Dublin Craniosacral - Lorraine Corcoran

16/07/2020

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Polyvagal theory posits that our autonomic nervous system (ANS) is split into three parts:
💛 Ventral Vagal: where we are grounded, engaged, and regulated. This is apart of our parasympathetic nervous system.
🔥 Sympathetic: where we mobilize to protect ourselves against danger. We access a fight or flight mode.
⚠️ Dorsal Vagal: where we become immobilized to protect ourselves against danger. We shut down, dissociate and our nervous system is collapsed. This is also within the parasympathetic nervous system.
You can think of our ANS as a ladder with sympathetic sandwiched in between parasympathetic. We end up in a freeze response when our system gets so overloaded with stress that it has to split off from itself or dissociate.
We make our way back up the ladder through safety - both in the body and outside the body. That means, meeting our basic needs on the inside, getting enough water, food, breath, etc...And on the outside, establishing safe relationships and a safe environment. Practicing safety helps us stay in ventral vegal longer, and when we need to, helps us move up the ladder faster. Safety helps to build flexibility and strength within the nervous system.

It’s important to note that none of these states are superior to the others. Ventral vagal is not always the goal. Our nervous system works to keep us alive. To help us SURVIVE. So if you’re not in ventral vagal, my guess it theres a pretty good reason. For example, BIPOC having had to witness more tragedies, more abuse, more harm, more assaults to their own race; having to experience ongoing racial trauma. PRESENT traumatic stress vs POST traumatic stress. When you’re living in trauma, your body is fighting SO hard. And the techniques and interventions that often work on white, cis gender bodies might not have the same effect on bodies that are targeted in this world.

08/01/2020

05/01/2020

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a powerful form of body work that supports the body's ability to heal, release stress and find balance.

21/12/2019

Delighted that I have found a lovely new peaceful treatment room to work from in St Olaves Kinsealy. Very excited to get back to work in the new year. Sessions available from Jan 6th.

11/12/2019

Self-care is starting to become a more well known term which is great! Often we think of Self-care as doing big things for ourselves like going on retreats, having therapy sessions or holidays when we have already reached a place of stress. While these things can be helpful especially when we are feeling stressed or tired and need some help to come back to a balanced place, it really is the little things we can do for ourselves everyday like getting enough sleep, eating nutritious food, spending time in nature or finding even 15 minutes to meditate that make a big difference over time and stop us reaching a place of stress in the first place.

21/11/2019

Excerpt from a great Facebook post by Thomas Attlee from CCST (College of Craniosacral Therapy)on trauma:

“Trauma is a pervasive fact of modern life,” writes Dr. Peter Levine in his book, ‘Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma’. He says trauma can result from experiencing a natural disaster like a fire, being in an accident, falling down, suffering the loss of a loved one, undergoing surgery, and even the happy stresses of pregnancy and birth. These traumas stay with us, as a “frozen residue of energy that has not been resolved and discharged; this residue remains trapped in the nervous system where it can wreak havoc on our bodies and spirits,” causing long-term and sometimes alarming symptoms, like anxiety, back pain or insomnia."

Trauma needs healing and integration at a profound level - not just physical therapy, not just psychotherapy – but re-integration of body and mind at the deepest level. Cranio-Sacral Integration is unique in enabling this.’

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CST is gentle, but profound, working on many levels: it is suitable for babies with birth trauma, to adults who may be carrying trauma held within their nervous system.