Craniosacral Therapy London & Devon

In cranial work we listen through our hands to what is being communicated to us by the whole of the person we are in therapeutic relationship with. Part of what is being expressed is the story of that person’s body and what it holds within. This is communicated through the language of the body : the motion patterns of the tissues, the tide-like expressions and fluctuations of the fluid level, and the expressions of what we call “potency”, the agency whereby inertial patterns within the body are resolved and actual healing is effected.

We are so much more than our physical bodies, though. Our hands are connected energetically to the heart, not so much to the physical organ but deeper still, to the heart or core of our being. It is as if our hands are an extension of that deeper heart. If in cranial work it can be said we listen from an inner, neutral place, with our senses in balance, then the more deeply we listen from within the more we listen from the heart. At the deepest level we listen from a place of intrinsic stillness, of equanimity, of suchness, where compassion without attachment is naturally present.

It has been said that healing takes place when we are heard, and the more deeply we are heard the more deeply we are healed. What can be heard from such a depth of listening? Everything can! Everything that needs to be heard to make us whole.