Flow, Safety, and the Gift of Resistance – A Craniosacral Perspective
Craniosacral Therapy explores the need for healthy resistance. Discover how exploring birth patterns and cultivating a felt-sense of safety can unlock deep flow and resilience.
Sensitivity: Why Vulnerability is Your Greatest Strength
Sensitivity is often framed as a weakness. Yet, is sensitivity really weak? Or is this approach simply a distraction from feelings that are uncomfortable? Is this really about resistance to connection, to authenticity, to the truth of what’s actually going on?
The Path to Wholeness: Embodiment Therapy & Reclaiming Your True Self
When we look within we begin the process of entering into our wholeness. We begin to welcome home any exiled parts of ourselves. We embody the process of returning to health.
Mindfulness: How Meditation Rewires the Brain for Health, Connection, and Productivity
Discover the profound neuroscience benefits of mindfulness and how it sustainably boosts productivity, focus, and social engagement.
Healing, Health & Wholeness: The Etymological Link & Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Discover the ancient connection between healing, health, and wholeness. Learn how the somatic, bottom-up approach of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy works to restore your body’s innate intelligence and full well-being.
How Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and Craniosacral Therapy Can Transform Your Life
In today’s fast-paced world, feelings of anxiety, burnout, and being overwhelmed are increasingly common. We’re constantly searching for ways to improve our focus, boost our well-being, and feel more connected to ourselves and others. The good news is that a powerful synergy exists between ancient contemplative practices, modern brain science, and gentle therapeutic touch.
Let’s explore the powerful trio of Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) and how they work together to create profound and lasting change.
Shifting Out of Anxiety
Anxiety has a pattern. If it continues for long enough it can cause the body and mind to experience a degree of overwhelm.
For some it may not be an issue and for others it may be rather challenging.
Anxiety affects the mind and body in a number of ways, causing dysregulation of the nervous system. The body may move into protection mode ensuring survival and the negotiation of any perceived threats.
During an experience of anxiety we generally have an increased heart rate, the diaphragm is likely to contract, the breath tends to quicken and the brain shifts to only the essential actions that sustain immediate survival needs. Our capacity for memory is reduced, social engagement and language skills are minimised. We may misinterpret the facial expressions of those around us as being unfriendly.
Why Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is Effective
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 […]
Establishing Resources with Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Supporting the body’s nervous system and immune system through a felt sense of safety.
Finding Stillness
The Ultimate Nervous System Reset There is no shortage of things to give our attention to. It helps to conserve our energy and keep our resources for things that resonate. When we dwindle our resources and our attention is stretched we may feel as though we are running on empty. This can become so familiar […]