Which option best suits your needs?

Both systems work in similar and complementary ways. Both are capable of helping with a large variety of health conditions. However, the experience of each is different and we may be called more to one or the other depending on our nature and needs.

• Craniosacral work is particularly useful for conditions of stress, trauma, emotional issues and nervous system conditions. Based on the therapeutic power of gentle touch, it is a uniquely beneficial approach for the modern world, providing a counterbalance to the activity, restlessness and stressors of life with an emphasis on depth and stillness. It emphasises the innate healing intelligence of the body, thereby empowering the client’s own resolution of issues from within.

• Acupuncture works within the framework developed by ancient Chinese sage-physicians. It differs from craniosacral therapy in that it utilises tools (needles, mugwort) to restore order and coherence to the bodily systems, and is therefore slightly more of a “directive” approach. The profound insights of Chinese medicine enable the medico to work with the body in a traditional way, one that provides insights to and enables the remedy of conditions from a perspective outside the modern medical framework.

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Whether you come for one or the other, the approach is fundamentally the same: to converse, listen and understand; to seek new ways of approaching old problems; to see illness, self and life in a new light; and to reorient to deeper and more wholesome parts of ourselves. Treatments draw on training not only in BCST and Chinese medicine, but also on various years of involvement with psychology, philosophy, astrology, meditation, and the traditional medical systems of South America.

While many conditions and people may benefit, our main interest lies in working with issues or health crises that open to the door to greater questions of the individual’s life and purpose. From the most seemingly insignificant or random symptom, a new life, an old path, a greater sense of fulfillment may unfold. We therefore seek to remediate illness while unraveling some of the deeper questions about our individual nature and being. We seek to honour always the interweaving of body and psyche, trauma and illness, and our unique life path.

Origin Tide is a humble place dedicated to working in the liminal space where where symptoms, paths, insight, imagination, dreams and transformation find their confluence.

It would indeed be our pleasure to work with you.