Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle form of bodywork and energy healing that helps shift a person’s body into self-repair mode, particularly through releasing excess stress from the nervous system.
Lisa tunes into your body, allowing it to highlight its current priority areas that need to be worked with, and then they support the process of change and reorientation towards health.
Using detailed knowledge of anatomy and physiology, the therapist explores the subtle rhythms, releases, and adjustments as they occur. People often report feelings of calm and relaxation as this happens, particularly as Craniosacral Therapy helps to balance the nervous system. It is a type of Somatic Therapy. The Biodynamic style of Craniosacral Therapy works with the whole of you; it values and works with the interconnections between your mind, body, and Spirit.
In the words of one of Lisa’s teachers: Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy is a “therapy that combines a western scientific understanding of the body with mindfulness skills, a unique type of touch and an appreciation of the body’s ability to heal itself. [This] touch is incredibly profound, and sets off a deep, physiological reaction in the body.”
-Ged Sumner – founder of Body Intelligence Training for Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Why do people come for Craniosacral Therapy treatments?
Highly Sensitive People (sensitive to bright lights, crowds, loud noises, etc.) or who identify as being an empath find Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy to be particularly soothing and helpful for them. Some people come for stress relief and as part of a proactive approach to their health and well-being. Or they may have a more specific intention in mind.
Craniosacral Therapy can be helpful for a variety of conditions including:
- Jaw (TMJ) pain and dysfunction
- Post-Concussion Syndrome
- Migraines and/or headaches
- Digestive issues
- Back pain
- Sports injuries including recovery from broken bones (fractures) and muscle strains/sprains
- Joint pain or other musculo-skeletal pain
- Chronic pain syndromes
- “Psycho-Somatic” pain
- Anxiety and/or depression, or other emotionally challenging states
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy can be very useful to help the body work through traumatic events or injuries and even for the mystery aches and pains that don’t seem to have an identifiable cause.
As these mystery pains (or other symptoms in the body without a medically identified cause) are often diagnosed as Somatoform Disorder or as being “Psycho-Somatic” in nature, it can be a challenging road to find relief as the person may feel this is “all in their head.”
Lisa emphatically knows this is not true, that each person’s pain is real and unique to them. As she was once diagnosed with this herself, she now seeks to share what she’s learned about the mindbody (and Spirit) connection, and how this can be used for deep healing.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy may help you feel more grounded, more connected to your body, and more peaceful.
What does a session look like?
During the first session, there is extra time allotted to discuss your health history and any current problems you are seeking relief from. Every session after that starts with a check-in to see how you are doing.
Then you’ll lie fully clothed on a massage table, while the therapist gently places her hands on different areas of the body for 35-45 minutes. To work with the nervous system in this way involves a light touch, a gentle and still hand contact, which is different from massage as the therapist is not actively moving tissues with her hands. It can be quite soothing to simply experience touch in this way again.
Sometimes there is a guided meditation component to help you better reconnect with your body on a “felt-sense” level and to increase your body awareness.
Other sessions are quiet, with a nearly meditative feel to the room as you may be in a deeply relaxed state and simply experiencing the session instead of thinking and talking.
There will be a few minutes at the end for reflections and questions. It’s highly recommended to schedule some downtime, even a short walk in the park or something else you enjoy, after each treatment.
Is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy covered under extended health benefits?
If you are covered for Registered Massage Therapy and you are seeing a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) in BC, then Craniosacral Therapy is also covered as it within the scope of practice of an RMT to perform Craniosacral in a treatment.
You can book in to see Lisa at 2 locations in Rossland, BC:
*If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please send the days you’re available to lisa@combinationhealing.ca
I acknowledge that I live, work, and play on the traditional and unceded territory of the Sn̓ʕaýckstx (Sinixt), the Secwepemc, the Ktunaxa, and the Syilx. This area is also called Rossland, BC, Canada in the beautiful South Kootenay Region.