Healing From The Core® On Demand
Healing From The Core® On Demand
Suzanne Scurlock’s signature online training in therapeutic presence, grounding and healthy boundaries
Drawn from more than four decades of clinical practice and teaching, Healing From the Core® teaches you the practical skills of how to stay grounded with healthy boundaries, listen through the navigational system of your whole body, and develop the therapeutic presence that allows you to support another person without burning out.
Now available on demand, you can complete the training at your own pace, revisit the material whenever you wish, and earn 18.0 NCBTMB Continuing Education Hours for eligible practitioners.
A message from Suzanne Scurlock, CST-D
For more than forty years, I have observed that the practitioners who create the deepest healing aren't necessarily the ones who know the most techniques. They are the ones who know how to remain fully present, deeply grounded, and connected to themselves while holding space for the healing of another.
Healing From the Core® is the foundational training from which all of my advanced master classes, certifications, and teachings have grown. Whether you are a caregiver, or CranioSacral Therapist, massage therapist, physical therapist, bodyworker, coach or another helping professional, this course will deepen the way you work by first transforming the presence you bring into every session.
A Depth of Practice That Goes Beyond Technique
You can spend years refining your techniques and becoming highly accomplished in your modality. But some of the most important skills in the treatment room go beyond technique.
How do you:
Stay grounded when strong emotions arise?
Know when to act and when to wait?
Distinguish what belongs to you from what belongs to your client?
Trust the subtle information your body is giving you?
These are the questions Suzanne Scurlock has explored in her clinical practice and teaching over the years.
The Healing From the Core® foundational course grew from that experience, teaching you to develop Full Body Presence®, trust your inner guidance, and cultivate a grounded therapeutic presence.
This is an opportunity to learn what Suzanne knows and practices
Click each video to listen to what others have to say about Suzanne's teaching
Some knowledge can only come from decades in the treatment room.
Suzanne has worked with thousands of clients and healthcare professionals, navigating trauma, pain, emotional release, and complex healing processes.
Through that experience, she has developed a remarkable capacity to stay grounded while listening deeply: knowing when to ask, when to wait, and when the body is communicating something the thinking mind hasn't yet recognized.
Healing From the Core® is an opportunity to learn what Suzanne knows and how she practices.
Deb Jewett
Some knowledge can only come from decades in the treatment room.
Suzanne has worked with thousands of clients and healthcare professionals, navigating trauma, pain, emotional release, and complex healing processes.
Through that experience, she has developed a remarkable capacity to stay grounded while listening deeply: knowing when to ask, when to wait, and when the body is communicating something the thinking mind hasn't yet recognized.
Healing From the Core® is an opportunity to learn what Suzanne knows and how she practices.
Kate Mackinnon
Some knowledge can only come from decades in the treatment room.
Suzanne has worked with thousands of clients and healthcare professionals, navigating trauma, pain, emotional release, and complex healing processes.
Through that experience, she has developed a remarkable capacity to stay grounded while listening deeply: knowing when to ask, when to wait, and when the body is communicating something the thinking mind hasn't yet recognized.
Healing From the Core® is an opportunity to learn what Suzanne knows and how she practices.
Emil Schmuck
Your Presence Is Part of Every Session
Whatever your modality, you bring more than your professional training into the room. You bring yourself: your instincts, boundaries, ability to listen, capacity to stay present and create a sense of safety.
When the work becomes complex, you may absorb emotions that aren't yous, question what you're sensing, work too hard, or lose connection with your own body.
Healing From the Core® teaches you another way: how to remain fully present with another person while staying fully connected to yourself with grounding and healthy boundaries. teaches.
Full Body Presence®
At the center of Healing From the Core® is Full Body Presence®: the ability to inhabit and sense your whole body while remaining connected to healthy inner and outer resources and aware of your boundaries. Suzanne describes it as the foundation of strong therapeutic presence.
Rather than relying primarily on your thinking mind, you begin learning to integrate it with body sensations, images, emotions, messages, and subtle cues that make up your internal landscape.
Your body then becomes a vital part of how you orient, discern, respond, and care for yourself while you care for others.
What You'll Explore in the Healing From the Core® Online Foundational Course
Grounding and Healthy Resources
Learn practices for becoming more grounded and connected to the resources that replenish you, so giving to others doesn't continually require drawing from your own reserves.
Your Internal Landscape
Develop greater awareness of sensations, emotions, images, messages, and subtle cues within your body, and become more curious about what they may be communicating.
The Wisdom of Your Body
Explore your body’s intelligence, including your heart, gut, pelvis, legs and feet, bones, and integrated brain, and how they work together and contribute different kinds of wisdom to your awareness and discernment.
Healthy Boundaries
Develop a clearer felt sense of where you end and another person begins, so you can stay compassionate and connected without automatically taking on what belongs to someone else.
Breath, Grounding and Embodied Awareness
Use breath and sensory awareness to settle more deeply into your body, expand present-moment awareness, and reconnect when stress or emotion pulls you away from yourself.
Resistance, Projection and Shadow
Explore the patterns and unconscious reactions that can influence how you perceive and respond to clients, and learn to recognize when your own history or assumptions may be entering the therapeutic relationship.
Therapeutic Presence
Practice staying grounded in the presence of strong emotion, listening without rushing to fix, and creating a steady space in which another person's own healing process can unfold.
What Can Change When You Become More Fully Present in Your Work?
As you develop these capacities, you can begin to:
Ground yourself more quickly and automatically before and during sessions
Recognize your own internal state before it influences your work
Listen more closely to the information your body is giving you
Maintain healthier boundaries while remaining compassionate and connected
Stay present when strong emotions arise
Notice when you're becoming over-responsible for a client's process
Trust your own perceptions with greater clarity
Give your client more space for their own process to unfold
Finish your work with more of yourself still available to you
These are professional skills, but they don't necessarily remain in the treatment room. The same ability to recognize your needs, listen to your body, establish boundaries, access healthy resources, and stay present can influence the way you move through the rest of your life as well. The course materials explicitly connect these capacities with personal relationships and the practitioner's own resilience and well-being.
My heart is starting to reform and mend. I’ve been dealing with grief due to a trauma a little over a year ago. I’ve been scattered and numb for quite some time. Through one of the exercises I actually felt sensation in my numb heart — and a specific visual assured me that healing is possible. More importantly, I feel some energy beginning to return.
This class was equally valuable for personal growth as it was for professional therapeutic purposes. I ended it feeling more grounded, free, and competent with the material — and more able to provide a higher quality of care for my clients. Healing with presence is a modality that I’ve wanted to make my own for many years. This class has fulfilled my dream
This workshop has supported me in opening my awareness and identifying my next steps for growth. I could not have done this without the help of the group and the instructors. In a safe and encouraging online space, I was able to settle into my own awareness more easily. After all of the exercises, I feel empowered to move forward successfully.
I feel clearer about some deep-seated projections I’ve been making, and awake to what I can do to clean them up. I made progress defusing a lifelong issue. I’m eager to continue integrating my skills into my professional and personal life. The course took me through contracted and expanded states, which increased my navigation skills. Now I have more access to being grounded and centered, even under duress.
I came to this workshop almost by coincidence. And of course, it was exactly what I needed. I feel I’m at the beginning of a new adventure in my spiritual journey. Truly inspiring! Thank you Suzanne for being a true guide. Your compassion, wisdom and caring gestures have touched me deeply. I can’t thank you enough for opening this door for me.
Although I have worked many times on recognizing limiting beliefs, this course really took me to a deeper level. When I was wondering why certain tools for grounding and refilling only seemed to work sometimes, Suzanne helped me realized that my primitive software was wired to always being a “doer.” This did not allow me to be fully present in my body. This awareness has profoundly changed me and I am thankful.”
New to Suzanne's Work? Start Here.
Healing From the Core® is Suzanne's signature foundational online training, introducing the principles and embodied practices behind her approach to therapeutic presence.
You don't need to practice CranioSacral Therapy. If your work involves supporting others, HFC gives you a grounded, sustainable framework you can bring to any modality.
Take it as a complete training or as your foundation for Suzanne's master classes.
Already Know Suzanne's Work? Experience HFC as a Whole.
If you've studied elsewhere with Suzanne or read her books, HFC brings the foundational body of her work together in one training.
And you may experience it differently now. Grounding, boundaries, and therapeutic presence take on new meaning as your own experience grows.
This is work that continues to deepen as your journey progresses.
Healing From the Core® Includes
Complete On Demand Training
Move through Suzanne's original 18 CE hour curriculum at your own pace.
Experiential Practices + Clinical Demonstrations
Develop greater awareness of sensations, emotions, images, messages, and subtle cues within your body, and become more curious about what they may be communicating.
Comprehensive Study Guide
A substantial companion resource for exploring and practicing the teachings presented throughout HFC.
Lifetime Access
Return to the training and practices whenever you need them.
18 NCBTMB Continuing Education Hours
Available to eligible practitioners upon successful completion of the course requirements.*
Who Is Healing From the Core® For?
Healing From the Core® is for anyone whose work asks them to be deeply present with another person, including CranioSacral Therapists, massage therapists, physical and occupational therapists, nurses and other healthcare professionals, bodyworkers, manual therapists, coaches, counselors, psychotherapists, and energy practitioners. Whether you are relatively new or have decades in practice this work can benefit you. Therapeutic presence is a practice that you continue to deepen with time.
Healing From the Core® is also valuable for caregivers, teachers, special needs parents and those whose lives require them to be deeply present for others.
Meet Suzanne Scurlock
Suzanne Scurlock, CST-D, is one of the world’s leading authorities on conscious awareness and its transformational impact on the healing process.
For more than 40 years she has empowered people with practical tools that enable them to experience joy in each moment without burning out. These skills help improve every aspect of their lives, from their health and well-being to their relationships, their careers, their creativity, even the growth of their businesses.
After decades of perfecting her methods of awakening the body’s innate wisdom, Suzanne created the comprehensive Healing From the Core® training curriculum in 1994. Today it includes a robust selection of international workshops, webinars, speaking engagements and audio programs.
Suzanne is one of the original instructors personally mentored by the late Dr. John E. Upledger, CranioSacral therapist and founder of the Upledger Institute International.
Known for her honest, grounded, nurturing manner, Suzanne is adept at weaving together mind, body and spirit to create a unique and safe environment that encourages profound healing.
She is a sought-after speaker who inspires healthcare providers, coaches, executives, parents, clergy and others to stay relaxed and energized using her life-changing tools for dissolving stress, pain, overwhelm and confusion.
She is the author of two self-care books, Reclaiming Your Body: Healing from Trauma and Awakening to Your Body’s Wisdom and Full-Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body’s Wisdom.
Healing From the Core®
Develop the presence, discernment, boundaries, and embodied awareness to bring more of yourself, fully grounded and fully present, to the work you already do.
On Demand | Lifetime Access | 18 NCBTMB CE Hours for Eligible Practitioners
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Healing From the Core® right for me if I'm already an experienced practitioner?
Yes. Grounding, boundaries, discernment, embodied awareness, and therapeutic presence are capacities that continue to develop throughout your career.
For an experienced practitioner, HFC offers the opportunity to experience Suzanne's complete foundational framework and bring the perspective of your own years in practice to the work.
Do I need to be a CranioSacral Therapist?
No. Healing From the Core® is designed to integrate with the work you already do rather than replace your existing modality.
It is relevant to practitioners whose work requires presence, connection, boundaries, discernment, and the ability to support another person's healing process.
How is the course delivered?
Healing From the Core® is an on demand training based on Suzanne's original 18 CE hour live online program.
You can move through the material at your own pace and return to the training whenever you want to revisit or deepen the practices.
Will I receive Continuing Education Hours?
Eligible practitioners can receive 18 NCBTMB Continuing Education Hours upon successful completion of the course requirements.*
*Confirm current CE eligibility and requirements before publication.
I've already studied with Suzanne. Should I still take HFC?
If you've encountered Suzanne's work through her books, her teaching through the Upledger Institute, Developing and Deepening Your CranioSacral Presence (DDCSP), or another training, you may already recognize some of the principles in HFC.
HFC gives you the opportunity to experience those principles as part of Suzanne's complete foundational system and to return to them with the clinical and personal experience you have now.
Can I continue into more advanced training afterward?
Yes. Healing From the Core® provides the foundation for Suzanne's more advanced master classes.
You can continue into those trainings to explore particular areas in greater depth, or take HFC as a complete stand-alone course and return to it whenever you want to reconnect with the foundations.
“My heart is starting to reform and mend.
I’ve been dealing with grief due to a trauma a little over a year ago. I’ve been scattered and numb for quite some time.
Through one of the exercises I actually felt sensation in my numb heart — and a specific visual assured me that healing is possible.
More importantly, I feel some energy beginning to return."
Christie Baker
“This class was equally valuable for personal growth as it was for professional therapeutic purposes.
I ended it feeling more grounded, free, and competent with the material — and more able to provide a higher quality of care for my clients.
Healing with presence is a modality that I’ve wanted to make my own for many years. This class has fulfilled my dream."
Robert Klein
“This workshop has supported me in opening my awareness and identifying my next steps for growth.
I could not have done this without the help of the group and the instructors.
In a safe and encouraging online space, I was able to settle into my own awareness more easily.
After all of the exercises, I feel empowered to move forward successfully."
Katharyn Blades
“I feel clearer about some deep-seated projections I’ve been making, and awake to what I can do to clean them up.
I made progress defusing a lifelong issue. I’m eager to continue integrating my skills into my professional and personal life.
The course took me through contracted and expanded states, which increased my navigation skills. Now I have more access to being grounded and centered, even under duress.”
Anonymous
“I came to this workshop almost by coincidence. And of course, it was exactly what I needed.
I feel I’m at the beginning of a new adventure in my spiritual journey. Truly inspiring!
Thank you Suzanne for being a true guide. Your compassion, wisdom and caring gestures have touched me deeply.
I can’t thank you enough for opening this door for me.”
Manuel Boyer
“Although I have worked many times on recognizing limiting beliefs, this course really took me to a deeper level.
When I was wondering why certain tools for grounding and refilling only seemed to work sometimes, Suzanne helped me realized that my primitive software was wired to always being a “doer.” This did not allow me to be fully present in my body.
This awareness has profoundly changed me and I am thankful.”
Vivian Malnikof
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