Here we are in January, the birth of a new year. Celebrations have settled down. Now it might be easier to settle in and check with ourselves. How is it to be ending a year and beginning a new one? How does it feel in your body, in your heart, in your belly when you […]

Gratitude is one of my favorite things. Therefore, I appreciate the American holiday of Thanksgiving, even though as a Canadian I see Thanksgiving belonging in October. Living now in the UK, where Thanksgiving is not a holiday, I continue to appreciate the reminder to give thanks. I understand the essence of this holiday as relating […]

In a beautiful Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy session recently, the client and I both enjoyed resting in a peaceful state of dynamic stillness. As I held the person’s body, I was aware of an ongoing sense of discharge, as if their cells were discharging some very old trauma. A prickly, slightly cold sensation seemed to exude […]

William Garner Sutherland, founder of Cranial Osteopathy, spoke of the Breath of Life, a mysterious presence still at the center of Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy today. “The “Breath of Life” is the spark, primarily, and not the breath of air.” Sutherland declared in his book, Contributions of Thought. The Breath of Life as described by Sutherland […]