“Embodiment is the cells awareness of themselves. It is a direct experience. There are no intermediate steps or translations. There is no guide. There is no witness. There is the fully known consciousness of the experienced moment, initiated from the cells themselves. In this instance, the brain is the last to know. There is complete knowing. There is peaceful comprehension. Out of this embodiment process emerges feeling, sensing, thinking, witnessing, understanding, compassion. The source of this process is free; it is love”.
Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen (BMC®)
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST)
(BCST) is a non-invasive subtle touch-based therapy. It promotes nervous system regulation which allows a drop into deep states of relaxation, spaciousness & stillness. BCST creates an environment for deep listening & healing through relational support.
Through subtle touch, I listen to the inner impulses, expressions & rhythms of your Craniosacral system. Our Craniosacral System (CS) is made up of membranes, tissues, nerves, cells, fluids & potencies surrounding our cranium (brain), midline (nervous system) & sacrum (pelvis). Like a living bridge extending throughout our whole bodymind landscape, our craniosacral system produces a subtle & vibrant fluid called cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid circulates within this particular system. Cerebrospinal fluid bathes and nourishes our brain and our spinal cord. When fluctuating fully, it generates a vital potency that ignites healing & returns the system to its original state of wholeness.
Trauma occurs when we experience sudden overwhelm, shock or damage to our system. Trauma can be stored as a freeze response recorded in our nervous system. This freeze is stored within our cells & tissues. Over time, this causes inertial patterning which leads to a felt sense of dis-ease within our bodymind. Stress, tension, depression, autoimmune issues, endocrine disfunction, chronic pain, illness & nervous system dysfunction, are all symptoms of trauma.
Listening touch supports the reversal of maladaptive patterning. As client & therapist attune to each other, nervous system regulation occurs innately. This activates the parasympathetic nervous system & its rest & digest function. And this may lead to a more spacious & restorative drop into deep stillness. It is through stillness, the wholeness of our system can reset . Inertial patterning may unfurl, re-organise and integrate back to its original wholeness. Integrating trauma is lfie changing. Vitality, ease, deep rest & mental clarity begin to return to the system. We may remember how it feels to be comfortable in our own skin, as wholeness, balance, coherency & wellbeing being to express once again.
Remote Craniosacral Integration (RCI)
These sessions are facilitated remotely, via Zoom. Remote sessions are for those who live abroad and want to work with me. Or for those who find it difficult to leave their home & travel. Remote Craniosacral Integration is facilitated within the frameowork of ‘Attuning’ (please see Attuning page). These sessions are for those who feel stuck in their life but are not conscious why this is. They sense they may have trauma but are not aware of it.
The first half of the session begins through Attuning, nervous system to nervous system, person to person. We welcome our wholeness & presence to present as a supportive alive field. A natural transmission, regulation & attuning unfolds. At a pre-verbal level of the energetic & cellular system, through our meeting. Through Attuning, I support a practise of listening deeply. And cultivating your bodymind intelligence - your sensory, kinaesthetic & energetic awareness.
From here we enter into a somatically-oriented enquiry. This helps ground you further into your living bodymind system. From this support, our interaction unfolds in an open, intuitive & responsive manner, all the time following what is arising here and now in your direct experience. With a consistent re-orientation to what is felt, sensed in your bodymind.
This enquiry cultivates our capacity to listen ‘to’ and ‘through’ our 3 centres of intelligence - our head/cranium, heart/midline and belly/sacrum. RCI supports you to ground, inhabit & land more fully into your bodymind. This supports a feeling of safety & trust in the integration process. And opening to access your innate stillness, spaciousness & wholeness.
Please create a comfortable, quiet space, close to your computer, where we can see each other and communicate clearly. Please consider a space where you can remain as undisturbed as possible during our session together.
Sessions are engaged via video call, but I ask for you to have your phone close by also. Please email to arrange a conversation for more information & to discuss if this may be suitable for you.
Please contact : maireadmv@gmail.com