Working with babies and children

“Through my experiences in birth work and maternity care advocacy, I have deep and keen interest and knowledge around the pregnancy, birth and postnatal periods. This naturally extends into my body work practice. One of my greatest honours is when I am working with babies and children. Generally, because these small beings have not been heavily socially conditioned, working with their body intelligence is astounding, particularly when seeing their capacity for deep and easy integration of the pregnancy, birth and post-birth experience that will extend into the rest of their lives and structural functionality”. Please scroll down see Oni’s video lecture below on ‘Utilizing Craniosacral Therapy in Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum’.

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Our conception, birth and post-birth experiences have huge and ongoing impacts in all of our lives. This impact can present physically, spiritually, emotionally or mentally; often a mixture of all of these realms. Craniosacral teacher Hugh Milne often says that fifty percent of what comes up on the table during a craniosacral session is from the birth matrix; between conception and the first hours after birth. The cranium, cranial nerves, the sacrum, the spine, and the spinal cord are rich and mysterious physical structures that often hold birth memory and psychospiritual resonance. No matter what kind of pregnancy or birth eventuated, this time is intense and always needs support for integration and recalibration. In western societies, many of us do not have surrounding cultural and spiritual networks that offer practices, rites, ceremonies, or practitioners to assist with this integration. Craniosacral work has potent harmonious and homeostatic possibility for every person of any age, though its subtleties and deep gentle listening make it a particularly helpful modality for babies and children.

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Oni usually likes to see babies and children via home visits. She believes in caring greatly for the nervous system of a whole family and that this care will feed out into our communities. A family is a somatic web. If a mother, father, or parent and their baby or child is relaxed and in a familiar and safe environment

with parent/s available for comfort and reassurance

, the outcome of a session is enhanced as is the opportunity for deeper integration.

 

Below, there additional information in a video of Oni speaking to ‘Utilizing Craniosacral Therapy in Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum’, a recording of a lecture she gave as part of the 2021 Global Peirsman Craniosacral Summit.

 
 
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