“To find Health should be the object of the doctor. Anyone can find disease”

Dr. A.T. Still, founder of Osteopathy

Cranial Osteopathy it is the name given to a subtle and refined approach to Osteopathy that follows all the principles of Osteopathy. Cranial Osteopaths use a highly trained sense of touch to feel subtle changes of tension and tissue quality in the living anatomy of the whole body, and to diagnose areas of strain or dysfunction.

In this approach, the Osteopath gently meets the restriction with their hands in such a way as to bring it to a point of balance where it can dis-engage and move more freely again (as opposed to yanking and cranking it to get it to move).

I specialise in ‘Biodynamic Cranial Osteopathy’, which I think is best understood in contrast to a more mechanical approach to the work. If we think in terms of polar opposites; Biodynamic Osteopathy is the Ying, the feminine, the left brain approach to Osteopathic treatment. It puts a particular emphasis on recognysing the part within the context of the whole, which opens up an ocean of oportunity.

Being aware of the space between and around restrictions allows access to Health, movement and ease in even the tightest and most compressed parts of the body, allowing them to be more like a green twig again; full of sap, bendy and elastic.

This approach is ideally suited to treating all patients; from Adults to New Born Babies & Children, During Pregnancy and As We Get Older.

The best analogy that I have come up with for this work is to imagine you are sitting on a small beach with a number of fishing boats on it. The tide has gone out and the fishing boats are all stuck on the sand. Rather than putting allot of effort into moving a particular fishing boat back out to sea, the Biodynamic Approach to Osteopathic Treatment uses the tide coming back in to lift all the boats effortlessly back in the Ocean.

Further information on What Osteopathy Is

More information on Cranial Osteopathy

More detail on the distinction between Cranial and Biodynamic Osteopathy

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.”

T.S. Eliot

With 20+ years experience as a Cranial Osteopath, I treat a variety of different conditions on a daily basis;