Teachers

Osteopath, alternative practitioner and physiotherapist completed his training at the SKOM in 2005. His diploma thesis ‘Effects of osteopathic treatment on obesity in adolescence’ followed in 2009. The holistic view of the human being is of particular concern to him. He notices time and again that there are often connections between dysfunctions and illnesses, which […]

Scott Sternthal, D.O., is an osteopath, teacher, and Bestselling author of Melting Bone, Healing Tide (2023). Scott recently began teaching a treatment approach called Biodynamic Skeletal Therapy (BST), which has formed the basis of his osteopathy practice. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Rudolph Merkel studied medicine and spent 10 years as a paediatrician in Germany. Further training in anthroposophical medicine, clinical ecology, kinesiology; Cranial Osteopathy and Biodynamic Osteopathy by the osteopaths Joe Goodman (ICrA), Richard Holding, Rollin Becker, Viola Frymann, Anne Wales, Jim Jealous, Tom Shaver. 1988 Founded the School of Craniosacral Osteopathy in Zurich. 1992-2017 medical […]

I am married, father of three grown children and grandfather. I owe a lot to my children, my grandson and my wife on my way. They have taught me again and again not to stand still and to look for new possibilities, to see development and thus movement as a value in itself and to learn to love developmental peculiarities. This is how I was led to anthroposophy, to Waldorf education, to anthroposophically extended medicine and finally to osteopathy. I also owe much to Roland van Vliet and his path of Undivided Devotion as the center of his “Academy for Personal Mastery.” The Undivided Devotion guides and directs me in my daily work. Today I work in the IMAGO Therapeutikum as an alternative practitioner and osteopath DOMRO; my main fields of work are osteopathy and pediatric osteopathy. Other fields of work are sound meridian therapy and anthroposophically extended naturopathy. My special love and affection belongs to children and their parents.
Osteopath for over 20 years, including Biodynamic Osteopathy studied with James Jealous DO since 2007.
Co-editor and co-author of “Osteopathic Treatment of Children”, Hippokrates Verlag.

Franklyn Sills is a pioneer in the development of Craniosacral Biodynamics and a mindfulness-based psychotherapy form, Core Process Psychotherapy. He extensively studied with and assisted one of the pioneers of pre- and perinatal psychology, Dr William Emerson PhD. Franklyn lectures in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy and early pre- and perinatal experience. He created the first training program in Craniosacral Biodynamics at the Karuna Institute, UK. He has also helped start training programs in the USA, Germany, Switzerland and other locations. He is the author of “Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, volume 1 and 2” and “Being and Becoming, Psychodynamics, Buddhism and the Origins of Selfhood.”

ulio I started my journey in manual therapies with chiromassage, then I studied osteopathy, and in 2007 I started my training in craniosacral therapy at the Upledger Institute where I am assistant professor in the courses of craniosacral therapy somato-emotional liberation, craniosacral of petiatric orientation and craniosacral of obstetric orientation, sensory integration, and brain speech.

I have been trained in visceral manipulation at the Barral Institute and I am a teacher’s assistant in the courses of visceral manipulation and neural manipulation.

Trained in biodynamic cardiovascular craniosacral therapy.

VERÓNICA FAJARDO graduated in the field of social sciences from the University of Alicante. Her concern for people’s health led her to study and research in the field of neuroscience, the osteopathic tradition, somatic therapy and craniosacral biodynamics. For 25 years she has been working to accompany personal processes to restore physical and emotional health by supporting people’s development. For 20 years she has been teaching courses backed by the Spanish Association of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in her own school, Nayad.

In her clinical experience she has been accompanying processes to restore women’s health in their female cycle (menarche, childbirth, postpartum, climacteric and menopause) and health during childhood and in the family environment.

It has developed its own model with a Presence-based methodology to recover the health and personal power of women and men in vulnerable life processes such as childbirth and parenting.
Currently, she works in private practice, accompanies births, collaborates with various public institutions supporting women, children and families, and carries out her Nayad Trans-Training School project, developing her own approach to working with the field of personal empowerment and gender equality.

Jane Shaw marries Jungian psychology, biodynamic craniosacral therapy and trauma-informed neurobiology to support individuals to recover from and become resilient to adverse life experiences. Jane draws on her deep experience and practiced philosophy to nurture true emergent potentials, in conscious relationship to self, to others and to the environment. 
 
Jane teaches internationally and runs workshops and retreats at the Elmfield Institute, a centre and community for wellbeing in Northern Ireland, of which she is founder and director. She holds a Masters degree in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, a Masters degree in Economics and is a registered biodynamic craniosacral therapist practicing in Northern Ireland. (janeshaw.co.uk)

Cherionna Menzam-Sills, Ph.D. is senior tutor at the Karuna Institute in Devon, UK and has taught Biodynamics globally, often with her husband, Biodynamics pioneer, Franklyn Sills. Cherionna and Franklyn also have their own online school at www.resourcingyourlife. Cherionna is certified as a teacher of Craniosacral Biodynamics with the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America and as a supervisor by the Craniosacral Association of the UK. She has also been authorized as a Continuum teacher by Continuum founder Emilie Conrad and teaches the mindful, fluid movement practice of Continuum frequently. She teaches and supervises Practitioners in Biodynamics, Continuum and Pre- and Perinatal Psychology. As well as The Breath of Life, her second book, Spirit into Form: Exploring Embryology and Prenatal Psychology will be out (in English) early in 2021. Cherionna incorporates over 40 years of experience teaching and practicing various therapies, mindfulness practices, somatic movement, bodywork, psychotherapy and prenatal and birth psychology in her writing and classroom teaching.

Michael J. Shea, Ph.D. He received his master’s degree in Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University, and a doctorate in Somatic Psychology at The Union Institute. In 1986, Dr. Shea became one of the first complete certificates Craniosacral therapy Upledger Institute instructors. He was assistant professor and taught human embryology in doctoral programs Pre and Perinatal Psychology of the University Institute of Santa Barbara. Is the creator of a formation 600 hours biodynamic cardiovascular therapy. Combines research on the development of the heart and blood with manual touch therapy light as a practice based on mindfulness.

As a long time student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, his teaching style is based on his spiritual practice of developing attention and compassion with the use of biodynamic cardiovascular therapy. Because of the influence of the Dalai Lama launched a center for the study of the human heart.

He is a founding member of the International Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings (IABT). He makes his home in South Florida with his wife, Cathy where he grows mangoes.