Intention of the Foundation Training:

Our adult body is composed of 75% living water and only 25% solid material. Many manual therapy modalities focus on the 25% such as the musculoskeletal and myofascial systems. This 700 hour Biodynamic Foundation Training teaches the student to visualize, explore and palpate the slow rhythm in the living fluids of the body called Primary Respiration.  Students are further grounded in the felt sense of Dynamic Stillness as the guiding principle of embryonic growth and development.  In this way the student is invited to reconnect with his or her original, whole and complete fluid body as it was ignited through conception and as it remains in the adult.  The perfect fluid body is the pre-existing condition of our bodily existence and is the location of the most fundamental therapeutic forces of ordered movement and organized structure.

Consequently, when working with a client, the practitioner can witness, sense and hold the embryonic fluid body as it exists in the infant, child and adult without interference.  This draws forth the innate biodynamic healing processes in self and other.  The following are seven goals of the Foundation and Advanced Trainings as I teach them:

1.  To explore the movement within the stages of development of the body systems in human embryology as an expression of personal freedom and human potential in self and other.  A special focus is placed on the embryology of the heart and vascular system and its relationship to the brain.

2.   To cultivate a new perception of the whole human organism in self and other as being a three dimensional fluid body.  The fluid body, the original shape and form of the embryo, maintains its presence in the total fluid volume of the infant, child and adult. 

3.   To develop a felt sense of love and wholeness as the movement of Primary Respiration in the fluid body.  This generates the deepest healing potential in self and other.

4.  To become aware of “Dynamic Stillness” as an intimate connection between one’s self and the natural world.  This is the spiritual foundation of the training.

5.  To replace in self and other the intensity of one’s personal trauma story carried in the muscles, bones and brain with one’s origin story of conception, gestation and infancy.  The origin story is told through the active shaping of the fluid body as experienced by the client and heard by the practitioner’s hands, heart and mind. 

6.   To revision the therapeutic relationship as primarily a coupling of two hearts and two interactive cardiovascular systems.  Secondarily, the therapeutic relationship is revised as an expression of two interactive nervous systems also linked together via skillful and sustained physical contact by the practitioner.

7. To regard the therapeutic relationship as a joint practice. The client is taught to participatein the perception of the fluid body and is equally responsible for his or her own healing.

Click on the LEVEL NUMBER, in the table below, to read a detailed description of the Course.

Tuition: $695 per level.

New York Payment Information:  Please contact the New Open Center at 212.219.2527 and use option 2 from the phone system or email registration@opencenter.org

Jupiter, Florida Payment Information: $300 non-refundable deposit is due at registration to hold your space. The balance of $395 is due 30 days prior to the start of the class or a late fee of $65 is charged in addition to the balance of $395. This brings the total to $760 for all late payments. All registrations within 29 days of the start of the class will be charged a tuition of $760.

New York Registration Information: Please contact the New Open Center at 212.219.2527 and use option 2 from the phone system or email registration@opencenter.org

Jupiter, Florida Registration: Contact Michael Shea’s office at 561.493.8080 between 11:30-2:30pm EST Monday through Friday. Email: info@michaelsheateaching.com. We do accept Visa/Mastercard Credit Cards for payment.

New York Refund Policy: Please contact the New Open Center at 212.219.2527 and use option 2 from the phone system or email registration@opencenter.org.

Jupiter, Florida Refund Policy: All tuition paid is non-refundable. Students who cancel may apply their tuition to any future class within 12 months of the date of notification of cancellation.