About Paul

Following the call

My ongoing meandering path towards an understanding of health and wholeness, began initially with my childhood fascination and love for Nature. For the first part of my career I was following this call to nature almost unwittingly, but pursuing its creativity and expression through craft, sculpture, theatre and dance.  

Health and Nature and Osteopathy

Eventually of course, I understood that we are all integral to that amazing creative unfolding of life. So the call to nature grew to include the call to health and I began an incredibly intense and rigorous four years of study to become an Osteopath, which I practiced for twelve years. Although osteopathic training was an amazing journey, it was really just the beginning for me, as it provided a foundation for a whole new world of practice, study and enquiry into how health, nature and spirit unfolds within and through us.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy 

I came to Biodynamic craniosacral therapy because I was looking for another big training to engage with – I was looking for something that was capable of holding clients in a space of deep enquiry but was also spacious and creative. I found the work to be incredibly transformative personally, it really helped me to understand that I had a choice about how my life unfolded and gave me a safe context within which to grow. 

I’m always engaged in an ongoing process of research and study. I work daily with a practice of movement and meditation in order to understand the lived experience better. I dance, sing and play music as much as I can.

Hakomi

I’m also currently studying to become a Hakomi-practitioner. Hakomi is a model of body based psychotherapy extremely complimentary to craniosacral therapy. Hakomi follows similar princples to biodynamic craniosacral therapy in that it simply invites the body and mind to witness the truth of it’s own inherent health beneath the physical and emotional defensive patterns. When it can do that, the system automatically shifts into a more healthy expression.