Breath of Life - The spiritual Light in the Heart
An Advanced Training Series with Michael J. Shea, PhD
Dr. Sutherland saw the light of perfect Health in the client’s body. He called it the Breath of Life. In this series of advanced biodynamic classes, we learn to visualize the Breath of Life as light and color radiating from the heart and third ventricle of the brain. This is a spiritual light from the origin of the universe located inside of us. Meditation and visualization skills are taught from the perspectives of Eastern and Western perspectives. This makes biodynamic practice more effective in Igniting the potency for self-healing in the metabolism of the client’s body. This is the Health. Students learn to Ignite the Health in all stages of life and palpate the intelligence of its potency.
The body is viewed from the perspective of Eastern medicine, consisting of a physical form, subtle and very subtle forms associated with the clear light of the Breath of Life. The five Indo-Tibetan elements will be taught through a series of protocols and their connection to the light of perfection, the Breath of Life that lives in the heart and circulates in the blood. The same elements that make the body make the whole universe. The Breath of Life unites the inside universe of the body with the outside universe.
The vascular tree will be viewed as the Tree of Life from numerous spiritual traditions. Palpation skills are based on the embryological development of the cardiovascular system. A so-called fifth chamber of the heart is taught. It is the embodied residence of the spiritual essence of all major faith traditions. Direct access to the sacred is everyone’s conception right and the essence of biodynamic cardiovascular therapy.
Visualizing the Breath of Life as light and color is necessary to help the contemporary client repair their metabolism and find their spiritual center. Visualizing the Breath of Life as a spiritual aptitude functions together with Primary Respiration and dynamic stillness. This makes biodynamic practice more vibrant and potent for healing metabolic suffering. Biodynamic cardiovascular therapy is a contemplative practice of harmonizing the inner world of perception with the universe based on the inherent wisdom and compassion in the heart.
The courses are designed for biodynamic therapists who have graduated from a biodynamic foundation training, studied the cardiovascular model, or have a clinical practice in biodynamic cardiovascular therapy. Students without prior training in biodynamic cardiovascular therapy but who are licensed manual therapists will need to take an introductory cardiovascular course from a teacher who studied with Michael prior to acceptance in a course. In addition, prospective students will need to listen to the previous two classes in the series they wish to attend and undergo a phone interview.
Each class day starts with a meditation and lecture followed by a practical exercise or anatomy presentation. Each afternoon is full of table work.
Course descriptions are subject to change when taught. Upon completion of each course, students receive detailed information about each course. Michael Shea reserves the right to adapt the instruction based on new scientific research. Please refer to the “Terms and Conditions” document on our website. There you will also find further organizational information as well as texts, interviews, audio and video material to prepare yourself. The same course will be repeated three times in 2026.