Flow Cranio & Lactation

Flow Cranio & Lactation IBCLC & BCST specialising in feeding difficulties & unsettled babies. BCST for all ages in Bushmead
Virtual assistant for Breastfeeding Conferences

24/11/2025

Interesting case study highlighting brain changes after CST using functional MRI

This is the latest webinar I have been working on through my role with Canopy Health Education. The presentations and sp...
14/11/2025

This is the latest webinar I have been working on through my role with Canopy Health Education.
The presentations and speakers are amazing. Particularly loved Sharon Cooke's - The Dark side of birth: Crisis, collapse and relational repair. Lots of parallels with the principles of craniosacral therapy.
Its available for viewing now and perfect for anyone who works with mothers and babies.

Nov 8th 2025 – February 28th 2026

Lovely feedback from this mum - who contacted me with a 6 day old with latching issues - bub had one treatment:"Hey Jenn...
23/10/2025

Lovely feedback from this mum - who contacted me with a 6 day old with latching issues - bub had one treatment:

"Hey Jenny, A* is doing amazing! He's latching so well and that night after you came we had the best night with him, no inconsolable crying and he had a huge sleep. Every night since then has been so good, he's going down easier and sleeping really well. He's also back at his birth weight 😊 thanks so much for your help!!"

Its so great when mums get bodywork and lactation support in the first week or two!

If you haven’t yet explored this module, now’s a great time to join in and see what the excitement is about! We’re recei...
16/10/2025

If you haven’t yet explored this module, now’s a great time to join in and see what the excitement is about! We’re receiving wonderful feedback, here’s what participants are saying:

“Perfect deeper dive into CST for me”

“I learned a lot more than I expected! Made a lot of connections to things I actually see in practice but haven't fully understood (only lateralizing to one side, exaggerated phasic bite, etc).”

“I'm an osteo just starting out in the world of babies and this has provided me with valuable knowledge/resources/info as a newbie! Thank you”

“Really appreciate the abundance of resources, studies, etc. The pertinent photos and videos were also helpful.”

“The whole area of bodyworks is fascinating. This education brings awareness to bodyworks as a modality to improve health outcomes in a gentle way. In particular, supporting babies to heal from intrautero and birth issues to improve breastfeeding. I am beginning to learn that bodyworks can help babies avoid tongue tie release in many cases. Another fantastic conference. Thank you.”

“Enlightening – very, very interesting. I wish craniosacral therapy was available to every baby”

Online until December 31st 2026

Beautiful description of this work
13/10/2025

Beautiful description of this work

CCST graduate shares: “A question I get asked a lot, and to be honest words are quite limiting when trying to explain how this beautiful treatment works…. But I am going to try anyway….

I could go in to quantum physics, or anatomy, or how the nervous system functions… But don’t worry I wont 😅 (stay with me here)….

I want to explain craniosacral therapy from my personal perspective, from a heart centered space ❤️…

As a practitioner, as I gently lay my hands on you during your treatment, I am attuning to you….. Like a radio dial tunes in to a certain radio station frequency, my dial is tuning in to your entire being… Every aspect of you that your being is ready to show me, I will pick up on and hold space for…

I may be feeling your physical aches and pains, points of tension in your body, your emotional state, your nervous system, your overall flow of energy, where you may feel blocked, where your energy feels free and expressive….

Your body will be speaking a thousand words, and I will be listening, deeply.

As I am present with and consciously acknowledge what I am feeling in your body and in your being, I notice changes… Ah something just released, something just opened up, oh and something just relaxed, something needs a bit more space and something is drawing me in a bit closer….

As we go deeper in to the session we often go deeper in to your being, we work through more layers and stuff you have been carrying around with you for years may begin to show itself…

And this whole entire time, I am doing very little but holding space for all of this expression of yours, by simply being deeply present with you, without judgement, without an agenda, without trying to change you….

And this is what initiates your healing… This is what allows your body to find its way back to regulation, back to calm, back to feeling grounded, back to a deeper connection with yourself…. Everything feels a bit more open, a bit lighter and you may feel like something big has shifted but you can’t quite articulate it…

& then I thank your being, for allowing me to witness you whilst you heal yourself 🫶🏼”

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12/10/2025
Hi everyone.  I am still looking for mums open to having their treatment filmed (as I have had requests for videos of me...
22/09/2025

Hi everyone. I am still looking for mums open to having their treatment filmed (as I have had requests for videos of me giving craniosacral therapy to a baby for my eLearning module).
I'd love to provide this but always felt nervous to ask.
So im offering 30% off a treatment for anyone open to allowing me to film the session. Bonus if bub has had feeding issues or born with vacuum or forceps.

14/09/2025

This pilot study reveals that craniosacral therapy shows favourable effects on pain during activity and sleep quality in multiple sclerosis patients.

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06/09/2025

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of craniosacral therapy (CST) on brainwave patterns in children with mild symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). The results obtained suggest that CST may lead to significant changes in the brain’s bio-
electrical activity, indicating its influence on regulatory functions and sensory-cognitive processing in this group of patients
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marta-Kopanska/publication/395107369_Evaluation_of_Craniosacral_Therapy_Effects_on_Brain_Wave_Patterns_in_Children_with_Mild_Autism_Spectrum_Disorder_Using_the_QEEG_Method/links/68b360616327cf7b63daa711/Evaluation-of-Craniosacral-Therapy-Effects-on-Brain-Wave-Patterns-in-Children-with-Mild-Autism-Spectrum-Disorder-Using-the-QEEG-Method.pdf

Babies are little empaths!"Babies are right-brain, present time beings and thus have the ability to  sense directly thei...
02/09/2025

Babies are little empaths!
"Babies are right-brain, present time beings and thus have the ability to sense directly their inner felt-world via their right-brain orientation holistically, which is not sensed as separate from their outer experience of caregivers or significant events....
What is sensed “out there” is experienced as “in me.”
Which is why is often important to work with their mums too in craniosacral therapy.

An article by the late, great Franklyn Sills about the neurobiology of babies:

On Meeting Infants – part 2 Posted on May 20, 2025August 18, 2025Author CSTA EditorCategories Babies & Children BY Franklyn Sills The Fulcrum, Issue 95 May 2025 The second article in the series explores infant neurology and the roles that mirror neurons and polyvagal theory play in shaping a baby....

02/09/2025

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Why lactation and cranio?

After a decade of being involved in supporting breastfeeding families, it became clear to me, that many breastfeeding challenges were unresponsive to usual lactation consulting strategies. Many mothers were trying their best with a baby that was not capable of effective breastfeeding (no matter which breastfeeding position was implemented).

I had established a tongue and lip tie clinic (at Baby Steps Health Centre) alongside a GP, and while proud of the level of care this service offered (many babies were able have tongue tie professionally assessed and affordably treated), I also felt for the other babies with issues that were not tongue tie related (eg. tight jaws, uncoordinated suck, strong suck). It was clear that something else was needed to help these babies, Western Medicine did not have the answers.

During the course of working for Breastfeeding conferences, assisting with and attending multiple conferences around Australia and NZ, I got to meet some pioneers in the breastfeeding world who were at the cutting edge of breastfeeding support. IBCLC and Craniosacral therapist Alison Hazelbaker opened my eyes to the idea of combining this holistic, gentle therapy with lactation support. I decided to try the treatment myself and found it profoundly relaxing and gentle balancing. I travelled to Melbourne over a two year period to complete the diploma course with Body Intelligence.

I am so excited to be able to offer this unique service to breastfeeding families in Perth. While it is a relatively new concept to many, it is gentle, non manipulative and babies tend to respond really quickly to it. Those willing to take the leap to try it, may find that it is like nothing else! I do believe that it has the potential to help babies function much better at the breast, aswell as helping babies to feel more comfortable in their bodies (after 9 months in a confined space and for many a traumatic entrance into the world). I wish I had know about this therapy ten years ago, while doing my best to cope with my own unsettled baby! Happier babies, after all, lead to happier families.