Biodynamic Cranio Sacral Therapy with Sophie

10/09/2026

10/09/2026

The gifts of Autumn 💚

I’m sitting on the grass in the warm breeze under a blue sunny sky between craniosacral sessions and breathe in the gifts of this transitional time.

I’m now nearing the end of my herbal studies. I combine more and more my craniosacral practice with herbal medicine and absolutely love how well they complement each other.

Feeling such contentment from holding knowledges and ancient practices which provide relief and support in our much troubled world.

Thank you plants and other teachers, thank you Nature’s Intelligence expressing in our bodies and all other ecosystems.

03/09/2026

I’m sometimes asked: ‘do you have to believe in craniosacral therapy for it to work?’

Well the answer is a clear ‘No’, because craniosacral therapy is not a faith or a spiritual doctrine, it is an embodied practice anchored in the tissues (blood, fascia, bones, muscles…), in the fluids (cerebrospinal fluid, interstitial fluid, but also cellular fluid) and what we call potency or the drive, the vitality in tissues and fluids.

The more there’s ease, fluidity, the more relaxed the tissues, and the more potent, alive we feel.

A biodynamic craniosacral therapist (BCST) makes gentle hand contact with your body and through this light touch, listens to the whole of you, the tissues, the fluids, the potency but also the emotional tone. This safe perceptive touch will encourage parts of the body that ache, are tense, more inflamed, more compressed, to relax, soften, ease, loosen and to reconnect to the whole of you.

We often feel out of our bodies or out of sync after an accident, a series of stressful events, during an illness, or when we experience pain, emotional distress due to an injury, loss or separation. BCST gently and quite powerfully invites you to re-integrate the whole of you, to come home to yourself. After a session you may feel re-energised as your inner fire is re-ignited and your vitality returns, or you may wish to take it easy because this deep relaxation unlocks, releases and can change, reorganise quite a lot.

Whether you’re aware of what’s happening within or not will not prevent change from taking place but awareness certainly helps the process in great part because you can witness it and be ‘wowed’ by what your body’s Intelligence can do.

So a BCST session is an experience, often profound and it can definitely change your life.

I have witnessed it many times in my twelve years as a practitioner and never tire of its wonders.



See craniosacralireland.ie for more information and my own website mycraniosacrallife.com

26/07/2026

Introducing my dear friend Rachel Dempsey with whom I will be facilitating our day of Water, Voice and Wild Medicine at St Kevin’s Well in beautiful Glendalough on Saturday 22nd August from 12-5pm

I’ve known Rachel a few years now. She’s a gorgeous singer and gentle singing coach who has years of experience holding singing workshops and creating harmonies between people and the land through voice work.

I very much look forward to sharing time with you and the land as a co facilitator with her again.

As I’m listening to the wind I notice once again how singing happens throughout the natural world and plants participate in this magic through their vibrational medicine so this promises to be a day of deep connection, celebration and healing for us and the land

A lovely group is forming but you can still join us and we’d love you to be there with us🌿💚✨🌞.

Here is the link with all details and to book your place:

https://fullcirclechange.ie/event/glendalough-retreat-2026/

13/05/2026

When you’re a biodynamic craniosacral therapist you’re in love with bodies healing, mending, transforming themselves.

I’m often asked “what do I do?”

But this practice is about non-doing deep listening, and supporting what the body wants to do, wants to, needs to change. The practitioner’s grounded presence witnesses and holds through gentle contact, in a knowing, spacious and wholistic way with other ‘participants’ in the field like the stillness and safety of the place.

But I also feel that the newly-leafed trees, the sun, the rain, the singing birds outside my window all partake in this holding.

27/04/2026

Blessed by sea vegetables and coastal plant medicine!

Such vibrant potency and lush diversity where the ocean meets the land in one of Ireland’s pristine seashore locations

Thank you!!!

17/04/2026

In the second part of my inquiry around “where is health?” I explore how this question becomes a felt sense, a sensorial, embodied ‘feeling with’ as I hold and deeply listen to the organisational, embryonic force that is Health with a capital H, do its magic in my biodynamic craniosacral practice.

Health is presence, vital presence within and around us. It expresses in all of us and in plants, blossoms, a river, a mountain, a meadow, the ocean…

Here is an excerpt

‘Where is health in you today? Where do you feel vibrant, vital, more alive?

Common questions preceding a biodynamic craniosacral session. When I as the practitioner, ask them I invite the person to tune in and connect with their body as an expression of Health and notice where their ‘resources’ are, or where feels good, safe, comforting. Once the person can orient to resources within their body or in their lives, the safety of this anchoring allows Health to express itself more freely in my experience. Health in this context is a primeval organisational force that, as James Jealous DO beautifully says, “can never be diseased”.

You can read the full piece through the link in comment