Tender Courage 
What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a light-touch therapy that takes place with a client fully clothed on a massage table. With care and consent, the therapist ‘listens’ to the body through their hands while maintaining a sense of neutrality and drawing on a connection to the natural forces of healing as experienced by the practitioner.
This invites the tides of healing to awaken within the client. These tides help the body re-allocate life force energy that may have been tied up by emotional trauma or physical injury. BCST approaches pain and imbalance from the perspective of wholeness and with the belief that there is health at the heart of every wound.
“The essence of a biodynamic session is a return to origins”
— James Jealous, D.O.
Home visits and distance sessions are available upon request.
“Jess was so good at being in tune with my three year old. She developed a deep trust with him over the course of 8 appointments. I was amazed when, during one of the first sessions, this normally highly active child laid still in her hands, looking completely relaxed and at peace. He was even able to share with her where he needed her hands to go. A warmth emanated from his head. Jess confirmed that she felt a shift in his cranial structure that ought to make him more comfortable. Jess was also in tune with my emotions as a parent and was thorough and holistic in her approach. She has many different skills and training. One of her greatest strengths is her perceptive, intuitive and inquisitive nature. It always felt like she deeply cared about us.” -T.K.
To learn more about Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy…
Craniosacral sessions offer support for a wide range of experiences and conditions, including:
- PTSD
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Chronic and acute pain, from injury or otherwise
- Migraines
- Concussion
- Broken bones
- Sprains and tears to muscle or ligament
- Surgical recovery
- Insomnia and finding deeper sleep
- Creating more comfort and ease; increased somatic and sensory awareness (felt-sense within the body)
- Clearing birth trauma for both child and birth parent. Recovery from birth trauma can be accessed at any time in life.
- Helping the cranial bones settle into a spacious and comfortable relationship after navigating the birth canal
- Support birth and postpartum recovery for both baby and parent (more here)
My Approach
In my work as a craniosacral therapist, I believe there is a blueprint which informs the unfolding of our bodies, both in the womb and throughout the life cycle. As I listen to and protect this pattern, I gently invite it back to its most fundamental and whole expression.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) can reconnect us with our original embryonic spark of growth and healing. This spark continues to unfold and heal our bodies throughout our lifetime. I utilize connection to my own spark and to the natural world, as resources. I invite a slower pace into my body that translates to your cells through the process of resonance. I believe that your body has the ability to heal itself. I serve as a mirror for that healing by creating space, invitation and containment.
“I met Jessie for cranio sacral when I was postpartum for the first time, after the loss of our daughter at birth. It was a very tender time. Not an easy time to let someone new in. She approached me with such deep intention, such respect for the intensity of my moment, and attuned to me so effectively that even in that first session I was able to work through intense trauma, and wave after wave of shock, to safely uncover the truth of my experience and be with my feelings. She helped me find easeful breath in the early days of my grief, which has remained a touchstone that is the basis of my wellness.” -Natasha