Jaw, Neck & Heart
3-Day Training
Prerequisite: Embodied Awareness & Core Practices
This three-day intensive, offers craniosacral and other somatic practitioners a comprehensive, clinically grounded, hands-on approach to working with imbalance at the jaw, and its relationship to the body, mind and emotions.
The jaw is the last gate between a person's interior life and the world. Learning to work with it with knowledge, skill and presence is one of the more profound things a practitioner can offer.
The Jaw Holds More Than We Think
The temporomandibular joint is one of the most complex and consequential structures in the body. It sits at the intersection of the cranial nerves, fascial system, autonomic nervous system and the emotional body. It is the place where the body stores what could never be spoken or released. Because the TMJ is so intimately connected to the whole body and nervous system, dysfunction here ripples everywhere.
In This Three-Day Intensive You Will Learn and Experience:
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Working with the Stomatognathic System, practicing many intra and extra-oral cranial contacts along with contacts for the heart, sternum, scapulae and clavicles.
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Practices to support emotional expression at the jaw.
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Approaches to influence autonomic and heart regulation.
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A gentle method to release the cervical spine.
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The anatomy and science that makes sense of everything.
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Practice and receive multiple craniosacral sessions throughout the course.
You Will Leave with Skills That Are Immediately Applicable
An expanded repertoire of hands-on techniques, a richer understanding of the anatomy and neuroscience underlying the work, and practical tools for supporting emotional release that transform what is possible in a session.
Just as importantly, you will receive this work yourself. Receiving jaw-focused craniosacral sessions throughout the course, means who you were when you arrived may not be the same person who leaves — which is always the best possible preparation for offering something profound to others.
"I am absolutely loving the intra-oral mouth work with clients. Most of my clients are having some degree of it during a session, and so much interesting feedback about their experience of it and the subtle memories it brings up in their bodies and system. It’s amazing, healing and deeply restorative of a sense of safety. This morning I had a 2 week old client who came in for treatment, and I did a little mouth work, it was beautiful." – Lisa N
“Prior to completing this level, I could not have anticipated just how powerful the intra-oral work could be. In my practise as a myotherapist, I have found the jaw work to be a very practical introduction to craniosacral, due to such issues as jaw/teeth grinding, snoring, pain from dental procedures, TMJ, etc. A lot of these patients now receive craniosacral work as a matter of course.” – Shane McNear
"Michael thank you for an awesome Jaw and Neck course, it was a profound experience for me to witness and participate in and I learned and experienced a lot. I really appreciated observing and learning how you calmly, masterfully and gently facilitated emotional release within the sacred space provided. Thank you again." - Diane F
