Welcome to The Craniosacral Podcast!

Do you love cranial work? If so, you’ve come to the right place! It is my goal to help you integrate craniosacral therapy into your professional life in an authentic and meaningful way.

This podcast ran continuously from 2015-2021, largely featuring interviews with prominent practitioners and teachers in the field. Also included are live classroom recordings and a few meditations. Much of the content elaborates on timeless principles, so jump right in and I hope you find it useful!

-Ryan Hallford

Episode 130 – Brigit Viksnins – The Alchemy of Safety

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In this collection of talks, Brigit Viksnins walks us through practices for accessing safety and building resiliency. Brigit is the creator of the professional training Alchemical Alignment: Bodywork for Trauma Resolution and Embodiment of Spirit

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Episode 129 – Michael Shea – Meditation on Hand Protoplasm

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In today's meditation Michael Shea leads us through a practice to soften the hands. Rigidity in the hands prevents us from accurately feeling the subtleties of cranial respiration, so this is a great exercise for both new and experienced practitioners.

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Episode 128 – Margaret Rosenau – Meditation on Natural Fulcrums

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Today's audio is a live recording of Margaret Rosenau taking us through a practice to find natural fulcrums in the tissue field of the midline.

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Episode 127 – Liz Hartshorn – Attuning to Fundamental Consciousness

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Liz Hartshorn is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and authorized teacher of Judith Blackstone's Realization Process. The meditation in this episode is designed to attune our awareness to “fundamental consciousness.”

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Episode 126 – Jane Shaw – Meditation to Perceive the Fluid Rhythms of the Body

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This episode is a studio recording of Jane Shaw leading us into a state of fluid perception … within which we may notice rhythms, stillness, and the relationship between these two omnipresent phenomena.

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Episode 125 – Introducing “Meditation March”

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The focus for this podcast during the month of March will be meditation. In this episode Ryan gives a brief introduction to this collective effort which will include audio meditations many different craniosacral teachers.

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Episode 124 – Jane Shaw – Jungian Theory and Biodynamics

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Jane Shaw maintains a biodynamic craniosacral therapy practice in Northern Ireland. She gives lectures, writes, and teaches on mind-body medicine practices internationally, facilitating courses that support both recovery and resilience, and empowered self-expression and leadership for individuals and corporates. 

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Episode 123 – Annie McCasland-Pexton – Invisible Work

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Annie came to the holistic health field via an unlikely route… she started out as a Biologist and then a Lawyer, before starting a family and deciding that she wanted a gentler and more fundamentally fulfilling career.  A stubborn rugby injury that didn’t improve with extensive physiotherapy led her to discover the wonders of craniosacral therapy and begin training in the modality in 2009. She now runs a clinical practice and mentors new therapists.

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Episode 122 – Andy Pike – Subtleties of Intention and the Power of Non-Doing

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Andy Pike is a registered physiotherapist, yoga therapist, and Senior Tutor for Body Intelligence Trainings. In this episode he discusses the subtle ways in which craniosacral practitioners interfere with the full expression of health in a clinical setting. Andy offers post-graduate classes that elaborate on the themes presented in this interview. He is based out of Queensland, Australia.

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Episode 121 – Margaret Rosenau – Fluids, Potency, and Activation

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This episode is a recording of Margaret Rosenau of The School of Inner Health in Denver Colorado speaking about fluids, potency, activation, and health at the 2018 Breath of Life Conference.

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