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CranioSacral Therapy and the Stress Trauma Response
Prerequisite: CranioSacral Therapy 2 (CS2)
CranioSacral Therapy and the Stress Trauma Response; Self-Regulation, Significance Detector and Arcing (CSSTR)This specialized course is designed to deepen your understanding of how trauma impacts the body—and how skilled manual therapy can support release and healing. While we do not treat trauma itself or the events surrounding it, we focus on addressing the body’s somatic responses—specifically how soft tissues absorb, store, and adapt to traumatic experiences. Trauma can become embedded within the fascial system, muscles, and other connective tissues, creating patterns of tension, restriction, and dysfunction. Over time, the body compensates in an effort to protect itself, which can lead to chronic pain, dysfunction, or emotional holding patterns. Through the gentle, precise techniques of CranioSacral Therapy (CST), practitioners can help release these restrictions, restoring balance, ease, and a renewed sense of well-being. This course emphasizes the importance of understanding the significance detector and its role in the stress-trauma response. Core CST elements are foundational throughout, including the CranioSacral Rhythm, energy cysts, therapeutic presence, and the body’s inner wisdom. By integrating this knowledge, practitioners can offer more effective, compassionate support—helping clients move toward greater resilience and well-being. CSSTR Course Highlights- Definition of stress and trauma, and their relation to CST
- Stress- and trauma-related symptoms and behavioral responses
- Common trauma types seen in the CST clinic
- The role of the significance detector in the stress-trauma connection
- Creating safety and working in the Here & Now during hands-on therapy
- Understanding the window of tolerance and its zones in manual therapy
- Identifying hyper- and hypo-arousal states within the window of tolerance
- Palpating the window of tolerance using the significance detector
- Recognizing body movements and sensations as expressions of the stress-trauma response
- Navigating inner and outer boundaries in trauma-informed work
- Therapist psychological hygiene and self-regulation
- Principles for working safely with trauma
TestimonialsThe trauma course took things to a completely different level. Maybe the Top number 1 course I have taken so far and a course that I will probably repeat just for the sake of my own processes also.
~Harri This is NOT the course you can miss! If the CST paradigm has somehow changed your thoughts on what therapy and treating people is, then this course will revolutionize those views. On top of that it will change self regulation and self healing to be gentler and 100 times more effective.
~Tuomas The course contained a lot of things that everyone should be aware of in this life, especially about working with trauma - it can also be done in gentleness. A lot of information that deepened and changed my way of treating. Also the understanding and awareness of my own body and its function during treatments. The window of tolerance is essential part of this modality.
~Sari
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