A biodynamic craniosacral practitioner who has been certified and approved by the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (BCTA/NA) is permitted to use the registered trademark RCST®, Registered Craniosacral Therapist. An RCST has successfully completed a 700 hour Foundation Training. He or she is a member of BCTA/NA and has agreed to abide by the Association’s ethical guidelines and to complete all requirements for renewal of membership, including ongoing learning and personal growth. RCSTs are listed on the Association’s website, www.craniosacraltherapy.org. v The content of this brochure is approved by BCTA/NA An RCST, registered biodynamic craniosacral therapist, who is trained in BCST, is certified to offer sessions. He or she has developed skills to be able to listen and to work with basic life forces in each client to support just the right conditions for these forces to find balance. Session length varies but is usually between thirty to sixty minutes. During a session, the client rests fully clothed on a massage table. A level of safety is created for the client as the practitioner and client negotiate the space and contact between them. The session proceeds as the practitioner listens with a light non-invasive touch to the deep and ever present expressions of health within the client’s system. The BCST process comes from within the client, not from the outside. There is no attempt to manipulate the client’s system toward a theoretical ideal state. The session is guided by listening to an inherent expression of health within the client as it meets the conditions presenting as pain and discomfort. The whole system is engaged in a re-patterning toward health in an order of priorities and a natural progression initiated by the client’s own body. BCST sessions are resourcing; the mind and body feel rested and health is experienced as more accessible and embodied. “Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides in each patient a chance to go to work.” Albert Schweitzer – Nobel Peace Prize Winner What is a BCST Session Like? What is an RCST®? Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy “Life heals itself given the right conditions." Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO
