“Embodiment is the awareness of the cells 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, which promotes self-healing.
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 and potencies, surrounding our cranium (brain), midline (nervous system/spine) & 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 system. Cerebrospinal fluid bathes and nourishes our brain and our spinal cord. When fluctuating fully, it generates a vital potency that may ignite healing & return the system to its original wholeness.
Trauma occurs when we experience sudden overwhelm or shock to our system. Trauma can be stored as a kind of freeze response recorded in our nervous system and stored within our cells, tissues and fluids. And, over time this may begin to express as inertial patterning resulting in a felt sense of dis-ease within our bodymind. Stress, tension, depression, autoimmune, endocrine disfunction, chronic pain, illness & nervous system dysfunction, may be symptoms of trauma - all signs of inertial or maladaptive patterning.
Listening touch supports the reversal of maladaptive patterning. As client and therapist attune to each other, nervous system regulation occurs innately. Parasympathetic states of rest & digest, allow access to deeper more restorative states of stillness. Stillness activates a felt sense of spaciousness to unfold. The system feels safe & rested. It is in this state that inertial patterning may unfurl, re-organise and integrate back into its original state of wholeness. Integrating trauma ignites vitality, ease & mental clarity. We may once again begin to feel comfortable in our own skin. And we re-learn how to live our life with a felt sense of wholeness, balance, coherency and wellbeing.
Remote Craniosacral Integration (RCI)
These sessions are similar to the sessions above, but are facilitated remotely. They provide support for clients who find it difficult to travel or for those living over-seas / at a long distance from my home studio.
Remote Craniosacral Integration is facilitated alongside my somatic awareness practice I call ‘Attuning’.
Through Attuning, I listen with the client, to support then to deepen into their felt sense to deepen their sensory, kinaesthetic & energetic awareness of their body-mind system.
The first half of the session begins through Attuning, person to person, nervous system to nervous system, wholeness to wholeness. A natural resonance & regulation occurs. This is preverbal, primal and prior to our minds conceptualisation of it. This is cellular - cell to cell resonance.
From here we enter into a somatically oriented introduction, to ground you into your living structure. And our interaction unfolds quite intuitively, in an open responsive manner, all the time following directly what is arising here and now. 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 & land more fully into body and simultaneously your innate capacity ‘as’ open spaciousness & wholeness.
For these sessions please create a comfortable, quiet space close to your computer, where we can see each other. Selecting a considered 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 phone conversation if you would like more information.
Please contact : maireadmv@gmail.com