We know (well) just how our bodies tell our life stories.
Rivers of your pure life force move in rhythm with your body's tissues and fluids, they flow with the potent energy created from within you, and with all that moves beyond us.
When life sends us something that's too fast, too soon, or too much, a rush of reaction overruns the banks of those internal rivers. When the difficult time is through, some of that experience remains: it pools, stagnates, or stirs in the vortexes of that riverbank. Somatic healing guides your body to source your own divine spring of life on the other side of that riverbank. You and your body want to, and CAN return back to your natural flow.
When you come in for a session, you are drawing a line in your story. You’re taking a step to bring power back into your life through befriending your body again. You’re regenerating your ability to hold your own life force stably within your cells. You—only you— belong there.
Come home into your own body.
As a fellow human living in a healing body: I get it. As a somatic worker: I know how to guide you gently back home into your body.
To me, craniosacral therapy is more than just a healing modality. Yes, I’ll use the time-proven techniques masterfully taught by my kind and humble teachers; but, I’ll also weave a constellation of somatic and indigenous practices into your session.
🪶 Kristen Kerwin
We are human animals.
That means, you are a wild, intuitive creature who knows how to walk this earth. (🐆 ...your sure feet pad the dark soil; your shoulders widely rotate with each step …you are aware of every subtle movement around you...)
Your “knowing” tells you there’s a deep wisdom — you are more in tune with than you actually live out daily. When you let the sacred animal part of you breathe through your nostrils, peer out through your widened eyes, and spiral out of your heart, you start to remember how to really move with power through the crap of your life. This is an example of how the indigenous healing thing may work in a session: as a certified practitioner, I pull in the training, but more importantly my space-holding, plugged-in, element-infused mojo so you can remember your native self.
Unwinding: There is this magic that happens when your mind surrenders and lets your body take over its own healing. And man oh man is it ever delicious to experience. When I tune into your subtle movements and stop points as I unwind your legs, arms, jaw, or neck (or heck, even a pesky tooth if you want), your body tissues kick into action and do: nothing and everything all at once. Your vital life force takes over from here — enter the pure, still, cosmically-charged air particles — to powerfully surge through your own cells as your body remains in its self-induced trance.
The Riverways Studio
on the Farmington River in the historic Collins Axe Factory in Canton, CT
“I had a session with Kristen in the midst of motherhood with 'two under four' and dealing with feeling generally stuck and overwhelmed. I didn't make the connection until a week after seeing her for craniosacral therapy, but there was an immense shift in me the following morning after our session. I was able to be more present and softer, which is something I'm really working on as a mom ... and, it's not easy. I feel the session with Kristen cleared up space for self-compassion, loving kindness in day-to-day interactions and an overall feeling of well-being."
– McKENZIE
Not Your AI-Generated Definition of Craniosacral Therapy & Somatic Healing
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Through craniosacral and somatic healing, you’ll form new (what the heck, did that just really happen?!?) ways of releasing trauma and old stories that have taken up a crummy existence in your body’s skin, ligaments, tissues, and bones.
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As your body unwinds, your spirit moves through your form in a liberated, healing path of its own glorious wisdom. Your spirit (uhhhh, *you* in your divine glory) is a remarkable shapeshifter that leaves a lasting trail of your own pixie dust through your meridians, limbs, and memory pathways. So, you can return back to your healing power whenever you want again.
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As your emotions feel safe to be heard, you’ll unburden those places in your body they’ve been hiding for so long. We’ll work as slow or fast as they want to—I know, I know…there’s a reason they’ve cowered themselves away into your body tissues for so long. But herein lies the magic of the body and my work as a craniosacral therapist: this work opens a sacred container of a mysterious somatic brew that sings these emotions into an open space to be beheld, cradled, groaned out, or screamed out to the ethers. Hey. It’s your story. You’ll know what to do.
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As we meld into other dimensions (it happens…errrr, I think anyway), you may see images you didn’t ever have words for before. Or maybe won’t be able to describe (that’s cool ...that's when the alchemy is happening!). Your creativity is alive and full of these visual building blocks that can help you figure out what your mind can’t. What you will dream of as we practice craniosacral therapy and somatic healing will be a key to unlock what’s trapped in your body. This is magic you forgot you had dear one: YOU are powerful.
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As you unclutter your riverways, you feel delightful sensations you forgot you knew existed (the kind where folks tap you on the shoulder and ask if you’re ok but really you’re just sitting there feeling energy move like golden liquid love through your neck, to the upper palate of your mouth, and swirl like an elixir crafted from Cleopatra herself into your pituitary gland and back down).
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As kinks of tension melt away, you can — ”OMG I want to soar like a hawk 🦅”— move again.
“I scheduled a session with Kristen and I'm so glad I did. I have experienced many forms of bodywork and many practitioners over the 30-plus years—Kristen is just beginning her practice, yet she is already an adept practitioner. How amazing is that? To be in such a lovely, nurturing space and to experience excellent bodywork."
– GRANT
Pssst...Riverways welcomes your amazing weirdo self however you identify whatever your race or background. Come as you are! 🤍
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Riverways Craniosacral Therapy
Collinsville Axe Factory
50 Depot St.
Canton, CT 06019
