Evolve Manual Therapy

06/08/2025

What parts of us enter the room when we’re holding space?

As therapists, we don't just witness our clients—we feel them. Their stories stir something in us: grief we haven't touched, anger we've tucked away, patterns we've yet to name. This is the realm of countertransference. In this upcoming lecture, we’ll explore how our own inner terrain quietly enters the room, and how tending to it can transform the space we hold.

Join me for "The Inner Terrain of the Therapist: Self-Reflection and Inner Work in SomatoEmotional Release" (Online Lecture)

Thursday 28th August / 7pm ACST (Live Online*)

*if you are unable to attend live, a recording will be available with subtitles in multiple languages for translation support.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-inner-terrain-of-the-therapist-self-reflection-and-inner-work-in-ser-tickets-1548086300799?aff=oddtdtcreator

📸Image from Carl Jung's Red Book

03/08/2025

What if your presence is your most powerful tool? Discover how inner work cultivates deep, ethical, and transformative therapeutic presence.

Join me for an online lecture (“The Inner Terrain of the Therapist: Self-Reflection and Inner Work in SomatoEmotional Release”) as we explore the essential role of the therapist’s inner life in the practice of SomatoEmotional Release (SER). As therapists, we journey alongside our clients through deep emotional terrains, past traumas, preverbal memories, and existential longings. The client’s psychological, emotional, and energetic patterns inevitably shape the therapeutic field—just as our own capacity to witness and hold space profoundly influences the process.

This lecture will emphasise the necessity of cultivating a self-reflective stance—grounded in ongoing inner work, embodied awareness, and an ethical commitment to presence. We will draw on theoretical frameworks, somatic perspectives, and practical examples to illuminate this inner dimension of practice.

You will be invited to examine how your own inner world may be mirrored in the client’s process, and how consciously engaging in your personal inner work allows you to become a more integrated therapist—one who can hold the complexity of the client’s experience with clarity, safety, depth, and grace.

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This lecture is designed for CranioSacral Therapists engaged in SomatoEmotional Release, as well as for therapists from all modalities who support clients in navigating emotional process work. Whether you work hands-on or through verbal and relational fields, if your practice invites clients into deep emotional territory—grief, trauma, early memory, or existential longing—this space is for you. The lecture will speak to those who recognise that their own inner life inevitably shapes the healing field, and who feel called to deepen their presence, refine their boundaries, and tend the ethics of emotional holding from the inside out.

Learn More + Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-inner-terrain-of-the-therapist-self-reflection-and-inner-work-in-ser-tickets-1548086300799?aff=oddtdtcreator&mc_cid=af81ed22b8

📸Illustration from Carl Jung’s Red Book

17/07/2025

The recording from tonights webinar on CranioSacral Therapy for Autoimmune Conditions is now uploaded to our Teachable platform. We had a wonderful discussion looking at the mechanism of autoimmune diseases, the structures involved as well as the psychosocial contributors. Treatment approaches discussed ranged from techniques aimed at structures to utilising Imagery and Dialogue techniques to access our deep body wisdom.

Follow the link below to watch recording or purchase access.

This 1 hour and 15 minute lecture offers an in-depth exploration of how CranioSacral Therapy (CST) can support individuals living with autoimmune conditions. Drawing on current research, clinical experience, and core CST principles, the session will examine the ways in which CST may help modulate ne...

15/07/2025

These past few months have been spent working quietly behind the scenes on some new projects. One of them is revamping my online education platform EVOLVE WISDOM EDUCATION.

Over the next few months I will be sharing more on some of these projects, but right now they are still in the creative gestation phase.

In the meantime, follow the link below and you will find my 2025 clinical series which includes webinars looking at how CranioSacral Therapy can support clients experiencing things such as POTS, Dysautonomia, Chronic Fatigue Illnesses, ADHD and Trauma.

I look forward to connecting with you over on the new platform, make sure you sign up to the e-mail list to stay updated on new projects as they are released.

In peace and health,

Erin

The concept of Trauma-Informed Care is becoming a much bigger part of the conversation in our communities, and rightly so! It is an experience that we all face as human beings. Our contemporary approach to healing and well-being is a shifting landscape, away from an old paradigm of being told by som...

16/05/2025

Last night we had a wonderful lecture on "A Trauma-Informed Approach to CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release". We had a rich discussion covering topics such as key principles for trauma-informed care, window of tolerance, titration and pendulation, dissociation and mindfulness-based approaches.

The recording is now live on our Teachable platform and is accessible via the link below. If you registered for the lecture ahead of time, it will be showing under your Teachable profile. If you would like to purchase access to the recording, you can also do this via the link below.

The concept of Trauma-Informed Care is becoming a much bigger part of the conversation in our communities, and rightly so! It is an experience that we all face as human beings. Our contemporary approach to healing and well-being is a shifting landscape, away from an old paradigm of being told by som...

02/04/2025

I am excited to be launching an update and rebrand of my online teaching - Evolve Wisdom Education. Please check out this video below which will give you an overview of what I have been working on and what is to come.

During this transition period, I have re-released the webinar archive and it will be available again until 31st May, 2025. If you have previously registered for webinars, these will all be available to you under your student account on our Teachable website. If there are webinars you missed the first time around and would like to access now, these are also available for purchase and review up until the end of May.

I am really excited about this new direction and sharing this with you, please reach out if you have any questions!

https://evolve-wisdom-education.teachable.com/courses/

23/03/2025

I am working on something new and can't wait to share it with you! In the meantime, to stay in the loop, you can sign up to the mailing list via the link below 👇

Erin is an internationally renowned Therapist and Educator in the field of CranioSacral Therapy and MindBody Medicine. Combining trainings in Physiotherapy, CranioSacral Therapy and Psychology, Erin brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to supporting the creation of wellbeing and the discovery...

01/02/2025

Our gorgeous Healing Cave, downstairs at our Norwood studio is available for rent on Saturdays and Sundays + up to 2 afternoons/evenings per week. The Healing Cave is fully furnished, including a super comfortable massage table (that can be folded away if required).

Would suit Massage Therapist, Acupuncturist or other Holistic Health Practitioner. Would also suit someone looking for a quiet desk and workspace.

Weekends available for full day rental only.

Please send expressions of interest through to Erin via e-mail (erin@evolvemanualtherapy.com.au).

07/05/2024

Difficulty regulating emotions is a common challenge for many children. Big feelings can be overwhelming and trying to “keep it together” all day at school can result in big meltdowns at home!

Often this is a result of the nervous system struggling to find its balance. Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle and effective therapy that can support your child’s nervous system in learning to regulate itself with more ease.

The result - happy, healthy, thriving children!

05/05/2024

When we are exposed to ongoing stress, our bodies learn to respond through activating (fight/flight) or shutting down (collapse/freeze). Our nervous systems become used to responding to the world around us in this way and it starts to become a place and experience that is hard for us to shift out of.

Through somatic based therapies, we can learn to listen to the subtle messages from our body, regulate our nervous systems and release the blockages from old trauma. Moving from a state of survival to a state of thriving!

If connecting with your body and working toward a state of ease, balance and calm resonates for you - please reach out. I look forward to working with you and co-creating a new state of wellbeing.

02/05/2024

Beautiful art comprised of folded Paper Cranes 🤍🖤

📸 Erin Riley

24/04/2024

One of the best things we can do for our wellbeing is slow down and observe the beauty around us. Breathe it in, experience a moment of peace, joy, calm, stillness.

One of the things I love to slow down and witness is “light” in all of its forms.

🎥: shot in Cyprus, the stunning light reflecting on the seashore.