I’m Flora, a biodynamic craniosacral therapist practising in Bethnal Green, East London, and Lewes, East Sussex. With a background of 15 years working as a dancer and four years leading a somatic laughter club, I love listening to bodies tell their stories, and observing them write new ones fresh from the insights evoked by craniosacral therapy.

I enjoy an intuitive, playful and patient approach to meeting whole people through touch. Using subtle hands on skills my first priority is to help resource each client on a felt-sense level. From this base of embodied ‘okayness’, together we are able to meet any underlying patterns of pain, contraction and tension held in their body with compassion, acceptance and non-judgement.

It is a powerful thing to be heard on a body-to-body level, to experience someone be truly present as they witness your body be just as it is, moment by moment. In this context, a deep sense of safety can arise and change becomes possible.

Committed to a non-doing, non-fixing attitude - which can feel quite counter-cultural if you haven’t experienced it before - my role is one of sensitive soundboard seeking the health in every body, supporting each one, in turn, to listen to and get to know itself even better. In this way, innate forces of health that are already at play in our bodies are able manifest with greater clarity and potency: patterns of inertia ‘thaw’; parts of us that felt separate or absent reintegrate with the whole; grounded through presence, freed by equanimity, we can rest and heal.

Changes in how we experience ourselves occur without overwhelm or drama and can deeply affect our lives for the better. All of this happens according to the unique intelligence, timing and creativity of every body, every person.

Photography by Hugo Glendinning.