Serving Westchester, Rockland, & Orange Co.'s, NY,
Manhattan and the Bronx, Fairfield Co., CT
& Bergen, Passaic, Union, Hudson, Morris, & Middlesex Co.'s, NJ

Welcome to the
GREAT RIVER CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY INSTITUTE
A Healing Community Integrating
Body, Mind, Spirit & Soul Through Craniosacral Therapy

Introductory Craniosacral Therapy Training
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a safe, natural form of hands-on healing that helps people heal and blossom as they release pain and suffering. CST is a potent alternative to allopathic medical care, as well as a deeply healing supplement to all conventional health care techniques. Learn how powerful your healing can truly be, with this effective, non-invasive modality proven to relieve pain without medication.

This three day workshop provides you with a practical and fun introduction to CST. In this training you quickly begin using your healing hands in an altogether new way-- with gentleness, intuition, and technical accuracy. You also begin connecting with the wavelike craniosacral rhythm and learn over 15 CST techniques that you can immediately put into practice to release structural and energetic blocks.

Whether CST is performed on its own or as an adjunct to your current practice-- from surgery to spiritual healing-- you and your clients will be awed by the results. For massage and physical therapists, rolfers, and chiropractors whose bodies are wearing out from hard manual labor, the gentleness of CST can transform and prolong your careers. For nurses, physicians, and psychotherapists seeking effective natural healing forms with virtually no negative side effects, this calm practice will rejuvenate you and deepen your patients' healing. For lay people, the warm, supportive environment of our training program provides you with an ideal place to combine personal healing with a sacred inner journey.

The goals of the introductory workshop are to give students a useful and practical intoduction to CST, to teach students how to begin helping their patients release and resolve pain using CST, and to stimulate further interest in this hands-on healing modality.    >> Schedule & Registration Information

Advanced Craniosacral Therapy Training -- 4 Unit Module
Somatoemotional Release (SER) is the advanced form of CST. SER integrates an elegant form of bodywork with the healing power of the unconscious mind.

Participants in this life altering training program will experience deep personal healing and growth during our practice sessions. This training expands participants' understanding of what we are as human beings into a new paradigm -- beyond the concrete, biomechanical model taught by conventional medicine. Students will learn to better listen with their hands, minds and hearts to patients' stories, and to help release and resolve many forms of pain: physical, emotional and spiritual.    >> Schedule & Registration Information

Program Overview
Our introductory and advanced training programs in Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release are for you if you are looking for an exciting healing journey or a career-expanding adventure. Through this amazing process you will come to better understand the sacred web of spiritual connections in and around us.

These experiential programs are ideal for health care practitioners and healers involved in direct patient care in NY, NJ, CT, and throughout the northeast and mid-Atlantic states. Our students include nurses, massage therapists, physicians, psychologists, acupuncturists, occupational and physical therapists, rolfers, speech pathologists, social workers, reiki practitioners, and energy healers.

Develop your natural healing abilities in a safe, accepting, spiritually-open environment under the guidance of a warm, caring teacher, thoroughly trained in both modern medical science and complementary spiritual healing.

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association, an accredited Approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Participants successfully completing the course will receive 115 contact hours for nurses.

Dr. Wish's Practice
In 1985, with the most grueling period of my family medicine residency behind me, I took my first Craniosacral Therapy (CST) workshop. I loved it. Finally, I'd found a safe, effective, natural way to help people release trauma and truly heal. Even more exciting to me, was that in its more advanced form, Somatoemotional Release, CST integrated bodywork with the healing power of the unconscious mind-- incorporating guided imagery and emotional healing. .. More ...