Biodynamic CranioSacral

What can be expected?

Every journey begins with an introductory session where there’s close collaboration. Akela will share her background and explain how the therapy works, but most importantly, you will track your body’s expressions together. Through active communication about what you both are each sensing in real time, it will help create an environment where you will feel heard, and completely in control. In this type hands-on work, no external forces or manipulation of your structure is imposed. Instead, a highly tuned, neutral, and collaborative presence held by Akela will listen to your body’s internal priorities. Working deeply with your fascia—the body’s interconnected web of tissue—you will often feel this fascia melt and become more fluid. This deep release allows your cellular and tissue structures to naturally reorganize, regulating your nervous system so your body can safely lead its own process of resolution and repair.

How This Approach Supports Your Journey

• Nervous System Regulation: Calming the “fight-or-flight” response to promote deep rest, cellular repair, and systemic homeostasis.
• Chronic Pain & Fatigue Management: Breaking chronic pain cycles by releasing deep-seated physical and emotional tension held within connective tissues and fascial networks.
• Mental Health & Stress Relief & Trauma: Providing a safe physical container to process stress, reduce anxiety, alleviate depression, and resolve trauma held in the nervous system.
• Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) & Neurological Issues: Relieving intracranial pressure, easing post-concussion symptoms, enhancing glymphatic clearance, and supporting neural plasticity.
• Athletic & Injury Recovery: Accelerating the healing of muscles, ligaments, and joints by enhancing local circulation, reducing structural restrictions, and restoring optimal mobility.
• Surgical Recovery: Minimizing the impact of surgical trauma, reducing scar tissue formation, and helping the body safely metabolize medical interventions.
• Mother & Baby Wellness: Eases the physical stresses of pregnancy and birth, supporting infants with colic, nursing difficulties, birth trauma, and sleep disruptions.

This gentle modality does not replace conventional medicine; instead, it serves as a highly effective complementary care practice. This works alongside your primary medical treatments to amplify your recovery, build resilience, and restore a profound sense of well-being.

Appointment Types

• BCST for Adults
• BCST for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum (Parent & Baby)
• BCST & Systemic Support for Children, Youth, and Families

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• 1 hour session – $175 +GST
• 75 minute session – $210 + GST
• 90 minute session – $245 + GST
• 2 hour session – $315 + GST

If there is nothing on Akela’s availability for an appointment, or for a complimentary 15 minute discovery call, please contact her directly at BCSTholistic@gmail.com and let us know of a day/time that works for you. Regular hours at The Space vary by season, but there is flexibility to accommodate weekdays, evenings, and weekends.

For an open-ended session – $175.00 for the first hour plus $35 each additional 15 minutes. Please contact us to book this extended session.

Akela

Akela bridges the gap between empirical science and profound somatic wisdom. With more than two decades of immersive experience working directly within conventional medical sciences and diverse healthcare environments—including specialized clinics in endocrinology, bioidentical hormones, psychiatry, and women’s health—she brings a uniquely grounded, multi-dimensional framework to the healing path.

Her extensive foundation spans anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, toxicology, pharmacology, neuroscience, and advanced pain science. This twenty-year background allows her to listen to the body through many different analytical and biological lenses simultaneously. Rather than treating physical restrictions as isolated failures, she translates complex physiological data alongside subtle somatic signals to discover the unique root pattern and essence of what your body is expressing. She has over a decade of experience working hands-on with clients using Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy integrated with other holistic modalities.

In her hands-on Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) practice, she works directly with and through resonance and the relational field. Using a highly developed felt-sense capability, she listens to the deeper rhythms of your nervous system and tissues to help resolve complex medical issues, chronic conditions, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), complex pain, and PTSD. Her approach is profoundly informed by a gentle, nature-based philosophy and her background in systemic work. This allows her to track where stress is held and facilitate essential boundary work, helping your nervous system step out of long-term survival loops so your body can safely unwind, communicate, and return to its natural vitality. Her dedicated nervous system regulation and restoration sessions are highly effective for children (and adults), providing a safe container to calm developmental stress and restore natural resilience. Beyond chronic conditions, this gentle touch is an essential tool for athletic injury recovery, surgical healing, and relieving the burdens of everyday stress. While her open-door practice is fully inclusive and warmly welcome to anyone navigating a health threshold or just wanting stress relief and supportive tending, she holds a special passion for the reproductive continuum. She offers deeply resourced, trauma-responsive care for fertility, pregnancy, birth preparation, and postpartum integration. In alignment with pre- and perinatal psychology, she practices a gentle mother-baby dyad collaboration that honors the early consciousness of infants, easing birth trauma and feeding restrictions. Collaborative, non-judgmental, and deeply respectful of each person’s unique story, she invites you into a safe, low-activation space where you are empowered to access your own body intelligence and innate capacity for healing.