanding of the viscera within the craniosacral context will elevate your professional practice.
Visceral Dynamics has not been offered by the Insitut for several years. This two-part seminar marks the return of the team who have taught this subject for decades – Katherine Ukleja and Susanne Cappis. Between us we have a lot of clinical expertise in this field. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to study with two elders of the cranial field.
23 - 26 April
Tirrenia, Italy
Touch
Touch is the primary tool of craniosacral therapists. Dr Sutherland, the originator of cranial osteopathy, frequently talked about ‘wise, seeing, feeling, thinking fingers’ and was convinced that ‘finger-seeing is the only possibility for reading diagnostic messages from the body’.
This seminar is inspired by the many and varied questions of students, graduates and long-standing cranial practitioners regarding what it is that they are feeling in treatment session. Also, by the common statement “I don’t know what happened during that session, but the patient’s symptoms disappeared”. In 35 years of clinical practice, I developed a language in which I can address those quandaries with some confidence.
In the seminar we will explore relational touch, diagnostic touch and therapeutic touch.
14 - 17, May
Wrocław, Poland
Embryonic Echoes
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The embryonic body is as much a way of being, which persists throughout life, as a phase of development which spans the first eight weeks of gestation. The primary qualities of embryogenesis are emergence and mutability. An evolving wave of becoming, which lays down the primordia of the all the vital components of the unified human body. Wholeness is always maintained even as differentiation into distinct anatomical parts takes place.
This same quality of vibrant flux is present in human organism as a property of health, from our first breath to the last. It can be experienced at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ level when Potency is abundant.
In this seminar we will explore some key phases of development which are echoed in the primary respiratory motion of the fully-grown body
28 - 31 May
Georgia
Dancing with Potency
Our therapy is a pas de deux between the vivifying force which we call the Potency of the Breath of Life and our wise, seeing, feeling, thinking hands.
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It is said than anatomy is the language of the body. And it is true that a good knowledge of anatomy enhances craniosacral practice. But it’s the Potency of the Breath of life that vivifies and animates the body. This seminar is about the language of Potency. Learning to understand its direct actions and expressions and becoming fluent in conversation with the Potency itself, not the tissues and fluids that make up our anatomy. We will learn to use touch to augment and catalyse the healing capacity of the Potency and deeply rely on it to guide our session work. We will dive deeper into the essence Biodynamic practice.
Topics to be covered:
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The four functions of Potency – organisational, adaptive, protective and healing.
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Life is motion - the Potency as an animating force in the tide, the fluid within the fluid.
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The organizational function of Potency - the quantum midline and the bioelectric ordering field, known as the original matrix.
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The automatic shifting of potency as it adapts to the conditional forces of experience and meets the contingencies of daily life.
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Resilience – the adaptive function of Potency in action.
14 - 15 September
Da-Sein Institut, Switzerland
Touch
Touch is the primary tool of craniosacral therapists. Dr Sutherland, the originator of cranial osteopathy, frequently talked about ‘wise, seeing, feeling, thinking fingers’ and was convinced that ‘finger-seeing is the only possibility for reading diagnostic messages from the body’.
This workshop is inspired by the many and varied questions of students, graduates and long-standing cranial practitioners regarding what it is that they are feeling in treatment session. Also by the common statement “I don’t know what happened during that session but the patient’s symptoms disappeared”.
We will explore relational touch, diagnostic touch and therapeutic touch.
Dancing with Potency
Our therapy is a pas de deux between the vivifying force which we call the Potency of the Breath of Life and our wise, seeing, feeling, thinking hands.
​
It is said than anatomy is the language of the body. And it is true that a good knowledge of anatomy enhances craniosacral practice. But it’s the Potency of the Breath of life that vivifies and animates the body. This seminar is about the language of Potency. Learning to understand its direct actions and expressions and becoming fluent in conversation with the Potency itself, not the tissues and fluids that make up our anatomy. We will learn to use touch to augment and catalyse the healing capacity of the Potency and deeply rely on it to guide our session work. We will dive deeper into the essence Biodynamic practice.
Topics to be covered:
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The four functions of Potency – organisational, adaptive, protective and healing.
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Life is motion - the Potency as an animating force in the tide, the fluid within the fluid.
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The organizational function of Potency - the quantum midline and the bioelectric ordering field, known as the original matrix.
-
The automatic shifting of potency as it adapts to the conditional forces of experience and meets the contingencies of daily life.
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Resilience – the adaptive function of Potency in action.
22 - 25 October
Circle Cranio, Exeter UK
Embryonic Echoes
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The embryonic body is as much a way of being, which persists throughout life, as a phase of development which spans the first eight weeks of gestation. The primary qualities of embryogenesis are emergence and mutability. An evolving wave of becoming, which lays down the primordia of the all the vital components of the unified human body. Wholeness is always maintained even as differentiation into distinct anatomical parts takes place.
This same quality of vibrant flux is present in human organism as a property of health, from our first breath to the last. It can be experienced at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ level when Potency is abundant.
In this seminar we will explore some key phases of development which are echoed in the primary respiratory motion of the fully-grown body