SER is a therapeutic process that uses and expands on the principles of CranioSacral Therapy to help rid the mind and body of the residual effects of trauma. SERI offers applications designed to enhance results using CST and other complementary therapies.


  • Date:24-01-2026 09:00 AM - 27-01-2026 05:30 PM
  • Location: Barral Institute Hong Kong / Upledger Institute Hong Kong

Description

SomatoEmotional Release 1 (SER1)

SomatoEmotional Release® is a manual therapy process developed by Dr. Upledger that expands on the core principles of CranioSacral Therapy to help rid the body of the residual effects of past trauma and negative emotional experiences. By gaining a deeper understanding of the self-healing paradigm at the core of Upledger CranioSacral Therapy, you’ll learn how to support the body to do what it knows how to do best: heal itself.

In SER1, we introduce an unbiased communication method based on curiosity, openness, and imagery that helps therapists to become neutral, non-judgmental facilitators in another person's healing process. Therapists learn to support clients, as clients become more mindful about their own body-mind-spirit and start to access deep, self-healing resources.

As a student in SER1, you’ll embark on a journey of discovery and transformation that will not only impact your clients, but also enrich you personally. You will learn about the physiological and psycho-emotional mechanisms of disease, and will participate in hands-on and verbal exercises to facilitate the SomatoEmotional Release process. SER1 offers applications designed to enhance results using CST and other complementary therapies.

SER1 Course Highlights

  • Assess and mobilize the Avenue of Expression, a network of more than 10 structures, including the thoracic inlet, hard palate, tongue, and hypoglossal tissues.
  • Explore the concept of the Inner Physician and learn to connect with your own inner wisdom.
  • Work with clients’ images and belief systems through a non-confrontational, non-judgmental communication process.
  • Explore how suppressed emotions trapped in the body may create resistances and barriers, and may be inhibiting complete structural releases.
  • Demonstrate how to integrate hands-on techniques with verbal dialoguing skills and other methods that emphasize self-healing.
  • Release blockages in the body’s many energetic systems, including chakras, meridians, and vectors.
  • Refine therapeutic presence, listening, and comprehension skills.
  • Practice locating and releasing Energy Cysts.
  • Improve palpation and whole-body evaluation skills.

Prerequisite

CranioSacral Therapy 2