Heart Ignition - Working with the Face and the Heart

This level of training will focus on what is called the cranio-facial-cardiac module in embryology. Detailed information and skills will be taught about coming into relationship with the fluid fields of the head, neck and the face. Differentiation of the neurocranium, chondrocranium and viscerocranium will be taught. The face derives from the endoderm and is the top end of the foregut. It organizes the growth of the brain and heart. Specific palpation skills will be taught to evaluate and treat the fluid body of the face and foregut by learning the significance of the pharyngeal arches of the embryo. This will then be brought together with the late stages of the development of the cardiovascular system to finish the details of heart ignition. Of special interest will be the cranial nerves and the relationship of the vagus nerve to the heart in both embryonic development as well as during infancy and childhood. The role of projection and transference in the therapeutic relationship will be reframed in a pre and perinatal psychology context.

Learning Goals:

• Learn the embryological development of the face.

• Continue demonstrating the developmental movements of the heart tube in relationship.

• Understand the development of the cranial nerves in emotional development.