I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. We explore how Ciara's journey from giving massage at the age of 6 into being a fully fledged bodyworker. Always moving, always massaging, Ciara now is an essential part of Body College Galway. She is also a very experienced yoga teacher across lots of styles and formats. She shares how honouring hidden movements and gestures can supports biodynamic practice.
Things happen around Ciara, not least setting up a vibrant health centre as a destination venue outside of Galway. One really valuable element of the conversation is hearing how Ciara's complete commitment to being a great bodyworker helps her clarity in her work and draws clients towards her.
Clip 2: 'If I'm standing at the edge of a cliff, my physiology is completely different than if I'm lying in the middle of a field. The way we brace and hold our bodies when we don't feel safe is really tangible.
Cliff side, everything in me is contracted and I'm aware of every little bit of wind and I know where my feet are and I'm contracted. I'm wired in that moment. And then the other one is much more languorous, much more slow, very aware of a wholeness and environment.
So how do we support people when they walk in to go from these contracted states, which are possibly long term, and then to bring them to softer, deeper, more relaxed states in their body?
I feel I do this through communication, connection, contact. Just that sense of giving people permission and mapping and supporting them to feel their bodies. Often in the world that we live in we override and ignore, and then eventually we don't even know how to connect with our bodies.'
Clip 1: 'Suddenly a totally random new idea will emerge that will meet this client in this moment. And I'm like, you know, I have this idea, how would it be? And we'll explore something together.
That's the magic for me in craniosacral, is that there is this wild creativity in relationship, in safety, that can emerge.
The relief in somebody to be so met and so held.
This is fascinating to me. I'll work for days and weeks and suddenly I'm like, oh yeah, one of these moments is emerging and suddenly the magic of that moment or the wildness of that moment emerges.
And I, I love it. I love it.'
Bio: Ciara Ni Dhiomasaigh has trained in many forms of bodywork. It has been a life long passion to touch and to move. She trained in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) in Karuna with Franklyn Sills and Katherine Ukleja. Ciara is an essential part of the Body College teaching team with Steve Haines and Josef Steiner in Galway. She runs a thriving BCST practice and also teaches yoga. Ciara has a vibrant world wide community of yogis who do a daily 20min yoga class on YouTube. She is also a massage therapist, tango teacher, farmer and sea swimmer. She lives in Connemara, in Galway with her dogs, hens, ducks, and geese surrounded by wild and beautiful nature. She grows all her own vegetables and lives with her partner Josef Steiner, also a craniosacral therapist.
Yoga Instagram: bodywisdom_ciara | Naduir Instagram: Naduir.ciara | Naduir Face Book Page: https://www.facebook.com/Naduir | YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ciarabirdy2
