Body Intelligence Post Graduate Courses

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​Previous seminars

Topic                    :   The Realms of Flames & Ice (understanding & treating stuck survival strategies)

Location             :   Pomona, Qld, Australia

Date                     :   13 Sept 2026

Time                     :   Thursday - Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm ; Sunday 9.30am -4pm

Total price         :   175 AUD

Prerequisites   :   2 year Bcst diploma

Tutor                    :   Andy Pike

 

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Topic                    :   Bcst & the Primitive Reflexes

Location             :   Pomona, Qld, Australia

Date                     :  11-14 March 2027

Time                     :   Thursday - Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm ; Sunday 9.30am -4pm

Total price         :   800 AUD

Prerequisites   :   2 year Bcst diploma

Tutor                     :  Andy Pike

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Topic                    :   Bcst & the Primitive Reflexes

Location             :   Bengaluru, India

Date                     :   19-22 August 2027

Time                     :   Thursday - Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm ; Sunday 9.30am -4pm

Total price          :   600 CAD

Prerequisites   :   2 year Bcst diploma 

Tutor                     :  Andy Pike

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List of post graduate Body Intelligence courses 

 

Most people are aware of the lifelong autonomic reflexes like blinking, sneezing, coughing and withdrawing from nociceptive stimulus etc. We notice them because they part of our day to day physiologic function, and they feel natural (even if some aren’t pleasant). They feel natural as they are integrated into our sensory-motor system as a way of our body maintaining balance in the face of internal and external demands. 

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However, many people are unaware that there are often more rudimentary unintegrated reflexes running in the background which can compromise function and limit the expression of an individuals health. These are the primitive reflexes which haven’t integrated into the wholistic development and function of the body. 

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In ideal conditions the mid brain and neocortex develop to eventually inhibit these primitive reflexes and are usually fully integrated within the first year. If one or more of these reflexes are not integrated, within this time frame, then they will generally be identified by relevant health professionals and treated in the most appropriate way, biodynamic craniosacral therapy being one of these (high on the list). 

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Yet, it is very common for one or more of these primitive reflexes to be retained beyond the infant years into the teenage and adult years, in fact research studies show that up to seventy five percent of the adult population demonstrate unintegrated primitive reflex patterns. That is a huge proportion of the population! But when do you hear of adults receiving treatment/s to address this? The answer is very rarely, because the symptoms are generally packaged into other forms of dysfunction rationale and diagnosis and what could be considered an underlying cause is not realised. 

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As biodynamic craniosacral practitioners we are very well positioned to pick up on the various unintegrated primitive reflex patterns, such as the; Fear paralysis reflex - which is a primal in-utero survival strategy (dorsal vagus parasympathetic mediated), Moro reflex (startle - sympathetic nervous system mediated), Galant reflex (thoraco-lumbosacral spine), Asymmetric tonic neck reflex (cervical spine), Tonic labyrinthine (vestibular balance), rooting reflex (facial complex) and recognise how integrated reflexes feel in relation to the fluid and potency midlines, mid tide, long tide and dynamic stillness.

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There is a significant trauma resolution component to this seminar which primarily focuses on the fear paralysis (FPR) and Moro reflexes. The reason for this is when these particular reflexes get to integrate sufficiently then the other reflexes tend to integrate as well. 

This is a very valuable post grad to help attune to the body intelligence with a deeper and more nuanced felt-sense understanding.   

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Use of Intention & Non-Doing

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Refining biodynamic touch and perception skills requires an orientation to deep health that includes a connection with a relational field of dynamic stillness. To achieve this it needs the practitioner to let go of the familiar so that the body can truly unfold itself without containment from the practitioners subtle intentions. 

The essence of nature is undivided. Nothing needs to be done in order for it to be whole. However, the human habit of ‘doing’ results in an inevitable division as the ‘doer’ has separated from the whole to try and alter something. For example, when a therapist applies a technique, with the intention of fixing a problem, the habit to ‘do’ fragments the inherent nature of a relational field.  

We are caught up in our conditioning and that leads us to narrow the health possibilities for the client. By understanding that our habitual use of intention (or doing) derives from our own patterns of prior experience provides a great insight. This insight is to ’see’ beyond the limitations of that which is familiar and illuminate the nature of the unknown. Such insight involves a deep felt-sense enabling a relational field which begets physiologic balance.

Are we as BCST practitioners aware of these subtle intentions?
Is there a remedy for such habitual intention?
Can we be ok with freedom from the known in this context?
What is just knowing?
How do we invite non-doing?

This post graduate seminar will explore:

• The ramifications of intention

• Differing level’s of doing in the therapeutic setting

• The client needing to do something

• Letting go of doing (noticing rather than intention to let go) 

• Thought, identification and the subtle nature of intention

• Experiencing versus Experience

• Felt-sense hormesis and sensation based equanimity

• Understanding different approaches to non-doing

• Pandiculation

• Dynamic stillness & perception beyond the senses (including thought)

• Freedom from the known & compassion 

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Brain in Depth

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This workshop will explore the deep core nuclei of the brain. Distinguish between grey and white matter - the way the brain is formed into cortex and fibre tracts and basal nuclei. The brain has the most remarkable neural flows and hot spots of activities. Each area of the brain will be mapped and discussed to create a supersensitive touch that enables you to differentiate areas and flows of the brain. In addition, exploring new research on the flow of CSF not just around the brain but washing through it. Neuroglial cells and neural stem cells will also be explored.

• Glymphatic system

• New research on glial cells and stem cells

• Deep fibre tracts and the corpus collosum

• Basal nuclei, insula, pre-frontal cortex

• Limbic system in depth

• Mapping key cortical centres

• Feeling neurons and neurotransmitters

• Brain plasticity and relational touch   

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Gut & Microbiome

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This course teaches the relationship of guts to midline in specific detail with regards to the autonomic midline, lymphatic midline, and arterial and venous midlines. Exploring the ever expanding researched Gut-Brain-Axis, and the implicit relationship of the gut biome and mucosa on neurological health. 

This will lead us into exploring some poignant relationships for clinical consideration.

• the embryological formation of the guts and nervous system, and how these midlines developed together with particular focus on endoderm, (early gut tube) and ectoderm (fluid midline) 

• the trauma response in hyperarousal and freeze in the light of these anatomical relationships 

• the enteric nervous system is presented and considered as an independently functioning nervous system.

• the neurotransmitters that are produced and located in the gut are explored in terms of their possible responsibility in supporting psychological and neurological health.

• viscerosomatic reflexes and the connection between specific viscera and spinal nerves, and facilitated segments arising from irritated or dysfunctional viscera…and vice versa. 

• an essential learning about restoring health to the mucousa and microbiome of the gut.

• Delving into the world of organs, their motility, and sphincters as gateways from each individual ecosystem that generates a health of this whole internal and fascinating creature.

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Immune System

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Blood

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