Massage/Bodywork Sessions:
Sessions often start with sitting in breif meditation to arrive, settle and feel into what’s present in the body. We then check in with intentions for the session and move toward the table.
My quality of touch is a mix of seeming opposites: specific and spacious, firm and gentle, with an underlying connection to stillness. I like to flow between Biodynamic crasniosacral therapy (bcst) and massage within a session.
See the about section, home page and education section for more information on my background of techniques and orientation.
Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy Sessions:
Craniosacral sessions vary in time, usually between 30 minutes to one hour.
I love offering BCST as a way to invite deep rest, to be with emotions and traumas held in the body (facilitating sensation-based expression of them), and to bring the nervous system into a more relaxed, baseline state.
The client remains fully clothed during these sessions.
Touch is very light and over the clothing…sometimes gentle rocking is applied. The practitioner is tracking the whole body/system, not just the area of physical contact. Common hand placements are at the ankles/feet, under the sacrum/low back/upper back, under the head, to the sides of the head, forehead, face, belly, diaphragm, above pubic bone, below clavicles, under shoulder blades, at tail bone and base of skull.
Craniosacral is not always blissful…often stored tensions and traumas start to surface, which can feel uncomfortable as they move through…they can present as more intense or unpleasant sensations (sharpness or achiness to name a couple). Emotions and memories often arise as well. Usually, they arise and then subside.
Inherent Wisdom/Intuitive Field/Subtle Awareness Exploratory Dive Sessions:
Being in the mystery and magic of the ever-changing present moment in service of connection, growth, healing, expansion, insight, deeper subtle embodiment, slowing down and tuning into the depths of what wants to express and move through us and be seen...tuning into what would serve the whole, through this present moment, and increasing our capacity to be with whatever is here, whether that's soft, gentle, subtle, still, moving, cathartic etc...
This space can look and feel many different ways. Time can feel different. There can be a palpable sense we are connecting to an energy field that is guiding us. Big feelings can arise and move through. You can feel deeply seen and supported. You may tap deeply into your intuitive wisdom. We may be with something in the relational field that will help you in relating outside of our time together. We may be with energy your body needs to discharge (tears, laughter, shaking, yawning, sighing, growling, sounding etc…).
This is about being with and listening to our inherent wisdom and putting a spot light on the relational field.