BCST Training

A deep and transformative 700-hour training!

Sep 17, 2020

to Oct 13, 2022

Craniosacral Biodynamics is the leading edge of evolution in Craniosacral therapy. BCST is a healing art that works with the subtle energies that create and maintain health in the human system. While not a manipulative therapy, it has its roots in osteopathy and has evolved to include influences from advances in Neuroscience, Human Development, Pre and Perinatal Psychology, and Trauma Resolution. Practitioners use an educated gentle, non-invasive touch to listen for and to engage with supporting nervous system regulation and allowing the resolution of conditions resulting from stress and trauma. It is lead by Rebekah Crown, BCST, RCST®, FQM, founder and teacher, in beautiful Montreal!

This training is a 700-hour in-depth training of the biodynamic model of craniosacral therapy, as developed by Franklyn Sills, in the lineage of William Garner Sutherland, DO, and others, leading you to be a BCST Certified Practitioner. It is taught by Rebekah Crown, RCST, FQM in Montreal, in the beautiful Mile-End neighbourhood!

It is given in 12 seminars of 4 days each (except for 2 seminars), over a 2-year period approximately. It is recognized by BCTA/NA, Ritma, ANN and other associations. We alternate languages, offering French and English trainings every 2 years. In 2020 it will be given in French and in 2022 in English.

Who is it for?

For all bodywork practitioners such as massage therapists, yoga teachers, Somatic experiencing practitioners, midwives, nurses, and all healing professionals wishing to complement their practice or start a new one.

What is is good for:

Chronic Stress, Insomnia, Injuries, Traumas, Pain and Inflammation, Headaches, Backache, MS, Injuries, Depression, Anxiety, Childbirth, Birth preparation, Palliative Care patients, children, seniors, etc.

BCST work is based on:

Establishing a clear and negotiated relational field
Deepening practitioner presence, clarity of perception and perceiving the original matrix of health that is ever present within us.
Perceiving phenomena that relate to Primary Respiration and its interaction with unresolved conditional or traumatic forces
Reaching a balanced state of awareness and stillness within which the presence of conditional forces in order to allow the healing to happen deeply

You will learn, among other subjects:

Contact skills and resources orienting to health
Embryology, birth and biodynamic natural forces
Fluid bodies and tides
Craniosacral anatomy and nervous system
Biodynamic principles with verbal and listening skills
Breath of Life and Primary Respiration and so much more

Teaching methods:

In all seminars, you’ll enjoy a balanced mix of meditative practices, theory, lectures, visual presentations, movement, creativity, small group exercises and hands on supervised practice. You will also have the opportunity for deep personal growth and creating connection with an international community of practitioners.

Training structure

This is 700-hour course training. It is an extensive, in-depth training and it leads you to be a Certified Practitioner recognized by the BCST association of North America. We’re currently recognized by Quebec associations: Ritma and ANN and we’re discussing recognition with others. We’re bilingual. We alternate languages. We offer French and English trainings every 2 years.

Our BSCT Training is given in 12 seminars of 4 days each (with the exception of 2 that are 5-day seminars) over a 2-year period approximately. This pacing offers both the intensive group study experience and time between seminars to practice skills, complete home study and fully integrate the material. Care is taken to create a safe container for students to trust the healing process.

350 hours in class: This is a carefully layered presentation of material and supervised practice of BCST skills given through 12 seminars of 4 days each (except for 2).
150 hours practicum: Between seminars students practice skills learned with people other than classmates. These are unpaid sessions and the clients are informed that the practitioner is in training. These sessions are written up and turned in to the teaching team for review.
150 hours home study: Reading of texts in the fields of BCST, cranial osteopathy, trauma resolution, anatomy and pre and perinatal development. Drawing and modeling of anatomical structures will be practiced.
40 hours – Clinical project: Students work with one client for 10 sessions, write up all sessions, research a specific condition the client presents and record how the healing process progresses through the BCST work.
10 hours of sessions received: Receive 10 sessions from an RCST practitioner.
Final exam: this is an open book exam given during seminar 12 graded on a pass/fail basis.

Seminars overview

Seminar 1

Preparing the ground

Seminar one is health and resource oriented. Emphasis is placed on the preparation of the practitioner, creating safety, negotiating appropriate contact. Establishing a connection to our own sense of wellbeing is essential to the therapeutic relationship.

Seminar 2

Re-Membering Wholeness

In seminar two, we begin to elaborate on Biodynamic Principles and put them into practice. Listening and verbal skills deepen. Sensing Primary Respiration becomes more evident and specific.

Seminar 3

Inherent Health and History

Seminar 3 explores the interaction of the universal forces of nature, and the forces of life’s conditions within our being. We learn how we hold our history in the body and learn to support the natural processes that restore health and balance.

Seminar 4

Reflections of the whole

Seminar 4 presents the interesting challenge of holding a very specific part within the perspective of the whole. This is a principle of the work, which takes a more refined sense of perception and creates a profound shift in consciousness.

Seminar 5

A Hero’s Journey (Embryology)

Seminar 5 presents embryology as a template of forces at work in the adult. This seminar presents more process-oriented work where students have an opportunity to explore their own preverbal experience.

Seminar 6

Vertical forces

Seminar 6 looks at the vertical forces at work in the human system. We explore their development, structure, relationships and movements.

Seminar 7

Birth dynamics

Seminar 7 explores the experience of being born from somatic, emotional and spiritual points of view. We approach birth as an initiation that has effects on our present-day body/mind. We explore how to support resolution into health of this whole experience. Long tide is introduced and we enter into the realm of oneness.

Seminar 8

Meeting the world (Facial dynamics)

Seminar 8 focuses on the face. This is a part of us that develops from birth throughout childhood. We learn the structures, their interactions and how to support resolution of impact or inertia in this area. This seminar introduces the concept transference/countertransference in the therapeutic relationship.

Seminar 9

Nervous system I

In seminar nine, we look at the ventricles of the brain and learn about the brain’s fluid circulation. We learn a process for supporting optimum fluid circulation. Issues of chronic pain are explored within the biodynamic approach. Skills for supporting equilibrium in the system are practiced.

Seminar 10

triune autonomic nervous system - II

In seminar ten, Porges polyvagal theory is introduced. Different levels of activation and PTSD are explored within the biodynamic approach. Skills for supporting equilibrium in the system are practiced.

Seminar 11

Listening to the viscera

Seminar 11 presents a biodynamic approach to working with the internal organs. We learn to distinguish natural movements from expressions of distress. Being held and listened to in this deep way allows health and natural flow and function to return.

Seminar 12

Ignition and completion

The intention of seminar 12 is to look at the ignition process, give students a sense of completion, further their competencies for their individual practice and ground them in the work.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects;
touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pre-requisites

Association receipts

Presently, our training is recognized in the massage and naturopathy category at RITMA, ANN and AMTMDL. In Quebec, it is necessary to have 1000 hours in massage therapy. Our training offers 700 hours. Check with your association to find out how to get your 300 additional hours. However, since most of our students are practitioners, they already have their 300 hours for having taken several courses for their practice. Our main organization is BCTA/NA which covers the USA and Canada and we are currently in discussion with other associations in Quebec.

Session

Before the training, the student must receive at least 1 session from a certified practitioner of BCST.

Interview

An interview with Rebekah Crown will be necessary either in person, over the phone or online prior to registration.

Training cost

To register, please write to us at info@craniosacralbiodynamics. We will send you the registration form, the application form. We will ask you to have an interview with Rebekah Crown, by phone, to make sure all is clear and fluid. A deposit will confirm your registration and payment of the first seminar must be done one month in advance at the latest.

Deposit

A non-refundable deposit of $100 is required upon registration, for administration fees.

Training Fee

The full training cost is $7700 tax incl. This includes:

The training manual (available in English or in French)
Access to the library
The loft space, tables and material for practice if available
Assistant coaching if needed

Form of payement:

Per seminar payment: $642 (tx incl.) x 12.
Fee per seminar payable one month in advance by postdated cheques or online.
One full payment: Total: 6930$ tax included with a 10% discount if made in full.

Scholarship Program

In order to support diversity in our student population as well as develop practitioners within these communities, we are pleased to offer partial scholarships to students from indigenous communities and communities of colour. The scholarship would be for 1/2 the total cost of the training. A basic principle of our work is to create safety in the therapeutic relationship.

We recognize that every human embodies many experiences that are common to us all, some history that is held within specific communities, and some stories that are unique to the individual. In some areas of life, we feel safest with someone who has had similar history or experience to us. A practitioner who has moved through a specific trauma is often best suited to support another on a similar path.

It is my feeling that the intergenerational traumas of genocide or racism can be better held by practitioners from communities that have experienced it. We each embody our own healing history and it is held invisibly in our field. Our clients sense this intuitively and know when they are in a safe enough space to touch their deepest wounds. My intention in teaching has always been to create more practitioners in order to reach many different people. I feel there is a need for practitioners with diverse experience and history.

People eligible for the scholarship would have to have some training in a hands-on practice, such as massage, midwifery, polarity etc. or in a listening profession such as psychotherapy, counselling, social work and be interested in bringing this work to their communities as practitioners.

BCST works with material from preverbal states, embryological times, birth trauma, ancestral trauma. It is important for students to have done some work on their own histories and have outside therapeutic resources, as the classroom is not the best container for individual therapeutic work. Thank you, Rebekah

Training Cancellation policy

The presence of every participant is precious to the group. Together we create a safe container for the deep work we are engaged in. We are willing to help you work through obstacles that might prevent you from completing the training. We understand however there are major circumstances that might arise in the course of 2 years. Each case has to be studied and discussed. However, we wish and encourage the student to continue and commit to the whole training. The student can decide not to continue after the first seminar is taken. That’s the only moment where it can be done. A $100.00 cancellation fee is applicable.

BCST Training

BCST Training

A deep and transformative 700-hour training!

Sep 17, 2020

to Oct 13, 2022

Who is it for?

What is is good for:

BCST work is based on:

You will learn, among other subjects:

Teaching methods:

Training structure

Seminars overview

Seminar 1

Preparing the ground

Seminar 1

Preparing the ground

Content

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Seminar 2

Re-Membering Wholeness

Seminar 2

Re-Membering Wholeness

Content

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Seminar 3

Inherent Health and History

Seminar 3

Inherent Health and History

Content

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Seminar 4

Reflections of the whole

Seminar 4

Reflections of the whole

Content

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Seminar 5

A Hero’s Journey (Embryology)

Seminar 5

A Hero’s Journey (Embryology)

Content

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Seminar 6

Vertical forces

Seminar 6

Vertical forces

Content

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Seminar 7

Birth dynamics

Seminar 7

Birth dynamics

Content

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Seminar 8

Meeting the world (Facial dynamics)

Seminar 8

Meeting the world (Facial dynamics)

Content

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Seminar 9

Nervous system I

Seminar 9

Nervous system I

Content

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Seminar 10

triune autonomic nervous system - II

Seminar 10

triune autonomic nervous system - II

Content

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects;
touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world