Welcome to being-in-stillness.co.uk, my website for craniosacral therapy and shamanic healing in Kingston upon Thames, Islington and west London.

'Being in Stillness' means resting in a place of deep peace and wholeness that encourages profound relaxation of the body, mind, emotions and energy, and enhances our natural healing, self-repair and self-correction abilities, reminding us who we are underneath the conditioning of our day to day lives and unresolved experiences. It is inherently non-judgmental, honouring our body's present perception of how things feel.

It is my experience that within every state of body, mind or emotions there is a core of peaceful stillness and wholeness that can be accessed. Even deeply traumatised or injured conditions contain this 'seed' which, if allowed and trusted and nurtured, can bring comfort and help with resolution.

In craniosacral therapy we recognise that there is a deep stillness that underpins vitality and health in the body and mind, and which is always present, however far from health we may appear to be. In the Inka shamanic healing tradition, they call this stillness 'infinity', and the final purpose of all the techniques that might be used is to allow the body and energy to remember their connection to this place where difficulties can begin to dissolve.

Although the sense and experience of stillness can be profound and at times mysterious, many of its benefits are not beyond understanding – many states of ill-health, especially in the west, are recognised as being either directly stress-related or at least as having a major component of stress and nervous system dysfunction. By working from stillness we access a natural place for the body to do its repair work, and allow the nervous system to recuperate, building up resources to face life's challenges.

I am also passionate about empowerment and see the purpose of sessions, as well as being alleviation of difficulties on whatever level, to be about learning to trust ourselves and our body-based intuition, and supporting our sense and experience of 'centre', so that we become more self-reliant and less readily thrown by life's events, and more able to let ourselves live fully. I find both craniosacral therapy and shamanic work to be powerful tools to help with this. As the body and mind settle into stillness, perhaps for the first time in many years, we are re-learning how to experience this natural but uncommon place of calmness and peace, and this can become more accessible in between treatments as well. At the end of the session we discuss what we both experienced and I usually make suggestions of supportive follow-up practices or ideas that could help to integrate the work.

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