Note re costs of materials. Some books are available used or
for free download on the internet, in which case the costs
listed in the materials column above may be considerable
reduced. Proposals for partial scholarships or trades may
in rare cases be considered in lieu of cash or credit card.
School Calendar
Each program has its own calendar. See the current Calendar
of Scheduled Trainings for specific information on the course
you are taking. If the course is not scheduled, contact the
school about your interest. Classes are generally 7.5 hours
per day, with 90 minute lunch or dinner.
Entrance Requirements
Minimum age for admission to our training is 18, unless accompanied
by a parent or with special permission. The exception is:
Introductory level programs beginning at age 15, by special
permission of
course instructor. Those lacking conversational and reading
English should discuss their situation with the instructor
before registering.
HWI does not discriminate based on age, gender, race,
religion, disability, and lifestyle or ethnic origin.
Since we teach
in numerous sites, please check with us about your
disability for a particular course.
Program Lengths and Times:
HWI programs vary in length. Core program lengths include:
Polarity Intro/Module 1: 4 days
Level I Polarity Therapy: 16 days, includes Intro/Module
I
Craniosacral Biodynamics Intro: 5 days
Craniosacral Biodynamics: 50 days, Includes Intro/Module
I
Somatic Trauma Resolution: 12 days (8 full days and 4 half-day
segments)
Processing Workshop: 16 hours over three days, beginning
first day at 9 am and ending
on third day at 1 p.m.
Advanced Seminars vary, check HWI for schedule.
A day is generally 7.5 hours, with a 90-minute lunch break.
Type of Instruction:
HWI programs are currently conducted on-site at varying
locations, in the State’s “Roaming
Teacher” program, with at least one instructor present. Some courses
are taught out of state. Some student STR private sessions and student consultations
are done by phone or email. A Somatic Trauma Resolution distance electronic
course
(Video or DVD) will be available in Spring of 2005, for certification or
non-certification.
Attendance Policy:
Absence at more than 5% of the regularly scheduled events
of a program will cause withholding of Certificate of
Completion until such time as the material
missed
has been satisfactorily completed. Health Wave Institute will work with
students to accommodate schedule problems, including
determining make-up options.
Students are not charged for make-up events for which payment has already
been made
as part of the overall tuition. The burden of arranging logistics and resources
for making up a missed class is on the student, not on HWI. Students are
expected to arrive on time for class and to keep up with the reading and
other homework.
Conduct Policy
HWI reserves the right to dismiss a student for disruptive
behavior (including usage of drugs or alcohol) or lack
of satisfactory progress. HWI can make
this dismissal based on subjective criteria, with power of final decision
vested
in the program director. In the event of dismissal, the refund policy
will be used.
A dismissed student may re-apply for any program, but HWI is under no
obligation to re-accept the student, or to provide support
for APTA or CSTA/NA certification.
Possession of weapons, illegal drugs, and alcohol of any kind are not
allowed at any time on school property.
Facilities
The administrative office is located at 26 Limestone
Court, Pagosa Springs CO. The school itself is roaming,
taught in several locations. Courses
include appropriate
teaching and therapy aids, Overheads or Power Point, models, therapy
exercise equipment and toys that bring the principles to life. Bodywork
students
are encouraged to bring their own massage tables to the course site.
Placement Assistance
HWI offers no job placement assistance. HWI does support
application to the APTA and/or the CSTA/NA for certification,
at the time of satisfactory
program
completion.
HWI will also write letters of recommendation for outstanding graduates.
Transferability of Credits
The school does not guarantee the transferability of its credits to any
other institution unless there is a written agreement with that
institution.
Personal Attention
Classes are generally small (usually 8-20 students),
with an emphasis on personal attention. Support for personal
processing in some supervised
practice sessions
allows deeper integration of the material.
Financial Policies
1) Tuition: Average cost is based on a rate of $125 per
day of training. HWI programs are usually paid as each
event occurs. A 5% discount
is available for entire-program pre-payment of modular programs.
Tuition
is for an entire
program,
not a segment of a program. If a student misses a segment (day
or module) of
a program, he or she is still obligated to pay for the class. Introductory
modules may be paid for separately.
2) Students are responsible for purchasing or borrowing books for
required reading, and for purchasing a bodywork table, gymnastic
ball or whatever
other equipment
is required for the course.
3) Payment plans, financial aid and work-study arrangements are
available on a limited basis.
4) Payment plans bear no interest and are made by agreement with
HWI.
5) Fees: There are no additional fees associated with the core
program. Make-up classes may require additional payment. Certification
in
Polarity, Craniosacral,
and Somatic Trauma Resolution requires private sessions to be received
outside of class, for additional costs. Instructors or graduates
supervising group
practice sessions between modules may charge for their time. Attendance
at these practice
sessions is encouraged but not required.
6) Any student may repeat any class for half price.
7) Additional events from HWI or another provider may be necessary
for APTA certification, requiring additional fees. These include
Anatomy and Physiology
special classes,
Practice Supervision classes and others. Please consult with the
director of your program for specific information on your situation.
8) Note that Polarity Therapy and Craniosacral Therapy practitioner
certification comes from APTA (American Polarity Therapy Association)
and CSTA/NA (Craniosacral
Therapy Association of North America), respectively, not HWI, which
does, however, issue a certificate of satisfactory completion of
the course
that can be sent
in to the above certifying organizations. APTA and CSTA/NA Membership
and Certification Application Fees are separate from costs of the
HWI program.
Refund Policy
Students not accepted to the school are entitled to all moneys paid. Students
who cancel this contract by notifying the school within three (3) business
days are entitled to a full refund of all tuition and fees paid. Students who
withdraw after three (3) business days, but before commencement of classes,
are entitled to a full refund of all tuition and fees paid except the maximum
cancellation charge of $150 or 25% of the contract price, whichever is less.
In the case of students withdrawing after commencement of classes, the school
will retain a cancellation charge plus a percentage of tuition and fees, which
is based on the percentage of contact hours, as described in the table below.
The refund is based on the last date of recorded attendance.
F Refund policy once training has begun is according
to state statute:
E Student is entitled to upon withdrawal/termination
Within first 10% of program……………………………..90%
less cancellation charge
After 10% but within first 25% of program……………...75%
less cancellation charge
After 25% but within first 50% of program……………...50%
less cancellation charge
After 50% but within first 75% of program………………25%
less cancellation charge
After 75% (if paid in full, no cancellation charge is applicable……………..NO
refund
Cancellation Charge is $150 (see above)
1. The student may cancel this contract at any time prior
to midnight of the third business day after signing
this contract.
2. All refunds will be made within 30 days from the date of termination.
The official date of termination or withdrawal of a student shall be
determined
in the following manner:
a) The date on which the school receives notice of the student’s intention
to discontinue the training program; or
b) The date on which the student violates published school policy,
which provides for termination.
c) Should a student fail to return from an excused leave of absence,
the effective date of termination for a student on an extended leave
of absence or a leave
of absence is the earlier of the date the school determines the student
is not returning or the day following the expected return date.
3. The student will receive a full refund of tuition and fees paid
if the school discontinues a course/program within a period of time
a student
could have
reasonably completed it, except that this provision shall not apply
in the event the school cases operation.
4. Complaints which cannot be resolved by direct negotiation between
the student and the school, may be filed with the Division of Private
Occupational Schools
of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, 1380 Lawrence St.,
Suite 1200, Denver, CO 80204, (303) 894-2960. There is a two-year limitation
on the Division
taking action on student complaints.
5. The policy for granting credit for previous training shall not impact
the refund policy.
Postponement of starting date, whether at the request of the school
or the student, requires a written agreement signed by the student
and the
school.
The agreement must set forth:
a. Whether the postponement is for the convenience of the school or
student, and:
2. A deadline for the new start date, beyond which the start date will
not be postponed.
If the course is not commenced, or the student fails to attend by the
new start date set forth in the agreement, the student will be entitled
to an appropriate
refund of prepaid tuition and fees within 30 days of the deadline of
the new start date set forth in the agreement, determined in accordance
with the school’s
refund policy and all applicable laws and rules concerning the Private Occupational
Education Act of 1981.
Progress Policy:
Evaluation sessions and events are part of each program
schedule. In evaluations, instructors use a variety of
methods, including interview,
observation, demonstration,
written case studies and/or other homework, to determine student
progress. Health Wave Institute programs areungraded.
Students making unsatisfactory
progress are given options to improve skills. These options include
attendance at additional events, tutorials outside of regular class
hours, videos
where available, and practice supervision.
A
Career in Energy Therapies and Energy
Medicine
A Career in Energy Therapies and Energy Medicine
When I started working with energy in my work as a healer and Health
Educator, many disputed the very existence of bio-energy fields,
while
others found the idea of energy troubling. Now scientists from
several
disciplines have done extensive research with sensitive instruments.
They
have proved that all living things have an energy field. Physics
and
sensitive palpation are revealing more and more layers of this
wonderful
system, which now includes the energetic potency within fluids,
the chakras,
the meridian system, the energetic patterns of trauma, the molecules
of
emotion, the impulses of intention and the existence of non-local
reality.
Energy studies includes many other intriguing phenomena. HWI programs
take a
grounded view of the practicalities and skills of this expansive
field,
choosing modalities that complement each other, that have solid
explanations
for how they work, and that are safe and effective. There is great
advantage
to combining cranial, polarity and STR work, so we encourage you
to explore
the whole of our work. We anticipate adding other faculty in the
future who
will bring additional contributions to the Institute.
About the Name of our School and our Philosophy
The Name, Health Wave, is meaningful for us for in several
ways. The movement toward healthy lifestyle choices,
preventive measures,
and
energy therapies
has now reached the mainstream. The natural health wave has caught
on.
When our energy is available to us, it moves in Waves,
including the deeper, slower waves of the cranial
Tides. It warbles in a
wave pattern
like a bird’s
song. It has continuity and midline. It arises out of the stillness of the
power of the sea, is driven by the winds which arise from the horizon and reach
us with the Intelligence of Spirit that is beyond time and which connect us
to the deepest aspects of ourselves. Energy is an experience that lets us know
we are alive. It’s the tingle after a brisk walk, the warmth in our chest
when we are touched by tender feelings, the inspiration that comes from our
Source. Energy is expressed as the in-breath and the out-breath of life, in
continual phases of contraction and expansion, as the waving loop of the infinity
sign.
It’s the sunlight shimmering on the water, or the adamantine particles
of light that fill and surround every molecule of our precious universe. In
the Bible it is referred to as the Breath of Life.
We focus on the Health in a client’s system, rather than on his or her
Pathology. Symptoms and sad stories are listened to and recorded for use in
therapy, but they are not the main focus of the treatment, because we know
that problems are just a sign that the body’s energy system is out of
alignment. We access Health as the juice needed to power the client’s
own internal healing intelligence. When we locate blocked energy, we look for
the kernel of Health within that block, and as we watch it and support it,
it begins to dance.
FACULTY
Sharon Porter has been teaching Energy Medicine since
the early 1970’s,
when she began teaching Hatha Yoga in the SF Bay Area. She co-founded and taught
in the first large school of Polarity Therapy, which expanded to several locations
along the West Coast before dissolving in 1986. She then taught on her own
in California and later Colorado, developing her own approach to healing and
consciousness. Her sensitivity to energy patterns and fields allows her to
track what is going on in the client. When she is giving a lecture-demonstration
in front of a class or conference audience, she interprets the field patterns
that are moving her hands so that others can see the connection between our
energy and our thoughts and feelings.
Sharon’s Certifications include Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP),
Registered Polarity Practitioner (RPP), Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST®),
Yoga Teacher She is also a Yoga Therapist and exercise physiologist and incorporates
many traditions – Pilates, Restructuring, Posture, Power Walking, Ball
Exercises, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and influences from several styles of yoga.
In the course of 35 years of study, teaching, and work
with clients, she has integrated the work of many
great teachers with whom
she has personally studied,
including Rama Jyoti Vernon (founder of Yoga Journal and Yoga
Teachers Assn.), Dr. Randolph Stone (founder of Polarity Therapy),
Dr. Ray
Castellino (founder
of BEBA - Birthing Evolution, Birthing Awareness), Dr. William
Emerson (Pre and Peri-Natal Psychology Assn.), Dr. Ann Wigmore
(live foods),
Dr. Brent Baum
(founder of Holographic Memory Resolution), Dr. Stanley Kelleman,
DC (whose books include Emotional Anatomy), Dr. Vasant Ladd
(Ayurvedic Medicine), Franklyn
Sills (Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy), Dr. Peter Levine (founder
of Somatic Experiencing), Pat Ogden (Hakomi Integrative Somatics),
John
Upledger (Upledger
Institute), and many other esteemed colleagues.
Dan Burgess, RCST®, APP
Dan is Administrative Director of the Institute. He also
assists Sharon in most classes and contributes to the
teaching. Dan is
an RCST® with
additional
advanced training, and an Associate Polarity Practitioner (APP).
READING LIST FOR COURSES
(*indicates
required for that course, others are suggested)
Cranial Foundation Course
*Porter, Sharon, hand-outs, case studies
*Sills, Franklyn, Craniosacral Biodynamics Vols.
I (2003) and II (2004), North Atlantic (Revised
editions where available)
*Kern, Michael, Wisdom in the Body Thorsons (Harper Collins),
2001
*Shea et al, Standards for Practice 2005, CSTA/NA
Tortora, Jerry, Principles of Anatomy and Physiology,
Harper Collins College Publishers, 1993 or later
Netter, Frank, Atlas of Human Anatomy, CIBA-GEIGY Corp.,
1991 or later
Becker, Roland, The Stillness of Life, Stillness Press
2000
Sutherland, William, Teachings in the Science of
Osteopathy,
Sutherland Foundation
1965
Blehschmidt, Erich, The Ontogenetic Basis of Human
Anatomy,
North Atlantic Books,
2004
STR Course
*Levine, Peter, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, North
Atlantic Books; audiotape on Sexual Healing, Foundation
for Human
Enrichment, traumahealing.org
*Heller, Dianne, Crash Course,
*Porter, case studies (unpublished ms, including birth
year) and course manual
Scarf, Maggie, Secrets, Lies, Betrayals
Kharitidi, Olga M.D., Master of Lucid Dreams
Baum, Brent, The Healing Dimensions
Polarity Level I
Stone, Randolph, Polarity Therapy, Vols I and II
Chitty, John and Muller, Energy Exercises
Sills, Franklyn, The Polarity Process
Certified Energy Medicine Practitioner (CEMP)
*Oschman, James, Energy Medicine
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT),
emofree.com, download free manual and
order videotapes
Reading for additonal courses by request
Due to extraordinary conditions such as inclement weather,
students will be notified as soon as possible
by phone and email.
Credit for previous training shall not impact
the refund policy.
(Download as a pdf file for printing)
STUDENT ENROLLMENT AGREEMENT
Health Wave Institute, 26 Limestone Court, Pagosa
Springs CO 81147
(970) 731-4553
Approved and Regulated by the Colorado Department
of Higher Education,
Division of Private Occupational Schools
General Information Date ______________
Student’s Name_____________________ Address_______________________________
Street
________________________________________________________________________
City State Zip Social Security Number
Program/Course _____________________________________________________
Start Date___________ Completion Date______________
Classroom____ Correspondence_____
Tuition ___________ Fees?_________[Books and
Equipment purchased separately]
Total Cost of Program $_______________ Length
of Program____________________
If there is interest charged, the cost of credit
must be included in the total cost of program.
Schedule of Payments
Deposit $________ Date_________
Date__________ $________ Date________ $_______
Date_________ $_______
Date__________ $________ Date________ $_______
Date_________ $_______
Date__________ $________ Date________ $_______
Date_________ $_______
By signing below, the student agrees to pay HWI the
total stated tuition and fees. HWI agrees to provide
the occupational
training
in accordance
with the
provisions of Catalog No. 1, Volume 1, Dated 4005-4006
(“the catalog”).
Payment of all monies due shall be a condition of continuing enrollment. Upon
satisfactory completion of all academic ad skill requirements and when all
financial obligations to the school have been met, the school will award the
_________________Certificate to the student. The student and school understand
that this Enrollment Agreement, which includes the Refund Policy, may not be
amended except in writing and signed by both parties.
Postponement of starting date, whether at the request
of the school or the student, requires a written
agreement signed by the student
and the
school.
The agreement must set forth:
b. Whether the postponement is for the convenience
of the school or student, and:
3. A deadline for the new start date, beyond which
the start date will not be postponed.
If the course is not commenced, or the student fails
to attend by the new start date set forth in the
agreement, the student
will be
entitled
to an appropriate
refund of prepaid tuition and fees within 30 days
of the
deadline of the new start date set forth in the agreement,
determined
in accordance with the school’s
refund policy and all applicable laws and rules concerning the Private Occupational
Education Act of 1981.
Refund Policy
Students not accepted to the school are entitled
to all moneys paid. Students who cancel this contract
by notifying
the
school within
three (3) business
days are entitled to a full refund of all tuition
and
fees paid. Students who withdraw after three (3)
business days,
but before
commencement of classes,
are entitled to a full refund of all tuition and
fees paid except the
maximum cancellation charge of $150 or 25% of the
contract price, whichever is less.
In the case of students withdrawing after commencement
of classes, the school will retain a cancellation
charge plus
a percentage
of tuition and fees, which
is based on the percentage of contact hours, as described
in the table below. The refund is based on the last
date of recorded
attendance.
F Refund policy once training has begun is according
to state statute:
E Student is entitled to upon withdrawal/termination
Within first 10% of program……………………………..90%
less cancellation charge
After 10% but within first 25% of program……………...75%
less cancellation charge
After 25% but within first 50% of program……………...50%
less cancellation charge
After 50% but within first 75% of program………………25%
less cancellation charge
After 75% (if paid in full, no cancellation charge
is applicable……………..NO
refund
6. The student may cancel this contract at any time
prior to midnight of the third business day after
signing this
contract.
7. All refunds will be made within 30 days from the
date of termination. The official date of termination
or withdrawal
of a student shall
be determined
in the following manner:
d) The date on which the school receives notice of
the student’s intention
to discontinue the training program; or
e) The date on which the student violates published
school policy, which provides for termination.
f) Should a student fail to return from an excused
leave of absence, the effective date of termination
for a student
on
an extended
leave of absence or a leave
of absence is the earlier of the date the school
determines the student is not returning or the day
following the
expected return
date.
8. The student will receive a full refund of tuition
and fees paid if the school discontinues a course/program
within
a period
of
time a student
could have
reasonably completed it, except that this provision
shall not apply in the event the school cases operation.
9. Complaints which cannot be resolved by direct
negotiation between the student and the school, may
be filed with
the Division of Private
Occupational Schools
of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, 1380
Lawrence St., Suite 1200, Denver, CO 80204, (303)
894-2960. There
is a two-year
limitation on the Division
taking action on student complaints.
10. The policy for granting credit for previous
training shall not impact the refund policy.
I HAVE RECEIVED A COPY OF THIS ENROLLMENT AGREEMENT
AND A CURRENT SCHOOL CATALOG.
___________________________ __________ _____________________
__________
Student Signature Date
School’s
Licensed Agent Date
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