Amplifying and Supporting Your Inherent Self-Healing Processes

In a Biodynamic craniosacral therapy session, I hold space for and offer attuned attention to my clients’ self-healing. 

Here is how a session unfolds, step by step:

• In my home office or in your home, we sit together for twenty to thirty minutes to settle in and talk.  You share what’s going on for you physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.  I listen and reflect back what I'm hearing and may offer insights and affirmations.  We set shared intentions for our time together.

• I help you settle in comfortably on the table, fully clothed, propped, and cozy.  I then sit on a stool by your side or near your feet and may guide you through some breathing and relaxation to clear the mind, drop into body awareness, and orient to something that feels resourcing for you. 

• I settle and orient to myself and to the space around your system.  When you're ready for contact, I begin with a gentle and still touch, usually at the feet, and tune in to the rhythms and tides that are expressions of the health and life force of your being.

• Your inherent healing resources build as these rhythmic tides are perceived, amplified, and often invited to pause and rest into deep stillness.  Some clients fall asleep, and that's just fine.  The body communicates healing intentions, which can be perceived through touch and intuition and combined with information from your intake and our conversation to determine where on the body to go next.

• I move to make contact at a few different places on the body during our session, often including the head, to offer a gentle and still touch where I can listen with my hands to perceive inertial patterns, deepen into stillness, and witness and support the self-healing process. Fluids, tissues, fascia, bones, organs, the nervous system, inertial forces, and trauma patterns as old as conception can unwind and reorganize with spacious and compassionate witnessing touch and sometimes with gentle suggestions to the body as needed.

• A final hold, often at the sacrum, knees, or feet, supports integration of the shifts that occurred during the session with attention to the reorganization happening in your system and the wholeness of your being.

During the last ten minutes, integration continues as I invite you verbally to share what you noticed, offer my own observations and insights, and support an un-rushed re-orienting to present time and space.

Check out my blog post, How to Get the Most ouf of a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Session.