03/01/2026
Intro to CST II class, focusing on
"The Healing Ground of Trauma"
May 15 to 17, 2026
Friday thru Sunday from 9 am to 4:30 pm
You don't have to have taken Part I to enroll.
$425 18 CE hours
at Body Wellness Massage Academy in Conway
Writer Carol Patterson describes us as a PTSD Society. Many, if not all of us are carrying some level of PTSD in our nervous system. When our nervous system is triggered, we lose our ability to respond in present time. We, in effect, become disconnected from our empathy, our compassion, our bodies, the living earth herself.
In this BioDynamic Craniosacral class we will first address ourselves, using guided mediations and the hands on practice sessions to begin to address our own trauma/PTSD wounding. This is essential if we are to provide a space of safety and sanctuary that allows our clients to feel safe enough to find their own sense of inner connection and belonging. From this place of safety we will explore ways to help our clients resource themselves and enable us to help them release their trauma wounding without recreating or creating more trauma.
In the past, some therapists and therapies advocated cathartic experience as the way to release trauma, but research has shown that it does just the opposite.
There is much research to support the BioDynamic approach of facilitating safety as the healing ground of trauma.
Although we don't focus on fixing lesions in the BioDynamic approach, many people find that pain and chronic conditions are much improved.
William Garner Sutherland, the early Osteopath on whose lineage our work is based, came to believe that it is the Intelligence of Life, or as he called it, the Breath of Life that does the work, that releases the patterns of energy held in our body and not the practitioner, our role is to learn to perceive the movement of the Breath of Life and support and follow it with our awareness and attention.
SO, our training is to train and practice to deepen and widen our field of perception, and also in helping the client to become more aware of this healing relationship that we in this work call "the Health"
The guided meditations and hands on work provide an opportunity for you to do your own work, allowing you to provide the safe and nurturing space your clients need in order to rest under their sympathetic activations. This allows their systems to open to the deeper healing ministrations of the Breath of Life/
It is for this reason that I keep these classes small.
"I've studied with Rose Alisandre multiple times (three as of my writing, probably more as you're reading this). Each time the work gets deeper, more meaningful, and more subtle. There are layers upon layers of accrued tensions and blockages that shift, then melt, then evaporate as I sit in the tide. Rose is a committed, compassionate, and articulate teacher. She has a wealth of knowledge and insight into Craniosacral Biodynamics. Every class is unique and a reflection of the students who are present. The class becomes its own little ecosystem and we bond deeply in just a weekend. I'm repeatedly amazed at how Rose creates a trusting therapeutic educational experience for 10 strangers within an hour of meeting. I've been practicing massage since the 1990's and feel like Rose is an anchor point in Arkansas Massage. I view her as a mentor. I continue to take her courses whether I need CE credits or not" Heather Huber
Participants in this class report profound relaxation as well as a deep sense of grounding, connection, and belonging. They also report profound results with their clients. This is my experience with my clients as well.
I hope you are inspired to join us in the subtle, profound, cutting edge work of BioDynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
To Register: call or text Rose Alisandre at (501) 772-1551
Yours in Health
Rose Alisandre, MTI, BCST
