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Craniosacral Biodynamic training in Austin, Texas

The Wellness Institute/Roger Gilchrist is offering training in Craniosacral Biodynamics (BCST) in Austin. This is exciting because he’s one of the most experienced teachers on the continent (30+ years, trained as a practitioner and teacher by Franklyn Sills, founder of this modality, and a master teacher).

We are fortunate to have him teaching in Austin. This level of training hasn’t been available in Austin or anywhere in Texas since 2019.

Seminar 1 was held in late September, and students were very enthusiastic about the skills they learned over the four days.

Seminar 1 will be offered again December 9-12, so it’s not too late to join. The remaining 9 seminars in this certification-level training will be offered every three months, in February, May, August, and November, ending in early 2028. Teaching assistants provide support between classes.

For a description of the seminars, click here.

I did this training in Washington, DC, in 2021-23. It deepened my skills. For more about this practice, click here.

Here’s what a couple of students have to say about it:

“Several factors influenced my decision to choose The Wellness Institute. It’s an established institution, and Roger’s experience, along with the supporting faculty, was a significant draw. The proximity to my home was also a convenient factor.

“After completing the first seminar, I am confident that all participants will be well-prepared to become excellent practitioners. This is a thorough program that offers a personalized approach and ample opportunities for hands-on practice.” ~ Diana Tono, Norman, OK

“I feel so blessed to be learning BCST from Roger Gilchrist. He is a true master. With the help of his co-teacher, James Foulkes, you feel truly seen and heard. The teachings are clear, easy to understand, and grounded. I am excited to continue to learn and practice this work.” ~ Tempera McCarron, Sedona, AZ

If you have any questions, please contact me. I can send you an application and answer most questions.

Roger is teaching in Prague and Sydney for the next month but is checking email. His email is wellnessinstitute@yahoo.com.

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Craniosacral Biodynamics training in Austin, Texas

I am working with one of the most experienced teachers of Craniosacral Biodynamics in North America, Roger Gilchrist, to offer a foundation training in Austin, starting in 2025.

I completed his foundation training in Washington DC in 2023, because no training was available in Texas that I hadn’t already taken.

If you’re wondering, a foundation training consists of 10 four-day seminars spread out over 2.25 years. It meets the requirements of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America for certification — RCST® after your name indicates you completed this training and registered with BCTA/NA.

Roger is a master teacher who has taught numerous students around the U.S. and abroad. His team of teaching assistants are all RCST® certified teachers.

Where we are now:

I am gathering names and email addresses of those interested in doing such a training. So far, I have 30 names — optimal class size is 16 to 24. Not everyone who’s expressed an interest will be able to actually take the class at this time. If demand is high enough, Roger may consider adding another training later.

I am looking for a suitable location to do this training. Preferably it will be a massage school or acupuncture school — a place with classrooms and massage tables.

If you’d like to add your name to my list, please email me at mareynolds27 @ gmail . com.

If you want to know more about Roger, go to https://wellnessinstitute.net.

If you want to know more about BCTA/NA, go to https://www.craniosacraltherapy.org.

If you’d like to experience a session before deciding, you can schedule with me at https://maryannreynolds.com.

Meditation, My Practice

How does meditation influence Craniosacral Biodynamics?

After I started training in Craniosacral Biodynamics in 2013, I was curious about some of the terms that were used, like “the Breath of Life,” “primary respiration,” and “dynamic stillness.”

How would I know if I was experiencing these states that are considered integral in practicing Craniosacral Biodynamics? I was meditating a lot, often for 45 minutes or longer, partly because I was on a mission to discover how relaxed I could get while lucid and partly because I believed that there was likely a sensory component for these nominalized terms.

When I asked my first Biodynamics teacher about a state I’d experienced in meditation in which felt akin to sitting on the bottom of the ocean with multiple currents flowing within, through, and around me, his eyes lit up and he affirmed that I was sensing something important in the practice.

Craniosacral biodynamics and meditation overlap each other. After reading the book Craniosacral Therapy and the Energetic Body: An Overview of Craniosacral Biodynamics by Roger Gilchrist, I understood more about the spiritual dimensions that these practices have in common, one often practiced alone and the other using hands-on connection with a receiver.

I later completed a foundation training with Roger.

Here are some quotes from the book’s Chapter 18, “Spiritual Dimensions of Craniosacral Therapy”:

  • When one encounters the essence of the life force moving, it is a deeply humbling experience, as there is the immediate recognition that something moves through us that is beyond us as individuals, and beyond the conditions that we hold.
  • Note that this approach to therapy is not about a therapist working on a client; it is about a therapist coming into a direct relationship with what is here in the present moment… In a biodynamic approach there is the recognition that experience arises mutually between the client and the therapist.
  • Often as clients receive this work they come in contact with levels of their being that were previously unavailable. Many times there is a sense of depth and wholeness that is beyond anything they have encountered before.
  • Through specific training and personal guidance, we cultivate our skills of direct awareness… This way of perceiving is cultivated through personal practice… This field of perception then becomes a dynamic process of awareness that is an unwavering therapeutic ally.
  • Biodynamic craniosacral therapists, in particular, practice refining their ability to stabilize their perceptual fields at a wide level of awareness.
  • In these ways biodynamic craniosacral therapy has important overlaps with meditative practice. Many of the types of practices are similar. Even the nature of the work elicits fairly meditative states a great deal of the time… The process of this type of craniosacral therapy often takes both client and therapist into qualities of awareness and states of being that in other contexts would be described as meditative.

Biodynamic Meditation is a way to learn to experience awareness of the healing currents of life force energy within your own system.

To inquire, schedule a discovery call with me.