I chatted with the awesome Natasha Devon MBE about anxiety, body image and the power of reading. Natasha is an ambassador for the Reading Agency. On October 10th 2022 they launched Reading Well for Teens. The scheme includes a collection of books being distributed in public libraries in England and Wales aimed at supporting the mental health and wellbeing of teenagers. Anxiety is Really Strange is one of the 27 books on the list. Natasha is an eloquent and fun speaker. Her passion for...

How can we achieve effortless action in biodynamic cranial practice? In this talk Steve Haines explores Daoist and Zen models of non doing and modern research into flow states. There are huge similarities with the teachings of visionary osteopaths in the cranial field and in the teaching Franklyn Sills from the biodynamic cranial community. In biodynamics, change is experienced as a letting go from the inside, not a forcing from the outside. Health is a reconnection to a natural order. ...

Ciara Ni Dhiomasaigh talks with Steve Haines about biodynamic craniosacral therapy (BCST) and movement and much more. Ciara has always used movement and massage to support health. Her discovery of biodynamics transformed her work. Listen for Ciara's unique insights on BCST, using movement in relationship to table work and how passion is essential for building a busy practice.

Listen to this podcast to explore what you can do change your pain experience and how you can support others to find agency and choice in meeting their pain. It is suitable for people living with pain or therapists working with pain and explores using Relational Touch and embodied approaches to pain. Steve Haines is author of the best selling Really Strange series. Pain is Really Strange was the first book in the series. (Available as video with slides: https://vimeo.com/694175514/b425b8e5cf )

Listen to this podcast to explore what you can do change your anxiety experience and how you can support others to find agency and choice in meeting their anxiety. The first hour is an interactive talk on anxiety based on webinar given by Steve Haines - author of Anxiety is Really Strange, 'Highly Commended' by the British Medical Association. The last 20 mins explore using Relational Touch and embodied approaches to anxiety. (Available as video podcast https://vimeo.com/714240993/5efdfaba13 )

Jane Shaw talks with Steve Haines about biodynamic craniosacral therapy (BCST), touch, trauma and how her study of Jungian psychology informs her practice and teaching of BCST. Bio: Jane Shaw is a craniosacral therapist based in Northern Ireland. She is the founder and director of the Elmfield Institute an institute dedicated to holistic health education. She has a Masters in Jungian psychology. She writes, teaches internationally, and runs retreats and workshops www.elmfieldestate.com

This podcast explores models around stress, trauma and appeasement. One of the core themes is that being aware of habitual survival gestures can help us become more resilient. Dissociation is the hidden mystery of trauma, by learning to be grounded we can put the brakes on overactive threat detections responses. It is hard when we can not regulate feelings of speeding up to survive or shutting down to survive. The podcast offers it is possible to safely find new ways to connect to our body...

Learn how touch works. Learn how to harness the power of slow touch that focuses on a whole person. So often touch has a narrow focus on trying to change local tissue dynamics. That type of touch does not work particularly well to change pain. This talk looks the research and science of slow C-fibre touch. Touch that is always emotional and promotes social bonding. (Available as video with slides: https://vimeo.com/724412703/a74a1caeeb )

Dr Karin Lindgaard talks with Steve Haines about her new book 'Taking Heart and Making Sense - a New View of Nature, Feeling and the Body'. Karin is a philosopher and biodynamic craniosacral therapist based in Australia. We talk about the importance of feeling states to being conscious, the origin of concepts as 'structures of experience', change as a fundamental and embodied cognition. Karin is wonderful guide to some rich philosophy that is directly relevant to embodied models of health...