Integrative Craniosacral Therapy
What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?
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.
Integrative 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 therapeutic skills 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.
“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.”
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.
What to expect in a Session
-Sessions are done fully clothed, shoes off.
-For in-person sessions, you’ll lie face-up on a massage table. If that isn’t comfortable, we will adapt to the position that works for you.
-With your consent I will place my hands in different places on your body, sometimes sliding under your body for supportive holds, sometimes resting on top, or cradling parts of you (i.e. your head, a knee or wrist, etc).
-Your healing session is a co-creation between the two of us. I will ask for your guidance and call forth your knowing to partner with my intuition, knowledge and experience.
-If something causes discomfort that does not feel therapeutic or feels too triggering, we will change the approach immediately.
“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.”
In-Person Sessions
London & Leicestershire, UK
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Online Sessions
Wherever you are in the world!