This immersion is an invitation to slow down, to enliven your own embodied presence, to learn the art of attunement through the practice of craniosacral biodynamics and somatic explorations.
Through our days together we will cultivate our ability to rest in our midlines and in the neutral spaciousness of our hearts. As we return over and over to our own inner temple we can expand our capacity to listen with our whole bodies, increasing our sensitivity and the potency of our presence.
Medicine Within is both an introductory course to craniosacral biodynamics and an opportunity to be deeply nourished, to find more ease and stillness within whilst connecting to others more deeply.
Our days will include somatic movement, craniosacral biodynamics training (the Breath of Life Course, Introductory Level*), delicious meals, nature excursions and hot springs immersions. Together, we will cultivate a safe space to unravel, unwind, and explore the art of embodied presence.
*This course offers a Certificate of Completion for 28 CEU’s through NCBTMB. It does not, however, certify you to become a craniosacral practitioner. Consider this a beautiful beginning, a jumpstart into a lifelong path of cultivation, embodied presence and resonant attunement.
ABOUT THE COURSE
We are honored to invite you to six days of deep nourishment and restoration in the beautiful lush jungles of Costa Rica.
Our days will include somatic movement, craniosacral biodynamics training, delicious meals, nature excursions and hot spring immersions. Together, we will cultivate a safe space to unravel and unwind. To return back in the seat of our own self, in reverence and community.
THE FLOW
Every morning we will gather for different somatic practices, allowing our bodies to become more porous, more available, more present. We will move to let our energies awaken and restore vibrancy. This will be followed by two sessions of craniosacral biodynamics training throughout the day. Evenings will be spent either relaxing, in simple rituals, or soaking in the hot springs.
THE INTENTION
Our intention is to invite your inner medicine to be revealed. As the world gets more and more chaotic it is easy to lose contact with our own wisdom. Through the healing practices we will cultivate together, through emptying and slowing down, you will be able to listen to that medicine that you withhold and that is so needed in these transformational times.
This immersion is open to all.
DAILY SCHEDULE
APRIL 5th
2pm ARRIVAL
4-6pm OPENING CEREMONY
6pm OPENING DINNER
APRIL 6th-9th
8-9am BREAKFAST
9-10am SOMATIC MOVEMENT + STILLNESS
10am-1pm CRANIOSCRAL BIODYNAMICS
1-3pm LUNCH + REST (river, pool, rainforest walks)
3-6pm CRANIOSCRAL BIODYNAMICS
6pm DINNER
7.30pm EVENING SESSIONS (optional + not every night)
APRIL 10TH
Integration +
closing circle & lunch
departures
BRAVE EARTH
Brave Earth, Center for Applied Cultural Transition, is a living laboratory rooted in principles of regeneration, resiliency and reciprocity. We provide immersive experiences in Nature that share alternative ways of living and being that are suitable for modernity and contextually relevant for the rapidly changing world we live in.
Immerse yourself in the majesty and mystery of the rainforest. Brave Earth is located between San Ramon and La Fortuna, nestled in between Arenal Volcano and the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the largest reserve of protected wildlife in Costa Rica.
As a living lab, we have experimented with different building modalities using AirCrete and materials sourced on the land including bamboo and adobe. We have implemented biophilic design, closed-loop systems and permaculture design principles. Ornamental, food, and medicinal gardens surround the center as well as hiking trials to a nearby river, and a natural swimming pond.
MEET YOUR GUIDES
KOA KALISH
Koa is first and foremost devoted to the way of water, as water is her greatest teacher in this work. Koa carries thirteen years of extensive training with four master craniosacral teachers, as well as a deep well of learning from earth-based medicine keepers and mystic spiritual leaders. She has worked in private practice since 2016. In 2021, Koa launched her Breath of Life Course, a program designed and synthesized from her studies in the healing arts as well as from breaking through her own challenges as highly sensitive seer who has withstood two traumatic head and brain injuries. Both her private sessions and group immersions are uniquely transformative, restorative, and healing.
EMILIA CIANCI
Emilia is an Italian-born facilitator, therapist, doula, herbalist and first and foremost human in profound devotion to life. She has been extensively studying different healing modalities and spiritual traditions from both mystical paths and earth-based medicine people. She works both 1:1 in therapeutic sessions with a background in depth psychology, expressive arts therapy dreamwork, trauma and embodiment work and different touch therapies and in group work through workshops and retreats.
She is in reverence of thresholds and holds spaces for ritual and ceremony that often revolve around the theme of death and rebirth. She is also a birth keeper and doula and holds women and couples in the profound rite of passage of becoming parents. Water has been central to her work as an aquatic bodyworker and water doula and often her sessions involve bathing and cleansing rituals with water. Finally she is a gardener and herbalist and uses the medicine of plants to support others in their healing journeys.