March 22nd, 2023

Welcome, new and returning clients. Some of you have seen my new office space. It is in the same office suite, freshly painted, but now I'm in a room with light and a little more space, which I am loving. I look forward to inviting more floor work potential in the shoes-off carpet space as well as classes in the future.

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Masks will be continued to be used in the office for foreseeable future. New and Returning clients may book online here.

 

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 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. This is expressed in calm, clarity, integration of perception, choice and participation 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. 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 and Lumbee informed the father of Osteopathy, Dr. Andrew T. Still, the grandfather of Cranial Osteopathy and Craniosacral Therapy. Dr. Still was an American Civil War physician who 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 perform often, during or after a session, with permission. 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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