What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST)?

Comfort and ease - finding safety

Coming to a sense of comfort and ease is the starting place of a BCST session.  While some of life has you dissociate from your body, and although this is a wonderful self-preservation capability, there is a singular experience of comfort and ease when you feel safe enough to re-inhabit your body.

Cranio sessions begin with settling the nervous system. Monica practices using education, embodiment and a light touch. Developing grounding and embodiment skills are an integral part of each session, whether subtly interwoven, or explicitly explored.

From a down-regulated nervous system, you proceed in a way that's similar to falling asleep; the body's busyness quietens to stillness, before a single priority emerges. The difference between falling to asleep and a Craniosacral therapy session is you will still be awake after the stillness, which is normally the moment you drift off to sleep. Biodynamics proceed ...

Biodynamics

In your sleep your body repairs itself. After a long day, perhaps you're so tired you can't keep your eyes open, you may have the sniffles, an achy arm, or a headache.  In the morning, at least some of the damage daily life does to the body is repaired.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy provides that same healing while you're awake, yet since you're awake, you experience and appreciate how it happens. Often Biodynamics are experienced during sessions and beyond as an effortless tide-like motion, throughout your body, pleasant and enjoyable, as healing necessarily is. 

Naturally then, Biodynamics are known by tidal names, such as 'Long Tide' and 'Midtide.'  I would like to describe these ever-present embryonic motions more, but the best way to appreciate them is to experience them for yourself, in you own body, in one of our sessions.

You strike up a relationship with these healing forces. They become what you turn to for support, comfort and healing, until, without the BCST practitioner, you are flourishing within your skin.

Resourcing

Within a single session, clients can build body-awareness, self-soothing and self-healing skills, alongside the personal limitless resources that one client has aptly named, "body friends." These are the gold, useful in a myriad of ways, and found at the heart of the healing process. Healing is necessarily an enjoyable sensation.

Flourishing is within your skin.

What is BCST good for?

Who benefits from this therapy?

Biodynamics are endemic to every body created by them, and so Biodynamics are good for every body.

Many aspects of your awe-inspiring creation went very well, and so you are here. Many aspects were negotiated less than ideally. No problem. These can all be re-negotiated, re-done, enhanced, and cultivated for your long-term capacity to flourish in the body you have.

The first component of the Biodynamic approach, ease and safety is of particular benefit to those suffering trauma; any kind of trauma, since the trauma of living under duress, chronic illness, or isolated or cumulative events, all effect the body with the same trauma patterns. Trauma, it is well established, is not a disorder, rather it is an injury that heals.  It is a moment of overwhelm, held in the body, waiting to be renegotiated by the body.  Within a BCST session, trauma renegotiation happens without verbal articulation of the trauma, by your body at your body's pace, and, with Biodynamics' awe-inspiring gentleness.

BCST has its roots in working with the flow of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) in the central nervous system.  Commensurately, BCST is beneficially employed in the service of those suffering neurological disorders, commonly autism and head injuries, as well as support for CSF leak and vertigo.

Flourishing Tides regularly consults with those suffering anxiety-depression, gut and sleep problems, migraine and tinnitus. Monica is experienced in using BCST to support those undergoing chemotherapy and post-chemotherapy recovery. 

Flourishing Tides has a special interest in supporting First Nations People, as well as new Australians.

If you would like to talk about how BCST may be beneficial to you, or simply to make an appointment, please be in touch via the contact form, by phone, text message, or email.