Curriculum & Prerequisite’s

Prerequisites for the full training

The first module is an introductory class. 

  1. Attend the first module, and then a formal interview and application are required if you are interested in applying. If you intend to take the whole training, you can apply beforehand, but being accepted into the full program is based on how the first module/intro class goes, and if Kate feels that you are ready. 

Other Requirements after module 1

  1. Fill out the application through this link and send two-character references. If you are of sound psychological shape, then...

  2. Have an interview with Kate and Alexa, If you live far away, you can also do a zoom interview and we will see if the program is a good fit for you. 

  3. Having regular support from a somatic experiencing therapist, or EMDR therapist, talk therapist, or registered craniosacral therapist/RCST is required during the training at least every other month. This needs to happen with people outside the class, not TA's assisting. 

  4. For all of those who are not LMT’s, OT’s, PT’s, Chiropractor’s, Osteopath’s, Dentist’s, Lic Ac's etc; you will be required to take our anatomy class online before or during the class at Dr. Kate’s School for the course. 

  5. This is a professional training, so having emotional regulation skills are required. 

  6. To be in good psychological and physical health and stability. 

  7. This work is based in relational field. Students are required to co-create a safe relational field for the teacher, other students, and TA's will be asked to leave after warning. This work is based in safety and compassion for all in room including the TA's and teacher. 

Foundational Training Curriculum

​As a BCST/NA-accredited/certified teacher and practitioner, I am bound by the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America's code of ethics.

This is a young profession and the BCST/NA is an anchor to clarify this work to be taught in a coherent, consistent way.

This curriculum is based in Dr. Kate's clinical experience, professional studies, and teachers who are British Osteopaths: Michael Kern ( Author of Wisdom in The Body, and Katherine Ukleja. They have both been teaching and practicing for over 30+ years.

  • Introduction to the Breath of Life and Primary Respiration, Presence, Resources, Ritual of  contact

  • The Holistic Shift & Tissue Motility

  • Reciprocal Tension Motions, Automatic Shifting & Inertial Fulcrums

  • Skills of Augmentation: Space and Fluid

  • Cranial Nerves: Especially Social Nervous System/ Vagus Nerve

  • Birth Processes & Cranial Base Patterns

  • Primal Mid-line, Pelvis & Vertebral Dynamics

  • Intraosseous Patterns, CNS Motility, Nociception & Facilitation

  • Dynamics of the Face, Hard Palate and TMJ

  • Connective tissue field, joint dynamics and introduction to organ and visceral dynamics, how the gut affects everything and especially your brain

  • Clinical Information: Concussions, Headaches, Vertigo, Tinnitus, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety

  • Ignition processes, completions, graduation, celebration!

Detailed Curriculum

    • History of Cranial Work: Dr Sutherland, Et al.

    • Scientific Foundations of Cranial Work

    • The Tides and Dynamic Stillness

    • Role of Resourcing

    • Shuttling

    • How to Create a Safe Holding Field, Why the Relational Field is of Utter Importance

    • Ritual of Contact

    • Sacral Hold

    • Working with Trauma in Self and Others, a Physiological Orientation

    • Accessing Felt Resource Beginning Practitioner Verbal Skills

    • Orienting to Mid-line & Biosphere, Establishing a Safe Holding Environment

    • Establishing a Wide Perceptual Field; Listening from Neutral Being State

    • Mid-tide / fluid tide Session Orientation For Embodiment and Grounding

    • Skills for Self-Regulation

    • Energetic Space: Negotiating The Relational Field, Practitioner Fulcrums

    • Orienting to The Health / Primary Respiration with Becker Hold = Demo

    • Demo of Sutherland’s Vault Hold

    • Hand over Hand support from Teaching Team clarifying, naming Tides

    • The Holistic Shift & Inherent Treatment Plan Review

    • Cranial Bowl Motility: Flower Opening as Franklyn Sills Teaches

    • Orienting to SBJ as Automatic Shifting Fulcrum

    • Temporal, Sacrum, and Ilium Bone Anatomy and Movement in the Midtide

    • Temporal, Sacrum, and Ilium Holds

    • Parietal and Frontal Bone Anatomy and Movement in the Midtide

    • Parietal and Frontal Bone Holds

    • Demo of Integration Hold / Sacro-Occipital Hold

    • Inhalation and Exhalation Stillpoints

    • Occiput and Sacrum = Inhalation Stillpoint & Exhalation Stillpoint

    • Deepening verbal and trauma skills

    • Introduction to Embryological foundations: Mesenchyme & tissue formation

    • Mid-Tide/Long Tide perceptual exercises

    • Introduction to the Inherent Treatment Plan: States of Balance & Systemic Neutra

    • Emotional Regulation Skills: Space, Love, Resourcing, Slowing Down, Orienting to The HEALTH in Self

    • Reciprocal Tension Membrane Anatomy & Motility

    • Sutherland’s fulcrum

    • Automatic Shifting Natural Fulcrums: Lighthouse Signals to the Body

    • Embryology: Conception – 4 weeks

    • Introduction to Inertial Fulcrums

    • How We Work In the Midtide With Inertial Fulcrums Via the Inherent Treatment Plan

    • States Of Balance Overview

    • Stress Response and Verbal Skills

    • Trauma Skills Working with Hyper and Hypo Arousal

    • Exhalation Stillpoint as A Gateway to Dynamic Stillness

    • Exhalation Stillpoint as A Gateway to Dynamic Stillness

    • Taking a Case History With Your Clients

    • Review of Fulcrums, Force Vectors

    • Augmenting Space at Sutures

    • Augmenting Fluid Skill

    • Trauma and the Triune Nervous System Skills

    • How we Help Trauma

    • Demo working with Hyper and Hypo Arousal

    • Compression of the 4th Ventricle, and Expansion of the 4th Ventricle/ Inhalation and Exhalation Stillpoints for Hyper and Hypo Arousal

    • Cranial Nerves I- XII

    • Intro To Cranial Base Physiological Strain Patterns

    • SBJ as an Automatic Shifting Fulcrum

    • Augmentation of Space Within the SBJ

    • Intro to Birth Dynamics, Stages and Patterns Of Motion

    • Demo of Listening From the Vault with Lots of Space

    • Course Review

    • Embryology of the Midline

    • Introduction to the Quantum Midline

    • Introduction to the Primal Midline

    • Introduction to the Fluid Midline

    • Dural Tube anatomy & palpation

    • Pelvic dynamics: anatomy & motility

    • Augmenting Space at the Lumbosacral Junction

    • Vertebral Anatomy and Dynamics of the Lumbar, Thoracic, and Cervical Vertebrae

    • Augmenting Space between the Different Types of Vertebrae

    • Lumbosacral junction & Sacroiliac, Cervical, and Thoracic Clinical Issues

    • Demo of Dural Tube Perspective of Vertebral Column using Fascial Glide

    • Discussion of the shadow & the Breath of Life

    • Transferance and Countertransferance

    • Cultivation of Biodynamic Principles & The Breath of Life in Our Life and Work

    • Intraosseous occipital, temporal & sphenoid issues

    • Occipital triad: Occiput-atlas-axis

    • Introduction to CNS anatomy & motility

    • Brain, Blood, CSF/Ventricles, and Venous Sinuses

    • Stress Cascade

    • Neuroendocrine and Stress Response

    • HPA Axis

    • Nociception And the Stress Response

    • Polyvagal Triune Nervous System

    • Introduction to the Face

    • TMJ

    • Hard Palate: spheno-vomer-maxilla patterns, nasal & palatine bones

    • Jugular Foramen: Anatomy

    • The Social Nervous System Introduction to the face & hard palate

    • Frontal bone-ethmoid bone

    • Inherent Treatment Plan: Rhythmic balanced interchange

    • Connective tissue fields/Fluid Field Matrix

    • Transverse Diaphragms: respiratory diaphragm, thoracic inlet

    • Extraspinal Bones & Joints: anatomy & dynamics orienting to mid-line

    • Principles Of Working With Organs: motility, embryology, & nociceptive loops

    • Heart and Lungs

    • Liver, Gallbladder, Spleen

    • Stomach, Small Intestine, Pancreas

    • Genitourinary Tract

    • Practice clinical info: Concussions, Headaches, Vertigo, Tinnitus, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety

    • Conception Ignition

    • Heart Ignition

    • Umbilical Ignition

    • Babies and Moms: What to Know

    • Practice Management: Starting a practice, further ethical & legal considerations, continuing education, RCST application and maintenance, supervision

    • Review and Completion

    • GRADUATION!!!