Natural Health Resources Center ~ Cranio-Sacral (craniosacral, cranial-sacral) Training and Therapy with Ursula Popp, L.Ac., VCST, Cranio-Sacral Practitioner, Counselor, and Educator. 12252 2nd Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98177. 206-783-3922

Please Note: This is a 4-day class, offering 32 CEUs. Cost: $545

Before we can experience the beauty outside ourselves, we must see and honor our own beauty. ~ Sandra Ingerman

This class is open to all bodyworkers and healthcare practitioners. It introduces you to an experiential approach to healing and provides very powerful and supportive ways to work with inner wisdom, purpose and sense of direction, rather than focusing on what is wrong or not working. We will draw on various indigenous traditions, including Native American and Tibetan and explore and experience their understanding of health and healing. This workshop offers a wonderful opportunity for you to refine the most important healing medium: YOU. You will be supported in connecting with your inner strength and thus rejuvenated, ready, and excited about your life and work, and you will leave with new tools for helping your clients—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

At the end of the class the student will have experienced an open heart as a foundation for seeing and trusting the many ways the spirits are working miracles. The student will also take home new ways of calling for help and receiving it, for one's personal life and for one's practice with clients.

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Please Note: This is a 2-day class, offering 16 CEUs. Cost: $300

What is necessary, after all, is only this; solitude, vast inner solitude. Walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you must be able to attain. ~ Rainier Maria Rilke

Take time away from your busy life for yourself! Take away self-care tools and exercises - an important component of healing - for you and your clients. We will find deep stillness within, move our bodies to express our feelings, share in community for connection, and spend time in nature; all to nurture body, soul and spirit. This retreat like class will enable you to return to your life and work re-inspired, with strength and joy, deeply rooted in your body, connected with your spirit, and less daunted by the long Northwest Winter.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus

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This class is designed to help you develop ease with your client's emotions and expand your comfort zone when emotional content arises as a result of the bodywork. Due to lack of training, many bodyworkers are fearful and at a loss when this happens. We will study different psychological concepts and their historical development to gain a framework for understanding the psyche. We will develop skills for dialoguing with our clients and learn to support the flow of information from inside our clients when they are in an altered state of consciousness. We will study the need for integration of this information and learn how to facilitate it. This class will help you overcome any resistance or fears you might experience when clients exhibit strong emotions and enable you to offer your clients a more holistic and complete healing process.

You will acquire:

• The ability to establish your resources for working with client's emotion.
• The ability to establish and make available the resources your client has for working with their emotions.
• The ability to skillfully monitor the client's experience of their emotions.
• An understanding of different schools of psychology and your relationship to them. Your common, everyday knowledge about psychology will be reframed and expanded into a professional understanding.
• Knowledge and skills to work with the relationship between you and your client.
• Skills for assisting your clients in articulating the wisdom of their disease ("Cell talk").

This class is sponsored through the Therapeutic Training Center. To register for this class, please go to theratraining.com or call 206.853.6875.

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This class will give you a deep appreciation of your sensory awareness and your brain’s responses to it. While gaining solid knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the brain and cranial nerves, you will also develop an appreciation of the complexity and beauty of your own mind. You will learn how to use this knowledge and appreciation effectively with your clients, combining cranial techniques, your intuition, and your intent.

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Do something good to your body, so that your soul becomes thrilled to live in it. ~ Theresa von Avila

The viscera have a movement and a rhythm that can be felt with the hands. In this class, we will study the anatomy and physiology as well as the energetic components of the heart, lungs, liver, stomach, spleen, kidneys, bladder, small and large intestines, and the gallbladder. We will devote lots of time to practicing the hands-on techniques, listening to each organ, and creating the space to let the organ move freely and find its own health. You will gain the ability to work effectively with issues related to the organs that sometimes do not respond to other techniques.

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This is a unique and unusual class that will greatly expand your awareness of the healing potential of cranial work, and therefore improve your professional skills. Cranio-Sacral work is very effective at resolving trauma as it subtly allows the body to work out and release the cellular memories of trauma. In this class we will first learn how to establish resources as a foundation for working with trauma in a safe way. Then we will look at how injuries physiologically turn into trauma, and learn effective ways of releasing them, even years after they occurred. We will work with the fascia to increase the flow of the cranial fluids in order to free up blocked energy. An important focus is given to hyoid and mandible to unlock expression and creativity, which are often stifled through trauma. Then we will support the body in releasing often debilitating cellular memories of trauma in long unwinding sessions. Some of these sessions are held in a swimming pool, working in practitioner dyads. The work in water enhances the natural fluidity of the body found in the cranial tides and is very freeing and revitalizing. Working as practitioner pairs is wonderfully healing for the recipient of the work, and deeply and enduringly informative for both practitioners. As we will learn on many levels in this class, you will also personally heal.

In this class, you will

• Learn to establish a safe container for your clients to do trauma work.
• Develop a theoretical understanding of the body’s response to injury and trauma, and develop skills to help you client resolve old trauma.
• Learn to work with the fascia, a missing piece in most cranial programs.
• Learn advanced cranial techniques for working with the throat soul, mandible and hyoid to help your clients unlock expression and creativity.
• Experience wonderful, long unwinding sessions in the safety of a warm swimming pool to inform you about the extraordinary beauty of fluid movement, of the cranial tides. This will expand your experience of unwinding and therefore help you with your clients.
• Increase your confidence in your perception of the cranial tides as a result of working in practitioner dyads.
• Heal some of your own traumas.

NEW: Listen to a recent interview with Ursula about her work.

Limited to 12 people per class.

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