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Hello CSWCD-V folks,

Please introduce yourselves on this thread. What's your name? Where do you live? What are you hoping to get out of this course?

-Eric

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Hello Lyrea and welcome to class. We are excited that you are here! Your practice sounds fantastic and I am sure people in our community are appreciating your services very much. Thanks for introducing yourself and I look forward to working with you over the next weeks. This course is fantastic and you will certainly find new ideas for your work, Andrea
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I’ve had an osteopathic manual therapy practice in rural southwest Wisconsin for more than 25 years. During this time I dove deeply into the Barral and Chikly curriculums, along with therapeutic yoga and a few other things. I’m always on the lookout for additional ideas to support clients and thus I am here with you. It’s good to meet all of you!
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Hi Everyone,
I'm Sarah. 🫶 I'm CST-T and massage therapist in Dallas, TX. I've had the privilege of T/Aing with Eric when he's come through Austin and have met a few of you in other classes (and it's so exciting to see y'all in class! ). I fell in love with CranioSacral Therapy about 8 years ago, as I believe it's been a therapy that continues to help me out of my own Chronic Depletion. I decided to sign up for this class to gain insight on what I'm feeling in my clients (many of them with complex health issues and trauma) as well as deepen some insights on my own journey experiencing this work. I think this is going to be a great month working with y'all ❤️

Hi, I'm Anna and I am a physical therapist practicing in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I have been practicing for over 14 years and I have been integrating CST into my work for the last 7 years which has been life changing both for myself and for my clients. I am super excited about this particular course because I have a number of people that I treat that have no resilience and are clearly depleted. While I am able to help I feel like it is very slow progress. I am grateful to be learning how to support them more with increased efficiency!! I am also super grateful to apply these concepts for my own health journey and start rebuilding my own resilience!

Hello from Kingston, NY. I am CST-T and NYS licensed massage therapist. I have been in somatic therapy for over 25 years with a background in Upledger CST, Biodynamic CST, Hugh Milne's CST and Hakomi/Psychosynthesis counseling, This work has been my personal and spiritual growth path including learning from clients navigating their own paths. As has been said, more and more people are coming with complex conditions and so much stress. My daughter has severe long covid so my interest in working with chronic conditions is personal . I am excited to be in a group of seekers in the cranial field and to learning more about how to help myself and others in this stressful world. Is there anyone else anywhere near Kingston who would like to explore this work together?

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welcome Heidi! Here's to an engaging journey!
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Hi everyone! I'm Brian from Holyoke, MA. My private practice is in Chicopee, MA. I started my CST journey in 2004, completed technique certification in 2008, and attended ADV2 in 2012. When the pandemic hit in 2020 and I stopped seeing clients, my own personal chronic depletion / burnout surfaced. It has been a road to recovery since then. And because clients in my practice often mirror my life, I have been seeing more and more clients who also are experiencing depletion in their system.

I am looking forward to learning more about how to support resilience in the system - for both clients and myself. I am hoping to to widen the lense in which I receive information from the client/IW so I can be even more in tune with what the system is asking for and needs.

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welcome Brian! I think you are in the right place!
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Would you care to share some of your resilience tools?

I know if I can reconnect with the woods, my spirit will be lighter. I also find a lot of comfort in journaling and deploy exercise to burn steam and feel energized. Somewhere along my path I made a list of these, and it fluctuates with my attention.
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Hi I'm Jen from Upton Mass. I am a CST-T and a Reiki Master. I have had my own practice for the past 5 years. I have really connected with the deep brain work and love to work with post-concussion/TBI clients. I look forward to learning more about feeling core restrictions and restriction patterns. I am happy to be here! (I'm the one with the broken camera!)

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Hello Jennifer and welcome to the class! We are excited to see you here. How wonderful that you are working with concussions and TBI clients! Learning how to recognize and treat patterns in the body from a systems-perspective will definitely assist you in the brain work. I also think that the material of this works will offer you a new paradigm that will help deepen your therapeutic presence and ask you to view the Craniosacral work from a different angle. I am here to support you! Andrea
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Hello, I’m Heng, a medical doctor from Thailand working in the field of anti-aging and preventive medicine at a wellness center. My areas of interest also include sexual health, holistic medicine, and integrative approaches in term of medical based and alternative based practice. i love learning new things from Barral, Upledger, Tao, Tantra, Meridians etc. and integrate all of those into personalized care to better support my patient in what ever he/she needs.

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welcome! and what a cool area of expertise! I hope this adds dimensions to what you already do.
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Hi, I'm Brittany Box. I am a licensed massage therapist near Kansas City, Missouri. I have my own practice where I collaborate with a chiropractor and nurse practitioner. I also have been mentoring a newer massage therapist who is a contractor for me. She has started training in CST, YAY! This year I am taking VM1 as well. My hope is that the chiropractor and nurse practitioner will start learning CST or VM soon. I am so happy to be in this class. I know it will be beneficial to my clients, but myself as well.

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My name is Hannah Poole and I am a registered massage therapist in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. I have been practising for 10 years total focusing on Reiki, light touch myofascial release, lympathic drainage, oncology massage therapy and for the last 2.5 years CST. I am so excited to be part of this course and learn to integrate what I have already learned into new and meaningful pathways.

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Welcome Hannah. I can imagine with your client population there's quite a contributing- factors tree. I feel that's true for most of us, but people seeking oncology massage have definitive and demonstrable hurdles they are facing every day. Bless you for doing this work....I know in my community there's a great need. Hopefully you find a systems approach helps you be even more effective in integrating your therapeutic space.
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Hi all, my name is Alexandra. I live in Flagstaff, AZ. I am hoping to find a common language to support what I already feel in my hands when working with my main population- chronic, complex disease. I am in the integrative medicine field so hope to bring a different perspective and deepen my learning.

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Hi Alexandra. Your work sounds very interesting. How often are you integrating manual therapy into your integrative health treatments. Is it a majority of your practice? I would imagine you're managing nutrition and lifestyle factors as well. I have a vision of some day building community where I can be in collaborative space with someone supporting those other domains of wellness more directly than my LMT approach will permit.
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Hi. My name is Véronique, I am a physiotherapist in Ontario, Canada. I have done a lot of NM, VM and CST courses. I have a lot of complex patients right now so I am looking forward to learning new ways to assess and treat my clients and integrate all the awesome techniques I have learned over the years. And maybe I can find something to help me manage my own stress and pain