Update: April 28th, 2022

Rosewater is open to new and established clients who are practicing general Covid cautions. Masks will be continued to be used in the office for foreseeable future, as is the case with all health care facilities.

Wait times for a new client may be two weeks. Please use the contact form below for appointment availability.

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Intra-oral work for TMJ and migraine/headache clients was mostly on hold during the Omicron surge, however, I have been returning to this much needed work as needed.

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Thank you to everyone for your cooperation in helping me stay open by informing me of infection, test result, or recent Covid exposure, or quarantine/isolation. There is no known incidence of infection through my office suite in the duration of Covid, and that's with your help.

If you've had Covid, please wait three weeks after a known infection or symptom or after one negative PCR test or after three days of consecutive rapid tests before coming in for an appointment. While we do this work with Covid protocol and masking, the closed room and the close proximity between myself and my client increases risk for all concerned. 

Thank you again, so much!

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. These articles offer the principles of holistic health, and how to orient to them. How to turn toward them. They offer some of my best recommendations for a lifestyle of Softly Turning Toward, principles and forces of our deepest resources of healing and thriving already in our deepest places. And examples from my own life how I've learned how to apply them.

My teacher Ursula Popp said our health depends on our ability to connect with our deepest tidal expression of cerebral spinal fluid fluctuation, called the Long Tide. She passed the teachings of the Cranial Osteopaths from a hundred years ago; that the Long-tide is the state of self-healing, self-regulating, self-rejuvinating mode that our heart and higher glands are built for, which is calm, clarity, integration of perception, choice and participation rooted in the blueprint of health, homeostasis, wholeness, and recovery in the very expression of our dna.

Long-tide is what Ursula referred to as our ultimate resource of well being in this life. And it is the place, that already exists, 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 year that Native American indigenous healing traditions of the Shawnee informed the father of Osteopathy, Dr. Andrew T. Still who was also the grandfather of Cranial Osteopathy and Craniosacral Therapy. Dr. Still was an American Civil War physician who also cured thousands during the great epidemics of the late 1800's. He himself was part Native, and he learned alongside Shawnee and Lumbee healers. The cornerstones of listening and aligning that run through all offspring of Osteopathy have a common connection to indigenous and ancient bonesetting traditions found in the US and throughout the world.  Ah, that makes sense; there was an ancient context.

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For those of you who don't know me, a Coleville tribal person as well as a Coast Salish tribal person were kind to teach me the ways of smudging, which I do before and after a session, unless someone is sensitive to smoke. Smudging is the use of burning specific plants which release volatile oils that have long been used as a way for to purify the energy field of a person or a space, a practice I've honored and kept close for almost 30 years. Rosewater continues to learn and incorporate wisdom from our Indigenous healing traditions that have been gracious to share its ways of honoring nature within and around us and inspires us to further the inquiry of right relationship to all that is. For more information about honoring this unceded traditional territory of the Duwamish Tribe, please visit and support here. 

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All my relations, may you be happy.

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