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by Dr. Michael Shea titled
10 Aspects of Birth Ignition

Michael J. Shea, Ph.D. received his master's degree in Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University, and a doctorate in Somatic Psychology. Dr. Shea was one of the first certified full instructors of CranioSacral Therapy in 1986 by the Upledger Institute. He is adjunct faculty and teaches human embryology in the pre & perinatal psychology at SBGI. He currently serves on several Doctoral Committees for graduate students. 

As a long time student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, his teaching style is grounded in his spiritual practice of developing compassion with the use of manual therapy. For many years he has also apprenticed with a Navajo medicine man on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. Along with this in depth study of shamanism he brings a unique cross-cultural point of view in teaching health and healing. Because of the influence of the Dalai Lama his clinical focus is on treating infants and children with neurological problems and developmental delays. This also includes teaching clinical skills for adults that carry pre and perinatal trauma.
 
Dr. Shea is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA). He is a founding member of the International Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings (IABT).  He has been a licensed massage therapist in Florida since 1976. He makes his home in South Florida with his wife, Cathy. He can be reached at his website: www.michaelsheateaching.com, email: info@michaelsheateaching.com, by phone at 561.493.8080 or in writing at 13878 Oleander Ave., Juno Beach, FL 33408.

Upcoming Workshops and Conferences with Dr. Michael Shea

-From Conception to Birth in Biodynamic Practice
 May 15 - 18, 2008 in Oakland, CA

-Featured Speaker at the upcoming FSMTA Conference
 Embryology and the Therapeutic Relationship
 July 2 - 5, 2008 in Boca Raton, FL

-Introduction to Biodynamic Practice
 July 25 - 27, 2008 at the New York Open Center in NYC, NY

For more information regarding these events and other please visit www.michaelsheateaching.com
SBGI Faculty Publications

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: Volume 1, Michael Shea’s current book, is under contract with North Atlantic Books; expected publication date, December 1, 2006. www.michaelsheateaching.com

Prenatal and Birth Memories: A Working with Your Earliest Experiences to Help Your Life Today by Bobbi Jo Lyman, PhD (2007, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Press) aims to transform prenatal and perinatal psychology into a science of practice that will reliably aid students and clinicians, as well as support those desiring to explore their own early memories. Please feel free to contact the author with questions or comments. Bobbi Jo (B.J.) Lyman: bjlyman@sbgi.edu; (805) 963-6896

Readers Guide to Intersubjective Neurobiology is a book by Allan N. Schore for which Dr. Stan Tatkin and Dr. Paula Thomson are contributing editors; published by W. W. Norton. Stan Tatkin: www.ahealthymind.org/csg

The Attuned Family: how to be a great parent to your kids and a great lover to your spouse is Dr. Keith Witt’s current book. In it, he is combining material from interpersonal neurobiology, integrally informed psychotherapy, and other sources to help parents love each other and their children more effectively.

Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
By Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, and Clare Pain
Forewords by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Director of SPI (SBGI Affiliated Program), Pat Ogden has a new book out. Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind-body approach to trauma.For more information please visit: www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/index.html
SBGI Faculty Professional Offices

Dr. David Chamberlain: Founding and ongoing editor of birthpsychology.com, the website for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatel Pyychology and Health.
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