Cranial Intro Day Galway, Josef Steiner and Ciara Ni Dhiomasaigh

• Title: Introduction to Relational Touch  
• Trainers: Josef Steiner and Ciara Ni Dhiomasaigh
• Times: 2 March 2024, 09:30am to 4:30pm
• Venue: Naduir, Furbo, Co Galway
• Cost: €85.00 (charged as £70 via online booking system) inc vegetarian, gluten free lunch

This introductory day 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. 

Get a felt sense of the power of non-doing relational touch. If you are attending the Intro Day and would like to receive a BCST session with Josef there is a reduced price of €50.00 for a 45 min session. Contact Josef direct:  josef.bcst@gmail.com  or  087 921 7562‬

Join our 2-year professional training:  BC Galway 2025 Sem 1 starts 1-5 October 2025    www.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.