Connected Hearts - Spiral Movement in the Blood and Heart

This level of training helps students deepen to the biodynamic skills of coupled (joint) cardiovascular systems and hearts. When a client and therapist are in a therapeutic relationship, not only their brains begin to resonate together, but also their cardiovascular systems. This class will focus on revisioning the therapeutic relationship as a linking of two embryonic circulatory systems. The hands and arms of the practitioner represent the connecting stalk and umbilical cord of the embryo connecting its central body to its placenta. Palpation will be taught with Primary Respiration to sense the metabolic exchange happening between the client and therapist within the blood and heart in the tidal body and fluid body as a spiral. The reciprocal tension potency (RTP) and the longitudinal fluctuation of the three dimensional fluid body will be introduced.

Learning Goals:

• Analyze the four types of circulatory systems as models of the therapeutic relationship.

• Describe and experience the four basic developmental movements of the embryonic heart tube.

• Continue and improve the therapeutic skill of witnessing. 

Total time: 601 minutes, 32 seconds