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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

is a gentle, hands-on therapy, which assists the body’s ability to heal and self-repair. Through the attuned touch, which is light and gentle, a person’s system is both; calmed and energized, bringing about subtle and profound changes towards balance and rejuvenation.

 

Special emphasis is given to balancing the central nervous system. Few systems have such influence on the central nervous system as the Craniosacral System – the soft tissues and fluid that protect the brain and spinal cord. The therapy releases held tensions and restrictions within the cranial bones and membranes. Supporting increased Craniosacral flow, hormonal and neuromuscular balance throughout the body.

 

Every day we endure stresses and strains and the body absorbs them. Yet our system can only handle so much before we begin to tighten and potential dysfunctions arise. CST supports relaxation, releases congestion and resistances, and engages vitality and whole-body connection.

The simplicity is its beauty…

The practitioner evaluates with light and skilled touch, the internal environment of the client. The presence is warm and clear and the touch is gentle and still. This feels much like being “listened to”. In response, the body begins to listen to itself and natural adjustments from within the inherent health mechanisms can occur. Breath, fluids, and the subtle life force can express more freely. Enabling accumulated stress to resolve in the fluid-tissue field. Stillness within this process is seen as deeply resourceful. Enabling a sense of wholeness and connection versus parts.

Biodynamics orients to embryology and dynamic life forces that formed us, as these underly and sustain our health and renewal at any age.

BCST is known for being deeply resourceful, restoring vitality, a felt connection to the body, and the ability to rest and digest. The modality originates in Osteopathy. It offers a safe space to resolve held experiences, stress, and trauma symptoms that can come as early as from birth, without being re-stimulating or overwhelming. Treatments can be preventative or address specific conditions. As this is a gentle, nonmanipulative therapy, it’s suitable for all ages; from infants to adults and the elderly.

How you might benefit from sessions:

Clients often experience more resilience, energy, calmness, and mental clarity. After a series of treatments many clients notice an improvement in their symptoms, they experience greater vitality and a sense of well-being.

Benefits: 

  • better overall health
  • reduction in pain
  • improved immunity
  • improved sleep
  • better digestion
  • feeling more energetic
  • feeling calmer and more relaxed
  • coping better with stress
  • improved bodyawareness
  • feeling more connected and aware

Conditions Addressed:

The list of conditions that may benefit from this therapy is long and comprehensive, as BCST acknowledges the whole person and that emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical health are all interconnected. Clients seek treatment for a range of symptoms including fatigue, pain, stress-related conditions, anxiety, and post-surgery treatments, as well as difficulties with sleep and digestive issues. Other clients are interested in improving general physical, mental and emotional well-being.

  • Nervous system imbalances
  • bodily tensions, constrictions, and pain
  • accidents, whiplash, falls,
  • post-surgery
  • jaw and TMJ issues
  • organ imbalances or digestive dysfunction
  • headache, migraine, eye conditions
  • fibromyalgia
  • mental and emotional imbalances (anxiety, depression, chronic stress,…)
  • Hyperactivity, high blood pressure
  •  birth experiences and patterns
  • Neuro-endocrine imbalances
  • Insomnia, sleep disorders, chronic fatigue
  • Structural and postural imbalances
  • joint pain, sprains / strains, stiffness
  • back- and shoulder pain
  • Going through major life transitions

How a session looks like:

The client lays fully clothed on a treatment table. The practitioner makes with light touch contact with your body and occasionally guides you to explore sensations. As you become more aware of resources and habitually held tensions and restrictions, your brain becomes conscious of them, it can then create change.

 

Relaxing is not a small thing ~ it is essential for life.             

“Relaxation is what we need to do, to feel ourselves. The body struggles to feel itself when it is tense. Often relaxation is talked about as if it’s trivial, but it’s actually a movement towards homeostasis.” (Ged Sumner)

The body is not a machine, rather a wonderfully, intricate interaction with everything around you, which is why it “knows” so much just in being. Eugene Gendlin

Somatic Movement

Continuum Movement 

Continuum is an invitation to slow down and to explore and nurture our inherent fluidity. Our body is predominantly fluid (70%), we re-invoke this life giving element through movement exploration, breath-sound and inquiry.

A quality of deep rest, flow and long longed for nervous system balance and discovery beyond the familiar can be cultivated in this Somatic Practice. 

In Continuum we learn to orient from within. The practice supports present time awareness, sensation and authentic movement to arise from within. Fluid movement and a deepened connection to the body and inherent health can remind us on our fluid origins and connectedness with all life. A fluid body becomes a fluid mind with flexible thinking, easily softening fragments into one whole. While hydrating tissues, fascia and joints and inviting vibrant vitality. It is like stepping out of daily life and into resonant, restorative and effortless movement. This can be so wholesome and nourishing in a demanding and fast paced life and world. Continuum ignites being present in the body and the joy to move!

No pre-requisites are necessary! Also accessible with limited mobility.

Please contact me directly for further information of upcoming classes and individual sessions.

  • slow down and restore
  • calm the mind
  • balance your nervous system
  • generate energy
  • discover, play, explore
  • release chronic tension
  • enjoy the flow
  • increase sensitivity and orientation
  • improve sleep
  • deepen presence
  • attune to life 

The Body is the Foundation for Our Well-Being

What is rooted is easy to nourish. What is brittle is easy to break. (Tao Te Ching)

Massage Therapy

Massage Therapy

Relaxing has never been as easy ….. restore through skilled touch

In a fast-paced world, Massage Therapy provides invaluable benefits for stress- and pain relief, balance and overall well-being.

Nurturing touch restores and invites relaxation, detoxification and improves vitality.
Manuela provides the following services:
  • Relaxation Massage
  • Therapeutic Massage
  • Cupping Therapy
  • Lymphatic Drainage
  • Craniosacral Therapy
  • and TMJ – intraoral Jaw- and buccal Massage
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