Ask Lynn: What is the NEW Advanced Course?

Today, I will be answering the following question I have received from several students who have taken the Holistic Treatment courses:

“What is the NEW Advanced Course and why did it change?”

This past year, I have been working to revamp my older 4-day Advanced course, and I have been getting a lot of questions around what the new advanced course will look like, why it changed, who should take it, and when it will be ready. Now that I am almost done with the creation of the new course – which I am calling the Birth Healing Intensive – I can give you some clear answers to these questions (thank you so much for your patience!). This took some deep work of my own to get to this point, and I am extremely excited and honored to be able to share it with you all.

The Original 4-Day Advanced Course

Let me start by explaining a bit of what was included in the original 4-day Advanced course.

The original course contained a review of the postpartum body course material and teaching of additional postpartum hands-on techniques including techniques to calm the nervous system, mobilize the kidneys, and rebalance the pelvic and respiratory diaphragms. Then the rest of the days were spent working on the energetics of the pelvic space, the 7 different causes of held/stuck tissue including trauma, how to work with the uterus and ovaries energetically, and how to balance the 3 energy centers of the body to connect clients to more of their pelvic space and get them out of their heads.

The feedback I got from this course was it was very intense and like drinking from a fire hose. It was also really hard to have to turn around and be a therapist after doing deep healing work on yourself in our few days together. I also heard from some therapists that they needed more outside support to feel comfortable doing this work. So basically the 4-day format was packed full of great information, but needed a different approach that would allow students to take in the information and practice their own healing work in a supported way.

So, in short, this is the reason I have restructured the course to make it better for you!

Advanced Postpartum Techniques Course

The Advanced Postpartum Techniques course is offered as an online course only and includes the hands-on skills from the original advanced course plus a few new advanced techniques as well. You will learn 3 Central Nervous System techniques on how to calm the nervous system which is so important to do first thing in a session when you know the body is up-regulated. You will also learn techniques to mobilize the kidneys and rebalance the pelvic and respiratory diaphragms as well as new techniques that show you how to work with the first rib and OA joint.

In addition, I teach you how to find connections in the body when you are working with tissue at local, regional and distant areas in the body. An example of this is when you have tight adductors that just don’t want to release. You sense into the local area and get a hit that compression of the leg through the foot up into the hip joint might be just what that adductor needs to let go! That is a distant connection. Learn how to listen for the connections.

NEW Birth Healing Intensive Program

The rest of the material taught in the original advanced course will now be covered in a 9-month long Birth Healing Intensive program. This program will be available to all practitioners who want want to be supported in their own deep healing work while getting the tools and techniques to successfully guide clients in their own healing work. It will be an application only program and will be limited to an intimate group of students to ensure individual support and learning of what I believe to be some of the most powerful teaching I do. Here is a snapshot of the intensive program:

MONTH ONE: We will spend the first month strengthening your therapeutic presence and embodiment so you can have effective boundaries as a healer without feeling drained and have better access to your intuition.
MONTH TWO: We will focus on shifting limiting beliefs and dialoguing. Knowing what to say and when is important in facilitating releases in the tissues. We will, also, dive into your own shadow work to see where you need support in your own limiting beliefs, so you can show up more powerfully without getting triggered.
MONTH THREE: We will explore energy flow in the body and how to work with the 7 causes of held/stuck energy in the body.
MONTH FOUR: We will focus on the pelvic bowl visualization and map of the pelvis to help shift what is being held there.
MONTH FIVE: We will take a break for you to relax and process what we covered to this point. This will also be a time where you can meet for some of your (4) 1:1 sessions with myself or another Certified Birth Healing Practitioner that are included with this course. This break comes right before we dive into our section on trauma in Month 6.
MONTH SIX: We will learn how to sense trauma in the body and how to help process it.
MONTH SEVEN: We will cover birth disruptions and challenges. We will also learn how to help our clients get out of their head and into their hearts and womb centers. We will learn about the power of womb imprints which are at the root of a lot of our personal issues of how we show up in the world.
MONTH EIGHT: We will finish the coursework with a focus on understanding the energies of the womb and ovaries. Balancing these organs’ energies really helps us and our clients show up more powerfully in our lives.
MONTH NINE: We will wrap up the intensive for a 2-day LIVE celebration and gathering where we will practice all these techniques in-person and together.

This program will start in February! You will have 3-weekly video lectures/demos to review during the month, and then we will gather as a group to work on the material together and on one another via monthly zoom sessions. We will do that for 4 months, take a break for a month to give you some time off, then gather again for another 4 months covering the rest of the material.

The Birth Healing Intensive does include a 2 day LIVE training which will be an opportunity to practice what you’ve learned in the program and to have sessions for your own healing. The time together will be spent deepening the learning you’ve done all year and as a celebration of what you have accomplished!

If you have any questions about either of these two options please reach out as I am happy to answer whatever I can. I hope to see you in one of these programs soon!

Have a Question for Lynn?

Please reach out if you have any questions regarding the material you are learning. I am here to help support your learning journey. You can leave a question in the comments section below or post a question in our groups on Facebook or Instagram.

About the Author: Lynn Schulte is a Pelvic Health Therapist and the founder of the Institute for Birth Healing, a pelvic health continuing education organization that specializes in prenatal and postpartum care. For more information, go to https://instituteforbirthhealing.com