About Susanne Zahn-Willsdon, RCST, BCST:
My professional journey:
Originally, I trained as a contemporary dancer and teacher. My training, professional and personal life carried me from Germany over the United States and France to the UK. While I am still very interested in the Performing Arts and the Arts in general, I am now concentrating on the Healing Arts.
Training at the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust (CTET) in London I became a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (BCST) graduate of the International Association of Biodynamic Trainings (IABT) in 2007. I continue my professional development through postgraduate courses, personal study, and contact with peer groups.
I am a fully qualified, fully insured and registered with the Craniosacral Therapy Association of the UK (CSTA).
Since 2010, I am happily acting as a supervisor for students at the CTET's teaching clinic at the Healthy Living Centre in Highbury and Islington.
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My personal journey into craniosacral therapy:
Like many people, I discovered craniosacral therapy as a patient and I appreciated the experience so much that I decided to become a craniosacral therapist:
In 2000 I became the proud mother of a baby girl. After the induced and therefore lenghty birth I was exhausted and in a lot of pain, especially in my right hip. This pain had started after I had had brain surgery to remove a cavernous angioma in the right temporal lobe years before, when I was living in France. After some months of low energy and pain following delivery, I experienced a very significant change:
A friend, who was training to become a biodynamic craniosacral therapist asked whether he could practice on me. I agreed, even though I had no idea what craniosacral therapy was. I was amazed when, as soon as his hands came gently and spaciously into contact with my temples, I felt a strong current shooting to and fro between my right temple and right hip. After two sessions with a then student I was in a lot less pain and my energy levels had improved dramatically.
Given that my family has a conventional science and medical background, I might never have tried something so 'different'; however, having experienced craniosacral therapy myself I became very interested in this holistic, complementary approach and decided to train. Interestingly, during my training with Michael Kern and Ged Sumner at CTET I found out that our work is at the cutting edge of modern science (the best explanation for it being found in quantum physics' emergent entanglement theory!). Working with this approach to healing is deeply fascinating and rewarding!
I have always been very interested in communicating with others, in the expressions of the body, and the connection between it, the mind, emotions and the spirit, so feel a strong connection to this holistic way of working with its very whole view of a person, their health and wellbeing.