Rosewater Craniosacral is Certified Craniosacral Therapy, from Ursula Popp's teaching. A holistic trama-informed manual therapy with nervous system support for deep healing. Natural pain relief from chronic pain, stress, trauma, concussion, headache, jaw, neck and back pain, vertigo, and more, ages 8+. Specialized work includes intra-oral treatment of jaw and facial muscles, visceral manipulation, energy medicine with techniques aligned with Somatic Experiencing, and Hakomi (mindfulness based therapy). 
 

Welcome, new and returning clients. 

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Masks are not required, however I will continue to mask. Cancellations due to respiratory illnesses still come in regularly, so thank you for helping prevent respiratory symptoms from spreading.

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If you are in wait of an appointment, I look forward to being with you. In the meantime, please check out The Tides, Sitting Butterfly, and Chronic Pain Recovery. They offer some of my best recommendations for a lifestyle of softly turning toward our deepest resources of healing and thriving.

 

My teacher Ursula Popp said our health depends on our ability to connect with our deepest tidal expression of cerebral spinal fluid, and its called the Long Tide. She passed along the teachings of the Cranial Osteopaths from a hundred years ago; that the Long-tide is the state of self-healing, self-regulating, self-rejuvenating mode that our heart and higher glands are built for, rooted in the blueprint of health, homeostasis, and wholeness from the unfolding of our very own dna. Long-tide is what Ursula referred to as our ultimate resource of well being in this life: the place where we are already whole and never broken. It is Life. Let's connect to the forces through which life unfolds its mysterious grace. 

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I learned in 2021 that Native American indigenous healing traditions informed the father of Osteopathy, Dr. Andrew T. Still, the grandfather of Cranial Osteopathy and Craniosacral Therapy. Dr. Still, whose indigenous connections were long obscured, was an American Civil War physician who later cured thousands of the various great epidemics that swept North America in the waves of European immmigration. Dr. Still was descended from European settler on his mother's side and Shawnee and Lumbee Tribes on his father's side. Alongside his paternal relatives he was known to learn and practice alongside their healers. The cornerstones of listening and "aligning with" that run through the offspring of hands-only Osteopathic Medicine arise among indigenous healing and bone-setting traditions found here on Turtle Island, the peoples of pre-conquest Americas.

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I'm grateful to friends of the Methow Tribes and also the Coast Sannich, who long ago taught me the use of smudging and other teachings, and also for the contribution of past, present and future influence of the Duwamish and Coastal Tribes in shaping the Pacific Northwest. For more information about honoring the unceded traditional territory of the Duwamish Tribe, please visit and if you feel called, support here.

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