Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in New Westminster

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST)

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a gentle, light-touch and fully clothed table therapy that supports and amplifies the underlying health inherent in the body. It can be helpful for nervous system regulation, stress relief, headaches/migraines, sleep and digestive issues, release of muscular and fascial tensions, post-injury recovery, chronic pain and more. Through precise and subtle hand placements, the work invites the body’s habits and patterns to release, reorganize and resolve. Most people find the treatment restful and restorative, and clients may experience profound and lasting effects. Please note: BCST treatments are fully clothed, not massage therapy and not eligible for insurance reimbursement.

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60 Min Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy treatment with a Registered Craniosacral Therapist ® 60 minutes - $128.00 - Offered by P Megan Andrews

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Meet our Registered Craniosacral Therapist ®

P. Megan Andrews, RCST ®, CMA, RSMT/E, PhD

P. Megan Andrews (she/her) is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist, Certified Movement Analyst, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator and holds a PhD with a focus on movement, perception and performance. She draws on over 30 years of professional experience in movement and bodywork in her therapeutic practice.

Megan believes in the simplicity of listening and values emergent process. In her work, she meets people – and their bodies – as they are, and invites a gentle process of change toward ease, release, and rebalancing. She brings empathy and insight to her therapeutic work, listening with awareness and establishing a genuine dialogue with clients to support their unique health and healing process.

Megan’s work integrates her extensive background in movement analysis, non-verbal communication, somatic awareness coaching, and developmental repatterning. Her approach is further grounded in her PhD research.

For 20 years, Megan worked as a professional contemporary dancer and then became a movement analyst and somatic movement therapist/educator. She taught dance technique, performance and theory at universities across Canada, spending 17 years on faculty at York University in Toronto, followed by 5 years at Simon Fraser University. She has taught and coached some of the country’s leading professional and pre-professional dancers.

She grew up in Maple Ridge, spent 25 years in Toronto, and currently lives in New Westminster with her family.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

Performed by a Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST ®)

BCST is a body-centred, client-centred, and trauma-informed practice, grounded in anatomy and physiology, that supports and amplifies the natural forces of health in the human body.

A Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist is trained to meet the client’s body with neutrality, presence, sensitivity, and receptivity. Through anatomical and physiological understanding combined with highly specific perceptual awareness, the therapist tracks the inner dynamics of the body, establishing a relational field in which the body’s intelligence and health can emerge.

The therapist’s non-imposing touch allows the body’s holding patterns to emerge. As these patterns are expressed and acknowledged through touch in the therapeutic process, the work tends to bring about a sense of ease, balance, fluidity, groundedness, and overall greater health.

BCST offers a complementary paradigm as a treatment modality, valuing the body’s innate capacity to self-regulate. Rather than the therapist “working on” the client’s body, BCST switches the script to focus on “working with” the client’s body, inviting it to yield to therapeutic touch and move toward balance and resolution.

The work has its lineage in North American osteopathic medicine and acknowledges influences from certain Indigenous healing practices.

What should I expect at a treatment?

The client lies fully clothed on a massage table and the therapist makes hands-on contact with specific body structures (bones, tissues, fascia, etc.) or regions (head, back, diaphragm, etc.). The work is called “craniosacral” therapy because of its focus on the core midline structures of the body – head, spine, pelvis, and central nervous system. However, specific contact may be made at a variety of points from head to toe and from torso to limbs, with the understanding that everything is interconnected.

As the client’s body responds to the touch, the therapist moves through a series of specific holds following the emergent process in a treatment session. The stability, awareness, stillness, and space offered by the therapist’s informed, neutral touch allows the body’s systems to mobilize toward health and homeostasis, gradually resolving tensions and re-establishing balance.

How long is a session?

Treatments typically last about 50 minutes, with a verbal check-in and check-out. The therapist may make recommendations for maintenance between treatments and may suggest a series of follow-up sessions to support the process of release and resolution in the client’s system. Frequently, a series of treatments in close succession is an effective approach to address a particular issue, followed by regular monthly maintenance treatments according to the client’s needs.

What should I wear?

Clients are encouraged to wear clothing that ensures comfort and ease of movement.

Please Note: BCST is not currently covered by conventional employer insurance plans. However, it may be eligible under custom plans and/or as a complementary therapy. Please check with your employer or Health Plan provider.