Three Rivers Craniosacral Therapy

13/10/2025

There are several appointments available this week

DM email or call me to book

Prefer to chat something through first? We can arrange a 15 min resonance call to meet and discuss any questions you may have

Best wishes

Ben Ash rcst bcst

10/10/2025

On world mental health day I want to share this - This image shows the silhouette of Ben Raemers at my local skatepark in Croxley. Ben's image is stencilled on to concrete in many skateparks. Ben was an incredibly gifted professional skateboarder with a challenging childhood background who tragically took his life in 2019. His sister Lucy of the Ben Raemers Foundation says about skateboarding culture..
‘In the past, skateboarding has had this culture where people do not talk about mental health but now we are changing that.. Professional skateboarders have started opening up about their mental health issues and that has sparked more conversations’

Persoannly I’ve always used skateboarding as a way to shift my energy and mood, to set myself challenges and goals, and take risks.. all ways of building my resources and looking after myself. At 11-16 it was literally a lifeline! But more recently over the last decade I’ve noticed and appreciated just how inclusive and supportive skaters are as a community and fellowship.

Essentially if you’re passionate about skating you’re welcome, you're part of something that we are all dicovering and creating together in our own unique ways, something we celebrate together no matter how small the challenge! That’s something rare and precious in the current era, something to celebrate!

As a Biodynamic craniosacral therapist, I work through therapeutic touch whilst holding relationally attuned space for my clients. Sometimes merely being meet in touch can be profoundly healing. But additionally, I work to support my clients to begin using simple exercises to identify and create their own embodied resources – the things that’ll bring them trust, resilience, hope and confidence in themselves and in their capacity to feel good and celebrate the highs and navigate the lows. Skateboarding is one of my resources. What are yours? if you're local you might have seen me at Croxley, the XC or any number of local spots.

Suicidal ideation is more common than is societally recognised. If you or someone you know needs support tel Samaritans 116113 tel NHS 111 - 24 hours every day

With respect to Ben his family and friends, and to anyone who is suffering with mental health. Please just speak to someone, for you are worth more than you will ever know.

For more about Ben Raemers and mental health support within the skateboarding community
https://thebenraemersfoundation.com/films

Go Well!

Ben Ash

07/10/2025

I currently have space to take on new clients for Biodynamic craniosacral therapy appointments on Wednesdays and Thursdays - We can work to address and support specific issues, or more generally for increased well-being, through taking time out 'just for you' to deeply relax, let go and restore. Sessions can be taken over different time frames and frequency. We commonly work together over a series of sessions initially, and then go down to occaisional top up sessions. Please enquire for availability.

I am an approachable, respectful, compassionate and a safe practitioner. I am in therapy myself and undertake regular professional supervision. I adhear to and follow the guidance and code of conduct of the professional regulatory body of Craniosacral therapists in the uk - the CSTA and am listed on their practitioner directory.

Not all therapists are safe and ethical. Did you know anyone can call themselves a therapist as it's not a protected title?! So please be safe and check out the CSTA practitioner directory to know you are in safe hands with a practitioner who has minimum 2 year practioner training through an accredited and certifed school, not just someone who took a five day course somewhere, there's a big difference!

Conditions I support clients with include -

Physical pain
TMJ disorder
Post surgical recovery and pre-surgery preparation
Anxiety and stress reduction
Disregulated nervous system
Trauma - Developmental, relational and shock trauma
Abandonment
Bereavment
Dissociation

01/10/2025

🌿 Tense, anxious, or feeling disconnected from your body?
That tight jaw, sore neck, constant fatigue, or wired-but-tired feeling — it’s not just in your head.
It’s your nervous system asking for support.
✨ Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, yet powerful way to help your body release stored stress and come back into balance.
Through subtle touch and deep listening, this work supports your system to:
🤍 Ease tension and pain
🤍 Calm anxiety and overwhelm
🤍 Regulate your nervous system naturally
🤍 Feel grounded, centred, and safe in your body
You don’t have to push through or shut down anymore.
Your body already knows how to heal — sometimes it just needs the right space to do so.
💛 If you’re craving rest, reconnection, and realignment — this is for you.
📩 DM to learn more or book a session.

29/09/2025

26/09/2025

Have you ever taken a moment to truly listen to your body?

Discover a Different Kind of Bodywork: Gentle, Deeply Restorative, and Grounded in Stillness. Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on approach that works with the body’s natural healing ability. Unlike massage or structural bodywork, CST doesn’t impose change—it listens, supports, and helps restore balance by working with subtle movements in the nervous system and tissues.

Why CST might speak to you:
If you’ve ever felt that your nervous system is stuck in "go mode"—even when you rest—or that your body holds onto tension despite stretching or movement, CST offers another path. It works at a foundational level to support long-term recovery, regulation, and ease.

Craniosacral Therapy may support:
• Muscle tension & joint pain
• Headaches, jaw issues (TMJ), or tinnitus
• Fatigue, sleep issues, or burnout
• Anxiety, emotional stress, or past trauma
• Nervous system regulation & recovery

Craniosacrsal therapy may help you recover your inner balance and calm through promoting wellbeing at physiological, emotional and psychological levels, settling the nervous system back into homeostasis and optimizing energy levels.
Led at the pace of the wisdom of your body, over time and through regular sessions you can begin to unfold and release from patterns that no longer serve you well to rediscover your pristine health.

To book an intial appointment or arrange to talk to me via a 15 minute call / online to discuss any questions you may have about Craniosacral therapy and whether it might be a good fit for you
Tel | Text | WhatApp 07950263471
threeriverscranio@gmail.com

Go well

Ben Ash rcst | bcst

23/09/2025

This is a spine! Understanding the motion dynamics of how the spine develops as we grow during our Embryonic development gives Biodynamic Craniosacral therapists a wholistic appreciation of the Spine as a fluid unit of function at the core of the body.
When approaching 'back pain' it can be therapeutically very supportive to remind the spine of it's fluid origins - sometimes just this reminder can be the key to unlocking patterns of dysfunction in the spine, and the beginning of a return to health and reduction of chronic pain. It's wonderful what a trained, istening, diagnostic, therapeutic touch can do!
It's a quiet, safe and gentle work in stillness, from which profound shifts and reorganisation can happen.

Find out more - book a 15 minute Ressonance call to discuss how Craniosacral could be the right theraeutic treatment for you -
Book an initial assesment appointment - agree a series of sessions tailored to your needs - develop insights into your wellbeing through guided exercises that develop your personal awareness of embodied signals of wellbeing.

Tel | text | WhatsApp | 07950263471
threeriverscranio@gmail.com

Ben Ash rcst bcst - Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist | Dance artist | Somatic and embodied movement facilitator in Dance and Biodynamic Craniosacral learning contexts | EmbodyStudy Workshops

19/09/2025

19/09/2025

Sharing some beautiful feedback from a recent session with a long-term client. During our work together, we witnessed their arm—once marked by pain and sensitization—gradually shift into ease and balance through therapeutic touch and what we call the inherent treatment plan.

The arms are such expressive parts of the body—reaching, grasping, connecting, and also defending, withdrawing, or creating space. They carry stories of engagement and protection.

Sometimes when we go through overwhelming experiences, the body and nervous system hold onto them. We may even dissociate from the areas that hold those patterns, losing a felt sense of connection.

Coming back into the body—into embodiment—can be a gentle, compassionate process. Held safely within the therapeutic relationship, it doesn’t have to retraumatize. Instead, it can unfold slowly, with care and respect for your pace.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy offers a path back to wholeness, calm, and vitality. It supports the nervous system, reconnects you to yourself, and opens up space for healing.

If you're curious, reach out for a free 15-minute resonance call or to book a session. While I offer one-offs, I typically work in a series of sessions so the work can deepen, allowing true transformation to emerge.

01/09/2025

Summer turns to autumn and the schools are back, summer may have been wonderful but it can be an exhausting few months for some, supporting children and grandchildren, teens and exam / results / university stress - would a Craniosacral session be helpful in this transition?

Last minute availability for 2 remaining Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy sessions this week.

Next availabilty is in the week commencing 15th September

Book a 20min resonance call to meet with me and discuss how Biodynamic Craniosacral could be right for you

Tel | Text | WhatsApp 07950263471

To find out more - including video excerpts of my public talks on Craniosacral therapy - visit

https:/www.threeriverscraniosacral.co.uk/craniosacraltherapistbenash

01/09/2025

I love the creative process of preparing materials for teaching ~ revisiting my notes and sources ~ finding rekindled inspirations ~ fresh perspectives ~ drawing it all together enough to share with students of this Biodynamic craniosacral practice! I think these images are wonderful, there’s so much movement in them! I found this in a secondhand bookshop - John Raynes - Figure drawing and Anatomy for the Artist. As a dance artist and Cranial practitioner it caught my eye straight away!

Ben has 30 years of professional experience as a somatic practitioner and educator in Craniosacral therapy and creative arts contexts, facilitating experiential movement explorations that deepen our capacity to be with what arises as experience in the body with agency and presence.

Stay tuned details of my EmbodyStudy workshop this Autumn - Nov 15th

28/08/2025

Spending a bit of time slowing down and being still with the tide over the long weekend.

Resourcing ourselves outside of the therapeutic space so we can be grounded and present in the space is a fundamental practice that safe therapists cultivate, enabling us to hold and listen with safety and compassion.

Craniosacral therapy can support you to experience the depths of stillness and movement that are the expressions of your fundamental health, your original nature.

We are so busy doing, doing takes effort! Being is not doing, Being is a state of profound rest and luminous clarity. To connect with health through Being can be inhereantly restorative. Through relaxing tensions and resetting the nervous system, bringing reneewed perspectives, increased vitality, reduction in fatigue, greater resilience and the flexability to meet all the varied dynamics of the ups and downs of life.

Find out more about Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy at Three Rivers Craniosacral Therapy in Rickmansworth