About Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
What is BCST?
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a gentle, light-touch, non-invasive therapy that helps restore and maintain health in the human body. While not a manipulative therapy, it has it’s roots in Osteopathy and has evolved to include advances in neuroscience, human development, pre and perinatal psychology, and trauma resolution. Practitioners are trained to facilitate the resolution of conditions resulting from stress, overwhelm and injury.
~ Source: BCTA/NA (Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America)
Who is BCST for?
Anyone can experience the benefits of BCST. It is suitable for people of all ages, newborn babies to the elderly, whatever their condition, be it acute pain, chronic ill health, or those wishing to maintain general wellbeing.
What happens in BCST session?
During a 60 minute session, the practitioner begins by creating a safe space for the client. This is achieved through compassionate communication with the client. Once safety is established, the practitioner uses light touch on various points of the body including the head, sacrum, abdomen and feet, to connect with different parts of the system. The client is fully clothed and is comfortably reclined on a treatment bed throughout. Communication with the client continues at certain points of the treatment. The session closes with reflection between practitioner and client.
Other Frequently Asked Questions
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This depends on what your goals are, what symptoms you suffer from, and how readily your system responds to this therapy. As a general rule, three to ten sessions will have a significant impact on most people’s health, and in some cases only one session can make a dramatic difference. Often, clients receive regular sessions for longer periods of time, followed by an occasional tune-up to maintain health.
Source: BCTA/NA
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Once contact with the body is established, the practitioner listens deeply to the fluctuations of the cerebrospinal fluid within the craniosacral system.
The fluctuation of the cerebrospinal fluid creates a variety of tides within the system. As the practitioner — from a place of stillness — listens to these internal tides, the client’s system begins to access its own inner resources, little like finding keys to previously locked doors. The cerebrospinal fluid — as it bathes and protects the brain and spinal cord — carries an intelligence and potency (life force), which becomes mixed with other bodily fluids via the dural membranes. A Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist learns to listen deeply to the system, tapping into its inherent intelligence, while focusing on the system remembering its original blueprint of health.
The therapist encourages the client’s system to access its resources, offering new choices and possibilities for the system at every level. Training, then, includes deep perceptual and centering skills as well as extensive study of the anatomy, physiology, and inherent motion of the craniosacral system
~ Source: BCTA/NA
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The Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist is like an advocate of the client’s physiology. They work with you to empower your body to drop into its deeper mechanisms of renewal that have their basis in how the body was formed during its embryonic and fetal development. These forces often lie dormant in the background, only to be catalysed into action through the right touch.
When health is sought, traumatic patterns, pain and suffering can be smoothly synthesised into a new order as the body dissolves into the deep, fluid state that underlies the physical. This is a medium for the nervous system to regulate, muscles to relax and organs to transpose to a new chemistry. In the shifts and adjustments, there is greater freedom of movement at many levels.
Source: Steve Haines, director of Body Intelligence Dublin ~ ‘How your body works and heals from within’ ~ Positive Life magazine article September 2013
“Fear of the future no longer exists when the Past has been healed.”