I have returned recently from a journey into the wild deep time of Donegal, in the North West of Ireland. A part of this beautiful island...

Bodies speak to us, biodynamic craniosacral therapists, in the most peculiar language, a vernacular we learn as we steep in the rhythms...

Imagine your body were a country, how would you rule it? Would you listen to its many ‘citizens’, including its many non-human ones, and...

I sit down and help my client settle into resource and safety. I place one hand under her shoulder and one hand under her thigh. I sit...

I sometimes wonder how much dissociation created me. By automatically freezing ‘unwanted’ material and letting this constant...

I write in layers, in relationship with the words and their ‘portée', their scope, their fit, their bearing. They are my witnesses in the...

Words fail me when I’m at the core. When nothing matters quite literally, and a certain undefinable quality of rooted infinity, of the...

Did you know that Hummingbirds resonate with each flower’s sweetness as they fuse within the same ‘love field’? They will not go near a...

Last night, I asked my dreams for a beginning to this essay but it didn’t ‘work’ in the way I 'thought' it would. For the world of my...

Working as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist leads me to ask this potent question as this year of physical distancing draws to a close:...

I am ever so grateful for the humility, the awe I experience each time a client emerges afresh from a session with a new sense of...

It is two days before the Celtic feast of Samhain when I sit down to write this post, and I have fallen into a well. A metaphorical well....

Body plan is a word I had never heard until I read it in Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, by...

I am sitting with vulnerability as I begin to write this. What I am about to reflect and reveal is so intimate, so precious and yet this...

Nature doesn’t have a plan. It constantly adapts according to its many relationships. But we have plans for it. The story enacted by most...

What words run common between the climate emergency, the movement for black and indigenous lives and biodynamic craniosacral therapy?...

I fell in love with the silence of the wild that returned while we stopped doing. It resounded as a permission to be wild for my broken...

The way most of our nation states responded to the threat of covid19 gave a whole new meaning to the proverbial saying, “No man is an...

This poem came to me on a recent forest walk, following the imposition of isolation and social distancing measures on most of the...

Have you ever fallen in love with your Health? And by Health I mean the greater sense of alive Beingness flowing through you 24/7. I also...

If only “my eyes would see a little better” as sings Nina Simone. I’ve been doing eye exercises inspired by the Bates' method for the...

I cannot help thinking that as part of our journey away from separation and towards integrated wholeness, spirit and science must agree...

I love listening to stories, always have. As a biodynamic craniosacral therapist I so appreciate that initial contact when clients tell...

I went to Spirit Rock last Monday for meditation and dharma talk led by Jack Kornfield. His talk centered around form and emptiness, how...

As the oceans swell with rising temperatures…I wonder about my body, our bodies whose functions and form are underlain by fluidity. So...

I may be wrong but I sense that the way we perceive sexual energy, sexual power is undertaking a major cultural shift. One that hopefully...

In the art of non-doing that is biodynamic craniosacral touch, I have sometimes danced to the tune of “should I stay or should I (let)...

In the past few nights, if you were blessed with clear skies and not too bright a Moon, you may have spotted the Perseids meteor showers....

It is fascinating how the body remembers what the conscious mind chases away. This mind-body dichotomy is the root of all forms of...

It is a good measure of my internal (and external) resources that despite being grounded by a hip sprain— due to an overenthusiastic...

Have you ever found yourself wanting to watch, to contemplate some people, or animals, flowers... for hours just because. I have, many...

The parenchyma, have you heard this beautiful word before? It is the dress and substance of our brain; this mighty gland, this super...

I love the idea that we can be observers of life, that it happens to us. Maybe because, in our very Western way, we mostly do to avoid...

Is there somewhere in the world that is not owned, not claimed by anyone? I wonder about this as I’m walking through a magnificently...

As I grow older I notice how my memory changes, my short term memory fails me more often and I cannot place or remember some faces the...

Sometimes I wonder if there is a threshold past which we can no longer integrate past traumas and they forever determine who we are,...

Isn’t it extraordinary to be a woman? Isn’t it a miracle? I recently attended a ‘Womb Surround’ process workshop skilfully facilitated by...

How comfortable are you inside your own skin? I ask because anxiety is such a common complaint in my craniosacral practice, that it...

How supported do you feel? Do you sometimes walk barefoot and consciously, body-heart-mind-fully connect with the ground beneath your...

Have you ever heard your heart beat its passion in your belly? Have you felt the kindness of the breeze caressing your skin? Have you...

Sometimes something magical happens when I travel: my neurons take me on an adventurous and exhilarating ride, and my fluid self follows....

What’s hiding under our obsessive yearnings, our addictions, our longings? Why do we feel incomplete? Shamanism talks of soul loss when...

Where does self-consciousness stem from? It is so prevalent in our western societies isn’t it? It goes hand in hand with a lack of...

Words were created as part of the cognitive revolution to propagate and explain ideas, communicate what we know and how we feel… The...

I’ve always preferred being outdoors. I love the sensation of open space and the palpable connection with natural surroundings, with the...

The sky is in my feet What else is there but space and more space in between Interstices What’s possible? What’s new? What changes? What...

It’s interesting this feeling of ending we play with and attempt to bypass each year, instead of meeting it. We have turned Christmas...

What if, as parents and educators in general, we applied the principles of biodynamic craniosacral therapy to help a child grow into its...

What if we re-calibrated our identity to privilege our cellular memory rather than or as well as our roots, our country of origin? In a...

How do you feed your soul’s aliveness? Do you remember to kiss with your loving heart your Sleeping Beauty awake every now and then? I...