Flow Zone Craniosacral Therapy

Flow Zone Craniosacral Therapy Nervous system regulation through gentle, therapeutic touch. Work with stress symptoms, reduce anxiety and fatigue in a safe and nurturing environment.

AuDHD diagnosed practitioner | Empowering neurodivergent clients | Advocating for acceptance ♾️ 🌈

If a Craniosacral therapist ever tells you they can fix your bad back, or get rid of your migraines or remove your chron...
19/06/2026

If a Craniosacral therapist ever tells you they can fix your bad back, or get rid of your migraines or remove your chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia or cure neurological problems or ‘help’ with your ADHD or autism…….run for the hills. Or at the very least don’t waste your money.

A Craniosacral therapist cannot fix or cure or remove a single damn thing. Apart from, possibly, a clients unconscious resistance to working closely with a nervous system (their own) which no longer feels safe, has put up protective barriers and uses its own alarm systems (for example, pain, anxiety, exhaustion) to immobilise its own activity levels, in order to survive.

Glossy websites listing a massive portfolio of ‘conditions’ that can be ‘treated’? Hmmm. Just no. 🤫

If this sounds more up your street 🤔👍…

• assistance in retraining yourself how to relax ✅
• learning how to recognise and interpret the warning signs communicated by your own body ✅
• working with the mind-body network to come out of protective states ✅
• learning (maybe for the first time ever) to enjoy the experience of being in, and having a body ✅
•work with strong emotions and back stories that can often feel impossibly overwhelming ✅
• exploring the human condition through gentle touch, in a safe space, with curiosity ✅

….then maybe CST is for you. With diligent work and practice, your symptoms may even be alleviated or improved. But that is the byproduct of sustained nervous system retraining. Not mysticism or Witchcraft.

Hope that helps 🙏🙌



12/06/2026

Erich Blechschmidt and the Language of Development:

A research project on biokinetics, biodynamics, and craniosacral reinterpretation:

Here is a research project I did on the influential but controversial embryologist, and how his work may have affected BCST thinking.

This is landing heavily at the moment.It makes me think of a survival adaptation that says BE THE THING YOU WERE A...
12/03/2026

This is landing heavily at the moment.

It makes me think of a survival adaptation that says

BE THE THING YOU WERE A VICTIM OF

Rescuer Role > Victim Role > Persecutor Role

It’s the Persecutor Role that we end up exhaustedly falling into, which feels the safest, but upsets us the most. The first two do the damage by burning 🔥 us out.

The antidote is an Empowerement Dynamic

COACH not Rescuer

CREATOR not Victim

CHALLENGER not Persecutor

Easier said than done admittedly!


A Regulation-Based Model of Cranial WorkSince its inception, Craniosacral Therapy has been explained through the idea of...
03/03/2026

A Regulation-Based Model of Cranial Work

Since its inception, Craniosacral Therapy has been explained through the idea of a “craniosacral rhythm” — a subtle internal pump said to move the cranial bones and cerebrospinal fluid.

But what if that rhythm doesn’t actually exist, as described, in the osteopathic sense?

After years in practice, and after seriously examining the science, I no longer believe there is a distinct craniosacral rhythm. There’s no reproducible, instrument-based evidence for a unique cranial oscillator separate from breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure rhythms.

And yet…

I can absolutely feel changes in my clients’ tissues.

When someone arrives anxious, guarded, or dysregulated, their tissues feel different — less compliant, less responsive, sometimes cooler or more rigid.

As they settle:
• Their breathing deepens
• Their system slows
• Their tissues soften
• Motility feels more fluid
• Warmth increases
• The whole body feels more coherent

I don’t frame this as witnessing a rhythm.

I’m palpating state change.

Modern physiology gives us a clearer explanation. When a person shifts from sympathetic activation (fight/flight) toward parasympathetic regulation (rest/digest), measurable changes occur:

• Increased heart rate variability
• Stronger respiratory sinus arrhythmia
• Vasodilation
• Reduced muscle tone
• Improved autonomic flexibility

These changes have mechanical consequences. They alter tissue compliance, perfusion, and rhythmic quality.

In other words: regulation is palpable.

So rather than defending an invisible cranial pump, I work by a different model:

Cranial work is a co-regulatory intervention.

Through safe, attuned touch, the nervous system shifts. As regulation improves, symptoms often improve — not because a rhythm was corrected, but because autonomic flexibility is increased.

This reframing matters.

It places cranial work inside modern neuroscience rather than outside it.

It shifts the focus from structure to state.
From mechanical correction to biological regulation.
From belief to neurobiology and affective neuroscience.

This means I’m not just following a conceptual framework I’ve always struggled with blindly. In my experience, that makes the work stronger — not weaker.

For some nervous systems, solitude is ventral vagus system driven. The question is not:“Are you socially engaged?”It’s:“...
01/03/2026

For some nervous systems, solitude is ventral vagus system driven.

The question is not:
“Are you socially engaged?”

It’s:
“Is your nervous system experiencing safety and flexibility?”

Some social media sources actually need to study regulation theory before posting a load of content on social media about Polyvagal theory 🤔🤔

Because for a start, neurodivergent nervous systems can be misrepresented by overly zealous mis-applications of Polyvagal Theory

(It’s not Polyvagal Theories fault by the way)

The Masking Trap

You know this terrain. If you’re AuDHD…

You can appear socially fluent.
You can be attuned.
You can be relational.

And still be running sympathetic charge internally.

I’ll say that again…..

AND STILL BE RUNNING SYMPATHETICALLY INTERNALLY

Polyvagal-informed spaces sometimes mistake outward social behaviour for ventral state. But ventral is not eye contact and warmth — it’s internal safety and fluidity.

For neurodivergent systems, that distinction is critical.

If you’ve spent years masking well, the glorification of social engagement can feel like applause for the mask 🤡👏👹

We are aiming for a flexible nervous system. Not a friends list that exhausts us.

Holistic Therapy has become a pseudo-scientific cess pit for social media ‘content creators’:On yet ANOTHER one of these...
01/03/2026

Holistic Therapy has become a pseudo-scientific cess pit for social media ‘content creators’:

On yet ANOTHER one of these dubious ‘Vagus nerve reset’ social media sites, a commenter posted that ‘The Vagus Nerve is everything’. Let’s just focus on that a minute….

The Vagus Nerve is everything…

I replied as follows to this ever increasing stance of holistically masked political determinism.

‘No, it’s not. It’s one of ten cranial nerves. The other nine are just as important, as is the rest of the nervous system, and all the other systems that integrate and modulate with it.

Holistic therapy circles use the vagus nerve to draw in clients in an almost Scientology, cult-like fashion. It’s become a cess pit and preys on the vulnerable. It encourages dependency. As does online funnel marketing aimed at emotionally manipulating people. I’m a trained therapist and even I find it vomit inducing.’

Having successfully escaped the toxic landscape that was being a Process Chemist in a manufacturing industry that fed the global war machine…..I now find that I re-trained to watch an equally toxic scene unfold before my eyes:

Pretending to want to help people in order to increase your online presence and profile whilst funnelling money in what is essentially a pyramid scheme. Content. Courses. Information you could get for pennies out of a book but charged at a premium (often hundreds, if not thousands of pounds) online.

All the while, carrots 🥕 are dangled in front of clients and trained CPD’ers alike, with very little actual client work being done in reality.

I was naive. But this is not what I trained for.

These days
* I barely do any private therapy work because I refuse to market. If people find me, and it’s a good fit, all good ✅

* My main work post training is in Home Support Work. I’m a Carer. This is because I trained as a therapist to help people, one to one. Not sit on a computer all day using AI to churn out the latest faddish pseudo-neuro-science ✅

* I volunteer as a therapist for free at a centre for people who cannot afford therapy. I do this not because I’m a saint, or a soap boxer or a do-gooder. It’s because the people who need therapy the most USUALLY CANNOT AFFORD IT. Yet, they are expected to pay ridiculous private practice prices and the NHS and this country does not value alternative medicine or holistic therapies and is light years behind other European countries ✅

* I have slowly got rid of all drains on my finances and personal energy that are not needed
-expensive room hire ❌
- pointless website ❌
- wasting hundreds of pounds on usually sub standard CPD that can be found by simply reading a book ❌

What does all this achieve?
-Satisfaction that the clients I work with are getting the attention they deserve and not a load of marketing drivel ✨

- the emphasis being on the client rather than my profile 🌟

-coming from a place of attunement rather than ‘capturing an audience’ ⚡️

- doing therapy because I WANT TO, not for financial gain 🌈

If I was to give advice to somebody thinking about training as a counsellor/holistic therapist/psychotherapist…..do it because you want to help people, not because it seems like an ‘interesting career change’.

If I was to give advice to people struggling with whatever they are struggling with…….don’t assume the superstars on social media are necessarily the right fit for you. Oh sure, they make a living out of being convincing. But it may be the ones off the beaten track that are the best kept secret.

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