About Stillness Trainings and our Logo

Terry Collinson and Brendan Pittwood (we) established Stillness Trainings in 2006. Our aim is to offer a training of a high standard that brings in the essence of resonance and biodynamic principles and approach to all aspects of craniosacral therapy training. The foundation of the training has grown out of our own extensive study, experience, training and practice.

The courses we offer also come from a foundation of the research and teachings of many great writers, thinkers and researchers throughout history as well as teachers in the cranial field. Most notable of these are:

      • The founder of Osteopathy, Dr Andrew Taylor Still DO.
      • The founder of Cranial Osteopathy and the Cranial Concept, Dr William Garner Sutherland DO, on whose work the   Biodynamic model is based.
      • Dr Rollin Becker DO - in the years following Dr. Sutherland's death in 1954, Dr. Becker played a crucial role in keeping Dr Sutherland’s work alive. He went on to inspire generations of osteopathic teachers and students.
      • Dr John Upledger DO, OMM - throughout his career as an osteopathic physician, Dr. Upledger has been recognised as an innovator and leading proponent in the investigation of new therapies. His development of ‘CranioSacral’ Therapy, and his work with Autistic children in particular, has earned him an international reputation. He opened the way for the practice of craniosacral therapy to practitioners who were not osteopaths.
      • Franklyn Sills MA RCST - through his patients and teaching experiences he realised the benefit of supporting the body in its inherent wisdom to self-heal and self-regulate. He returned to Dr Sutherland’s later discoveries and developed the biodynamic approach to craniosacral therapy, which in simple terms embraces the therapeutic principle of be-ing rather than do-ing. He is the author of Craniosacral Biodynamics, volumes 1 and 2, and The Polarity Process.
      • Paul Vick BA RCST, - developed the Resonance principle in working with the biodynamic approach to Craniosacral Therapy. In 2000 Paul headed a teaching team from the UK bringing the professional training in the biodynamic and resonant approach to craniosacral therapy to Australia and New Zealand. He now concentrates his teaching in the UK and Europe.
      • Dr Ray Castellino DC (Retired), RPP, RCST draws on almost four decades of experience as a natural health care practitioner, consultant and teacher. His current practice focuses on the resolution of prenatal, birth and other early trauma / stress through an approach combining polarity therapy, craniosacral therapy, play therapy, trauma resolution, birth simulation and pre and peri-natal psychology.
      • Dr Peter Levine, on whose practice and publications about trauma and its resolution profoundly support the practice and teaching of the biodynamic principles and practice of our work.

We deeply acknowledge our teachers who have brought us to this place of inspired learning and teaching and also to our way of teaching, which comes from the heart and from a place of integrity and respect for ourselves and our students, who join us on this exciting journey of self-discovery, exploration and becoming.

The Logo

As you come to understand the biodynamic principles you might find a resonance with the many aspects of Being, which are reflected in our logo – this “calligraphic mark”. The logo also bears a mirrored similarity to the treble clef, representing a Resonance with our own frequencies of space and vibration.

The Stillness Trainings logo developed by chance, if there is such a thing!

Terry met Graeme Davey early in 2006 (www.gravey.com). He is an artist and designer amongst so many other attributes and in 2008 he was short-listed for the design of a new logo for the CSTA (Craniosacral Therapy Association UK www.craniosacral.co.uk). Graeme was so inspired by his first experience of biodynamic craniosacral therapy that he created our logo, including some of the words below:

The feeling of Stillness is honoured with ancient origin
creating a timelessness.
This is nothing new.
This is where we come from
and where we choose to go.
The centre of Stillness
The calligraphic mark speaks of ‘real origin’
sits solid and turns within,
rising and falling,
coming and going in an infinite flow.
Expressing within it the Three Tidal rhythms
arising out of the Breath of Life
whilst sitting Grounded and Present.
A balance of the male and the female.
The essence of wisdom
A centre of Stillness and creation within.
Creation from the Breath of Life.

                                                                                 Terry L Collinson 2006

About the Teachers:

Terry Collinson BCST, RCST, SRP
Terry runs a busy Craniosacral Therapy (CST) practice in Sydney, Australia. She completed the Advanced Diploma in 2003 and continues to be inspired by the profound nature of the work, in the body’s drive towards health and in its innate ability to heal itself at all levels without an interventionist approach. Terry trained in CST with Franklyn Sills & Paul Vick in London and the Karuna Institute in Devon, UK, subsequently training in Australia and New Zealand for five years to teach the biodynamic approach.

After graduating as a Physiotherapist in Edinburgh in 1972, Terry has had articles published, presented conference papers and lectures and taught for most of her professional life in Edinburgh, London and Australia. Terry developed a special interest in working with babies, families and in women's and men’s health where she researched and developed her work with continence issues. She was a Childbirth Education Association teacher for many years and continues her special interest in working with babies, children & the family in her current practice.

Terry is also a Reiki practitioner and deeply acknowledges her teacher, Barbara McGregor, and the practice of Reiki to the beginnings of her consciousness of the metaphysical causation of disease, the mind-body connection and felt sense of how the body heals. Subsequently this led to her own development of a biodynamic and resonant way of being, and being with the patient’s system. Terry is Co-Course Director with Brendan Pittwood and Senior Tutor with Stillness Trainings in Australia & New Zealand.

Brendan Pittwood RCST RBT PBT MNZCHP
Brendan is a Craniosacral Therapist, Prenatal and Birth Therapist, and a Remedial Body therapist, who runs a busy practice in New Plymouth, New Zealand. His focus is on the family, specialising in the treatment of babies, children and birth process related issues.

When Brendan left school, his passion for understanding how things worked led him to become a motor mechanic. He became involved with engineering, pulling things to pieces and figuring out how they worked, then getting them going again. During that time he developed an interest in complementary therapies, particularly massage, but massage didn’t fit the bill completely. So, Brendan left the engineering world and began training in Osteopathy, engineering of a different sort, with a great perspective to view the human organism.

Brendan completed his Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy training with Resonance Trainings and Paul Vick in 2002 and the Advanced Diploma in 2003. He then began training to teach the biodynamic approach to CST and he became the Administrator for Resonance Trainings and in partnership with Paul Vick. Brendan has taught Introductory CST seminars, assisted and taught on some Post Graduate CST seminars and facilitates Womb Surround Birth Process workshops for personal and professional development. See his web site for further information. OHCP

Brendan is the Chairman for the Pacific Association of Craniosacral Therapists (PACT), an organization set up to support the CST community and assist in broadening awareness of Craniosacral Therapy in both Australia and New Zealand. He brings new elements, depth and understanding to the nature of the biodynamic approach to CST, and he works together with Terry Collinson as ‘Stillness Trainings’.