Rooted Stone Healing Arts offers biodynamic craniosacral therapy, mindful meditation, and yin yoga sessions. 

 

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy​​

Craniosacral biodynamics is a gentle touch, non-invasive therapy that balances and restores physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. It is rooted in osteopathic medicine, which in the 19th century, blended western biomedical mechanics with Native American medical paradigms. Over time, biodynamic craniosacral therapy has incorporated principles and insights of neuroscience, pre- and perinatal psychology, quantum mechanics, as well as long-established forms of energy medicine practiced in different parts of the world.

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In the same way a physician of Chinese medicine listens to the pulse of chi (life force) expression, a craniosacral therapist listens to the body-being’s tidal rhythms – its energetic and physical expressions of health. A practitioner acknowledges the body’s desire and ability to return to healthiness, despite wounding and various trauma that have created unease and illness in the system. We orient to one’s basic ordering of inherent health as well as the work that the body-mind-heart has achieved to protect itself through times of joy, pain, and survival. ​

 

In the process of listening, the body is accompanied into stillness – a spacetime quality of being that interfaces with underlying energetic forces. When the body is in stillness, chaotic mind-states, trauma, overwhelm, stress, injury, pain, and dis-ease can resolve. As practitioners, we accompany and witness the body’s ability to work with physical and emotional distress as well as heal and integrate as best we know given our life experiences. When that happens, the body redefines, integrates, regulates or releases to bring healing intentions to the forefront. Ultimately, that can look like regulating the central nervous system; moving out of stuck, repetitive patterns; integrating traumatic or other wounding experiences; an increased ability to be gently present with strong emotions and physical sensations; generating perspective shifts so that more options regarding life choices get revealed; and encountering more joy and pleasure in your body and your life. ​
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​Mindful Meditation

Meditation is an ancient practice found across societies and in all religions. Instructions for understanding the interface of mind-body-heart processes have been especially described in Buddhist practices as well as secular mindfulness instruction. Meditation is commonly understood to provide a sense of calm and ease. But it does much more. It can open our hearts to compassion for self and others; it can develop powerful insights into how we process difficulty while helping to resolve pain and trauma; and it helps clarify how to take conscious, ethical action when engaging others.

 

Neuroscience studies have shown that we are using certain brain networks much less because of constant task-driven activities, including excessive technological engagement. These patterns especially impact the 'default mode network,' whose task is to organize and process all of the information that we encounter during the day: self referential processing, interoception, autobiographical memory retrieval, and imagining a future. This network comes alive when we are disengaged from cognitive tasks and are doing nothing (like day dreaming). When we don’t have enough time to process, our human consciousness is disorganized. We are often faced with mental health concerns that destabilize our sense of self, including an inability to feel our bodies or to recognize when we need to rest or process. This can lead to dissociation and an inability to discern ethical engagement with ourselves and others. Meditation helps restore the brain's neural networks while offering a sense of resolve, ease, and flow through life.

 

Yin Yoga 

Yin yoga is gentle practice that takes place entirely on the floor. Unlike more active yoga

practices that strengthen muscles, yin poses target the body's connective tissue (fascia) as well as joints and ligaments - parts that make up the body's biotensegrity, or its tension network that holds all of its parts together. Because joints and fascia have very little range of motion, easy yoga poses that put very light pressure on these areas are held for 3-8 minutes. Between each pose, the body lies in corpse (rest) pose for a short time. During rest, the body acts like a ball-spring system to rebound, recover, and reorder itself. In the process of sitting in a pose and then rebounding, the fascia transforms from a more solid state into a more fluid state, loosening up the system and providing great relief while body tension unwinds. In yogic theory, it is said that once the connective tissue becomes more fluid, chi or life force energy can flow through with greater ease. Mindful meditation is incorporated into yin yoga practice in ways that facilitate more awareness and conscious embodiment, which helps release patterns of trauma and stress. 

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