My Background
A little bit about me
Hello, my name is Angela, and I am a Cranio-Sacral Integrated Therapist. I trained with the College of Cranio-Sacral Therapy (CCST) https://www.ccst.co.uk/ led by Thomas Attlee and his highly skilled team of tutors. This amazing treatment can work wonders, as it did for me just over 2 and a half years ago!
I was looking for something that helped with the usually daily stresses of work and balancing family life, particularly as my Mum was ill with cancer. I visited Clare Johnson at her practice in Ludlow (who also trained with the same college, just a few years earlier).
I didn’t really know what Cranio-Sacral therapy was, but her write up sounded interesting, so I gave it a go! During my first treatment I felt my body relaxing and physically unwinding and having a sense of grounding. It felt great but I had my mind on what I was due to do later that day, which was to pick up my father and visit my Mum in hospital, as she had a heart attack the previous day!
Sadly, my Mum passed away just 2 weeks later. I went through several months of a traumatic time including being asked to look for another home as the place I was renting was put up for sale! The worst time of my life for this to happen. So, I treated myself to a weekend kundalini yoga retreat in the beautiful mid Wales hills. This saved me going into a very dark place. I then had my second Cranio-Sacral treatment (still not knowing what it was) and something very different happened.
I went through an experience that connected with my emotional burdens, and I felt these being lifted away and out of my body. It may sound strange, but I felt so much lighter, I felt released from what I had been through and what my body was holding onto! I was so taken with the treatment that I dared to asked Clare the question “so, what is cranio-sacral therapy” and her answer was simple “it’s exactly what you’ve experienced”.
I was so taken that I asked Clare where she trained, she wrote down the name of the college website, I went home, read some of the information on their website and signed up to do the course that week! I had a little bit of money from my Mum’s Will, which I wanted to put to good use, so this money paid for my training.
So, thanks Mum, you have given me a great gift..
Cranio-Sacral Therapy is an exceptionally gentle yet extremely powerful form of treatment, which engages with the deepest inherent healing forces within the body in order to enable integration of the whole body-mind.
The human body has a powerful inherent healing potential, but this potential can be compromised or depleted by injury, disease, trauma and stress. The forces of nature, both within and outside the body, have a natural tendency to reintegrate and restore healthy function. Quantum science demonstrates that this potential arises from the electromagnetic and other forces which pervade the whole universe, which are the basis of physics, chemistry and biology, which permeate all living beings, our environment and the whole matrix within which we exist, and which are responsible for generating life, growth, health and healing. These forces are expressed in the body as rhythmic motion.
Information from the College of Cranio-Sacral Therapy website.
CST engages with these forces in order to enhance the body’s natural healing ability and to restore health and integration of body, mind and spirit. It can enhance health in any circumstances - from new born babies to the elderly, from birth patterns, injury, illness, severe trauma, and all the many stresses and strains of life, both physical and emotional, often resolving issues that are not helped by other means. It is a profoundly transformative process.