course overview and schedule

Instructor

Margaret Rosenau, RCST®, SIH owner and approved BCTA instructor

Upcoming Dates

2025 Dates to be announced

Course Overview

A course for trauma and healing professionals, as well as bodyworkers, who seek to increase their felt sense of the Autonomic Nervous System and its capacity to support resilience.

This body-oriented course will take a deep somatic dive into the nature of resilience and trauma and the physiology of fluids and nerves. Students will gain a felt sense understanding of both the autonomic nervous system and the resilient and wise fluids of the body.

The course will be taught biodynamically, oriented to the coherent, timeless intelligence within and around us. From a biodynamic perspective, our bodies, stories and choices are Intelligent.  Exploring trauma and the ANS through a Biodynamic lens is a reliable route to re-framing our past challenges and building resiliency in the autonomic nervous system.

This course  is offered separately, for people with and without a lot of  experience using their hands to support the healing process (bodyworkers versus trauma professionals). The trauma professionals version of this course is perfect for Somatic Experiencing students or practitioners who want to deepen their hands-on skills. Exercises will include hands-on work, both seated and at tables. The course was created for trauma professionals and those who work supporting people with acute or chronic trauma. This course will expand participants’ knowledge about the nature of trauma and the role of the autonomic nervous system in both remembering and resolving difficult experiences. Class exercises and lectures will create opportunities for students to learn both about how the nervous system works and about their own nervous system and its challenges and strengths.

Course Content Includes:

• The components of the Biodynamic Paradigm & Relational Field

• The anatomy, physiology and Intelligence in each branch of the ANS

• Fluid dynamics and the fluid field

• Differentiating activation from potency within fluid

• The nature of trauma and resiliency

• Reframing the Window of Tolerance: mapping blueprints and imprints

• Recognition of Hyper/Hypo/Resourced ANS states

Prerequisites

In order to take this course, you must meet at least ONE of the following prerequisites:

• Complete the School of Inner Health’s Biodynamic Principles course. You may pay for both courses as a bundle – a 12% discount.

• Complete the School of Inner Health’s 3-Day Online Introduction to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy course.  You may pay for both courses as a bundle  – a 12% discount.

• Complete a 35-hour Introduction to Craniosacral Biodynamics course

• Complete at least the first module of a full Craniosacral Certification Training

• At least two years of experience working in a professional capacity with the autonomic nervous system / trauma

Class Venue

School of Inner Health