Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a gentle, mindfulness-based bodywork modality that nourishes your body’s wisdom and innate ability to recover from tensions, stress, and trauma. This hands-on work is offered fully-clothed on the massage table and uses gentle contact and deep listening on the musculoskeletal, fluid, and energetic levels.

WHAT TO EXPECT

– Intention Setting: You’ll share your intention for our work and begin to feel where that intention lives in the body. This often includes some more specific self-reflection or observation in support of your intention, and might include movement or guided somatic inquiry when appropriate.

– Treatment: The hands-on work includes gentle long contact of the joints, muscles, and arteries. It is common to feel deeply relaxed, even to the point of sleep or a meditative state. We will always go over and collaborate on what your treatment includes.

– Closing: Our time ends with space for observation and self-reflection as you begin to integrate the work. If available and requested, I may offer recommendations or guidance for your home practice.

There is no recommended frequency, though every 2-6 weeks can be supportive if you are moving through a deeper process or life transition. Schedule whenever you need support.

I practice a wide range of therapeutic massage modalities, with a slow and specific style that invites structural integration without causing additional pain – caring for your muscular tension patterns and the impacts on your nervous system at the same time. I take a whole-person, collaborative approach. Together we will work with your intention to skillfully notice your direct felt-sense, design treatments based on your intentions, and support your body’s ability to rest and recover.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Each Session Includes:

– Intention Setting: You’ll share your intention for our work and begin to feel where that intention lives in the body. You have the opportunity to describe your physical state, including any chronic or acute pain as well as where you feel most physically connected with your intention.

– Treatment: The hands-on work is a slow, specific approach to myofascial release. We may also include active or passive movements, deeper compression, or other modalities based on your needs. It is common to feel deeply relaxed, even to the point of sleep or a trance-like state. We will always go over and collaborate on what your treatment includes.

Massage modalities I practice include: myofascial massage, cupping massage, lymphatic drainage, reflexology, thai massage, active mobilization, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and acupressure.

– Closing: Our time ends with space for observation and self-reflection. If available and requested, I may offer recommendations or guidance for your ongoing self-care.

Recommended frequency based on your needs, generally every 2-6 weeks. It may take 6-9 months for noticeable myofascial shifts.

A supportive somatic process of coming into relationship and alignment with your whole self: mind, body, spirit, as well as social context and impact. We will work together to sense and connect with your body and state of being as a site of deep intelligence and transformation –building skills of internal and external resourcing along the way. You'll nurture the internal relationship needed to feel the ways situational, chronic, or traumatic stress impacts your body, how systems of oppression are operating within your body, and how to move from habitual reaction into choice. Your body is the guide. 

WHAT TO EXPECT

Our time together includes:

– Intention Setting and Embodied Awareness: This is usually offered seated or with guided movement. You will begin to articulate what is present and wanting attention.

– Feeling and Expressing: This is a continuation of your inquiry, with reflection and deepening. You’ll be invited to sense and feel into what wants your attention. We’ll slowly welcome what wants to be expressed, articulated, felt, moved. We can also transition to hands-on work. Hands-on work in this context is usually crainosacral therapy, lymphatic massage, or cupping. We will always go over the hands-on work or any somatic practices together before we begin for your consent.

– Observation and Closing: This is a pausing movement to acknowledge what needs to be acknowledged, and offer nourishment. This can include an assessment conversation, specific skill-building, and guidance for your home practice if you’d like.

I recommend scheduling a free consultation call prior to your first appointment and committing to a series or ongoing sessions based on your needs. (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly for a minimum of 6-9 months)