Integrative Craniosacral Therapy
“You held such a clear and supportive space in our session, and the effects of it are quite profound. I have continually returned to feeling the self clarity and rejuvenation that I experienced on your table during our session.”
Injuries and illnesses are always manifestations from the Essential Self, the part of you that is timeless and infinite. They arise as signposts, seeking our attention to bring us back to our Essential Selves and the path of our Destiny.
Systems Wisdom
When we work together, we are equal partners in your healing. I do not look at you and your body and determine what needs to be “done.”
Rather, I listen to you and tune in to your system, allowing it to reveal its priorities for healing.
Then I track, support and respond as your system moves through its inherent healing process—choosing the steps, sequence of events, and degree to which it is ready to release, realign and reintegrate itself.
The transformation happens not only on the physical level, but in all systems: psyche, spirit, personality, soul.
A recent client of mine called this “systems wisdom.”
It is a beautiful and wise process to which I bring my refined skills of observation and my fluency in the body’s language of anatomy, while holding a grounded presence.
Your system can feel safe to reorganize, remember. and heal.
“Integrative Craniosacral Therapy” widens the scope of the healing arts I offer in private sessions. With Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy as the core, these sessions can seamlessly include any of my modalities, skills and principles as they are called on to meet a given need that is arising from you—physically, emotionally, spiritually, energetically.
“I’m always aware with Daven that her gifts are not just those of technique, understanding and a real kindness of touch. She brings a supple and deep intuitive feeling for what is emerging, for what the body and its energies may need. It’s as if she can sense the body as a subtle rise and fall of unfolding questions. And her hands listen. Never manipulative, always empathic, her work for me brings a wonderful quietude and peace. ”
What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?
The Physical
The term “craniosacral” describes the landscape of the nervous system: the brain in the cranium, and the spinal cord which extends all the way down to the sacrum (at the level of the pelvis/buttocks) to the tip of the tailbone. From this center, nerves extend into every part of our physical bodies, enervating, governing, and responding to every process, activity and experience of the body.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) works with the autonomic nervous system to bring the body into an enhanced state of rest and recovery.
This is the state where the body’s natural healing occurs: engaging the immune system, resolving illness and injuries, easing anxiety, solving digestive issues, aligning the spine and skeleton, bringing clarity to the mind, freedom to the spirit and so much more.
When you are working at the level of the nervous system and restoring its healthy state, you are working at the foundation level of health in the body.
Dramatic transformation can occur on multiple levels all at once.
The Metaphysical
As a practitioner, my orientation is to recognize your Wholeness beneath all the overlays of circumstance and conditioning of this life, while acknowledging the layers of your expression as your Health, Intelligence and Wisdom, from the specificity of anatomy to the metaphysical realm of your soul’s journey.
With this recognition, injuries and illnesses can resolve, as you come back home to the sense of yourself.
Because of its gentle and non-invasive approach, Integrative Craniosacral Therapy is appropriate and effective for many conditions and all ages, including infants, children, and elders.
Learn more about the autonomic nervous system here.
In-person sessions
London & Leicestershire, UK
On-line sessions
available internationally
“Daven’s work is gentle and nurturing with almost no direct manipulation or movement, so it feels safe if you have an injury or are in pain. Yet, something is happening deep inside – after each session I felt deep relaxation of parts of my body that I suspect had been tensed for years. I’ve tried over the year to relax these muscles myself, but was never able to accomplish what I experienced in Daven’s session.”
“With Daven’s intentional, masterful touch and guidance, the body responds immediately and you can feel the intricate work of opening, quieting, organizing, and healing happening on the spot. The time on the table feels like a meditation, a needed respite from the chaos and complaints, a re-centering, and a remembering. I always leave a session with a renewed focus and calm, ready to re-enter and re-engage in life and creative pursuits, and I always leave more curious of the body’s incredible capacity to participate and reveal itself. ”
Additional Support for your System
This recorded meditation is essentially a self-guided session. It supports and magnifies the potency of the session work; or it can be used on its own.
When we are in the midst of a transformation, whether it's taking on new habits, healing from old wounds, stepping into a new phase of our life--or embodying our magnificent truth--we want "all systems on board."
Our nervous system can hang onto old patterns, even when our psyche and spirit are moving towards a new reality. If the nervous system doesn't make the necessary shifts, we can get pulled back into the old paradigm.
We want all the layers of ourselves--psyche, spirit, energy and body--to be coherent with this upleveling.
This meditation uses the energetic movement called "The Tide," (from Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy) to support your system to let go of old patterns and seamlessly reorganize around the new.