Post Graduate Training - with katherine ukleja

Venue:  Exeter Community Centre, Exeter, Devon, UK

Cost:      £375  (early bird £345 if booked before 18 July  2025)

Format:  In Person - this course is not available online

There are only 24 places available on this course, early booking is advised.  Please click below to book and for payment details.  Any questions please email us at: circlecranio@gmail.com

Our therapy is a pas de deux between the vitalizing force which we call the Potency of the Breath of Life and our wise, seeing, feeling, thinking hands.

Katherine Ukleja writes: 

In my thirty-five years of craniosacral therapy practice I became intimate with the kaleidoscopic nature of Potency; its many moods and faces. Sometimes it would retreat into the core while the rest of the organism was depleted. At other time I found it diffuse in the extremities leaving the axial body empty. It could rumble like underground thunder, spin and coil in simultaneous ascending and descending spirals, or condense at the kernel of a difficult body memory. I could observe the Potency intermingle with the currents of universal and conditional forces in wholesome harmony. The Potency’s ability to bring order, to adapt, to protect and to heal became part of my vocabulary and took centre stage in every therapeutic encounter. It led the way to health, the original health that is never lost.

It is said than anatomy is the language of the body. And it is true that a good knowledge of anatomy enhances craniosacral practice. But it’s the Potency of the Breath of life that vivifies and animates the body. This seminar is about the language of Potency. Learning to understand its direct actions and expressions and becoming fluent in conversation with the Potency itself, not the tissues and fluids that make up our anatomy. We will learn to use touch to augment and catalyse the healing capacity of the Potency and deeply rely on it to guide our session work. We will dive deeper into the essence Biodynamic practice. 

Topics to be covered:

•  The four functions of Potency – organisational, adaptive, protective                   and healing.
• Life is motion - the Potency as an animating force in the tide, the fluid within the fluid.
• The organizational function of Potency - the quantum midline and the bioelectric ordering field, known as the original matrix. 
• The automatic shifting of potency as it adapts to the conditional forces of experience and meets the contingencies of daily life. 
• Resilience – the adaptive function of Potency in action. 
• Cohesion and fragmentation – Becker called the potency which condenses at inertial fulcra ‘variant’ potency. This is the potency performing its protective function and preserving the integrity of the organism.
• Transmutation – igniting entrapped potency, releasing the power to heal. 
• Craniosacral Biodynamics - optimizing health by understanding and harnessing the principal functions of Potency.

Venue:  Exeter Community Centre, Exeter, Devon, UK

Cost:      £250  (early bird £230 if booked before 6 Sept  2025)

Format:  In Person - this course is not available online

Relational touch  - the quality of the practitioner’s touch sets the scene in which the client can experience safety, perhaps for the first time in her or his life. Relational touch is compassionate and without judgement, it signals unconditional acceptance of the client.

Diagnostic touch – reading the ‘nuances of the tide’ is a key skill for cranial practitioners. Tidal motions of fluids and tissues carry the imprints of individual experience. Listening hands can recognise these patterns of experience but also the deeper felt sense of that experience. This often carries an emotional charge but also the meaning of this experience from the past and how it impacts the client’s life in the present.

Therapeutic touch – simply hearing the story told by the body through our ‘listening hands’ can have a deep healing effect.  In this seminar we will revisit the subtle territory between ‘doing’ and ‘not doing’ and experiment with ‘touching beyond listening’.

Our quest: to refine the art of ‘knowing fingers’