Sutherland’s Cosmology: The Breath of Life and the Metabolic Client.

October 24-27, 2024

Michael J. Shea PhD

This advanced biodynamic course will deepen your clinical practice using principles of cosmology and embryology. The contemporary client is metabolically unhealthy and a shift in focus to include cosmology is necessary. Cosmology is linked to metabolism, the inner subtle body in Eastern medical systems. Primary Respiration and dynamic stillness have three levels of perception including colors. Dr. Sutherland mentioned the Breath of Life seventeen times in his writing. His deep perceptual experience was that it is a bright light. Perceptual skills of different colored lights in the fluid body and vascular system are taught based on Sutherland’s perception of the Breath of Life.

This understanding of biodynamic originality is linked to the body‘s metabolism through the lens of Judeo-Christian cosmology including the Tree of Life as the vascular tree. Additional insight for clinical practice will be explored from Tibetan Medicine and Classical Chinese Medicine. Two protocols will be taught to affect the metabolism of the client’s body through the fluid body and vascular tree. These protocols are easily integrated into one’s biodynamic practice.

The emerging neuroscience on the instinctual organization of the body‘s metabolism is presented. This specifically relates to interoceptive awareness and the conscious acquisition of safety and empathy for self and other.


 

Michael J. Shea, Ph. D.

Michael J. Shea, Ph.D. received his master’s degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy at Naropa University, and a doctorate in Somatic Psychology at The Union Institute. He taught human embryology in the pre & perinatal psychology doctoral programs at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. He is the author of five books on Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Volumes 1-5 with North Atlantic Books, The Biodynamics of the Immune System, Balancing the Energies of the Body with the Cosmos with Inner Traditions and Myofascial Release Therapy with North Atlantic Books. The Biodynamic Heart, Igniting Compassion with Practical Mysticism to Heal the World is forthcoming in January 2025 with Inner Traditions. He has been a student of Tibetan Medicine for forty years.

He makes his home in South Florida with his wife, Cathy where they grow mangos and papayas. Information about his courses can be found on his website: sheaheart.com, or contact him at email: [email protected], by phone at 561.775-9912 or in writing at 13878 Oleander Ave., Juno Beach, FL 33408.


Event reserved for members.

Valid for 30 hours of refresher training for Instructor and Qualified Members

50 places available

For information and registration contact the A.CS.I Secretariat.:  [email protected]

available by telephone +39 348 998 3625 – from Monday to Thursday from 11.00 to 14.00

Profession regulated pursuant to Law 4-2013

Course location:  Grand Hotel Golf Tirrenia – Via dell’Edera 29, – 56128 Tirrenia (PI)