Biodynamic Cranio Sacral Therapy with Sophie

27/04/2026

Blessed by sea vegetables and coastal plant medicine!

Such vibrant potency and lush diversity where the ocean meets the land in one of Ireland’s pristine seashore locations

Thank you!!!

17/04/2026

In the second part of my inquiry around “where is health?” I explore how this question becomes a felt sense, a sensorial, embodied ‘feeling with’ as I hold and deeply listen to the organisational, embryonic force that is Health with a capital H, do its magic in my biodynamic craniosacral practice.

Health is presence, vital presence within and around us. It expresses in all of us and in plants, blossoms, a river, a mountain, a meadow, the ocean…

Here is an excerpt

‘Where is health in you today? Where do you feel vibrant, vital, more alive?

Common questions preceding a biodynamic craniosacral session. When I as the practitioner, ask them I invite the person to tune in and connect with their body as an expression of Health and notice where their ‘resources’ are, or where feels good, safe, comforting. Once the person can orient to resources within their body or in their lives, the safety of this anchoring allows Health to express itself more freely in my experience. Health in this context is a primeval organisational force that, as James Jealous DO beautifully says, “can never be diseased”.

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05/04/2026

Best wishes of renewal and resurgence at this Easter time

So lucky, so blessed to be in this beautiful, lush, peaceful part of the Italian countryside, near Rieti.

Here is the first part of a blog series revisiting a question I was first asked to explore in the essay form when I was a student in biodynamic craniosacral therapy: ‘Where is health?’

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It’s a pivotal question in our field of work because practitioners orient around health rather than disease, what feels vibrant or simply okay as opposed to what pains and aches, so this first question helped us shift from the dominant medical dualist ‘fix-it’ model to a non dual approach encompassing the dynamics of life and reorganisation.

The fact that our organisms intertwine with and within other organisms (human and non human) and are not ‘machines’ made up of parts separated from the land they live from is a fundamental premise of BCST and many other holistic practices. The way we participate consciously and unconsciously to many spheres and levels of organisational Intelligence also plays an important part in how we view and connect with health.“

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05/04/2026

Best wishes of renewal and resurgence at this Easter time.

In this new blogpost I’m revisiting the question of my first essay as a biodynamic craniosacral student: ‘Where is health?’

“After 12 years working as a BCST practitioner, and as I’m about to also qualify as a clinical herbalist I feel like revisiting that question and thicken it with my personal and professional experience.

I’d like to do it in a few parts as it deserves a longer dive.

In this first part I will lay some form of a foundation and attempt to ‘define’ what we’re looking for: what is health/Health? It also feels important to deconstruct/dismantle the linearity of the question which presupposes a destination, a ‘delineated’ place where health resides. This notion of ‘place’ and its inevitable counterpart, time, will be further discussed in future parts.

The standard online definition of health is ‘the state of being free from illness or injury’ but a definition by the World Health Organisation speaks of ‘a comprehensive state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’.

The prevalence of words like ‘well-being’ and their commodification by our consumerist, productivist and extractivist society led me to revisit and resituate ‘where is health’ because even within the wider ambit of ‘physical, mental and social’ concerns, ‘well-being’ as a formulaic goal, an optimum to reach towards approves a de facto separation from the collective biosphere Earth and all its living communities, all its intertwined ecosystems of which our human bodies form just one tiny portion.”

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I remember fondly the title of my first essay during my biodynamic craniosacral studies with Body Intelligence: “Where is health?”It’s a pivotal question in our field of work because practitioners orient around health rather than disease, what feels vibrant or simply okay as opposed to what pa...

31/03/2026

In praise of Nettles! Such great teachers, such great medicine.

From fear to awe and love!

Thank you so much Nettles 💚

We gathered in Hilde’s beautiful land and home filled with very happy thriving Nettles. We ‘grasped’, sat with, drew, listened and talked to these mighty beings.

And we feasted: Nettle soup, rice Nettle croquettes, Nettle pesto and Nettle cake. Thanks to Julie Bruton Seal and Matthew Seal for their great recipes in Eat your Weeds 💚✨🌿

Thank you land, thank you Hilde Eiselen, thank you Nettle lovers! 💚

22/03/2026

At the Experience Craniosacral therapy day in Dublin today. Sea gulls are singing. I feel a mild, soft sense of place holding and am so deeply honoured to be part of this community of practitioners spreading soothing, solace, revitalisation and relief in the stressful times we live in.

Holding the whole of you to restore and safely come home to yourself and your surrounds.

08/03/2026

Honoured and celebrated women and their affinity with plants over the centuries today with a sensuous foraging and medicine making workshop.

Thank you women and plants. We wouldn’t be here without them 🌿✨🌞💚

02/01/2026

May we see with mountains

May we feel with birds, ants and butterflies

May we flow with rivers

May we swim with salmon, tuna, trout, monkfish

May we sense with fungi and their mycelium

May we smell with deers

May we listen with foxes

May we pause with grey herons

May we taste the sun with daisies, dandelions and nettles

May we love with swans

I stood on my father’s shoulders to climb you for the first time Puy de Pariou, but in this cosmic web you’re my great great great great ….. grand father and I’m standing on your shoulders now. You’re said to be ‘dormant’ but that doesn’t mean you’re not alive. You breathe and are breathed just like all of us on Earth.

Deeply, oh so deeply grateful for your continued massive presence, for your beauty, your majesty, your wisdom reminding me not to forget my place in the web of life but also to continue to lean towards and let go to forces way beyond my understanding.

A volcano is born of an eruption, a crater its visible birth scar, healed after thousands of years, a fertile terrain for much life to burst forth.

What year shall we birth dear ones?

What will support healing? What will we plant and help to take shape?

I wish for you that it at least be filled with love and wonder, fodder for a wild vision of a future in harmony with each other and all.
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26/12/2025

Hiking among the volcanoes of central France.

No words

22/12/2025

Solstice blessings to you all ✨🌞

Here is an exploration around decolonising health for Health with a capital ‘H’ to prevail. An invitation to reflect on what we wish our world to become in the dark, fertile womb time of this Winter Solstice.

An excerpt:
“Rather than continuing to participate in a general dismemberment experiment, true healing would remember us back into nature's rhythms, already within us, rocking us since conception.

Holding and sensing the serpentine embryonic rhythms of the fluid body consistently reminds me that we belong to nature, that we internally sing her melodies and dance to her tempo. Resetting these biodynamics, these dynamics of life reharmonises us with the fabric of life and the tapestry of the living.

Can we pause in the restorative pool of the darkest time of the year and let it nourish our souls with its medicine away from this world on fire?

Like a return to the womb, touching the 'everything is possible' impulse stirring this creative matrix. To breathe in, take a long inhale and in filling in, sensing, realising the possibility of expansion, of renewal, of change that will drive us all into Spring again.

Wintering now for what kind of Spring?

Decolonising ultimately means to find oneself again and plant oneself in the community of the living again, nourishing and nourished by a revitalised land.

For what's the point of healing if it's to continue to serve a modern world that further detaches and wrenches us away from our true nature and creates ill health and disease in the process. Restoring health means restoring ourselves in nature.”

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03/12/2025

Holding embryonic rhythms with my hands, my whole body attunes to another life embedded in layers of presence, absence, history, relationships known and unknown, visible and invisible at the micro and macro levels of being.

When we’re sensing concomitantly and interconnecting as our life forces potentise and vitality expresses more easily and powerfully, inhabiting a body is a humbling experience of pure wonderment and JOY!

I love this craniosacral work ✨