Offerings
Craniosacral Therapy
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a noninvasive manual therapy that works directly with nervous system and fluid body, rebalancing and re-patterning in gentle and deep ways which help to create renewed integration in the system, safety, balance and ease in the body and psyche, treating a range of symptoms from migraines and concussions to anxiety, depression and other trauma/distress patterns.
Authentic Movement practice
Authentic Movement (AM) practice, also know as Contemplative Dance practice (CDP) is a relational moving meditation practice. It supports a generative somatic space of discovery that goes well beyond words, and trains new relational self-experiences into body and psyche. Movers listen for and source impulses for movement and rest with eyes closed in the presence of a kind and attuned witness.
TRE® & Somatic movement
TRE® is a Somatic modality that was developed by Dr. Berceli. It is a form of therapeutic shaking, a practice that teaches people how to safely activate an innate reflexive tremoring response, inviting the same release process that we see in animals in the wild who "shake it off," after experiencing a threatening event.
In a session we can work specifically with TRE or we can draw from other somatic movement modalities integrating aspects of rehabilitative movement and developmental re-patterning to facilitate movement sessions that meet your specific goals for integration.
Lauren Tietz
Lauren’s attuned and sensitive approach to healing through Craniosacral Therapy, TRE and other Somatic Therapies is supported by more than twenty years of experience and specialization within the fields of embodiment, mindfulness and trauma-informed somatic modalities.
Working one on one with clients Lauren brings a gentleness and presence as she assists people in the powerful and vulnerable work of tuning into or beginning to invite the experience of sensing and feeling at the level of the body, the true place where healing begins. She supports folks who are working with a wide range of symptoms and reasons for wanting to learn to speak and understand this attuned and intelligent language whose source is found - in our bodies.
Lauren also teaches and facilitates a range of movement classes and workshops both online and in person, including Contemplative Dance /Authentic Movement.
Lauren is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST), Licensed Manual Therapist (LMT) and a certified TRE® provider. She also holds an MFA in dance/interdisciplinary arts and a certification as an advanced level Pilates teacher. Other practices she enjoys are hiking, time spent in nature, singing, meditation, earth based spiritual practices that support remembering our deeper connections with each other and the animate earth.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a noninvasive manual therapy that works directly with nervous system rebalancing and re-patterning which helps to create renewed safety, balance and ease in the body and psyche. It is a gentle modality that nevertheless can work quite powerfully with restoring balance to the nervous system, and also ultimately works with all of the body systems.
BCST takes a whole-person approach to healing and I deeply honor the inter-connectedness of mind, body, heart and spirit. The relationship that develops between myself and my clients is essential, as it establishes a ground for trust and safety. It is in this relational field where there is a great potential for healing. I bring warmth, openness, curiosity and sensitive listening to support this therapeutic process.
My approach to Craniosacral Therapy is through the biodynamic lens of orienting to the body’s natural wisdom and allowing innate intelligent processes to arise and bring about authentic change. It is a non invasive approach. These changes will be physiological and psycho-emotional. The body’s own priorities for change are listened for and encouraged to arise. As a therapist, the art is to connect with the underlying forces of health and facilitate a process of natural reorganization. These forces express as subtle motion of tissues and fluids that you and I track and feel in different ways.
Authentic Movement (AM) practice, also know as Contemplative Dance practice (CDP), supports a generative somatic space of discovery that goes well beyond words, and trains new relational self-experiences into body and psyche. The simple but profound practice locates the body and somatic awareness in a relational field. It helps practitioners identify and move beyond old patterns to actively practice novel ways of being and relating. This can bring about a freer range of movement through life—physically, emotionally and relationally.
As a contemplative practice, it can resemble other modes of spiritual discipline, ceremony or ritual (meditation, chanting, contemplative practices, zen koans etc.) and as an expressive practice it can resemble other expressive disciplines like dance and singing and other arts sourced through the body. AM/CDP is a contemplative and expressive practice, sourced directly through the body and it’s innate wisdom, intelligence, capacity to heal and to self-regulate within a safe relational field, with the right amount of space and support.
Through the safety of the practice, each person moving at their own pace, following their own timing, participants experience renewed personal agency, the unwinding of unwanted tension patterns, a stronger internal container to hold the sensations and emotions that naturally cycle as awareness arises from the roots of the body.
All are welcome. No dance or movement training needed.
Personalized TRE & Somatic Movement Sessions
Integrated sessions that support individual learning, re-patterning and healing through movement.