There is an intelligence and self-regulating principle at the heart of the human experience. Our bodies are always striving for health and trying to optimize their balance, and they do that very intelligently. There are millions of years of evolution behind the...
Cranial
The Power of Relational Touch: my most powerful result with Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
One of the strongest results I’ve had using Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy was with a stressed lawyer, who’d come with acute/chronic shoulder pain. It was so bad that she couldn’t drive anymore, and could only work part-time, but she was a very busy, and very...
Humans are Rhythmical Beings
I love biodynamic craniosacral therapy; the art of using touch to support health. When you touch people they change. It is that simple. Many people struggle with safety; it can be hard work negotiating being in the body. Coming into a relationship with a skilled...
Relational Touch
Did you know there are two types of touch? It is useful to understand the difference between quick touch and slow touch. Quick touch goes along big, thick A fibre nerves. These nerves are like motorways. Slow touch is different, it goes along slow, thin C fibre...
Steve Haines: Trauma, Feelings & Bodywork (Dec 2019)
Here is podcast of me being interviewed by Mark Walsh. At the start there is some framing of how I believe cranial work works, the importance of feeling and the limits of energy models. For TRE folks at 00:34:30 we discuss TRE, including some responses to critiques of...
Relational Touch in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
'Humans are polyrhythmic. With skill, the rhythms sometimes coalesce into a feeling of wholeness. Touch is enormously powerful. Non-doing, ‘relational touch’, that listens without fixed agendas, supports coherent rhythms and order to emerge. There is a distinct...




