The Sydney Craniosacral Centre - Dorine Siccama

05/05/2026

A powerful 7-day retreat with Dr. Frank Anderson in Bali.

An immersive experience exploring the healing of complex trauma and dissociation through neuroscience-informed teachings and experiential IFS practices.

Moving between internal exploration and shared connection — between the individual and the collective.

What stood out most was the ongoing reminder that healing does not happen through insight alone, but through the body, through relationship, through the senses, and through the gradual restoration of safety within the system.

When safety returns, the system begins to reorganise —
tissue softens, rhythms change, and the system is no longer organised around those earlier patterns.

All held within the unique setting of Bali — a place that naturally invites slowing down, reflection, and reconnection.

Grateful for the depth of the work, the conversations, and the space to reflect.

This continues to deepen the way I approach Craniosacral work — where touch, presence, and physiology come together to support the system to reorganise.

24/04/2026

I’m happy to share that I’ll be speaking at this year’s Transform Trauma Oxford by Masters Events. The conference promises to redefine the way knowledge is transferred in the field of trauma and mental health. The theme, Science, Spirit and the Body: The Synthesis of Healing will explore the meeting point of evidence, experience and the ineffable.

I’ll be joined at the conference by Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, Tara Swart, Dan Siegel, Kristin Neff, Richard Schwartz and many others. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect, share knowledge and gain actionable insights from focused sessions to enhance your practice.

📣 Watch my session ' Which Modality When? Discernment in Trauma Healing for Body, Mind, and Spirit' at Transform Trauma Oxford | 14-17 September 2026 | University of Oxford, UK and online

Sign up to the conference and:

◾ Learn from over 100 world-renowned academics, researchers and practitioners in trauma and mental health

◾ Join the community of 6000+ attendees: network with pioneers of trauma treatment

◾ Earn up to 40 CE credits and CPD – included in the cost of your ticket!

Virtual tickets are available too: you’ll be able to join sessions live and access 100+ hours of content for 90 days post event via Transform Trauma Oxford’s user-friendly platform.

🔗 Get your tickets here: https://mastersevents.com?ref=12691

20/04/2026

When something is overwhelming, the reorganises around it.

The body doesn’t simply let go if emotions have not been metabolised.
The body remembers what the mind forgets.

It gets held — like a pocket of energy in the tissues.

The body reorganises around experiences that were too much, too fast, or too soon to process at the time.

Places where the expression of emotion is held and contained —
isolated rather than integrated.

What remains can be felt as a holding pattern in the system — what we refer to in Craniosacral Therapy as an inertial fulcrum.

This can be felt in the body — in tissues, organs, bones, fluids, or around areas like the solar plexus.

While palpating my client, I could feel a strong inertial fulcrum in the region of her bladder. Through interoceptive awareness, I gently inquired.

She shared a history of bedwetting in childhood — which had been met with strong reactions from her mother at the time.

She also recognised that the same pattern still arises when she feels very nervous or when forming new attachment relationships — reflecting the influence of autonomic state.

Through tracking, dialogue, and a bottom-up approach, her body began to complete what it couldn’t then.

Like the eye of a storm… this is where it completes.

In Craniosacral Therapy, we don’t force this.

We listen and track how it begins to resolve — through changes in tissue, fluid, and rhythm

20/03/2026

Trauma is not stored in memory alone.
It is expressed through the nervous system, physiology, and the brain’s survival responses.
Symptoms are often the visible expression of these underlying patterns.

Working at this level requires the ability to engage directly with the whole body.

Listening Through the Body
Therapeutic Touch, Presence, and Nervous System Regulation
In this experiential workshop, we explore how gentle therapeutic touch can shift nervous system state in real time — and what becomes possible when the body leads the change.

The nervous system communicates through rhythms, tissue tone, fluid movement, and autonomic responses. Through guided practice, you will begin to perceive and work with these physiological processes as they occur.

Using listening-based therapeutic contact, participants are introduced to recognising patterns that reflect nervous system states, and to working with changes in tissue tension, rhythmic organisation, and systemic settling.

In this workshop, we explore how to work with the body using principles drawn from Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy — through precise, attuned, hands-on listening.
You will learn to:
• Track autonomic state shifts in real
time
• Work with the vagus nerve in
practice
• Support the completion of biological
stress responses
• Engage the central and autonomic
nervous system through touch

Practical, experiential, and clinically applicable.

For practitioners with an existing scope of practice who wish to integrate body-based, trauma-informed skills into their work.

📍 Northern NSW Krishna Village
📅 21–23 August 2026
Book via link in bio

10/03/2026

10/03/2026

Brainwaves and Craniosacral Tides

The brain moves in waves - rhythmic patterns of neural activity
The body moves in Rhythms and Tides.
Both reflect patterns of nervous system organisation.

In Craniosacral Therapy, these rhythms can appear to parallel each other in clinical observation.

Beta & CRI
Associated with focused attention, cognitive engagement, vigilance, problem solving. and active organisation. Many clients arrive with Beta activity dominant.
This often parallels the surface palpable cranio rhythm (CRI) level of organisation, where the system is actively managing its environment.
________

Alpha & Mid Tide
Associated with relaxed alertness, sensory integration, reduced neural noise, increased interoceptive awareness.
As regulation increases, Alpha activity often becomes more prominent. Often comparable to the palpable Mid Tide experience in Craniosacral Therapy, where the system becomes more receptive and organised.

_____
Theta & Long Tide
Memory processing, emotional integration, imagery and insight, altered sense of time. When accompanied by safety and regulation, this state can support deeper integration and is often experienced alongside the CST palpable Long Tide.

In Craniosacral Therapy, practitioners listen carefully to shifts in rhythm and organisation.
____
Changes in rhythm often indicate when the nervous system is ready for deeper therapeutic contact or technique.

As safety and coherence increase, the system gains access to a broader range of rhythms — supporting learning, integration and physiological restoration.

04/03/2026

Following last year’s booked out CranioSacral Therapy taster sessions, we are expanding this year with additional taster sessions, a workshop, and a panel contribution.

Alongside the taster sessions, we will offer the workshop:

Listening Through the Body – Therapeutic Touch, Presence and Nervous System Regulation

CranioSacral Therapy will also be represented on a multi-modality panel:

“Which Modality When? Discernment in Trauma Healing for Body, Mind, and Spirit.”

The discussion explores how practitioners track nervous system cues, relational safety, parts dynamics, and embodied signals to guide moment-to-moment clinical decisions.

📍 - Trauma
Conference
📅 September 2026

Taster sessions:
Lisa (, Lulu (), Sam Lowi, Anja Chaudry, Lizette ( ), and Dorine ()

Workshop:
Lizette and Dorine

Looking forward to contributing CranioSacral Therapy to multidisciplinary panel conversations on trauma healing.

18/02/2026

NEW - Calling all practitioners
Stress and trauma are expressed through nervous system states, physiology, survival reflexes, tissue tone, fluid dynamics, and movement patterns in the body.

In this workshop we work directly with these patterns through precise, attuned Biodynamic Craniosacral touch — moving beyond theory into clinical, hands-on skill.

This training is for therapists, bodyworkers, psychotherapists, counsellors, coaches, breathworkers, yoga teachers and allied health professionals who want to integrate trauma-informed, body-based work into their existing practice.

You will learn to recognise and track nervous system states in real time, work with biological stress pathways, stress physiology, and support regulation through the vagus nerve and broader nervous system structures.
We explore the language of the body — fascia through movement, fluids through flow, bones through rhythm and organs through motility — and how to work with these signals through attuned touch.

Strong focus on practitioner skills — presence, neutrality, attunement and resonance — as regulation happens in relationship.

You leave with a clear protocol and practical CST techniques you can integrate into your clinical work immediately.
Includes student booklet and presentation slides.

📍 Krishna Village
📅 21–23 August 2026

🎟️ https://krishnavillage-retreat.com/courses/nervous-system-regulation-workshop/

08/02/2026

Tracking the still point

Listening for change as it happens in the body through attuned, anatomically precise touch —tracking neurophysiological change
moment by moment, as it happens.

During a still point,
the nervous system shifts,
internal fluid movement quietens, and body systems reorganise into a more ordered pattern. Often before a client recognises it or can put it into words - a true bottom up approach - all while the CranioSacral therapist tracks and adjusts.

Just like the sea gathering to one point,
the waves pause, break.
Out of that moment of stillness, a new pattern naturally appears.

Nothing is imposed or forced.
The body leads the change,
reorganising itself back into a more balanced state and coherence. # craniosacral therapy

13/01/2026

The body speaks in rhythms.

Breath, heart, neural activity, fluid dynamics, tissue motion, craniosacral rhythms, sensations — multiple physiological rhythms expressing themselves at once, communicating beneath conscious awareness.

Stress, illness, and trauma affect the system at this rhythmic level, altering messaging, homeostasis and relationship within the body.

Craniosacral Therapy listens directly to this rhythmic organisation. Through precise, attuned anatomical touch, CST supports a regulated relational field in which polyrhythms can reorganise and come back into relationship and balance.

As physiological rhythm restores, the nervous system recalibrates.
Craniosacral Therapy works at the level of physiological rhythm.

From here, healing unfolds.

11/01/2026

Craniosacral Therapy: 7 Ways to Supports Trauma Healing

Trauma isn’t just in the mind—it’s held in the body, encoded in nervous system patterns, tissue memory, and subtle physiological rhythms. Craniosacral Therapy (CST) works directly with these deep, often non-conscious layers to restore balance, regulation, and resilience.

Here’s how CST makes a difference:

1️⃣ Working with the Body’s Memory of Trauma – Traumatic experiences leave patterns in tissues, fluids, and physiological rhythms. CST tracks and supports these patterns, allowing the body’s innate intelligence to reorganize and release.

2️⃣ Nervous System Regulation at the Core – CST tunes into both the autonomic and central nervous systems, helping restore adaptive functioning and flexibility in a body stuck in high or low arousal states.

3️⃣ Tracking Physiological Activation – Practitioners perceive early signs of stress or trauma before conscious awareness, guiding the body safely back to balance.

4️⃣ Craniosacral Rhythm & Pacemaker Theory (Thomas Rasmussen) – CST engages intrinsic body rhythms, such as the craniosacral rhythm, to support fluid movement, nervous system adaptability, and trauma resolution at a physiological level.

5️⃣ Touch as a Signal of Safety – The quality of CST touch is slow, precise, and attuned, signaling safety to the nervous system and enabling repair, regulation, and release of protective patterns.

6️⃣ The Body Tells the Story – Trauma is expressed in sensation, movement, and rhythms. CST listens to the body’s signals, supporting integration without relying solely on verbal processing.

7️⃣ A Bridge Between Science, Anatomy & Spirituality – CST connects body, brain, and mind, creating conditions for deep healing, embodied integration, and reconnection with wholeness and the life force within.

By engaging trauma where it lives—in the body’s physiology, rhythms, and nervous system—CST provides a pathway for profound healing, helping the body, mind, and spirit reconnect to wholeness. ✨