Self-Regulation, Significance Detector and Arcing
CPD/CPE- 24 Hours
Full Fee $1300inc GST. The Saver Price of $1100 is available until the 30 Oct 2025.
Course Description
This specialised course is designed to deepen your understanding of how trauma impacts the body and how skilled manual therapy can support release and healing.
While we do not treat trauma itself or the events surrounding it, we focus on addressing the body’s somatic responses, specifically how soft tissues absorb, store, and adapt to traumatic experiences. Trauma can become embedded within the fascial system, muscles, and other connective tissues, creating tension, restriction, and dysfunctional patterns. Over time, the body compensates to protect itself, which can lead to chronic pain, dysfunction, or emotional holding patterns.
Through the gentle, precise techniques of CranioSacral Therapy (CST), practitioners can help release these restrictions, restoring balance, ease, and a renewed sense of well-being.
This course emphasises the importance of understanding the significance detector and its role in the stress-trauma response. Core CST elements, including the CranioSacral Rhythm, energy cysts, therapeutic presence, and the body’s inner wisdom, are foundational throughout.
Course Highlights
- Definition of stress and trauma, and their relation to CST
- Stress- and trauma-related symptoms and behavioural responses
- Common trauma types seen in the CST clinic
- The role of the significance detector in the stress-trauma connection
- Creating safety and working in the Here & Now during hands-on therapy
- Understanding the window of tolerance and its zones in manual therapy
- Identifying hyper- and hypo-arousal states within the window of tolerance
- Palpating the window of tolerance using the significance detector
- Recognising body movements and sensations as expressions of the stress-trauma response
- Navigating inner and outer boundaries in trauma-informed work
- Therapist psychological hygiene and self-regulation
- Principles for working safely with trauma
By integrating this knowledge, practitioners can offer more effective, compassionate support—helping clients move toward greater resilience and well-being.
Prerequisite: CS2
CranioSacral Therapy & The Stress Trauma Response - CSSTR Course Dates
| Date | Course (Click link below for Booking Form) | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 4-7 (2025) |
CranioSacral Therapy & The Stress Trauma Response - CSSTR | Royal On The Park Hotel |
Thomas is an Upledger Diplomate Certified Therapist and reside in Copenhagen. The Upledger paradigm is at the central core of his manual medicine practice, where he treats a broad spectrum of clients.
Thomas presently teaches CS1, CS2, TBS1, TBS2, and a new class called Beyond the Cranial Base (BCB), developed by Thomas.
As the Director of Research for the Upledger Institute International, he works with science and development related to the core of CST. Thomas has a diverse background in science with a PhD degree in medicine, an MSc in chemistry, a BSc in Biochemistry, and a BSc in biology. He has worked with medical science and evidence-based medicine since 1994, publishing a high number of peer review scientific papers, abstracts, and proceedings.
His intention for each class is to bring together the experiences from the daily clinic, teaching, personal development and science, as it relates to the class.
Thomas Rasmussen, Ph.D., MSc, CST-D - Course List
| Date | Course (Click link below for Booking Form) | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 4-7 (2025) |
CranioSacral Therapy & The Stress Trauma Response - CSSTR | Royal On The Park Hotel |
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Date/Time 04/12/2025 - 07/12/2025
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Location Royal On The Park Hotel, 152 Alice Street, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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