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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a somatic therapy rooted in osteopathy. It offers deep support for the nervous system and can be beneficial for people experiencing acute or chronic pain, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, and joint challenges (including TMJ pain, frozen shoulder, and neck/shoulder tightness). BCST also supports somatic trauma resolution and whole-body integration.
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About Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
BCST is for you if you have a body and value how you feel in your body – it’s as simple as that! It addresses specific acute conditions as well as also allowing you to work towards long term ease in your body.
BCST is a profound modality for remapping the brain’s ability to inhabit the body as a safe place. It facilitates coming back to feeling, and allowing awareness of sensations to guide an increasing occupation of our own skin.
It meets our systems at our very earliest beginnings of embryological growth so we often access very potent pre-verbal states. This can be helpful if our conscious thinking mind has difficulty turning off.
Deep rest is commonly experienced when the bones are listened to. This is a profoundly therapeutic state to inhabit and one that is increasingly challenging for us to find in the too-much and too-fast world we live in.
What does deep rest facilitate on a physiological level?
- Tissue repair
- Cell regeneration
- Reduction of inflammation
When we access these states of deep rest we educate our bodies to know how to find these states of deep replenishment and resourcing within ourselves.
I bring specific skills in birth preparation, postpartum recovery, and paediatric craniosacral bodywork—with profound benefits for feeding (supporting latch), sleeping, and overall wellbeing in babies and children.
"Amanda’s warm, caring hands offer a holding for healing to take place. I’ve experienced profound shifts internally and in my body both during a session and the days following."
What to expect
Sessions are suitable for all ages. In a session you’ll remain fully clothed, lying comfortably on a massage table while gentle hand holds are applied—there is no force or physical manipulation. With babies and children, the session may be more dynamic, involving in-arms holding or play on the floor.
Gentle, effective support with:
- Nervous system support for stress & overwhelm
- Chronic pain / tension throughout the body
- Digestive support
- Integration following dental procedures
- Hormonal balancing
- Concussions
- Injury recovery (joints, soft tissue, support for bones)
- Emotional processing – grief, shock and trauma
- Breastfeeding or sleep challenges (babies)
- Delays in neurodevelopment (children)
Prices
Adults – initial appointment (75 mins) $135/$100 concession
Adults – subsequent appointment (60mins) $120/$90 concession
Treatment packages – 4 sessions booked at a reduced rate for general wellbeing or specific support (eg. pre and post dental work, nervous system support, immune support, heart support, liver support, post-surgery healing) $400/ $320 concession
Children under 13 (45mins) $80
Baby-Parent (60mins) $120
Due to the on-call nature of attending births I may need to reschedule an appointment occasionally.
How we can work together
Treatment Planning
Like most bodywork, BCST is most clinically effective when there is an arc of treatments
Yes, a shift and a profound sense of wellbeing can occur during a one-off session. However, the potency and potential of this work to facilitate real and lasting change comes through a commitment to engage in a healing process that occurs when the therapeutic relationship deepens in trust. The work is cumulative. Committing to a series of sessions gives your body a chance to share its stories in a respectfully timed, titrated manner.There is a felt sense of being safe and listened to. Slowly and respectfully big life experiences are discharged and integrated, and trust is mapped back into the body.
After an initial session, where you are introduced to the work we will together gauge the readiness of your system for change and clarify the mutual intent for our time working together. Together we will decide on a treatment rhythm that will best support your healing pace. This could include purely in-person sessions or a hybrid of touch free sessions to tune-in between sessions.
Home visits are available on request.
Community Cranio Clinic
A low-cost monthly clinic on a Saturday offering shorter 30min sessions provided by two local craniosacral therapists practising out of the space at the same time on you!
This makes the work more accessible to the community and doubly potent!
$60/30mins
BCST Treatments via zoom or phone
Touch free sessions held over the phone or zoom are potent. Regardless of your geographical location (which is extremely useful for those with limited access to in-person practitioners, in postpartum recovery or those in hospital), I am able to use a highly attuned perceptual field to connect into and amplify your innate healing response.
