Cranial Intro Eve Galway, Steve Haines

• Title: Introduction to Relational Touch  
• Trainer: Josef Steiner and Ciara Ni Dhiomasaigh
• Times: Friday 22 Nov 2024, 6:30-8:30pm
• Venue: The Connacht Hotel, Dublin Road, Renmore, Galway City, H91 K5DD
• Cost: Free - please register interest below 

This introductory evening is designed to explore the exciting science and theory of relational touch. The focus will be to explore the power of creating safety using neutral, empathetic presence and non-doing touch.

We will discuss the nature of health and learn about the subtle rhythmic motions that take place in the body.

This event is suitable for anyone wanting to learn more about using touch to promote health. We will explore the power of touch to help us recover from, and become resilient to, stress, anxiety and trauma.

We will look at the paradigm of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) and the core skills needed to become a BCST. 

You may be surprised that even after a simple introduction you will have new skills to feel how bodies move, breathe and heal.

There will be plenty of space to ask questions about training with Body College Galway. 

2 year professional training in Galway. Full details: https://bodycollege.net/galway/

Relational Touch – Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in 200 words
Humans are polyrhythmic. With skill, the rhythms sometimes coalesce into a feeling of wholeness.

Touch is enormously powerful. Non-doing, ‘relational touch’, that listens without fixed agendas, supports coherent rhythms and order to emerge.

There is a distinct quality of feeling a whole person. In addition, there is a distinct quality of feeling a whole person in a wider context that includes the surrounding space.

Aliveness is founded on movement, breath and awareness.

The taoist notion of order in the world as the ‘way’ of least resistance is deeply useful. Manifesting health can appear as elegance and non-striving in our interactions, coupled with a sense of letting go from within.

We can have perceptions of other people, but we can wildly over interpret what we feel. In the absence of the possibility of objective knowing, it is good to be careful.

Truth emerges in the dynamic between the client and therapist. We focus on stories of safety and agency and expand people’s ‘felt sense’ capabilities. The goal is shifting the narrative of self away from limiting metaphors of damage and permanency to adaptability and renewal.