Emma Loftus Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy? Awakening the body to it's own healing potential. It is an holistic, or whole-body treatment which is very subtle in its application. The lineage of BDCST goes back as far as the 1800’s in America, where the founder of Osteopathy, Dr Andrew Taylor Still began to study and to work with the healing power of the human body.Dr Still was based on the Shawnee first nations mission with his father. He was deeply inspired by the Shawnee's connection to the natural world around them, and the deeply complex interrelationships within the living world. It is through the Shawnee bodywork that he developed the Osteopathic Manipulative techniques. Followng the laws of nature, he realised that the body had everything it needed to heal itself.The body is self-healing and self-regulating. A student of his in the 1900’s, Dr William Garner Sutherland, developed Cranial Osteopathy following a discovery of a respiratory-like (breathing) motion in the cranial bones of the human skull, and its connection via the spinal cord to the sacrum and pelvis.During the course of Sutherland's later years, he began to orient to the more deeper forces present within the body. His emphasis became less on using force from without, rather he urged his students to trust the "Inherent Potency within".  A respiratory motion within and around the body.The word, 'Biodynamic' may be interpreted as "Living Forces" or "Wholeness". Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, a more subtle therapy, evolved and developed from Cranial Osteopathy and Osteopathy.