What I Offer

There’s so much in our bodies. Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy is a non-invasive form of body work. The client lies down on the treatment table and the practitioner uses light meditative touch. This can help clients come back into their bodies and re-connect with their own innate capacity to heal. Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy trusts the client’s body to find their own way back to health. The Biodynamic Craniosacral practitioner focuses on helping the client to feel safe enough and held enough to allow their own process to unfold. As the name implies the practitioner often makes contact at head (cranium) and the tail bone (sacrum). With clients, I’m not sure that I would explain any more than the above. I would certainly speak to them about the importance of their own awareness staying with the body. The process of them connecting with their bodies and learning to trust their bodies. I would also invite them to allow their bodies to move, voluntarily and involuntarily. To let them know that I am okay of their body shakes and that they are welcome to make noises whilst on the table. At more length, I would speak about the breath of life, the tidal nature of life, potency, trauma, dissociation and healing. I would describe the breath of life as a spiritual construct that describes the vibrational and pulsatory nature of all phenomena. This breath exists within us and without us. It is both ours and not ours. We have three basic tides that we work with in BCST. CRI is the tidal movement of the parts. The parts of our bodies move in response to our literal breath. We expand on inhalation and contract on exhalation. Mid tide is a longer inhalation-exhalation cycle and a whole-body movement. This would relate to ourselves as a being or soul. It is not connected to our literal breath but of a more energetic nature. Long tide is the longest cycle. This is a transpersonal movement that we can experience in our individual bodies as we are part of a bigger oneness. We could say this was a cosmic inhalation-exhalation cycle. It is through the tides that we experience the breath of life and we can experience the potency of the breath of life. The life force, will, drive that brings life forward. Through trauma the breath of life creates holding patterns in our bodies. To protect ourselves from overwhelming experiences by creating inertial stillness. In these places we cannot experience potency, tides or the breath of life. By allowing the trauma to resolve, the inertial still points can release, allowing the life force to flow freely again and the body re-integrate towards health. In practice we bring gentle awareness to the body, especially those parts that seem to feel stuck, dissociated or frozen. In order to feel these places, we need to help bring a sense of safety. With this sense of safety, the tidal flows can move in order to resolve these still places, to let go of the trauma. This is the healing process. In order to help the feeling of safety we need to get alongside our clients, offering our own tidal congruence as a resonant resource that can help the client to come back to health. We need to be mindful of finding the right level of closeness to the client that feels okay for their system. We cannot make them get better through our intention and we cannot help them to get better by leaving them to their own devices. As practitioners we use our own resources: our literal breath and bodies, our whole being and our connection to the greater cosmos. Lots of this makes sense in terms of my psychosynthesis training. The sense of being an external unifying centre. The understanding of the three different levels of consciousness (ego, I and universal Self). I trained at Body College London. You can read what the lead tutor Steve Haines says about biodynamic craniosacral therapy here https://bodycollege.net/bcst/