Birth Ignition - The Heart – Brain Connection Before and After Birth

This level of training will focus on the relationship of the developing heart to the developing brain including the arch arteries in the neck. The heart and brain are invited to arise by the superior portion of the gut tube called the pharynx. Specific skills for the fluid body will be taught to balance the space above and below the foramen magnum as a single continuum of the heart-brain complex. An introduction to the development of the cranial base will be presented along with palpation skills to contact its formation through the metabolic fields (active shaping movements of the fluid body. This includes teachings on the third ventricle called a biodynamic CV3 (clearing the third ventricle). Detailed information will be taught on connecting the embryonic period of cardiovascular development with its perinatal development. In addition the relationship of the first breath of an infant and Primary Respiration will be practiced. This is a deepening of the study of “birth ignition.”

Learning Goals:

• Introduction to the movement of embryonic metabolic fields as specific shapes in the fluid body.

• Perform the skills of balancing the temporal bones and sphenoid bone as an expression of their embryological development.

• Analyze the relationship of embryonic development to infant heart brain development.