listening to the body
about Heather.
Heather Telford is a craniosacral practitioner, yoga instructor and dance educator. She had an extensive 23 year international professional dance career with Göteborgs Operans Danskompani, Le Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. Her creative work expands to include filmmaking, set design and choreography. She is a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist BCST, RCST® and has practised for over 7 years. Heather has also been teaching yoga for over 14 years and is a certified yoga teacher 500h+ with the Yoga Alliance. She is presently on faculty at Balettakademien Göteborg. She has a passion to share her experiences through educational endeavours and is invested in healthy movement practise and therapeutic ways to work with the body.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Practitioner
Heather Telford RCST®, BCST is a Registered Biodynamic Craniosacral Practitioner in Sweden and Canada (2017). Since becoming a certified practitioner, she has completed advanced trainings with Jane Shaw and Sheila Kean.
“Movement has always come naturally to me. As a balance, the work through Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy has helped me find stillness and grounding. The more I learn, the more fascinated I become in discovering the benefits of this deep work.”
Heather's Qualifications
2015- 2017
RCST® / Registered Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist in Sweden and in Canada.
Body Intelligence Training Copenhagen
Trauma Recovery for BCST
Jane Shaw Natural Health
2017
2017
Post graduate course with a focus working with babies and children (with Sheila Kean)
Body Intelligence Training
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST)?
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a gentle non-invasive, hands-on session for the whole body. Performed on a massage table, the client is fully clothed and the practitioner touch is light and still. The session focus is to support the inherent health of the whole being, especially the nervous system (NS). The NS dictates all of the body’s functioning, constantly sending and receiving information.*
*Reference: Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) Association
“If we listen to the body we can facilitate the innate intelligence that is within each of us to heal ourselves”
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yoga.
Heather has been teaching yoga for over 14 years and is a certified yoga teacher 500h+ with the Yoga Alliance. She has deepened her knowledge by taking many workshops: Kripalu Center for health and yoga Stockbridge, Ma - Yoga for medicine (Timothy McCall), Anusara therapeutics (Ellen Saltonstall), Vinyasa Yoga Training Intensive, and Yoga Sutras deepening 80h (Clara Roberts Oss), Vancouver, Canada .She has worked with a therapeutic approach for Parkinson's and other neuromuscular conditions. She has taught yoga in Montreal, Canada, and at several studios throughout Sweden, at Göteborgs Operans Danskompani, as well as to private clients.
photo Michael Slobodian
dance.
Heather teaches improvisation, ballet and mentors emerging dance artists. She is also a choreographer. She has worked with Göteborgs Operans Danskompani, Le Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She has had the opportunity to work with many choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Wim Vandekebus, Guy Weizman, Marie Chouinard, Saburo Teshigawara, Ohad Naharin, Ina Christel Johannesson, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alex Ekman, Johan Inger, Jo Kanimori, Martin Forsberg, Crystal Pite among many others. She trained at Arts Umbrella, L’Ecole Superieure de Danse du Quebec, and Banff Festival of the Arts. She presently teaches at Balettakademien Göteborg, Svenska Balettskolan summer program, and has been a guest teacher for Danscentrum Väst, Regiontheater Väst Boräs, Divertimento (Montreal), Arts Umbrella ISDI and Inverso Summer Intensive (Vancouver). She has a passion to share her experiences through educational endeavours and is invested in deepening artistic personal development of youth in dance.
Current work
Professional Classes
Dance Intensives
Inverso Summer Intensive, Vancouver
Arts Umbrella Summer Intensive, Vancouver
