Ger and Mary will be there!  Its a great place to keep up with developments in CST worldwide and to meet old friends and make some new ones.

The Institute will be welcoming top instructors from the US for three days of inspiration and ongoing traning in a symposium setting, with two days of clinical symposium and one day of practical application.   This is suitable for those at all levels of CranioSacral Therapy training.  Find out more about the programe, contents at www.upledger.co.uk

CST II Workshop – venue changed from Kerdiffstown House to Lawlors Hotel, Poplar Square, Naas, Co Kildare.

We have been informed that some building work  has commenced in Kerdiffstown House and as a result we are moving the CST II workshop as noise from these works may interfere with the class.  The workshop will now be run in Lawlors Hotel, Poplar Square, Naas, Co Kildare.

Accommodation is not affected and Kerdiffstown House is looking forward to welcoming all participating students.  As lunch was part of the accommodation option we will reimburse you €40 to cover your lunch costs in Naas.  There are many coffee shops and resturants in the town.

Lawlors Hotel is about 15 minutes from Kerdiffstown House. If you need help with transport please let us know.  The hotel have advised us that their parking is reserved for residents only and they have suggested using the church car park, this costs €3.00 per day and is close to the hotel.

For those of you who have taken the option to stay in Kerdiffstown on Thursday night, dinner is part of your package and will be served at 7pm.  Just to be clear there is only one sitting for each meal, dinner at 7pm each evening and breakfast at 8am each morning.

Registration for the course is at 8.45am on Friday morning in Lawlors Hotel and we  finish up at about 3.00pm on Monday.  Looking forward to meeting up with you.

Mary & Ger

We have been informed that some building work  has commenced in Kerdiffstown House and as a result we are moving the SER II workshop as noise from these works may interfere with the class.  The workshop will now be run in The Fairgreen Holistic Clinic, Naas, Co Kildare.

Accommodation is not affected and Kerdiffstown House is looking forward to welcoming all participating students.  As lunch was part of the accommodation option we will reimburse you €40 to cover your lunch costs in Naas.  There are many coffee shops and resturants in the town.

The Fairgreen Holistic Clinic is about 15 minutes from Kerdiffstown House. If you need help with transport please let us know.

For those of you who have taken the option to stay in Kerdiffstown on Thursday night, dinner is part of your package and will be served at 7pm.  Just to be clear there is only one sitting for each meal, dinner at 7pm each evening and breakfast at 8am each morning.

Registration for the course is at 8.45am on Friday morning in The Fairgreen Holistic Clinic and we  finish up at about 3.00pm on Monday.  Looking forward to meeting up with you.

Ger & Mary

Experience Equus Level I CranioSacral Therapy

Developed by Dr. Sandi Howlett DC CST-D 

Experience Equus is 4 days of CST for horses, where we have a classroom setting in the mornings, and lab or hands on sessions all afternoon.  All of the practice is on horses, not people.  We cover how CST can be applied to horses and especially focus on the horse’s way of being in the world, so as to bring in elements of equine facilitated therapy, or horse behavior, as this is done to help the students gain a perspective of the clinical application of CST on horses and how it is uniquely different from working with humans.

Dr. Howlett (Sandi) is a 1987 graduate of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto, and spent the first 18 years of her professional career in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. She relocated to Peterborough, Ontario in September 2005.  Dr. Howlett has been using CranioSacral Therapy (CST) techniques in her practice since 1992.  She has completed her Advanced II training, and has received her diplomate certification (CST-D).

Following the CST networks and opportunities for advancement, Dr. Howlett has added SomatoEmotional Release (SER), Heart Centered Therapy (HCT), and Brain Curriculum (BC), and Lymphatic Drainage Therapy (LDT) to her therapeutic skill set.    She often volunteers as a teaching assistant from the introductory to advanced levels and is a certified Teaching Assistant (TA).

Sandi offers a comparison, wherever possible and practical, from CST 1, so there are elements of a review of sorts, but there are more techniques and techniques specifically adapted for horses.

Because we are working with horses, who are energetic, sentient, magnificent beings, we as practitioners, need to be aware of our own energy fields and how we move in the world with our energy, as the horse responds to that first and foremost and does not rely on language.  Having said that, there are exercises in the lab to discover ourselves as well as practicing being neutral so that we may approach and engage with the horse.  Again, this may be interpreted as some as equine facilitated therapy, but we are not asking the horses to assist us in clearing our own issues, but we need to be aware of whether or not our ‘stuff’ is in the way of an effective therapist – client rapport and relationship.

Description of the workshop Experience Equus

Level 1

This 4 day class provides an opportunity for CranioSacral Therapists to develop and expand their non-verbal dialoguing skills through the exploration of inter-species communication.  Therapists learn to listen with their hands, their hearts, and their inner wisdom.

Course content includes introduction to equine anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, as well as CranioSacral techniques for horses.  Theory and practical application is included.  Participants receive lectures in the mornings, with afternoon practice sessions with horses using equine CranioSacral Therapy.

Course syllabus also includes:

• CranioSacral Rhythm
• Listening Stations
• Tissue Release
• Safety
• Disphragms
• Cranial Vault Anatomy and techniques
• Equine Behavior
• Energy and Awareness
• Musculoskeletal System
• Dural Tube
• TMJ
• Scapula
• Sacrosciatic Ligament and more

Pre-requisite: CST 1 (offered by Upledger Ireland) and prior horse experience.

Course Fee: €715 (only €50 deposit required to reserve your place)

Level 2

Provides an opportunity for CranioSacral Therapists to continue to explore and expand their equine CST skills and interspecies communications.  Course material is more in-depth, and techniques learned in Level 1 are reviewed, expanded upon and augmented by techniques to include sutures, neural pathways and kinetic chains.

Course syllabus includes:

• Cranial Sutures
• Cranial Nerves and entry/exit points in the skull
• Stomatognathic System
• Equine Gait and Confirmation
• Autonomic Nervous System
• More Biomechanics
• Facilitated Segments and Introduction to Equine Energy Cysts
• Advanced Sacrosciatic Ligament
• Sternum and Rib techniques
• Stay Apparatus
• Extremity Anamatoy and Techniques and more

Pre-requisite: SER I (offered by Upledger Ireland) and prior horse experience.

Dates for level two have yet to be arranged.

Caring for the Carers

For the past 6 years a group of therapists have joined Heath Wilson CST-T in offering CST treatments to carers on the Saturday of their annual weekend.  It is so very popular that Health has been requested to come and bring therapists this year again.

Heath and the therapists offer their services for free.  The first year it was Mike Wilson, Deirdre Kennedy, Susan McDermott and Heath and they were mobbed, everyone wanted treatments, when word went out.

Having experienced the hardship some of these people have to cope with often with two family members and no support, this weekend for them is wonderful.

Venue: Gleneagles Hotel, Killarney, Co Kerry 

Date: Saturday 24th March 2012

Anybody from CST I up is most welcome if you have acupuncture or another therapy as well, you are more than welcome.  We start at 10am and finish at 4.30pm.  Lunch and beverages provided.  Bring your own plinths covers etc.

Those who would like to support Heath and the carers on this day please contact:-

Heath Wilson on 086 822 9058.

Anatomy and Physiology in Cork

Laurence Hattersley is running an Anatomy and Physiology course this year the dates are as follows:-

April 14th and 15th
May 12th and 13th
June 2nd and 3rd

The course runs for six days in total with an exam to be taken at a date subsequent to this to achieve a recognised ITEC qualification.

Cost:   €450  payable directly to Laurence.

Contact: Laurence Hattersley
Mobile 087 763 9802
Email: lvhattersley@live.ie

Standing in 30 acres of leafy green County Kildare countryside and only 5 minutes from Naas, Kerdiffstown House is a magnificent 15th century country house hidden away from the hustle and bustle and busyness of everyday life.  Kerdiffstown House offers all it’s guests a very warm, individual welcome with a high level of personal service and a growing range of facilities.

The food in Kerdiffstown House is legendary – and guests speak of it in glowing terms… and of the staff who prepare and serve it.

Kerdiffstown House has a wide range of guest facilities.  These include 86 Bedrooms and caters for 103 guests in total.  Along with bedroom accommadation facilities include a Games Room, TV Room, Reading room and Dining room.

You have a few options for staying or just eating there.

Upledger Institute Ireland will collect ALL fees for Kerdiffstown House.

To book into Kerdiffstown House, send completed registration form stating clearly which option you require  and include FULL PAYMENT, cheques to be made payable to Upledger Institute Ireland. 

Booking of accommodation and meals must be done at least 4 weeks prior to commencement of workshop.

If no fee is received in this time we cannot guarantee a room for you.  Most rooms are not ensuite and those that are will be allocated on a first come basis.

Payments can be made by cheque, cash or bank transfer.

Please contact us on 045 898243 if you have any queries.

DIRECTIONS

Directions from Dublin International Airport
Kerdiffstown House Estate is approximately a 25 minute drive from Dublin International Airport.  Travelling south bound on the M50, take the exit for the N7 (the Naas Road) and travel towards Naas.  Once on the N7 take the junction 8 exit signposted for Johnstown / Kill, take the 4th exit marked Sallins, at the next roundabout take the 2nd exit marked Sallins, the entrance is 500 years from the exit on the right.

Directions from Dubin’s City Centre
Kerdiffstown House is approximately a 30 minute drive from Dublin’s city centre.  Follow the signs for the M50, once on the M50 take the exit for the N7 (the Naas Road) and travel towards Naas.  Once on the N7 take the junction 8 exit signposted for Johnstown / Kill, take the 4th exit marked Sallins, at the next roundabout take the 2nd exit marked Sallins, the entrance is 500 yards from the exit on the right.

Directions from Naas, Co Kildare
Kerdiffstown House is approximately a 5 minute drive from Naas, Co Kildare.  From Naas take the N7 exit junction 8 signposted Johnstown / Kill.  Take the first left at the roundabout, signposted from Sallins, the entrance is 500 yards on the right.

Directions from the South
Take the N7 northbound.  Exit at Junction 8 signposted ‘Johnstown’.  Take the first left at the roundabout, signposted from Sallins, the entrance is 500 yards on the right.

By train
The closest train station is Sallins and the taxi fee from the station to Kerdiffstown House is €8.00 (approx.)

If you have news of an event or something happening in the CST world that you would like to share please call or email me mary.upledger@gmail.com or 087 2696355

At Upledger Ireland we have had a busy year. We are planning the 2012 schedule and it includes Paediatrics I with Carol McLellan and a new workshop Experience Equus with Dr Sandi Howlett. Last August we had a visit from John Matthew Upledger CEO of Upledger Institute and Dawn Langnes International Director. We got to know JM and Dawn and showed them the local area and they meet up with some of the team!

We will be heading for Florida for  Beyond the Dura 19^th to 22^nd April 2012.

The conference is entitled New Horizons of CranioSacral Therapy. It will celebrate Dr John’s 80^th birthday and the 30^th anniversary of the first printing of CranioSacral Therapy. This is the 11^th International Upledger Beyond the Dura Research conference. It is a great reunion of the elite of CranioSacral Therapy practitioners from around the world. The conference explores the development of Craniosacral Therapy and we are invited to bring our ideas, our hands and our desire for exploring the future of CST.  Join us if you can!

Congratulations to all who took part in this year’s exams Techniques Certification exam. If you are struggling with the essays or are getting ready for the practical and multiple choice, remember you don’t have to do it alone we are here to support you when you need it. Attending CST I or II can be useful for revising the material for the exam. If you have applied for the exam and have not had a chance to TA yet you can repeat the class for 270euro. We can help you get in touch with others in your area who are getting ready for the exam or contact me directly.

Finally congrats to Ger who taught his first CST I workshop in October!

I’ll be updating this page on a monthly basis so keep the news rolling in.

Mary

by  Anne Cronin BSc., H.Dip. Ed. CST www.iacstireland.com

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY has been part of the Module for Complementary Therapy offered to Final Year Nursing students at University College Cork since 2007. Twenty five 4th Year Nursing students from Midwifery, General, Mental Health and Disability/Special Needs have been choosing this module since the module was first introduced. The co-ordinator, Anna O’Leary and her team have carefully selected a variety of therapies that are integrated with orthodox medicine/nursing, facilitating an introductory class for nursing students close to their completion of initial training. Evaluation by students, teachers and the facilitator team allows for tailor-made content and an approach designed to needs of the students and Faculty. Specific goals linked to learning outcomes are set down by the faculty from the onset.

Planning is underway for this module to be made available to post-graduate nursing students in the near future subject to funding.

As a Science post-graduate of UCC, I am excited and honoured to be available to my alma mater to give something in return. Student nurses have shown passion and enthusiasm to learn something of the therapies such as craniosacral therapy and agree there are many applications in their fields. It is an opportunity for a worthwhile forum for exchange of ideas and practise (adult and paediatrics), in the current approach to health. Though the input is limited to two hours annually, the scope for introducing this adaptable and rapidly expanding body therapy, CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY is expansive and rewarding. As a graduate of Upledger Institute, I am privileged to bring information on CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY training to students of nursing.