The Human Development Center

Learn more about Body Intelligence Craniosacral Training! The next Bellingham cohort begins next month. Sign up for the intro talk to learn more.

Learn about Body Intelligence's 2-year practitioner course in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy at a free online Intro Talk on Thursday October 1 at 5:30pm PST // 6:30pm MST with Bree Anaka

Register in advance for this free meeting here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/TqIBsEx0S923PjuLoBPQVg

Body Intelligence offers fully accredited 2-year practitioner training courses in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Bellingham and Missoula for existing health professionals considering adding a new modality to their work as well as individuals wanting to start a career in an exciting and evolving therapy.

Why would you do somatic group work?

Because many of our deepest wounds happened in relationship. And for learning, integration, and repair to occur, we need experiences of connection, attunement, and reparation to happen in relationship, also.

Human beings learn through relationship.

From the very beginning of life, we are shaped by what we experience in the relational field around us. Before we have language, we are already learning through rhythm, touch, tone, facial expression, movement, presence, and the quality of attention we receive and observe.

We also learn through modeling. We watch how people relate to one another. We experience how needs are met—or not met. We learn what happens when someone has a boundary, expresses an emotion, reaches for connection, takes up space, or needs to move away. These experiences become part of our implicit understanding of what it means to be human and to be in relationship.

Over time, these ways of learning do not remain simply as ideas or beliefs. They become implicit knowledge held within the body and nervous system—patterns of expectation, perception, movement, protection, and response that can become woven into our autonomic functioning. We may find ourselves responding before we have consciously decided how we want to respond....

To read more, click the link below or in the comments... https://www.thehumandevelopmentcenter1008.com/claras-reflections-1/why-group-work

And if you are curious about this work, there are several opportunities to gather with us in the coming weeks:

🌿 The Art of Being Human — Discovery Q&A Calls
September 25 at 7:00 PM PDT
September 26 at 5:30 PM PDT
Online via Zoom

Come meet Clara and the teaching team, learn more about the three-year Art of Being Human training beginning in May 2027, and bring your questions.

🌿 Free Talk: The Art of Relationship
October 1 at 5:30 PM PDT
Online via Zoom

Join Clara for the first of our free First Thursday talks exploring Pre- and Perinatal Somatic Psychology, embodiment, relationship, and what supports us in becoming more fully human.

🌿 Birthing Our Essence
October 2–4
In person at The Human Development Center in Bellingham

For those who feel ready to move from learning about the work into experiencing it, Birthing Our Essence is a small-group, experiential Somatic Birth Process workshop. Together, we create the time, space, and relational conditions to explore some of our earliest imprints and discover new possibilities for meeting them.

Also known as a Womb Surround.

Come curious.
Come as you are.
Come gather with us.

Artwork by Veda Allen with some watercolor from Ai.

The Art of Being Human begins in May 2027!

This three-year experiential training is an exploration of our earliest human experiences and how they continue to shape the way we live, relate, connect, protect, and grow. We’ll be learning through the mind, the body, relationship, and community, bringing together Pre- and Perinatal Somatic Psychology, attachment, nervous system regulation, developmental understanding, and embodied practice.

If you’re curious, there are several ways to come a little closer to the work over the next few weeks:

🌿 Discovery Q & A Calls
September 25 at 7:00 PM PDT
September 26 at 5:30 PM PDT
Join us on Zoom to meet Clara and the teaching team, hear more about the training, and bring your questions.

🌿 Free Talk: The Art of Relationship
October 1 at 5:30 PM PDT • Zoom
The first in our free monthly series exploring what supports human beings to thrive. We’ll begin with relationship and some of the earliest foundations of connection, safety, and development.

🌿 Birthing Our Essence
Somatic Birth Integration Workshop
October 2–4 • In person in Bellingham
For those who are ready to dive more deeply into the experiential side of this work, Birthing Our Essence offers a small, deeply held space to explore and integrate our earliest imprints through the body and in relationship.
Also known as a Womb Surround / Somatic Birth Process Workshop.

You don’t need to know yet whether The Art of Being Human is for you. Come curious. Ask questions. Experience some of the work. See what speaks to you.

We would love to welcome you.

To sign up or ask a question, send us an email at [email protected]

Learn about Body Intelligence's 2-year practitioner course in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy at a free online Intro Talk on Wednesday September 16 at 5:30pm PST // 6:30pm MST with Bree Anaka

Seminar One begins October 14th in Bellingham, WA, at The Human Development Center.

Register in advance for this free meeting here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/2GRPfv0AQtKz7pBA59L59w

Body Intelligence offers fully accredited 2-year practitioner training courses in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Bellingham, Missoula, Tucson and Hawaii for existing health professionals considering adding a new modality to their work as well as individuals wanting to start a career in an exciting and evolving therapy.

Learn about Body Intelligence's 2-year practitioner course in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy at a free online Intro Talk on Wednesday September 16 at 5:30pm PST // 6:30pm MST with Bree Anaka

Register in advance for this free meeting here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/2GRPfv0AQtKz7pBA59L59w

Body Intelligence offers fully accredited 2-year practitioner training courses in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Bellingham, Missoula, Tucson and Hawaii for existing health professionals considering adding a new modality to their work as well as individuals wanting to start a career in an exciting and evolving therapy.

Birthing Our Essence

Join us October 2 for a three-day somatic process and integration workshop! These workshops are also known as Womb Surrounds.

Drawing from the field of Pre- and Perinatal Somatic Psychology, we explore the lived experience of human development from before conception through life in the womb, birth, and early infancy. Through embodied awareness, relational presence, and compassionate inquiry, we listen to the stories held within the nervous system, opening the possibility for healing, integration, and a more authentic expression of who we are.

The three-day workshop begins Friday at 4:30 PM and concludes Sunday evening. These are full days, with Friday and Saturday sessions sometimes continuing into the evening. Please give yourself plenty of space around these weekend workshops so you can be fully present for the experience.

For more information, visit our website (in the comments)

Email us at [email protected] to sign up and complete the intake form.

What Do the Skull and Pelvis Have in Common? More Than You Might Think.

At first glance, they seem far apart. The skull protects the brain, while the pelvis provides support for the lower trunk. Yet anatomically and functionally, they are deeply connected.

The resonance between the skull and pelvis is one of the central themes of Body Intelligence Seminar 4.

The skull and pelvis are connected through the spine and through a system of membranes. The dura mater lines the inside of the skull and continues into the spinal canal, forming the dural sac, with important relationships extending towards the sacrum. In the training, this central connection is also explored through the concept of the Core Link.

But this is not only about anatomical continuity. In the biodynamic approach, we learn to perceive how movement and organisation in one part of the body relate to the whole. The skull, spine, and pelvis are not three separate regions – they participate in an interconnected system.

We can observe this even in everyday movement. Changes in the organisation of the pelvis influence the spine and the way we carry the head. Likewise, patterns of tension and organisation around the head and neck can be reflected in the posture of the whole body.

In BCST, however, the aim is not to mechanically search for what is “wrong”. The practitioner learns to perceive resonance between different parts of the organism – their relationships, motility, and organisation within Primary Respiration.

Sometimes change does not begin in the place where a person experiences difficulty. The organism may find a pathway towards greater balance through relationships extending across the whole body.

This reflects one of the central principles of the biodynamic perspective: the body is not a collection of separate parts. It is a whole in which structures are continually relating to and influencing one another.