Is it in your shoulders? Does it sit in your low back? Do you need to stop your day for headaches? Do you reset due to insomnia?

I have no fairy dust to offer, but I do have honesty, encouragement and tools.

Stillness to Action

Our entire being, including our physical self, absorbs the impact of each new wave of information.

Slow down in relationship to your body; to yourself.

Nikki is an Upledger CranioSacral Therapist. She teaches and examines internationally for the Upledger Institute and the International Association of Healthcare Educators. She has published a book "It's All in Your Gut" after several years of research on the gut and it's relationship with our emotional health. This book is for the lay person as well as anyone who works with people as a bodyworker or in any other capacity. It brings in the new science around the gut and its en

I wake each morning with a short delay before I remember the times in which we are currently living. Then I take a moment to enjoy the sunshine through the tree making light and shadow dances on my bedroom wall. I follow my breath in and out. I feel simple gratitude for this day. How are you? In what ways are you nourishing yourself? I have been trying to figure out how to best maintain community while in isolation. News from Italian friends share that they schedule video cal

One of the most important things we can do to help our immune system now and any time is to laugh. If you are using social media, I'm sure you’ve noticed ample jokes and funny memes circulating about covid19. My 9 year old shared a joke another third grader made up. It wasn’t particularly funny, but I laughed because it is just so human to find or at least look for the funny even in the most serious of situations. It’s good for us! When you laugh your body releases endorphins

Lessons from Pisa about using my imagination to juggle with joy in my life.

What does a high ranking Italian official, a Roman Emperors palace on the hill and the roof of your mouth have in common?

Yes, we are here together floating into the New Year of 2020. I have often wrapped up a decade by looking back in reflection and forward in anticipation. Have you? My earnest approach sat in hopes of weaving lessons from my past to dreams for my future. My practice for these weeks coming into 2020 is to actually do absolutely none of that weaving. My current practice is to relax into each present moment. My commitment to this is for the sake of my own physical and emotional h

How do you practice peace in your life on a daily or weekly basis?

Bookshelf for CranioSacral Therapy

The framework of CST approach upends the hierarchy of traditional healthcare models of top down therapist to patient. I explore this notion.

In 2010, when I first starting digging into what it could mean to practice CranioSacral Therapy, I had just had a baby. I wasn't thinking about certifying with Upledger Institute, I was simply pulled by a deep curiosity toward this work and was researching all avenues to be able to learn it. In 2012, while living in Hong Kong I was still researching CST and the opportunity to attend a class with UI came up. It was in the Pok Fu Lam neighborhood, just a bus, a boat, a tram and

Boulder MD shares video and thoughts on CST

Recently a sage wise woman I collaborate with was walking with me as I dig to the bottom of why I do this work. I'm exploring with her my self, patterns, goals, dreams and how I navigate in a world that doesn't always get what I value. CranioSacral Therapy is about your self empowerment, your self actualization, about you. Many of you come to me in pain. And I walk together with you until that pain resolves. From a place of feeling good in your body, a lot of other things can

It's no secret that I love practicing CranioSacral Therapy And one part of this practice that is deeply fulfilling is the inner prep-work I do before a session even begins. Each time, I prepare by sitting in silence for 10 minutes. In this time, I'm bringing myself to meet stillness. What does it mean for me to bring myself to stillness? I'm coming into awareness of my body, deepening my breath, bringing myself to a neutral state of attention. My body is where I live, it's m

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love", Carl Sagan Gleaned from my sacred yin yoga practice this morning and carried through a day of cleint sessions. The star stuff of our fascia, the vastness of your body's wisdom, and the love that is in witnessing the innate healing of your craniosacral system. #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacralboulder #yinyoga #listening #gratitude #breathein #breatheout #boulder #colorado #fascia #kindnessfirst

CranioSacral Therapy holds the potential to greatly help an automatic portion of our nervous system called the autonomic nervous system (ANS). It is that part of your central nervous system which controls the things you don’t think about, but that your body does daily including digestion, elimination, breath and cell regeneration. Your ANS functions best when in balance. When a patient receives CST, she moves into a parasympathetic state a.k.a. “rest/digest” and her entire ce