Biodynamic Cranio Sacral Therapy with Sophie

20/11/2025

Held a seven-months pregnant woman today what a gift! Such a gorgeous inner glow 🥰

15/11/2025

Singing for change at the Global March for Climate today

Thank you .dempsey.167

14/11/2025

09/11/2025

It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post for mycraniosacrallife.com and am delighted and honoured to have fellow BCST practitioner and teacher Margaret Rosenau of the Colorado School of Inner Health as a prime contributor.

I talk about the intricacies of fluids and tissues in craniosacral practice. How they interlace and create the highly potent communication and protection network of our fascia.

I also ask whether, in the broader context of today’s world, leaning back into this tender fluid mesh can be akin to making sanctuary?

Read this and more and I look forward to your feedback.

Here is an excerpt:

Some time ago I heard myself saying to a client “The tenderness of fluids is always there”. These words flowed out of my inner well like water and it’s when I was speaking them that I sensed the scope of their meaning. Like a call and response chant I noticed my fluid body dwell in the soft, trusting leaning of these words. I held this client’s settling into their tender wrapping of the fluids.

I use the word tender here for kind and soft but also for the exquisitely intricate mesh of our fascia, this ultra sensorially alive and moist suit protecting all our organs; a whole body ‘architecture’ (Levin, Van der Wal) which spells the flexibility, ease and vitality of our physical and emotional bodies in constant flux.

Some time ago I heard myself saying to a client “The tenderness of fluids is always there”. These words flowed out of my inner well like water and it’s when I was speaking them that I sensed the scope of their meaning. Like a call and response chant I noticed my fluid body dwell in the soft, t...

09/11/2025

I wrote about the tenderness of fluids in this blog post (https://www.mycraniosacrallife.com/single-post/the-tenderness-of-fluids) for mycraniosacrallife.com, an internal safe haven when we feel it and can stay there, a place of restoration and transformation, from which we can relate, notice, intertwine and sense, perceive, differently. A “miracling point” as John Moriarty says.

With gratitude to for her contribution

Here is an excerpt:
What if tender was a path to dwell in Nigerian philosopher Bayo Akomolafé’s ‘cracks’, these places of ‘fugitivity’ where we can make sanctuary away from the dehumanising calamities of the ‘house of modernity’(Andreotti, 2017), beneath the social and political tyrannical trappings of our times, beneath the turmoils of this mortal coil to bask in a posthumanist bath where our bodies are floating ‘panels’ of creative communication with all there is in Earth’s fluid field, our second womb? Where our bodies are nodes of an Earthwide multispecies ‘mycelium’.

Earth mirrors this tenderness for us to behold in so many wondrous ways. I live in Ireland, a land where fluid changes mean many rainbows which bridge the in-between, the ‘crack’ between rain and sun with a full spectrum of colours. Rainbows are considered a gateway to the Otherworld in Irish folklore, a path for souls to travel to the afterlife. Could they also point to an other world than the one we may mistakenly consider to be the only living reality there is?

Irish philosopher John Moriarty compares the shape-shifting qualities of water to our ability to step into another reality, by transforming our perception: “When, in our world, the temperature drops below freezing point, very surprising things happen. Water, even where it is fluent or turbulent, turns to ice. Instead of rain we get snow. In damp houses, frost flowers bloom on the window panes. The moisture in our breath condenses in the air before us. But, as there is freezing point in the world, so is there a miracling point. People, usually people who meditate and pray, come unexpectedly into it. In the end they live from it, and then they don’t even need to perform miracles, miracles simply happen in their presence.” (What the Curlew Said, 2007)

03/11/2025

Such a magical, beautifully soulful ceremony to scatter Manchán’s ashes at Uisneach

Thank you 🙏🏻💚 Such a blessing for the thousands present there

30/10/2025

“We cannot think Nature, it has to be felt, to think it is to forget it.” Orland Bishop

22/10/2025

How does Hawthorn medicine interweave with these two wondrous beings: Franklyn Sills and Manchán Magan?

I wrote this piece a few days ago on my patreon platform and decided to share it here today:

“In the past ten days, I attended one funeral and watched a memorial service online for two exceptional beings who, each in their own unique ways, left indelible marks in their fields of excellence and in all their relationships.
Both shared a magnificently relentless drive. “

You can read it in full here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141426218?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

12/10/2025

So grateful to be part of the growing craniosacral community in Ireland represented at yesterday’s CraniosacralIreland inaugural conference held in the beautiful Solas Bhride centre in Kildare.

So glad to see and hear two of my heroes Manchán Magan and John Moriarty quoted by fellow practitioners Jane Shaw () and David McCauley.

Both sadly departed but ever more radiating beacons with overlapping messages, whose words invite us to heal our disconnect with ourselves and the land whence we extend, much the same as craniosacral work where practitioners hold the whole body within the greater natural Whole so that the organising force of Health expresses more freely and potently.

Biodynamic craniosacral therapy as mentioned in many blogposts (see mycraniosacrallife.com/blog/) restores severed connections within ourselves and revives how we relate to the world. The more vibrant we are the more we can attune to our inner nature and the greater natural world to which we belong.

Biodynamic craniosacral work facilitates a homecoming to ourselves and the land.

Thank you .ie
for a great day!

13/08/2025

Paying tribute to a giant in the field of biodynamic craniosacral therapy or craniosacral biodynamics as he called his practice.

Franklyn Sills died yesterday. He was an outstanding man, practitioner, teacher and author who seemed to work and live through this deep listening practice. I was lucky enough to attend a five day postgrad seminar held at the Karuna Institute which he and his first wife Maura Sills founded in Devon.

I remember the demos between him and his second wife, Cherionna Menzam Sills, also a BCST and my supervisor for many years. The spaciousness, the potency, what we call Long Tide, a slow rhythm of inhale and exhale that is everywhere in the natural world settling in the whole room. And the Stillness ✨thick and palpable.

All of us attendees received a session each time these two worked on each other. It was incredible.

I remember his lightness (he was a Qi Gong and Tai Chi practitioner too and had once been a Buddhist monk), his wonderful childlike smile with sparkling eyes, his passion for and devotion to craniosacral biodynamics. He wrote many books and the seminar I attended was named after one of them: Being and Becoming.

He greatly influenced the development of the biodynamic craniosacral field coining terms like the ‘holistic shift’, and way before others centering the quality of this whole person-centred practice on establishing a safe ‘relational field’ between client and practitioner.

He was a master, truly, and will be dearly missed by our whole community. May he rest in peace and may his beautiful legacy continue to flourish.

✨Thank you Franklyn Sills ✨

12/08/2025

Paying tribute to a giant in the field of biodynamic craniosacral therapy or craniosacral biodynamics as he called his practice.

Franklyn Sills died yesterday. He was an outstanding man, practitioner, teacher and author who seemed to work and live through this deep listening practice. I was lucky enough to attend a five day postgrad seminar held at the Karuna Institute which he and his first wife Maura Sills founded in Devon.

I remember the demos between him and his second wife, Cherionna Menzam Sills, also a BCST and my supervisor for many years. The spaciousness, the potency, what we call Long Tide, a slow rhythm of inhale and exhale that is everywhere in the natural world settling in the whole room. And the Stillness ✨thick and palpable.

All of us attendees received a session each time these two worked on each other. It was incredible.

I remember his lightness (he was a Qi Gong and Tai Chi practitioner too and had once been a Buddhist monk), his wonderful childlike smile with sparkling eyes, and his passion and devotion for craniosacral biodynamics. He wrote many books and the seminar I attended was named after one of them: Being and Becoming.

He greatly influenced the development of the biodynamic craniosacral field coining terms like the ‘holistic shift’ (the video below explains it in his own words) and way before others centering the quality of this whole person-centred practice on establishing a safe ‘relational field’ between client and practitioner.

He was a master, truly, and will be dearly missed by our whole community. May he rest in peace and may his beautiful legacy continue to flourish.

✨Thank you Franklyn Sills ✨

A collection of clips from the Craniosacral Biodynamics recordings with Franklyn Sills, pioneering teacher of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. Sets available...