This advanced course is offered as a 5-day retreat, all-included.

Rhythms and stillness have a profound relationship to human health, with implications for body, mind, and spirit. This advanced-level workshop is designed to offer participants a deeper understanding of the expression of rhythms in the human body and the relationships between rhythms, physiology, and states of consciousness. One important aspect of working with rhythms in the self-healing process is their alternation between rhythmic movement and still points or experiences of stillness during CranioSacral Therapy (CST) treatment.
The work with rhythms is twofold. First, understanding rhythms and rhythm centers makes it possible to treat these centers more precisely using CST. Second, palpating and learning to work with a polyrhythmic system - both within ourselves and within the client’s body - opens communication with the inner wisdom across a broader spectrum of rhythms and stillness. An essential dimension of rhythms is the experience of different levels of stillness. Rhythm and stillness cannot be separated; together, they create a space that supports self-healing.
With a focus on working within the Upledger paradigm, participants will become more proficient in treating rhythm centers by using different rhythms and by exploring the alternation between rhythm and stillness. This approach supports a deeper understanding and direct experience of the self-healing aspects of CST.
The course includes lectures, group discussions, body exercises, meditations, demonstrations, and hands-on practice for each concept presented.

Learning objectives
- A continued experiential understanding of the Upledger paradigm
- Insight into the relationship between an open CST system and the perception of rhythms
- Understanding of the 10-step protocol, moving from the physical body to layered levels of the body.
- Knowledge of key points in opening the CranioSacral System
- An introduction to rhythms in the cranial concept: science and philosophy
- Understanding of the origin of rhythms and their relationship to health and self-healing
- Skills for treating major rhythm centers
- Experience working with a polyrhythmic system in CST
- Insight into rhythms and physiological coherence, including heart–brain and mind–body relationships
- Exploration of rhythms beyond structure: rhythms and their relationship to consciousness
- Understanding rhythms and stillness in identity, self, and the self-healing process
- Knowledge of rhythm centers in relation to the vertical and horizontal aspects of the CranioSacral System.
- Understanding rhythm centers in relation to the triangle of hands, heart, and brain

Location:
Centrum De Horst
Meddoseweg 22,
7104 AA Winterswijk Meddo

Your stay is all-inclusive: 563 euro pp (2026) or 600 euro (2027). The costs of your stay are to be paid separately at the centre at the end of the course.
All meals will be prepared by cooks, the accommodation has bedrooms for 2 persons and a few rooms for 1 person.