Biodynamic
Craniosacral Therapy
with Christina Rella RCST ®

BCST is a whole body/mind therapy that combines an understanding of the body’s anatomy and physiology with mindfulness skills, a soft aware touch, and appreciation of the body’s ability to heal itself.

During a BCST session, the therapist listens deeply with non-judgmental awareness and grounded presence to how freely and rhythmically the fluid, tissues, and bones move throughout the body. They are trained to perceive the subtle layers of the body’s physiology and track the changes. This recognition facilitates movement in tissues that are stagnant, while also supporting the nervous system to down-regulate, resulting in the gentle resolution of stress, tension, and traumatic experiences. 

This therapy focuses on health and the body’s innate ability to heal itself, supporting the body/mind to grow its capacity for resilience and stillness.

Everyone can benefit from biodynamic craniosacral therapy. It supports the flow of cerebral spinal fluid throughout the central nervous system and body encouraging the natural healing rhythms in the tissues and bones. This enhances health and vitality in all the different systems of the body and allows your innate intelligence to choose the healing priorities and the order in which they are met. BCST is not a replacement for medical care when that is needed but it is a fine supplement to incorporate into your health care while receiving other medical treatments.

Mechanical therapies often concentrate on specific dysfunctions and localized problems. BCST embraces a whole body approach. This allows the body to choose the healing priorities and order in which they are met, generating deep and lasting shifts towards better health.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy takes a whole body approach. The therapist follows the healing priorities set forward by the deep intelligence of the body. This approach addresses not only the symptoms but the root causes contributing to imbalance within the whole being.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy acknowledges the whole person and the interconnectedness of the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical experiences that may have contributed to your current state of discomfort or imbalance.

During a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy session, you will remain fully clothed.

The session begins in a chair with a brief conversation to acknowledge goals for the treatment. Then you will lay fully clothed and comfortable on a massage table. Gentle contact is negotiated, often starting at the feet, to sense the overall tone of the body. Following the healing priorities of the body, the therapist may move two or more times during the session listening and tracking changes in the subtle rhythms.

You might relax so deeply you fall asleep or enter a quiet meditative state. Sometimes people experience memories or insights while on the table. Shifts in body temperature, and sensations such as softening, widening, lengthening, or floating are common. Sometimes people experience feelings of compression, twitching of muscles or limbs, and the feeling of the body reorganizing and/or releasing.

Sometimes people don’t feel a lot. This usually changes after a few sessions as the body and mind establish coherence and begin to orient to the health and natural healing rhythms that are always happening in the background of our awareness.