My purpose in the classroom

In my classes, I am teaching techniques, but it becomes a collaboration of the whole classroom full of students, working together to understand, to help each other to achieve the right touch, to be able to palpate specific tissues like the bones, the brain, the organs, the joint capsules, etc. It takes a fair amount of awareness.

My goal is to relate to every student in the room, and to teach them at the level where they find themselves in that moment. Often, while the students are practicing what I have just demonstrated, I will go around the room and put my hands on each student's hands to help them to feel what I have described to them. It is very intimate and personal and individual. Every student in the room has to be shown in the way that they will feel it most effectively.

The whole class becomes a dialogue of humans and their different styles of learning, helping each other to grasp the beauty of the human body and how it was designed to have wholeness in health, so that after they leave my class, they will be able to assist their future clients in transforming their bodies to be healthier and to feel better. 

An awesome moment for me was in the last class that I taught, Craniosacral Therapy Level 2, which provided intraoral training. As I was demonstrating something on the maxilla, the person on the table didn’t have the motion she needed in the maxilla. The techniques I had learned were not going to be sufficient to get that maxilla moving the way it should. So on the spot, with everyone watching, I came up with a technique, based on the principles behind this work, to treat her maxilla.

Everyone saw the result. Her face gained the shape it had lacked. The change was shocking, and she felt so much better after that one technique. The students practiced it, and there were a lot of profound results from that one technique. I was amazed and grateful for all of the training I have had over the last 16 years that led me to that moment of being able to share the gems (principles) and apply them in a way to meet the anatomy of the human being under my hands.

This is what I want to pass on to other therapists!