Michael Kern: 2020

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Craniosacral Rhythms

Craniosacral therapy is a holistic therapy that uses gentle touch to bring the body back to optimal health. It works with subtle rhythmic motions that are expressed in the body, on the principle that as long as these rhythms are expressed freely a state of good health follows. These subtle levels of physiology dictate how we function, in body, mind and spirit. Michael Kern co-founded the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust in 1989 as a teaching facility for those who want an in-depth training in this healing art.

Motions of Life

A key principle of Craniosacral Therapy is that life is expressed as motion. In health all tissues and fluids in the body express gentle and involuntary breath-like movements, that can be described as an inhalation and exhalation. All living cells subtly breathe with these motions of life, but these rhythms may become compromised as a result of unresolved stresses or traumas that are held in the body. By gently facilitating these rhythmic movements in places of stuckness or inertia, practitioners can support the body towards a state of optimum health.

Dynamic Stillness

Craniosacral Therapists trained in the ‘biodynamic’ approach also recognise a ground of deep stillness that underlies all our day to day physiological functions and activities. This stillness is a unified and essential ground state of being that exists within the core of everything, with no object, subject or duality. An experience of ‘dynamic stillness’ can become accessible when we quieten our minds and deeply let go and rest in our natural state, resulting in a reconnection to our full potential for healing.

Motion from Stillness

Once we emerge from an experience of dynamic stillness, we never come out in the same way that we went in! Something changes and re-organises towards health. Within the stillness there is an opportunity for the intelligent forces of the ‘Breath of Life’ to make any corrections and adjustments to the body.

The Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust in London trains practitioners to work with the subtle rhythms of life and to reconnect clients with their full potential of health.

About Michael Graham Kern

Michael Kern is a specialist in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, former Osteopath and a Naturopath. Kern has been a pioneering force in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, running courses on the subject in the UK and internationally, as well as co-founding the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust in London.

As a leading proponent of the biodynamic approach - and throughout his career as a practicing Osteopath, Naturopath and Craniosacral Therapist – Kern has taught courses in Craniosacral Therapy in the UK, as well as in Russia, USA, Switzerland, Italy, Czech Republic, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Poland and Germany. In the UK, Kern has taught at the College of Osteopaths, the Centre for Professional Development in Osteopathy, the International Cranial Association, and the University of Westminster.

Kern further develops and promotes Craniosacral Therapy through his position as the founder and principal of the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust. Based in London, the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust focuses on teaching Practitioner Training courses and post-graduate courses in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy; the Trust also runs introductory seminars to further develop its base.

Kern gained his Osteopathic education from the College of Osteopaths in London, where he graduated with a Diploma in Osteopathy and Naturopathy - with honours - in 1988. In 1989 Kern was awarded membership of the Cranial Osteopathic Association - now the International Cranial Association.

Further to his practice and his teachings of Craniosacral Therapy, Kern is also the author of a book on the subject titled ‘Wisdom in the Body – The Craniosacral Approach to Essential Health’, which is now available in 10 languages.