Sam Andreadis Craniosacral Therapy & Counselling

17/06/2026

As a continuation on the idea of orienting to health, we might consider fluidity as a state of being. As Confucius, Lao Tsu and Aesop all refer to in botanical metaphors, being the grass or the reed in the face of the wind or water is an adaptable and non resistant, flexible and fluid approach that prevents the breakage that occurs when we resist, contract or brace against ourselves, others and life in general.

But as adaptive beings, life experience might have left a legacy of rigidity and stagnation that is really hard to undo because it is largely unconscious.

So here we compare fluidity with health and stagnation with ill health. And cross reference the idea that when we orient to health we are also inviting a release of the stagnation or contraction that prevents its full expression.

I won’t lie, this can be exhausting work that requires feeling sensations and emotions you might have kept suppressed under many many layers of somatic silt. But there is gold beneath. Because when the fluidity returns so do all the qualities of joy, ease, trust and playfulness that can feel hard to reach from any other state of being.

As Kabul Gibran who wrote about a lot of ideas on fluidity in love and life, “melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night” and if you feel inspired, his poem “The River Cannot Go Back” is worth a read 💫 (I will post in my stories x)

15/06/2026

Much like Freud’s Thanatos (death drive) and Eros (life drive) we might consider the way this shows up as a point of orientation. Orienting to the health or the failure in the system. orienting to what’s working or plunging into what’s not. Both are always there - in cranial we literally focus our attention on the health and potency in the system to stimulate healing - in psychology it’s not that different. Ultimately the enquiry is are we orienting to the destructive power of fear or the generative power of love ✨💫💕

10/06/2026

22/05/2026

In these times where the shadow is being revealed at a collective level; the corruption, the abuse, the hidden things woven into the very fabric of our structures and systems, there is a reaction in the micro that calls on us to integrate our own difficult parts - the angry stuff, the cynical stuff, the father wounds, the mother wounds: that which lies beneath all the positive qualities we cling to and consider the ‘me’ we present.
The body, largely and theoretically, represents the unconscious and therefore, theoretically we recognise that a large part of our shadow might reside here at the somatic level; showing up in our nervous system sending bottom up messages that create our behaviours and ‘vibe’ in the way we unconsciously meet the world. This may be dissonant with with way we try to show up. We can latch on to shiny solutions that offer light; but unless it is grounded by processing the ‘issues in the tissues’ then the nervous system is not coming along for the ride. Which is why nothing changes. Which why years of talking and meditating don’t always complete the journey. There is nothing wrong with any tools or teachings but unless they cross the threshold into the shadow, into the body unconscious and into our nervous system flexibility, the light remains dissociated and ungrounded and we keep getting tripped up by old behaviours, thinking patterns and responses to the world. You are doing so much work. You deserve to recognise that your shadow is as knowable and has potential to be as acceptable as the rest of you. There are some really useful skills and forces in your shadow if they aren’t suppressed and leaking out in unconscious and unmanageable ways. So even on this bright and beautiful day I offer these words as a reminder of why it’s always both. Like two hands in prayer 🙏 light and shade, mind and body, conscious and unconscious. All loveable. All acceptable. All knowable.

22/05/2026

17/05/2026

What do you make of this innate intelligence? Is it just science or under it all does it start to make you feel there must be something bigger and more fundamental happening here? These are the kind of metaphysical and existential territories we often get to in the room as clients begin to experience somatic awareness they ve never felt before - as with many spiritual and meditative traditions there is an association with ‘going in’ to transcend. Comment below!!
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12/05/2026

05/05/2026

Self knowledge in a post Ai World is about FEELING, about being in RELATIONSHIP - Ai does a pretty excellent job of telling you the facts of why you are as you are. But the job is to slow down and drop into the feeling of it until in integrates into your relationship with yourself and others. It has to be ROOTED in the soil of reality and experience if it’s going to WORK - and when you commit to that space your branches can reach as high and wide as you need them to grow 🌳

05/05/2026

Words fail, but loosely this is about feeling lost in the sheer quantity of knowledge and learning, whether that is self knowledge or taught knowledge. We need time to integrate. And each phase only marks the beginning of a new one. Whether teacher or pupil, therapist or Thérapie, there is never anything truly new, only old learnings repackaged. The quality is in how deeply you engage with the application of the content. How much time you take to be in relationship to the knowing. Have you felt it in your very bones yet?