Nourishing Tides Craniosacral, 14 yungarup Place, Byron Bay (2025)

17/11/2025

Many people think gut problems like bloating, SIBO, or chronic digestive discomfort are purely about food, bacteria, or supplements. But for so many, the missing piece is much deeper: the state of the nervous system and the condition of the psoas. The psoas isn’t just a hip-flexor muscle tucked somewhere near the pelvis — it’s an emotional, intuitive, deeply wired structure connected to the diaphragm, the spine, the vagus nerve, and our most primitive survival responses. When it’s chronically tight from stress, bracing, trauma, or years of living in a “fight-or-flight” state, it can directly influence how well the gut functions. A constricted psoas can restrict blood flow, create tension around the diaphragm that limits breathing, keep the body stuck in sympathetic activation, and disrupt gut motility — all of which can make chronic gut issues extremely difficult to resolve. This is why so many people try every supplement, every protocol, and every restrictive diet, yet never fully heal: their system is still bracing from the inside out.
There’s also a huge misconception that the only way to release the psoas is through deep, painful pressure. But as Liz Koch’s work consistently emphasizes, the psoas is not a muscle you can bully or force into submission. Koch often describes the psoas as more of a “messenger” or “sensor” than a typical muscle — one that responds to safety, awareness, and subtlety rather than force. When you dig aggressively into the psoas, the body interprets it as a threat, and the psoas reflexively tightens in protection. This is why so many people feel worse, not better, after intense psoas work. True release happens only when the body feels safe enough to let go. Pressure doesn’t create that safety — presence does. (Read More in comments )

09/11/2025

The Temporal Bone — Chamber of Time
At the heart of our hearing lies a sacred rhythm.
The temporal bone cradles the cochlea — a spiral temple where vibration becomes perception, and sound transforms into experience.

In craniosacral practice, this bone moves like the tide — a gentle breath shaping our sense of balance, orientation, and time.
When the temporal bones move in harmony, the nervous system listens.
When they find stillness, the whole being remembers.

🌀 Listen not just with your ears, but with your bones.

06/11/2025

a stillpoint is the sacred pause in the body’s rhythmic tide — the brief silence between the inhale and the exhale of the Primary Respiratory Mechanism.

Physiologically, it’s a moment when the cranial rhythmic impulse (the subtle motion of the brain, spinal cord, and cerebrospinal fluid) slows, suspends, and reorganizes. The dural membranes, the cranial sutures, and even the micro-glides of the sacrum fall into a deep equilibrium.
The nervous system shifts — from vigilance to surrender. Parasympathetic tone rises, blood flow harmonizes, and the body begins to self-correct.

But beneath the biology lies something older — something sacred.
In the stillpoint, the tides of cerebrospinal fluid become the tides of creation itself. The body becomes a shoreline between matter and spirit. In that pause, the breath of the Earth and the breath of the cranial field are one.

The ancient rhythms — the ones that guide the heartbeat, the circadian dance, the lunar pull — all seem to stop and listen.
And in that listening, the system remembers what wholeness feels like.

03/11/2025

When dopamine and serotonin fall out of rhythm,
the face begins to speak:
tight jaw. clenched teeth. restless sleep.

Beneath the skin, the trigeminal nerve listens —
ancient messenger between face and brain,
it carries every whisper of pressure, pain, and strain.
Deep in the cathedral of the mind,
the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) hums —
keeper of dopamine’s sacred flame.

When stress ripples through the body,
the VTA calls upon the HPA axis,
sending tides of cortisol through the bloodstream.

Two guardians stand watch:
the amygdala, fierce and fiery,
and the ventral subiculum, calm and steady.
Both whisper to the dopaminergic fires below.

In the brainstem’s quiet halls,
serotonergic monks of the raphe nucleus
send shimmering scrolls of calm to the VTA.

Yet when balance falters —
when tension loops back through the trigeminal gate —
the jaw tightens its song, feeding signals upward,
reminding the brain: something is not at ease.

Your body is always speaking this language of feedback —
a cycle of tension and release,
where every muscle, breath, and heartbeat
tells the story your mind hasn’t yet spoken.
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14/09/2025

There is no known biological or physical mechanism for true telepathy as it is commonly imagined. However, some research using brain-computer interfaces has demonstrated the ability to transfer simple intentions or thoughts between individuals, though this is distinct from natural telepathy. Brain regions like the anterior cingulate, precuneus, and frontal areas may be involved in receiving thoughts, while paranormal studies have suggested correlations with the right cerebral hemisphere for both recipients and those with “telepathic ability”. Current theories focus on technologically mediated or “wired” communication rather than a natural biological process.
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A yogi’s brain exhibits increased gray matter volume in areas like the somatosensory cortex, hippocampus, and insula, which correlate with the body’s mental map, stress dampening, and pain tolerance. There’s also increased functional connectivity between regions involved in self-awareness and emotional processing, and decreased amygdala activity suggests reduced negative reactions to stimuli. These structural and functional changes are linked to improved attention, emotional regulation, and pain tolerance due to neuroplasticity and increased BDNF levels.

20/08/2025

A Field of Subtle Power: 🔥
Science reveals what mystics and wisdom traditions have long whispered: the heart generates the most potent electromagnetic field in the human body. Its electrical field, recorded via ECG, is roughly 60 times stronger in amplitude than the brain’s EEG waves, and its magnetic field is even more astounding—hundreds to thousands of times stronger than the brains.
This radiant field envelops us, detectable several feet away using sensitive instruments like SQUID magnetometers
The Heart as Translator and Communicator
It’s not merely a biological fact—it’s a conduit for energetic, emotional, and interpersonal communication.
Research from the HeartMath Institute has shown that the heart’s magnetic field carries patterns influenced by emotional states. These patterns can be transmitted into our surrounding environment—and even perceived by others
In one striking experiment, when people touched or sat within a few feet of each other, a measurable electromagnetic exchange occurred.
Additional studies demonstrate the possibility that one person’s heart rhythms can register within another person’s brainwaves, illustrating a deeply embodied, energetic link

Coherence: When the Heart, Mind, and Body Align
Another fascinating insight involves cardiac coherence—a state where heart rhythms, breathing, and brainwave patterns synchronize, often during compassionate, loving, or appreciative states.
This coherence:
* Enhances mental clarity and emotional regulation
* Improves immune function and resilience
* Boosts intuition, creativity, and decision-making
* Supports psychosocial connection and calm focus.
* In essence, the heart becomes not just a thought responder—but an organizer, attuning us inwardly and outwardly.

13/08/2025

🌀Deep Within the Skull: The Sphenoid and the Song of the World🌀
Hidden beneath the forehead, nestled like a bird at the center of the cranium, lies the sphenoid bone — the keystone of the skull. Shaped like a butterfly, like a great bird with outstretched wings, the sphenoid is not merely structure. It is a listening chamber.
In the realm of craniosacral therapy, we speak of subtle rhythms — pulses that don’t come from the heart, but from deeper tides. Tides that roll through the cerebrospinal fluid, echoing the great oceans, echoing something older than the body. Practitioners listen with hands like ears — and what do they hear?
They hear the sphenoid moving. Breathing. Singing.
This movement isn’t mechanical. It is mythic. It is a microcosmic wingbeat of a world that is still alive, still animated. The ancients knew the skull was not a container but a temple. And at the center of that temple sits the sphenoid — the throne of the pituitary, the seat of inner sight.
This is the work of craniosacral therapy: not just structural adjustment, but reverent listening. Listening to the skull as you would listen to a forest, to a river, to a bird mid-song.
Because the human body was never separate from nature.
It is nature folded inward.
And if we listen — truly listen — we find the sphenoid not as bone, but as being. As bird. As breath. As bridge between the worlds.
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11/08/2025

Sutherland described a fluid within a fluid , a potency or a breath of life

17/07/2025

Neuroplastisity of the Gut and Visceral Manipulation-
Our hands may be stimulating more than fascia —they may be influencing the biochemical pathways of adaptation and healing. Understanding NGF (Nerve Growth Factor) and BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor)— and the neuroplastic capacity of the gut can deepen our approach to both chronic pain and functional disorders.

Recent insights in neuroscience suggest that manual and visceral techniques may play a role in modulating neurotrophic factors such as NGF and BDNF —critical proteins that support neuroplasticity, sensory integration, and autonomic regulation.

Why this matters:
BDNF and NGF support the growth, survival, and synaptic plasticity of neurons—both centrally and in the enteric nervous system (ENS).
The ENS is rich in afferent fibers (via the vagus and spinal visceral afferents), and mechanoreceptors in visceral and fascial tissue can directly influence central pathways.
Manual therapy, especially visceral manipulation, engages these mechanosensory networks, potentially upregulating BDNF and NGF via stretch, shear, and interoceptive feedback.
Several studies in both animal models and humans suggest:
Tactile stimulation (including light manual therapy) increases BDNF expression in the hippocampus and dorsal root ganglia.
Visceral afferents modulate hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity, vagal tone, and influence limbic system output—mechanisms closely tied to neuroplastic shifts.
Early life touch and visceral input shape enteric neuronal architecture and gut-brain axis development, likely mediated by neurotrophins like NGF.
when we apply visceral techniques—whether targeting the mesentery, diaphragm, or organ suspensory ligaments—we are engaging not just mobility and motility, but potentially modulating the neurochemical environment of the viscera and CNS.

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