Andrew Cook Craniosacral Therapy

29/11/2024

A hacker had my workshop ads de-platformed and removed from activity history on both my personal page and this business page - like they never existed at all. Then somehow co-opted the Meta response system (or maybe Meta just never informed me - that's the most likely scenario), and almost took over my account. All workshops paused until 2025 so I can decide how to proceed with advertising and consider other advertising options.

When I messaged the Meta feedback system the Ads re-appeared within 8 hours but the whole thing is so dodgy I have decided to push the stop button.

In the meantime, if you are interested in workshops I have an increasing amount of general content on the www.ehealthlearning.tv site, there are resources on my website www.body-mind.co.uk and links to a Vimeo video for CST professionals (on the somewhat obscure topic of cranial bone motion). And you can always go on my mailing list by contacting me, providing an email address - either via messenger or through my secure website contact form.

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18/05/2024

When the mind is festering with trouble or the heart torn, we can find healing among the silence of mountains or fields, or listen to the simple, steadying rhythm of waves. The slowness and stillness gradually takes us over. Our breathing deepens and our hearts calm and our hungers relent. When serenity is restored, new perspectives open to us and difficulty can begin to seem like an invitation to new growth.

This invitation to friendship with nature does of course entail a willingness to be alone out there. Yet this aloneness is anything but lonely. Solitude gradually clarifies the heart until a true tranquility is reached. The irony is that at the heart of that aloneness you feel intimately connected with the world. Indeed, the beauty of nature is often the wisest balm for it gently relieves and releases the caged mind.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (US) / Divine Beauty (Europe)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Kerry, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

14/05/2024

https://www.craniosacral.co.uk/blog/measuring-the-effectiveness-of-cst/

Measuring the Effectiveness of CST Posted on May 10, 2024May 13, 2024Author CSTA EditorCategories Research BY Dr Nicola Brough The Fulcrum, Issue 92 May 2024 I first used complementary and integrative medicine over 20 years ago to support my own ill health. It was reflexology that awoke me to my inn...

21/04/2024

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.23.23288976v1
This is a rather blunt instrument of a test, and in an environment (a Military hospital) where PTSD has a bigger meaning than for most people outside the military.

Nevertheless, about 10% of the new mothers screened showed measurable PTSD immediately post-birth. My experience working with new mothers and babies in Norwich is that :

(a) thank goodness someone has bothered to look at this issue.

(b) this figure is probably a little too low (because shock is a spectrum, not an on/off switch),

(c) there are inadequate resources in the NHS to pick up and give adequate attention to all but the most severe cases (that's what happens - there is a triage system to allocate limited funds and resources),

(d) most new mothers really don't recognise what is going on because they have a single focus - to cope with whatever and look after the baby.

I've been treating new mothers and babies for well over 20 years now, and in many cases all this is so easy to help. And when it is helped there is a vast improvement in the quality of relationship between mother and baby - to their lifelong benefit.

Background Maternal psychiatric morbidities include a range of psychopathologies; one condition is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that develops following a traumatic childbirth experience and may undermine maternal and infant health. Although assessment for maternal mental health problems is....

16/04/2024

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How did humanity land on the current self-and-other destructive pathway? No other animal spoils its nest like humanity is doing to Earth. What can each of us do on a daily basis to turn things around? Take up our ancestral wellness-promoting pathway. Click to read The Nested Pathway, by Darcia Narva...

08/04/2024

Attention To Sensory Perception


Live Talk with Andrew Cook and Natalie Lang

Tuesday, 9 April 2024 at 18h UK time*

Everyone from your cat to Mark Zuckerberg knows that attention is the most valuable commodity. Lots of people want your attention. Our whole society is geared around making money and consolidating power by grabbing your attention. All of this is secondary to (and dependent on) the way that attention drives your whole being, and orients the physiology and nervous system of every living organism.

In this live Talk Andrew Cook, long time Craniosacral therapist and teacher, will discuss with Nat the way that attention works. Exploring how it can be simply and practically applied to regulate the nervous system. Andrew began applying this over 15 years ago as Neuroception, but along the way the ideas have been modified by biosemiotics, Francisco Varela, and many other influences.

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27/03/2024

CST involves many different strands of attention, one of which is observing and working with slow formative rhythms that move up the body to the head and then down towards the legs and feet. An interesting very powerful upwards rhythm can be seen in this video of a moose shedding its antlers...

A drone captured the moment a moose shook its body and dropped both antlers from its head into the snow. Full story: https://abc7chicago.com/moose-sheds-antl...

14/03/2024

This has been a focus of my CST practice for almost two decades...

13/03/2024

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NESTED CHILDREN, FLOURISHING WORLD

13/03/2024

WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING

In that first
hardly noticed
moment
in which you wake,

coming back
to this life
from the other
more secret,
moveable
and frighteningly
honest
world
where everything
began,

there is a small
opening
into the new day
that closes
the moment
you begin your plans.

What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.

What you can live
wholeheartedly
will make plans
enough
for the vitality
hidden in your sleep.

To become human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.

To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.

You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater
night
than the one
from which
you have just emerged.

Now, looking through
the slanting light
of the morning
window toward
the mountain
presence
of everything
that can be,

what urgency
calls you to your
one love?

What shape waits
in the seed of you
to grow and spread
its branches
against a future sky?

Is it waiting
in the fertile sea?
In the trees
beyond the house?
In the life
you can imagine
for yourself?

In the open,
lovely and inviting
white page
on the waiting desk?

…

WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING
in
David Whyte: Essentials
Many Rivers Press © David Whyte

…

Rose Coloured Dawn
Photo © David Whyte
Saint Saturnin-Les -Apts. Provence.
September 16th 2018

28/02/2024

If youre in the UK or have a BBC subscription - there is a great series - an abridged audio version of "Ritual" by Dimitris Xygalatas https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wq50 ... Episode 3 - "Looking at a Spanish firewalking ritual, and how it creates a transcendent experience for the community"

During the fire walking there is heart synchronisation within the villagers and particularly between people in the same family, to the extent that you can see how related people are by the degree of synchronisation. Ousiders observing did not show significant synch, even though they were apparently participating in the same ritual. Food for thought wrt how far the spectrum of socuialisation goes. During this their heart rates were measured at over 200bpm, indicating that it is vagal activity that is important (i.e. communication between CNS and viscera) rather than the "vagal brake" of "relaxation"

1/5 By Dimitris Xygalatas. Fascinating journey exploring why we are the ritual species.

11/02/2024

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/andrew-cook.../t-zzjqlla

A practical look at the way fundamental cellular biology influences even humans, and how to use that to "regulate the nervous system". I put that in quote marks, because we are not only a nervous system - that would be like saying a Tesla car is the wires and computer, ignoring the driver, the software, the battery, the wheels, etc...

We have a choice to be driven by the biological body or to ride it. But our biological horse is not a car - its a living organism with its own biological intelligence.

It's only possible to ride the biological horse according to the rules it was set up with by a couple of billion years of evolution. Its unfortunate that Western society and culture have to a great extent decided that they know better than to listen to the horse. This Colonial attitude to the body (the internal ecosystem) is also expressed in a Colonial attitude to the external ecosystem. If there is no understanding, compassion, or capacity to BE with the ecosystem we have as a body, there is unlikely to be a proper appreciative relationship with the "external" (as it is thought of) ecosystem.