Alarm Systems and Lightning Rods of Trauma - Craniosacral Biodynamics
1 – 4 May 2025
The fascinating image of the nervous system immersed in fluids, with electrical impulses traveling along its branches, will be the foundation for this craniosacral biodynamics seminar, which will present a new way to track trauma charge locked directly in the body and preventing us from living fully. Etienne Peirsman’s original approach allows us to understand the systems that the brain uses to protect our organism from the external world. For the first time, we will dive into the nuclei of the brain itself and understand what takes place within them.
To gain a picture of how the brain functions in relation to trauma, we will offer a biological approach instead of a psychoanalytical one. Trauma, as an unresolved event overwhelming the system, represents simple static electricity for the brain. Trapped energy, force that could damage other structures and for this reason is locked in the body to prevent it from penetrating further.
In this craniosacral work, we look at the brain as an electrical system, and when we encounter trauma, we don’t focus on its cause. We don’t search for what caused it, we’re not interested in the content of trauma that the brain stores. We pay more attention to where, in which brain nuclei the trauma is stored.
We will learn to feel and recognize this accumulated energy. We will learn to use our hands to discharge the excess energy of trauma, so that the nuclei in the brain can begin to function again in the way they were created for. We will understand how such a physical approach allows us to let go of the story, transform its meaning or weaken its power so much that its resolution is substantially accelerated, if any further resolution is even needed.
Etienne Peirsman (USA)
A charismatic personality with an extraordinary influence on the development of the craniosacral approach to life and a huge number of students and followers. His work has gone through a spectacular evolution from a mastery in biomechanical approach to biodynamics in its purest form. The specialty of his approach is the manifestation of the heart, the expression of the long tide and their connection to the meditative and enlightened states. He said, “Drop the word therapy. That is not who and what we are. Face it, you are perfect and your heart is perfect. ”
Originally a professor of biology, who worked in the field of emotional training, primal healing and meditation. He began teaching “craniosacral” in 1991, founded several craniosacral institutions in Belgium and the Netherlands, among them the Peirsman CS Academy and the Professional Association of Craniosacral Practitioners in which he still has a position of the grandfather. He also taught “craniosacral” for nearly 10 years in the US at the Academy of Healing Arts in New Mexico.
Etienne is also famous for his charming work with babies and the book Craniosacral Therapy for Babies and Small Children (North Atlantic Books, 2006), which was also published in Czech in 2015.
The venue is Trojická 10, Prague 2, near Palackého náměstí and náměstí Pod Emauzy.
No prior therapeutic knowledge or experience is required to participate, you will gain all necessary knowledge at the seminar.
The workshop is intensive: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8:30 – 18:00, Sunday 9:00 – 14:00.
The seminar will be taught in English, consecutively translated into Czech and you will receive a certificate upon completion (bearing the name entered during registration).
Price 838 EUR + 176 EUR VAT. To reserve a place the deposit of 359 EUR must be paid in advance.
Price 751 EUR + 158 EUR VAT if the deposit is paid by 10 April 2025.
