Ciren Wellbeing Autumn 2015

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ciren wellbeing A better menopause In this edition: How to restore self esteem and confidence l Discover a remarkable therapy from the last Maya Shaman of Belize l Find out why good digestion matters l Investigate EMDR therapy for trauma l Find out if you have Lung Qi Xu l Learn about the Rosen Method l Discover a liberating hold from craniosacral therapy

Follow Sheila’s menopause journey from hellish to happy

The Alexander Technique Get an insight into what this popular technique is about

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Autumn 2015

Welcome!

Welcome to the 2015 Autumn edition of Ciren Wellbeing!

In this edition, we learn how to restore our self esteem and confidence, discover a remarkable therapy from the last Maya Shaman of Belize, find out why good digestion matters, investigate EMDR therapy for trauma, check our symptoms and find out if we have Lung Qi Xu, get answers to our questions about the Rosen Method, follow Sheila’s menopause journey from hellish to happy, discover what the Alexander Technique is really all about, and learn a little more about what Craniosacral Therapists do.

What’s inside?

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Creative, active, happy How to restore your self esteem and build confidence

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Arvigo Techniques: Maya Abdominal TherapyTM A unique therapy from the last Maya Shaman of Belize

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Good digestion matters How better digestion improved Barbara’s life

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Ri Ferrier, Craniosacral Therapist (BA (Hons), RCST)

EMDR therapy for trauma Discover why NICE recommends EMDR for psychological symptoms following trauma

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Please get in touch

Do you have Lung Qi Xu? Check your symptoms and find out what to do about them

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Rosen Method bodywork Debbie Fildew answers your questions about a wonderfully gentle bodywork therapy

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A better menopause Follow Sheila’s menopause journey from hellish to happy

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The Alexander Technique Get an insight into what this popular technique is about

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The five-pointed star technique Discover a powerful, liberating hold from craniosacral therapy

We hope you enjoy reading this edition as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Sarah & Ri Sarah Attwell-Griffiths, Acupuncturist (Lic Ac, BSc (Hons) Acu, MBAcC)

We want Ciren Wellbeing to be an enjoyable and useful read, so we would love to know what you want to see in our next quarterly edition due out in November 2015. We also welcome your comments on this edition. Please get in touch via email at sarah@coriniumacupuncture.co.uk or riferrier@waitrose.com.

Are you a local CAM practitioner?

We’re already looking for contributors for our next edition.

If you are a qualified CAM practitioner serving people in the Cirencester area and would like to submit an article for publication, email sarah@coriniumacupuncture.co.uk.

Creative, active, happy In life, we are set in roles and routines that can make us feel that we are only needed as parents, caring children, employees or partners. We forget how to stay balanced and ready for the next challenge or better; adventure.

Our sense of worth is often a product of how we think others see us. How do we compare ourselves with others? Do they have a bigger house or a fantastic wardrobe? How often do we look at what others achieve and think “isn’t that brilliant” without wanting to be in their shoes?

Many people suffer with poor self image. We look in the mirror and frown. “Is that me?” “Why wasn’t I given blue eyes?” We give ourselves such a hard time!

Recognising our own potential and the achievements of others can build our appreciation of the world around us as well as our self esteem and confidence.

At last, we are beginning to return to some of the least expensive ways of attaining satisfaction, validation and comfort in life.

We are beginning to look back at the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s as times when life was less complicated. We valued making things, having a garden, singing, dancing and being active over our sofas and televisions. As an artist and a creative individual, I have many things that make my life incredibly rich. I have been lucky enough to meet and work

with people who have given me inspiration and shaped my approach to living. I have had to balance my commitments with family life and make time to keep my creative brain alive.

So, what do I do?

Make a creative date: Every week, do one thing that recharges your mind. It can be anything that restores your sense of self, is a learning experience, or gives you a new view on things. Travel does this for us, reading can do it, or simply seeing something new can broaden our minds.

Make something: Set aside at least an hour a week to make whatever gives you the greatest sense of achievement. It could be an art, craft, building or gardening project.

Be as active as possible and eat well: Your mind needs your body, and is only as good as it!

Start a journal: Make 5 minutes to write in it at the beginning of each day. It clears your head and allows you to focus on the priorities of your day and avoid prevarication, so that you have more free time. Write without even thinking about it. Nonsense and feelings are all OK. No one needs to read it, including you! It just clears the mind of all of its clutter.

First Steps: The first steps are sometimes the hardest. Being

Stephen Moore (BSc, GCU) Creative Practitioner and Activities Leader As Moore Creative, Stephen promotes creative living at home and work, delivering workshops and 1:1 training around Cirencester, Gloucester and Stroud.

Qualified in Photography and Design, Stephen has worked as a Medical Photographer and Manager in the NHS and an Activities Coordinator in elderly and dementia care. stephenmoore2013.wix.com/ moore-creative Stephen.moore2013@icloud. com Soon to be Live Create Limited www.livecreate.uk with others who wish to make a change can help. There are many workshops and classes around our area. They may cost a little, but the gains include building confidence in what we can achieve and making new friends who share that increased confidence. If I can help, please get in touch!

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Arvigo Techniques: Maya Abdominal Therapy™ Autumn, a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, when some are contemplating a clear out before winter sets in. Your body is no different in that respect and regular treatment can help with the clear out process, especially work on and around the abdomen, with abdominal massage.

traditions, being passed on by the last Maya Shaman of Belize, Don Elijio Panti. Dr. Rosita Arvigo DN, is an American Naturopath and Herbalist, who served an apprenticeship with Don Elijio and promised to continue the Maya traditions after his death in 1996 at the age of 103.

Lots of massage therapists shy away from working on the abdomen, perhaps because of a lack of knowledge and insufficient training. However, if they don’t, they are missing out a large area of the body, which can have very beneficial effects.

Don Elijio Panti was unable to read or write, so Dr. Arvigo observed him working and took notes. With her knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology, she was able to formalise the techniques, further developing them into the system of The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy™, which is practiced by many practitioners worldwide today.

The abdomen is the centre of your being and a place where lots of tension and emotion can be held. From a structural perspective, the front of the body is a flexor surface, being part of the Superficial Front Line, along with the corresponding extensor surface and the Superficial Back Line. This area is well protected, so can become short and tight, with the front of the body dropping. So, starting to free restrictions in this area can have profound effects by bringing the body back into balance.

The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy™ has its roots in the Maya Shamanic

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Arvigo Abdominal Therapy is a non-invasive, external massage technique for women and men that may help to guide the internal abdominal organs to their proper position for optimum health and well-being. It can be especially helpful for correcting uterine position in women, helping with menstrual difficulties such as PMS, and the menopause. It can also be beneficial for digestive issues. Men can also benefit from the therapy by possibly helping to prevent prostate problems in later life.

Ros Ivison (BSc, MIASI, MISRM, EMBODY)

Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy™ Practitioner, Certified Structural Integration Practitioner Ros trained as a practitioner of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy™ with Dr. Rosita Arvigo in the UK. cotswoldbodywork.co.uk ros@cotswoldbodywork.co.uk 01793 750563

“The uterus is the woman’s centre. If her uterus is not in proper position and good health, nothing in her life will be right. She will be as out of balance as her uterus.” - Don Elijio Panti

Good digestion matters Naturopath and Nutritional Therapist, Caroline Peyton, talks about the importance of good digestion.

Barbara (65) presented with digestive symptoms including flatulence, abdominal discomfort, bloating and nausea. She was nervous of eating, avoided breakfast and ate small meals.

The abdominal pain disturbed her sleep and she had only 4-5 hours sleep a night. Her bowel movements were infrequent, about every 3 days.

Barbara’s other complaints, for which she did not expect me to provide support, included high blood pressure, osteoporosis and an auto-immune condition. She was quite tense and anxious, and lacked energy.

She had previously carried out intolerance testing and was advised to avoid various foods including dairy, eggs and lentils.

Like many clients I see, she had done her own research and was on 19 different supplements, at great expense!

Her diet was very light, missing breakfast, low on protein, vegetables and “good” fats; but high on simple sugars including fruit juice and white bread, which she found easier to digest.

I complete a comprehensive case questionnaire with all my clients.

With digestive symptoms it is

really important to understand how soon after eating symptoms occur, where exactly on the body, whether certain foods appear to make symptoms worse, how relaxed / tense / rushed they are when they eat; and if they chew their food well. (It is extremely common for my clients to say “no”.) These questions help me to form an assessment of what may be happening. Interestingly, Barbara had previously tried medication to reduce stomach acid, only to make her symptoms worse.

I provided my recommendations with clear explanations. It is really important that my clients understand my advice because, unlike many other therapies, they have to put into practice any changes and do the work themselves. My advice is kept as simple as possible so that they can easily incorporate it into their daily lives.

I suggested taking far more time over eating, chewing food really well, some deep breathing before eating to help remain calm and specific digestive support in the form of supplements.

I also recommended an antiinflammatory diet incorporating increased protein, vegetables, oily fish and other “good” fats, and less fruit. I reduced her list of supplements significantly to focus more on the diet.

Caroline Peyton Nutritional Therapist and Naturopath Caroline is registered with the NNA, GNC and CNHC. She sees clients in Kempsford, Cheltenham, South Marston and Swindon. She is also Principal of the Natural Healthcare College. Contact her to see how nutritional therapy and naturopathy may benefit you. peytonprinciples.com caroline@ peytonprinciples. com 07730 513303 Barbara visited me 6 weeks later. She had renewed energy and was eating proper meals for the first time in years. She was having daily bowel movements and all her digestive symptoms had disappeared! Her sleep had improved and her doctor had taken her off her high blood pressure and osteoporosis medication. Barbara was now enjoying an excellent diet and was able to digest her food, which possibly had an impact on her other symptoms too.

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EMDR therapy for trauma What is EMDR? Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) identifies and addresses experiences that have overwhelmed the brain’s natural resilience and generated traumatic symptoms and/or harmful coping strategies.

How was it developed? In the 1980s, American psychologist Francis Shapiro noticed that her eyes moved involuntarily when she had disturbing thoughts, and her anxiety reduced when she controlled her eye movements.

Through research, she discovered that symptoms from disturbing experiences resolve when someone recalls a memory while using bilateral stimulation, such as lateral eye movements. Procedures developed by Dr. Shapiro and others were refined and now help people process memories so that negative thoughts and emotions disappear.

What theory is behind it?

Adaptive Information Processing theory argues that your brain naturally undergoes a ‘healing’ reaction following trauma, during which the trauma memory is processed and stored. Overwhelming trauma upsets the nervous system, blocking this healthy processing. Unprocessed, dysfunctional information is then stored and you experience the memory as though it is happening now.

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and memories/traumas identified.

Each memory is then processed using eye movements or tapping until your distress diminishes.

(You quickly process traumatic memories during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, so replicating those movements when awake facilitates the processing that had broken down.) After processing the memory, you gain insights regarding previously disturbing events and negative thoughts about yourself, e.g. following an assault, you may regain your sense of safety by realizing that you were not to blame and that the event is really over.

What is the evidence? Numerous controlled trials demonstrate that EMDR works for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Britain and America’s MoDs use EMDR to treat veterans and serving personnel.

The World Health Organisation recommends it alongside CBT, and NICE recommends it as an effective treatment for PTSD. Increasing evidence supports its efficacy with babies, children and adults, for eating disorders, panic attacks, performance anxiety, complicated grief, stress, addictions, phobias, pain, sexual and physical abuse, dissociative and body dysmorphic disorders.

What are the benefits? Research shows that it can be fast, safe and effective without medication, even when you cannot fully remember what happened.

EMDR appeals to some because

Dr. Marie O’Neill Chartered Clinical Psychologist Based in Cirencester, Dr. O’Neill offers individual assessments, therapy and counselling coriniumpsychology.co.uk marie@ coriniumpsychology. co.uk 07849 059 968 they don’t need to describe distressing events in detail. Others like the mind-body connection it creates by focussing on physical sensations.

What are the limitations? As with all therapies, EMDR doesn’t work for everybody. Criticism concerns the process by which EMDR works rather than the fact that it works.

Is it for me? EMDR works for ‘big’ traumas (war, assault, accidents, rape, etc.) and other ‘smaller’ events (e.g. teasing in school, chronic childhood illness). EMDR also works for complex/multiple traumas, but may take longer than the standard 4 – 20 sessions. You will also learn how to cope with your distress between sessions.

Do you have Lung Qi Xu? Autumn takes its toll on the respiratory system, with many of us succumbing to the season’s colds and flu. The NHS advises vulnerable folk to get the flu jab and I find myself treating Lung Qi Xu (a Chinese medical syndrome) more often than usual.

or flu-like symptoms (tickly throat, headaches, body aches, sinus congestion, nausea and tiredness), to a chronic cough, wheezing, a tight chest and asthma.

What causes Lung Qi Xu

Lung Qi Xu is caused by exposure to draughts (especially Tell-tale Lung Qi Xu symptoms from air conditioners), chronic include a slight shortness of sadness, grief or worry, and breath either constantly or sitting hunched over a desk or computer for long from time-to-time, and catching colds easily Having a slight periods. or taking a long time shortness of When you feel sadness, to recover fully from a breath and just one additional grief or worry, or sit cold. symptom is hunched over, your pushes If you have Lung Qi usually enough diaphragm and your Xu, you may also find to diagnose upwards that you feel sad or Lung Qi Xu shoulders move forward.

This prevents your lungs tearful, feel tired much of the time, sweat slightly for no from filling and clearing properly reason, struggle to project your during each breath, making you voice across a room, tend to feel more vulnerable to respiratory cold, have a slight cough, or have problems. a pale complexion.

What you can do about it Having a slight shortness of Wear a scarf. Keep your neck, breath and just one additional chest and upper back covered symptom is usually enough to and protected against draughts. diagnose Lung Qi Xu. Many people with Lung Qi Xu Where Lung Qi Xu could do this instinctively. lead Breathe better. If you work at The part of your immune system a desk, get up for a few minutes that fights off respiratory tract every hour, push your shoulders infections (like colds and flu) is back and take 5 deep breaths. one aspect of your ‘Lung Qi’. Ensure that you exhale fully Another is the health of your lungs before inhaling on the next themselves. So, Lung Qi Xu can breath. This exercise is also worth lead to a wide range of respiratory doing whenever you experience symptoms, from chronic cold- sadness, grief or worry.

Lung Qi Xu symptoms

Sarah Attwell-Griffiths Acupuncturist (Lic Ac, BSc Hons Acu, MBAcC)

Sarah holds a First Class BSc Hons degree in acupuncture and British Acupuncture Council membership. She offers daytime, evening and weekend appointments, online bookings and card payment facilities. coriniumacupuncture.co.uk sarah@coriniumacupuncture. co.uk 07825 360621 Have acupuncture. There is a whole sequence of acupuncture points, beginning on the chest near the shoulder and running down the arm to the thumb, which are used to treat Lung Qi Xu and associated conditions.

For example, Lu-1 relaxes muscles around the lungs allowing you to breathe more freely, Lu-7 is almost always used when someone has a cold, and Lu-10 can work wonders for a tickly throat.

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Rosen Method bodywork What is Rosen Method?

As we go through life we experience many different feelings and responses to what’s going on around us. We may sense from our environment, especially early on, that our spontaneous expression is not acceptable and in response our bodies learn to hold certain parts of us back through habitual muscular tension. This is reflected in our posture, our gestures, and in turn, is reflected in how we are in life.

By using gentle ‘listening’ touch and respectful dialogue, Rosen Method bodywork helps you to reconnect to these parts of yourself, allowing what has been unconscious to become conscious. Through awareness and acceptance the barriers can begin to dissolve liberating the potential for improved health and a fuller understanding of yourself and others.

What happens in a session?

A session usually lasts for about an hour and is given on a massage table. You will be asked to undress to your underwear or whatever you feel comfortable with and be covered by a light blanket. Using a form of touch unique to Rosen, practitioners gradually connect with areas of tension in the body and watch closely for responses especially changes in the flow and movement of the breath.

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Practitioners do not manipulate or try to ‘fix’, instead they create a feeling of safety and relaxation reflecting back what they sense happening in the body, sometimes verbally, sometimes through touch. This kind of unconditional contact invites increased awareness and deep, lasting release. During a session, you might become aware of physical sensations, images or memories which can offer helpful insight and allow the possibility to create new choices in your life.

Why is it Method?

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Rosen

It is named after its German founder Marion Rosen (19142012). Through her work as a physiotherapist she became increasingly fascinated by the connection between muscle tension, the breath and the things her patients shared with her about their lives. Through her curiosity she revealed a simple and compassionate way for people to facilitate their own healing and find themselves again.

How many sessions will I need?

It can vary greatly. Significant shifts can happen after one session, but many people use Rosen Method on a longer term basis to gradually learn how to reconnect with their body and give themselves time to explore more deeply held issues.

Debbie Fildew Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner Debbie is fully qualified and affiliated to The Rosen Institute. She offers sessions is Chalford Hill and Cheltenham. debbiefildew.co.uk dfildew@btinternet.com 01453 886 847 Why would I come for Rosen Method?

If you have chronic pain / tension / restricted movement, back / neck pain, anxiety, feel trapped in your body or constricted in your daily life, would like to understand what might lie underneath your physical symptoms, have a desire to connect with yourself at a deeper level, would like to feel more relaxed, want to rediscover creativity and passion for life, would like to remember what makes you happy, open and ALIVE, or would like to let go of old ways of being and connect more with the here and now.

A better menopause On the recommendation of a friend, a woman of 51 (who I will call Sheila) came to see me in April 2014. She was suffering from menopausal symptoms; she had not had a period for six months. Sheila’s main problems were hot flushes, especially in the morning on waking and at night, vaginal dryness, memory loss, mood swings and tiredness.

There was both breast cancer and heart disease in the family, so her GP had rightly advised against HRT. Medical Herbalists diagnose in the same way as a doctor, so by taking a full case history and clinical examination we can question whether symptoms can be ascribed to menopause or might have other causes, such as poor thyroid function or depression. We talked about her diet, her digestion, and her sleep pattern. But mid-life in women brings changes other than hormonal ones. What else had been going on in her life?

Sheila’s daughter had recently been divorced and the sadness and stress of this had affected her deeply. She had suffered a series of infections and had abandoned for some time not only her careful diet but also the activities which enriched her life. She drank lots of coffee to keep herself going and rarely took a break. She was physically and emotionally exhausted.

Sheila needed to look after herself so as to be able to look after her family. She needed to make time to go swimming again, see her friends, and take a holiday. Her diet also needed revitalising, and in particular she needed to cut out the coffee and include more phytoestrogens: pulses, especially soy beans; seeds, especially linseed; and the herbs which mimic the animal oestrogens. She needed quality probiotics to help her digestion, which had suffered after several courses of antibiotics taken for infections.

The mixture of herbal tinctures I prescribed for her contained six herbs chosen to support the adrenal glands, to help the body deal with stress, oestrogenic herbs, cooling herbs and ones to aid restful sleep. She took 5ml in water three times a day.

We monitored progress with Dr Greene’s Climacteric Scale.

After one month, she reported having no night sweats, so was sleeping through the night.

This helped her energy levels, so she was able to get out more and enjoy life again. Her mood swings soon died away. Although she still had some hot flushes, they were not debilitating and she could take them in her stride.

Having identified the usual triggers, such as sugar, alcohol, changes in room temperature and emotional conflict, she could

Caroline Sheldrick (MNIMH)

Medical Herbalist

Caroline Sheldrick is a Member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, and works in clinics in Cirencester, Swindon, Nailsworth and Stroud. carolinesheldrickmedical herbalist.co.uk cjsheldrick@gmail.com 01453 884 092 anticipate them and ‘cool off’.

We altered Sheila’s medicine fairly often, and after one year she does not need to take it regularly, only when episodes of stress bring symptoms back.

She is coping well with life and enjoying each day. Her diet and digestion are sound, she is not prone to infections, and with the loving support of her partner overcomes the difficulties of occasional vaginal dryness.

Sheila has recommended several of her friends to see a Medical Herbalist if they have any problems with menopause.

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The Alexander Technique How did it all begin?

The Technique was developed

by F.M. Alexander after he experienced difficulties with his voice in his acting work. Finding that medical treatment didn’t stop his voice becoming hoarse while he was performing, Mr Alexander reasoned out that it must be something that he was doing to himself that was the cause of his vocal difficulties.

He went on to discover that his vocal strain was caused by unnecessary muscular effort, and that this unnecessary effort applied not just to his voice, but to the way he moved generally.

Having overcome his own difficulties, he began to teach his ideas to other people. Today this work is known as the Alexander Technique.

Is it about ‘good posture’?

Many people seem to think so. Another way to view the Alexander Technique is to think about it being about moving well and efficiently. Often people move using excessive muscular effort, which can lead to back and neck ache and unnecessary fatigue.

Taking Alexander Technique lessons can help you learn to move with greater ease and efficiency.

Do you have to think in order to move?

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Interactive Teaching Method (ITM) approach to the Alexander Technique begins from the standpoint that a major cause of people’s unnecessary muscular effort is the way they think. This means that the ideas we have, the rules we create for ourselves and our self-image can all affect the way we move.

Why do lessons?

people

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Sports people take Alexander Technique lessons to enhance their skills on the pitch, court, track or field. Similarly musicians, actors and singers find the Technique can help them perform more effectively.

But the Alexander Technique isn’t reserved for people with specialist skills or interests.

Because it’s about movement, it applies to everyone. It’s proved helpful for people from all ages and backgrounds, in many different ways. The Alexander Technique can help you using a computer, going for a walk, doing the gardening, unloading the washing machine, and in countless other daily activities at home and at work.

Can Alexander Technique help with pain?

Some students come to the Alexander Technique because they are in pain, and in some cases may be referred for lessons by a doctor or other qualified

Oliver Lee (ITM) Oliver is Alexander Technique tutor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and offers lessons in Cirencester and at Nailsworth Natural Health Centre. thinkmovechange.com info@thinkmovechange.com 01285 885716 nailsworthnaturalhealth.co.uk 01453 836066 professional. If a student’s pain is being caused by something that they are doing to themselves, then studying the Technique can bring about change. Pain and discomfort may be reduced and sometimes disappear altogether.

However, the Alexander Technique is not a form of medical treatment.

If I have lessons, do I need to bring anything?

Probably the most important thing to bring to Alexander Technique lessons is an open mind. To make progress, you’ll probably find that you’ll need to stop thinking and reacting in some of your familiar ways.

The five-pointed star technique There are many different holds and techniques used in biodynamic craniosacral therapy (contrary to the popular belief that we just hold heads!). One of my personal favourites is the five-pointed star hold.

left hip joint. To compensate for this issue, her right shoulder joint had been pulled forwards and was also giving her pain (her body was naturally trying to find its own balance). As all the connective tissue tracts of the body are suspended from the cranial base, I was not The shape of our physical body surprised to find tension in her is itself a five-pointed star – jaw also during our first both energetically and session.

It’s always With Lucy, structurally – with the useful to remember how lines running through I felt intuitively connected everything our connective tissue drawn to use is. So many people are the fivematrix. This technique surprised at the knock involves holding in turn pointed star on effect of something technique the five points of the star: like a hip issue! the base of the cranium, both hip points and both shoulder With Lucy, I felt intuitively points. drawn to use the five-pointed star technique. I spent time with Working with the left and right all five points in relationship to sides of the body at the same time each other. Her right shoulder allows the neural relationship to initially felt higher and ‘spongy’, be heard. In essence, whilst her left hip felt the body remembers I am witnessing ‘dry’. The diagonal a sacred how to talk to itself hold between her right dancer and remembers where shoulder and left hip evolving, its fulcrum is (the five point enabled this points dance around connecting, dynamic to remember releasing, a fulcrum).

It is a harmony, rebalance rejoicing truly beautiful thing to itself and settle. Once witness and feel as a this had happened, I practitioner. I love how sacred noticed much more movement geometry touches all of life! in her occiput and Lucy reported ‘a fire-like feeling’ in her belly.

Case Study Interesting that the five pointed A client, let’s call her Lucy, star is also representative of the came in with an issue with her five elements.

Ri Ferrier (BA Hons, RCST) Craniosacral Therapist Ri trained with Resonance Training and is accredited by the Craniosacral Therapy Association. She has also trained in the Beauty Way Native American Medicine path with Arwyn DreamWalker for the last 12 years. Ri offers sessions from Cotswold Academy in Cirencester. riferrier.co.uk riferrier@waitrose.com 07970 555348

In her own words, at the end of the session, Lucy felt ‘whole, fully here’, which is the precious gift of life we are all continually striving for.

The reason I love the five-pointed star technique so much is that I feel like I am witnessing a sacred dancer evolving, connecting, releasing and rejoicing. It’s just totally beautiful.

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Our contributors Acupuncture Sarah Attwell-Griffiths

coriniumacupuncture.co.uk sarah@coriniumacupuncture.co.uk 07825 360621

Alexander Technique Oliver Lee

thinkmovechange.com info@thinkmovechange.co.uk 01285 885716

Craniosacral therapy Ri Ferrier

riferrier.co.uk riferrier@waitrose.com 07970 555348

Creative workshops Stephen Moore

stephenmore2013.wix.com/ moore-creative Soon to be www.livecreate.uk stephen.moore2013@icloud.com

EMDR therapy Dr. Marie O’Neill

coriniumpsychology.co.uk marie@ coriniumpsychology.co.uk 07849 059968

Maya Abdominal TherapyTM Ros Ivison

cotswoldbodywork.co.uk ros@cotswoldbodywork.co.uk 01793 750563

Medical herbalism Caroline Sheldrick

carolinesheldrickmedicalherbalist.co.uk cjsheldrick@gmail.com 01453 884092

Nutritional therapy and naturopathy Caroline Peyton

peytonprinciples.com caroline@peytonprinciples.com 07730 513303

Rosen Method Debbie Fildew

debbiefildew.co.uk dfildew@btinternet.com 01453 886847 Are you a local CAM practitioner?

If you are a qualified CAM practitioner serving people in or near Cirencester and would like to submit an article for publication, email Sarah at sarah@coriniumacupuncture.co.uk.