During my years of training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, I was often astonished by how effective the modality was. My mind was baffled that straining wasn’t required; the less I seemed to do, the more results I got with my clients.
Clients who came to work with me found that not only did their bodies respond well, but their health conditions also began to improve.
My training in other bodywork modalities was genuinely beneficial and supported my own healing and growth as a therapist.
Yet, many health conditions I saw in my clients simply weren’t responding to those methods.
In those instances, I would hope and pray, wishing my clients’ health would improve through our work together. However, as I slowly recovered from my own health conditions—including scoliosis, chronic back pain, anxiety, osteoarthritis, and migraines—I saw firsthand that hope, prayer, and wishing alone weren’t enough.
In time, I discovered a completely renewed relationship with health. It was a relationship that not only freed me from many of my health conditions but also genuinely changed my life for the better.
Today, I continue to be in awe of the simple yet powerful approach of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, with its firm foundations anchored in a gentle, “non-doing” style.
This touch-based therapy profoundly assists in body-mind integration. It directly engages with the nervous system through the fascia (the body’s connective tissue) to support global cellular regeneration as well as emotional and nervous system regulation. This results in systemic shifts in health.
This process happens as the body becomes resourced enough to incrementally discharge unresolved stress held from past experiences.
The efficacy (effectiveness) of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy revolves around unconditional, deep listening.
This is where the practitioner is wholly present with themselves and simultaneously with the client, maintaining a neutral, unbiased observation of somatic (body-based) sensations.
This practice affords a sense of spaciousness that can soothe the nervous system and its stress-associated defensive patterns. This, in turn, can trigger a cascade of “feel-good” hormones from the neuroendocrine system (the body’s hormonal glands, e.g., the pituitary gland), which supports nervous system regulation and psychosomatic (mind-body) reorganization.
This essentially is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy supports health and wellbeing so well.
