Distance Craniosacral Therapy is a holistic therapy that re-ignites the body’s self-healing ability to relieve pain, stress, and dysfunction. To understand it, it helps to first know a little about the hands-on bodywork it’s based on.

What’s the bodywork foundation?

My distance work is based on Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), a subtle-touch form of bodywork.

I often tell clients that watching a BCST session is a bit like watching paint dry. From the outside, it looks like nothing much is happening. The practitioner might simply hold the head (or feet, or elsewhere) for a long time. That’s because the action’s all on the inside.

Beneath the practitioner’s hands, a dance is happening. They’re feeling through tissue to bones and alignment…through the web of fascia to its pulls and bunches…through fluids moving in tidal motions to energy flow and congestion. This awareness holds up a mirror to the body. And in response, the body wakes up and makes changes.  

How’s it possible to feel all this?

Everything in your body is connected to everything else by fascia. Tug gently on someone’s heels and, if your palpation skills are subtle enough, you’ll feel the pull of fascia all they way to the head. Hold someone’s head and you can feel not just the skull bones, but all of the membranes inside the head that connect to those bones.

So, it is possible to feel really subtle things inside the body. And…at a certain point, a deeper sensing comes online, one that blends with and surpasses palpation skills alone. Call it intuition. Call it a sixth sense. My craniosacral instructor called it a form of remote viewing. Regardless, for a person trained in subtle palpation, it greatly deepens and enriches perception.  

How’s craniosacral done at a distance?

It’s not a great leap to let this extra sensory process lead the show, especially if, like me, you have years of hands-on experience. In person, the entry point to the body is palpation, which gets extended by heightened perception. Over distance, the entry point is heightened perception, which gets translated into a felt-sense in my hands.

Put another way: I’m already listening through tissues using heightened sensing. It’s not much of a stretch to extend that listening over more distance.

Here’s how it looks in practice. After checking in by video or phone, you’d lie down comfortably while I tune in, which involves softly placing my attention on you. If appropriate, I can then intend to hold a part of your body, like your head. Soon, the connection syncs up and I actually feel your head in my hands. From there, I can track all of the same shifts and healing processes that I would in person.  

What’s the bottom line?

Regardless of entry point, what matters is that my awareness is able to provide a clear witness for your system. That’s what kicks off your healing power—it wakes up in response to being seen. And distance is no obstacle to perception.

How do I learn more?

I offer Distance Craniosacral Therapy sessions based on biodynamic craniosacral therapy and somatic dialogue techniques for trauma. To learn more or schedule an appointment, visit my distance craniosacral therapy page.