Rosewater Craniosacral is Certified Craniosacral Therapy, from Ursula Popp's teaching.
A holistic, trauma-informed manual therapy with nervous system support for deep settling and centering. Natural pain relief from stress, chronic pain, trauma, concussion, headache, jaw, neck and back pain, vertigo, and more, ages 8+. Specialized work may include intra-oral treatment of jaw and facial muscles, visceral manipulation, myofascial, visceral, lymphatic and energy medicine techniques aligned with Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi and Internal Family Systems. What is Craniosacral?
Welcome, new and returning clients. ​
Due to respiratory illnesses that still occur, and to help protect those who are immune-compromised, I thank you for helping prevent respiratory viruses from spreading by cancelling (with more than 24 hours) when symptoms present. You are not required to mask, however I will continue to mask.
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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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​In recent years I learned that Native American indigenous healing traditions influenced the father of Osteopathy, Dr. Andrew T. Still, the grandfather of Cranial Osteopathy and Craniosacral Therapy. Dr. Still was himself of indigenous blood, relations that were long obscured by his own Osteopathic institution. Descended from European settlers on his mother's side and Shawnee and Lumbee Tribes on his father's side, he learned medicine in care of soldiers on the battlefields of the American Civil War. Alongside his paternal relatives he learned, and later developed his unique methods. In the wakes of the various great epidemics that European immigration brought, he was known to cure thousands.
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The cornerstones of "listening" and "aligning with nature" 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. ​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. ​
Broehe Ballman, BA, LMT, CCSP Craniosacral approach and training background here.
"Craniosacral is an elegant weaving of principles of nature; inside ourselves and out. It integrates possibilities for ease at the experiential level.A mind-body form, born of anatomy, physiology, foundations of osteopathic medicine, therapeutic listening and witnessing. It engages the self-healing that is already present, inviting one into relationship with the spontaneous creation of one's own being, connected to ancient patterns all life share."
Our blueprint already contains natural potential for the biochemical states of solution, grace, balance, grounding, health and ease. The integration of these is experienced as inner harmony. It is my personal experience, and the experience of so many, that Craniosacral Therapy is one safe, effective way to access our inner harmony. This reflects, little by little, into an experience of harmony into life's outer expressions.
