I went on a guided fungi foraging walk in Ashdown Forest today. I hadn’t appreciated how identifying species is a holistic piece of detective work using our senses of sight, touch, smell and taste (taste and spit, that is) as well as our intellect. 🍄🍄
How mushrooms look different depending on their age, whether they’ve been grazed, and their conditions became stark. In craniosacral therapy, treating whole people is like slow, compassionate detective work. I may have encountered people with similar presenting symptoms or stories before, but really each person is a universe unto themselves.
That’s why biodynamic craniosacral therapy is all about *listening* rather than “doing” touch. There is so much to discover - not least the innate health that is pulsing within us - through afferent, inclusive, non-interventionist (listening) touch. As with fungi, so much happens out of sight inside our bodies. Through skilful relational touch one is able to tune in with “the understory”.
Knowing that “you have to feel it to heal it”, I help people slow down and *feel* their bodies, safe and supported. From there a new world of sensation opens up and a lot else becomes possible. We can go from surviving to thriving.
If you have the desire to give your body and inner world some love and kind attention this autumn, get in touch to learn more about craniosacral therapy and how it can help you.
