One year and several working periods into a PhD research project called Rewilding Play directed by Kate Sagovsky of STUDIO SOMA, I’ve been inspired to start practising cranio in the garden. My garden practice at home in Hamsey, East Sussex, is open for bookings on Thursday afternoons.
There are several craniosacral therapy professional development workshops that happen outdoors in gardens and woods but I don’t have the impression that outdoor professional practice is that widespread, though I could be wrong! The virtues of doing therapy out in nature are multitudinous. On a Work That Reconnects course I did at Lewes Climate Hub earlier this year I met and got to know Chiara Fortina Santin who has written the book Rewilding Therapy: Ecosystemic Theory and Practice on the subject.
Buddhist scholar, ecologist and systems thinker Joanna Macy, whose body of Nature Connection work we were drawing from, has a practice that she teaches called The Mirror Walk. It reveres the symbolic importance of what we perceive, what winks at us psychically, when we spend time dwelling in and remembering that we are nature.
I feel excited, like I’m poised at the opening of an irresistible portal; since I have the good fortune to have access to a beautiful, secluded garden at present I feel moved to share it with therapeutic intent! If you would like to try cranio in the garden and see how ‘the field’ supports you - and we, in turn, support ‘the field’ - get in touch and we can talk and arrange a time.
