Update September 2011
I am now working at three different centres around Edinburgh. This is an exciting time of development, as well as one that requires a lot of patience. I have started to form a network in Edinburgh with other complementary therapists, as well as pilates, yoga and chi kung teachers (amongst others!).
Each centre is different and has a different energy. One is a shiatsu training school and therapy centre, with a long list of classes and therapies on offer every day of the week. It is on the West side of the city a few minutes from Grassmarket and on the other side, Lothian Road. The other is an Iyengar yoga centre, tucked away down a mews road near the top of Leith Walk, which offers classes also to pregnant ladies and new mothers and babies. There is a small team of complementary therapists working there, sharing the peaceful therapy room.
Finally, I am working at a centre in Portobello, Edinburgh’s seaside town. This is very much a community based centre and was built up first as a shamanic centre, which has grown and now moved to Balerno. The offering now in Portobello is community based therapies and healing, low income clinics and yoga classes, as well as other healing activities and opportunities for improving health and well being.
I am mainly offering craniosacral therapy at these venues, although I am still also working as a massage therapist from my home based therapy room.
Things are also gradually moving towards a start date at the Western General, where I will be working with patients with chronic pain, on referral from the pain clinic.
This is an important step for my practice as this will help to bring craniosacral therapy into a wider field and help others in the conventional field of medicine to understand a bit more about it and how it works.
My aim is to raise awareness of craniosacral therapy gradually, and step-by-step, so that more people (medics, patients and other therapists) know about it as an option, especially when dealing with long term chronic pain, with no known cause, that often co-exists alongside complex emotional issues and trauma.
