Additional Workshops
Continuing education from world leaders in somatic therapy
CSES offers a variety of continuing education opportunities for therapists of all backgrounds. We bring therapeutic leaders to offer programs on Embyrology, Pre- and Perinatal Therapy, Advanced Biodynamics, Psychotherapy, Energy Medicine and more. We are proud to offer a host of exciting opportunities to deepen practice and understanding.
Upcoming Workshops
NEW WORKSHOP:
Continuum Exploration:
Creative Embryology - The Pleasure of Movement
with Frank Carbone
Monday - Tuesday, May 13-14, 2024
Cost: $200 - financial assistance is available
10am - 3pm
Space is limited. Advance registration is required.
About Continuum:
Continuum is a gentle somatic movement modality that blends breath, sound and movement to access the creative intelligence and healing capacity of the body. Continuum’s sound and movement practices make an art form of dissolving constraint, welcoming the liberation of the entire person at every level.
About This Workshop:
Sound, shape, color and other essential sensory ingredients support conditions and can hold a restful relational field of safe and interesting creative awareness. It has a moving wisdom like the echo of our birth sequence, that is easily connected to the nature and ease of an ocean wind. Our current life in the present moment is a creative continuum that has a clear forward, access to a life in a field that creates interesting permission for bigger things to emerge from the center of ourselves. Why not have all these facets? Why not let them shine?
We will play with a menu to deepen into the blueprint wisdom of our bodies:
Sequence
Sounds
Shapes
Awareness of Pleasurable Movements
Creative Embryonic Exploration
Exploring Gravity
Restorative Capacity
One Cell Presence
About Frank Carbone:
Frank Carbone has been a practitioner and teacher of somatic healing and sound for over 25 years. Frank draws on the principles of fluidity, movement, breath, sound and tracking pleasurable sensations to facilitate healing and transformation in his own life as well as his students and clients. Frank is the creator of WombContinuum, a unique blend of Continuum movement therapy and womb surround work developed by Ray Castellino. He has a deep understanding of the connection between the body, mind, and spirit and believes in the power of somatic practices to promote greater awareness, vitality, and well-being - developed through his studies with Emilie Conrad (Continuum), Ray Castellino (Pre- and Perinatal Psychology), Sivanada Yoga, Gyrotonics & Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
New Workshop:
Constellations in the Tide:
A Constellation Weekend for Craniosacral Practitioners
with Chari Smith & Daniel Gackle
Friday - Sunday, November 1-3 , 2024
Cost: $450
Space is limited to 12 participants. Advance registration is required.
Workshop schedule:
Friday: 6 to 9 pm
Saturday: 10 to 6 pm
Sunday: 10 to 6 pm
Full days will have 1.75 hours for lunch to give people time to eat and to integrate.
What the workshop is:
Constellation work is a tool for looking at and working with deep questions that people struggle with. It is particularly good at seeing and resolving problems that have been very difficult to budge. These can be emotional, relational, spiritual, health or finances-related questions. It is a superbly flexible tool.
One of the main principles of constellation work is that we can be deeply affected by the struggles of the family members who came before us. We may be unconsciously carrying burdens that originate in other generations. We know of no other work that is as effective, respectful ,and precise for resolving such “entanglements.”
A constellation is a like a cranial session but on a larger system than one body. It uncovers the disruptions and imprints that prevent someone from being fully alive. It’s a discipline of listening to the field, so anyone trained is BCST will be well-tuned to do this work. This workshop is limited to BCST Practitioners to explore the possibilities of crossing therapeutic mediums with participants skilled in somatic sensing and skills of presence.
Location: CSES, 3800 Arapahoe Ave, Ste 210, Boulder, CO 80303
To bring: Bring water and warm clothes as needed. We’ll have snacks and hot water for tea.
If you’re new to the work: We’ll explain this work in general and answer any questions on the first night, and again on the weekend if there are new people. You can email chari@constellationwork.ca if you need information beforehand.
How you can participate: Everyone in the room is part of the holding field of the session, which can be a surprisingly deep experience. You may also get asked to represent a person (or element) in a constellation—this requires no special skill and is also deeply healing to do. Anyone can ask to work on an issue that concerns them. How long each process takes is unpredictable, but there will be time for roughly 6 to 10 sessions over the weekend. And each constellation moves and changes everyone in the room, so transformation isn’t limited to people who decide to ask for a “turn.”
For more information: constellationwork.ca has a good general description of the work, plus some stories from people who have done the work.
About the Facilitators: Dan Gackle and Chari Smith facilitate both together and individually for the past seven years and are recent graduates of the BCST training at CSES, as well as the Castellino Trainings’ Foundation Training. They’re excited to bring the two worlds into connection.
Some financial assistance may be available - please reach out if participating is cost-prohibitive.
Responsive Body
Movement and Embodied Practices to Awaken the Body’s Intelligence
with Holly Johnston & Elizabeth Chitty Sandoval
Dates: NOT CURRENTLY SCHEDULED DUE TO COVID-19 - SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST FOR DATE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cost: $350 for full Workshop; $25 for Movement Lab Drop-In
Responsive Body is an embodied process for encountering the body's inherent capacity as a response system for transformation and healing. Through guided movement, dialogue and hands-on body-to-body-work, we will explore how our bodies can speak directly to us, move us through challenge, and be a deep resource for recovery. Utilizing principles from Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy and Dance as Embodiment, the workshop will deepen our sense of being-body, through full-bodied listening and encounters with intelligent unfolding.
This workshop is tailored towards somatic therapists looking to expand their sense of embodiment and capacity to feel sensation; and dancers looking to strengthen their understanding of movement as bodied language and practice for transformative healing. No dance experience necessary to participate, the movement lab will guide everyone through an experience of their body’s capacity to move and express.