What Happens During A Session?
- Before your session, we’ll take some time to explore the reason you’ve come.
- We will do some resourcing by talking about sensations, memories or fantasies that support your sense of wellbeing and health.
- You will lie on a massage table or sit if you are unable to lie, fully clothed, but with your shoes off.
- After a few moments, I’ll gently place my hands on your body, always asking permission and letting you know where I will touch you. Most often, I connect with your head, back, sacrum, shoulders and feet; but other parts of the body may be touched also.
- You may become aware of various sensations in the body, like: heat, tingling, pulsations, involuntary twitching or jerking, heaviness, lightness, sense of floating, or perhaps nothing much at all.
- Response to craniosacral work varies from individual to individual. Your response is uniquely your own and can’t be compared to anyone else’s.
- Sessions can be quiet or silent or we can talk – or a combination, it’s really what is of most comfortable for you.
- The duration of a session is 45 to 60 mins.
With each session, you will feel more connected to an inner place of fundamental calm, undisturbed by history, present regardless of ailment. It can be deeply transformative. Over time, this sense becomes easier to access.
Being able to access this felt sense will support you in your daily life, helping you switch between emotional and physiological states smoother and achieve better regulated and more aligned states of being.
Most people find receiving craniosacral sessions very pleasant and deeply relaxing. You will generally feel more grounded at the end of a session and may also have more energy.
Alternately, you may feel you need to rest after a treatment, allowing the body to complete the process started during the session.
The changes happening in craniosacral therapy can be very powerful, but subtle. People recognize changes in their bodies long after a session has finished.
This depends on what brings you to craniosacral therapy, how long the issue has been with you, and what your intention for the work is.
The first session will be an opportunity for us to see how we can work together.
I recommend starting with 6 weekly sessions to allow time for our relationship to settle and for you to start feeling safe and deepen into the work.
After that, we can review how the work is going and then continue with weekly (or biweekly) sessions, as needed.
For deeply held patterns of life experience, regular session work can be very effective, creating profound change. And for some people, craniosacral therapy becomes a normal part of regular self-care, as it can support you to build greater capacity for regulation of your autonomic nervous system
Biodynamic practitioners are trained to listen through light touch. For real listening to happen, there can be no force or manipulations used, no agenda imposed by a practitioner.
Highly developed sensing and awareness skills help a practitioner create a calm, still and embodied presence. This type of touch and presence creates an environment for you to feel safe, supported and held.
This sense of safety allows your autonomic nervous system to switch from flight, fight, or freeze to rest and repair. It is in this state that healing and change can begin to take place.
Experiencing a sense of profound quiet, calm and ease—undisturbed by history and regardless of present ailments—can be deeply transformative.