Great River Craniosacral Therapy Institute

09/24/2023

🤲 Join us in this transformative workshop! Sign up at https://www.drwishcraniosacral.com/basic_training_information.html.

09/06/2022

09/06/2022

Since 1997, Dr. Wish has been providing students with personalized and in-depth training. In this transformative course, you will study the hands-on healing form that has improved the lives of millions of people worldwide. You will learn proper techniques as well as how to tap into your intuitive healer within. In addition to developing your skills as a Craniosacral Therapy practitioner, at GRCI, we provide you with plenty of time for your own healing! 💆‍♀️
Join us for this profound and sacred training! This year's introductory workshops are on the following dates:
🟡 September 16-18
—or—
🟡 October 28-30
Visit https://www.drwishcraniosacral.com/index.html for more information on how to sign up!

07/07/2022

“When you have a meaningful initiation, a lot of energy is unleashed. It’s like when a snake sheds its skin—and that’s what happens to us. We shed some layers of stuff and we open to something bigger. Then ...we form a new layer. And that's when an initiation does a thing on us.” -Dr. Wish

Initiations are powerful....but, what are they and how can we experience them? In this video, Dr. Wish chats with his former student and current Craniosacral Therapist, Abi Keene Healing about his initiation into the healing practice that led him to open the Great River Craniosacral Institute.

Abi Keene talks to Dr. Ron Wish about the meaning of initiations on a spiritual path. Ron: "Initiations have always been part of my journey and my own person...

09/22/2021

What is Craniosacral Therapy?

CST is a gentle and relaxing hands-on healing form that has benefited millions of people around the world. It is called “Craniosacral” because the work is centered around performing delicate manipulations on the bones of the head or “cranium” and lower spine or “sacrum”.

Competent practitioners of this elegant healing form can sense and release traumatic lesions embedded in the tissues of our patients’ bodies. Often these lesions can’t be identified by conventional diagnostic techniques though the pain and dysfunction they cause are apparent to our patients. Releasing these old traumas relieves pain and tightness and realigns the body’s structure. It balances the autonomic nervous system, and helps other organ systems function better. CST treatments also free the body to move in a more fluid and natural way while facilitating deep relaxation, increasing vitality, and activating a profound sense of well being ✨

09/22/2021

Understanding the importance of cerebrospinal fluid can be traced back to Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of Osteopathy, who wrote:

"...the cerebrospinal fluid is one of the highest known elements that are contained in the body, and unless the brain furnishes this fluid in abundance, a disabled condition of the body will remain." Dr. Still also tells us: "He who is able to reason will see that this great river of life (the cerebrospinal fluid) must be tapped and the withering field irrigated at once, or the harvest of health be forever lost."

In CST we learn to tap into the rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid, bring it to a still point and reset its harmony and flow.

This Great River of the body is the inspiration for the name of our CST training institute as well as the great Hudson River which flows near our training space.

09/21/2021

Dr. Ron Wish, whose Hebrew name, Yitzchak, means laughter, is a warm, caring teacher, trained in both modern medical science and complementary spiritual healing. Ron is married to a gifted psychologist, father to three wonderful children, and companion to a lovely german shepherd who mothered many seeing-eye dogs before joining the Wish family.

Ron grew up in Ohio and was a very active kid and teen. At 17 years old He injured his knee skiing and over the next decade the pain got worse. He struggled to find relief, but couldn’t even get a diagnosis. This led him to do his own search for healing and set the course for the rest of his life.

He finished college, then was off to medical school. He knew there was more to healing than just western medicine was teaching so he set off for a year to travel the world and meet global healers of many traditions. This was a life changing journey and eventually led him to a practitioner in London who practiced CranioSacral Therapy on him. It was like nothing he had ever experienced before, a deep sense of relaxation and expansion, it was glorious.

He returned home, a bit confused about his path, but determined to finished medical school and keep expanding his natural healing skills. During his second year of residency he heard there was a CranioSacral Training, taught by an Osteopath named Dr. John Upledger. When Dr. Upledger asked his students to relax their critical minds and focus on the intuition, Ron was stunned. It was the opposite of all of his formal medical training, and a great relief. Just days after the training he began practicing on some fellow physicians. Eventually he tried it on some patients and had incredible results.

Ron finished his medical residency, passed his exams and said goodbye to his western medicine training. In 1986 he opened his private healing practice. He continued training in more advanced techniques with Dr. Upledger as well as other healers including Barbara Brennan.

In 1997 Dr. Wish decided to begin training others in his beloved work. He founded the Great River CranioSacral Therapy Institute and for the last 25 years he has passed on his skills and wisdom to hundreds of students

09/21/2021

Our Advanced Craniosacral Therapy Training Program and Somatoemotional Release is for you if you are looking for an exciting healing journey or a career-expanding adventure. Under the direct supervision of GRCI founder, Dr. Ron Wish, you will receive the most personalized, in-depth training available.

Our advanced training program in Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release extends over a six month period. It consists of four Friday-Sunday intensive sessions.

In this training you will learn:

Additional craniosacral therapy bodywork techniques including fascial glide, energy cyst localization and release, and regional unwinding

Dialoguing techniques to help you access the wisdom of the unconscious mind

Full body Somatoemotional Release (SER) — the advanced form of CST, SER integrates an elegant form of bodywork with the healing power of the mind, emotions, and spirit

Small group SER — an amazing experience that will transport you through time and space into new realms of healing, feeling, and consciousness

This life altering training will help you mature as a healer in ways you’d never anticipate.

For details and pricing visit our website, link in bio!

09/21/2021

It is the light touch that is the magic of CST. Allowing the fascia to relax into gentle touch, to feel held, to trust.

This is what allows for a relaxation and surrender deep enough to dive into those fortified subconscious layers, to explore the inner world unfettered by the mind. It is through the body, through feeling, that we can transcend beyond it.

09/21/2021

Please join us for the upcoming 2021 Introductory CranioSacral Therapy Training. This 3 day weekend learning experience will provide you with practical skills and a fun introduction to CST.

You will connect with your intuition, and learn technical accuracy. You also begin connecting with the wavelike craniosacral rhythm and learn over 15 CST techniques that you can immediately put into practice to release structural and energetic blocks.

Whether CST is performed on its own or as an adjunct to your current practice– from surgery to spiritual healing– you and your clients will be awed by the results. For massage and physical therapists, rolfers, and chiropractors whose bodies are wearing out from hard manual labor, the gentleness of CST can transform and prolong your careers. For nurses, physicians, and psychotherapists seeking effective natural healing forms with virtually no negative side effects, this calm practice will rejuvenate you and deepen your patients’ healing. For lay people, the warm, supportive environment of our training program provides you with an ideal place to combine personal healing with a sacred inner journey. Come join us!

Details for prerequisites, pricing and registration are on the website, link is in Bio.