Lawrence Horwill

23/09/2025

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22/09/2025

Thank you for wonderful day full of inspiration and connection.

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Heartfelt thanks to everyone!

Via beatricetreats

💜 Grateful to be part of this inspiring and heart opening event, the CSTA’s first Craniosacral Conference, ‘From the Heart’, organised by the Craniosacral Association, Jo Coole, Jane Shaw, Lizette Villaverde, Sarah Nesling and Giulia Vaccari sharing their insights and talents, all in the surrounds of the light and atmospheric Colet House. Well done and thank you to all involved and looking forward to the next one!💜✨🙏🏼
Image credit - Tim Kirkpatrick

Craniosacral Therapy Association UK - CSTA Andrew Radley - Body-Based Coach and Therapist Gerri McLoughlin - Craniosacral Therapy Craniosacral Collaborative Cranio in the Community Circle Cranio - Jo Coole Jane Shaw Natural Health Ashby Cranio Dawn Goodes Therapies Giulia Vaccari

09/12/2024

This approach that Steve explains so well here, informs a great deal of my work.

05/07/2024

How sessions often proceed, well described

BIODYNAMICS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Rollin Becker gave us the inspiring concept of the Inherent Treatment Plan. A wonderful principle which explains how the Intelligence that Sutherland attributed to the Potency is in charge of any healing process. In much of our clinical work we rely on this principle – starting with relational touch we attune to the tide, deepen into the holistic shift and wait for a sequence of priorities arising from within to guide our hands.

Yet frequently in sessions that is not what happens. The Inherent Treatment Plan cannot be accessed. This may be because of excessive traumatic activation, acute physical symptoms or chronic disease. Because so much Potency is tied up in protecting the organism, in centring the historical insults stored as tissue memory, that there is not enough ‘free’ Potency available to initiate and direct healing. In those sessions, we have to rely on supporting safety in the rational field and using our diagnostic and therapeutic touch to point the struggling system back towards its blueprint of optimal function.

Image: Healing Hands by Rotem Zirlin

07/05/2024

PV theory nicely explained.

TOUCH AND THE VENTRAL VAGAL COMPLEX

In many forms of therapy, the Polyvagal Theory is used to understand and address behavioural and emotional outcomes arising from trauma. Yet Porges’ theory rests on the understanding of a neural substrate of cranial nerves, known as the ventral vagal complex, which co-ordinates the functions of breathing, swallowing, vocalisation, and facial expression while fine-tuning heart rate. In the theory, the social engagement system is portrayed in the language of anatomy and physiology. As touch therapists, the body is our domain, anatomy is our language, our sphere of influence.

Our soothing touch can modify the distress messages coming from the body, the throat and the face. As the Neuroception of our internal state changes from arousal to calm, the motor output of the three branches of the ANS comes into balance and vagal tone is increased. This supports pro-social behaviours and emotional stability.

30/11/2023

https://www.craniosacral.co.uk/about-cst/what-is-craniosacral-therapy/