“Life heals itself, given the right conditions.” Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy for Adults and Babies!What is BCST? BCST is a healing art that works with the energies that create and maintain health in the human system. While not a manipulative therapy, it has its roots in osteopathy and has evolved to include influences from advances in neuroscience, human development, pre and perinatal psychology, and trauma resolution. Practitioners use an educated gentle, non-invasive touch to listen for and to engage with the expressions of health in the system. BCST supports nervous system regulation and allows the resolution of conditions resulting from stress and trauma. |
Your Healing Investment
Bodywork Session 30 min........................$50 45 min.........................$75 60 min.........................$100 75min............................$125 90 min...........................$140 Session for Adult and Child (90 min)...................$145 Packages of 5 (saves $10 per session a $50 value Total) 60 min....................$450 75 min...................$575 90 min.....................$650 Prenatal, Postpartum and Newborn Session Rates Single Sessions 30 min........................$50 45 min.........................$75 60 min.........................$100 75min............................$125 Packages You may package together as many sessions as you would like to support your prenatal and postpartum time at the $100/per min rate. You may also add in as many infant sessions as you would like to your care package. 75 min.....................$100 45-60 min (infant session) ......$45 |
Who Might BCST Help?
As a gentle safe healing art, BCST is suitable for people of all ages and physical conditions. BCST can be particularly helpful in relieving the effects of stress and overwhelm often expressed in the following conditions:
Acute/Chronic Pain:
Injuries, Surgeries, Chronic Inflammation, Headaches, Backaches, Sciatica, Structural Misalignment
The functioning of the nervous system plays a key role in how we heal from injury and how we experience and perceive pain over time. An activated nervous system creates a condition that slows the healing of tissues, contributes to inflammation, and sometimes generates a despairing mental orientation to pain. BCST can support the nervous system to return to a less activated state. Clients frequently experience pain relief from the softening and realignment of tissues.
Auto-immune disorders:
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, Multiple Sclerosis,
Inflammatory Skin disorders
The effects of an overactive nervous system can challenge the immune system, compromising its ability to recognize real threats to the body’s health, while actually mistaking the body’s own tissue as an invader.
BCST supports the immune system to function more efficiently and intelligently by helping to restore healthy nervous system balance.
Pregnancy and Birth Related Issues:
Colic, Excessive Crying and/or Irritability, Sleeping Difficulties, Nursing, Attachment, and Bonding Challenges.
BCST can help parent(s) and baby build resources during and following the pregnancy. Reducing prenatal stress has been proven to improve baby’s brain development and other gestational and developmental outcomes. Following birth, BCST can help resolve the effects of a challenging delivery on both mom and baby, including those related to nursing, bonding and attachment.
Trauma and Nervous System Dysregulation:
PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Difficulties Sleeping
BCST is particularly effective in working with the effects of shock and trauma. Nervous system overwhelm, called the “freeze response,” can result in long standing feelings of helplessness, patterns of behaving that recapitulate the trauma, or the inability to move forward in a creative empowered way with one’s life. When the nervous system can be supported to discharge shock and trauma, while at the same time experiencing inner resource and the ability to access one’s Inherent Health, personal strength, wisdom and resiliency may be enhanced.
What is a BCST Session Like?
An RCST, registered biodynamic craniosacral therapist, who is trained in BCST, is certified to offer sessions. He or she has developed skills to be able to listen and to work with basic life forces in each client to support just the right conditions for these forces to find balance.
Session length varies but is usually between thirty to sixty minutes. During a session, the client rests fully clothed on a massage table. A level of safety is created for the client as the practitioner and client negotiate the space and contact between them. The session proceeds as the practitioner listens with a light non-invasive touch to the deep and ever present expressions of health within the client’s system.
The BCST process comes from within the client, not from the outside. There is no attempt to manipulate the client’s system toward a theoretical ideal state. The session is guided by listening to an inherent expression of health within the client as it meets the conditions presenting as pain and discomfort. The whole system is engaged in a re-patterning toward health in an order of priorities and a natural progression initiated by the client’s own body.
BCST sessions are resourcing; the mind and body feel rested and health is experienced as more accessible and embodied.