Andrew Cook MSc RCST
I started my working life as a Mining Engineer in South Yorkshire. I then worked as a Hydrogeologist in various parts of Africa and the Middle East, carried out research at the British Geological Survey, and finally took up complementary therapies full time in 1994. I am finding this past life as an Engineer more and more useful, since it helps me to remain practical, and down-to-earth in my healing work.
During a course of treatment I will often move across the full range of possibilities - from very delicate movements or stilness, to occasional deep physical work; from bone, to dialogue, to fluid/space/stillness, to creative imagery, to muscle, to nerve, as is appropriate at the time. I have picked up many skills over the past 12 years, and have devised a few techniques myself, including a very gentle and extremely effective method of spinal realignment. Craniosacral Therapy is sufficiently broad and deep to be able to effortlessly contain all of these approaches. Perhaps the testimonials below give a better view of what you will find.
I am a member of the Independent Practitioners Network, and am a Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST) with the
Craniosacral Therapy Association. I am one of the few UK craniosacral practitioners to have trained with all three major CST schools in the UK. This is a picture from the end of an Advanced CST course in Santa Fe, New Mexico (March 2001) :
There is a piece of poetry which (to me) describes perfectly the sublime moments in which real healing takes place ... (and maybe partly explains why I like hummingbirds)
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There are moments when the soul takes wings: what it has to remember, it remembers; what it loves, it loves still more; what it longs for, to that it flies. Fiona MacLeod |
If you liked the poem, try this ...
Clients who have found CST to be of substantial benefit have come with many forms of pain, in virtually every part of the body you can imagine - including longstanding nerve pain, back problems, bone bruising, visceral pain, and arthritic joints. I could also add cases of anxiety, drug-withdrawal symptoms, misalignments of virtually every joint in the body, migraines, TMJ syndrome, catastrophic neck hypermobility (broken 2nd cervical), toothache, post-surgical (and other) neurological problems, prostatitis, numbness, depression, colic, birth-induced problems (both baby and mother), infertility, low energy levels, frozen shoulder, gastric migraines, traumatic shock, arthritis, constipation, hernias, .... etc. I've also been privileged to work with a few Downs children and cases of cerebral palsy, and a large number of cancer survivors (I lead relaxation and stress management groups).
My practice is very much Complementary (rather than Alternative). I do not intend to replace conventional medical resources, but rather can help people to make the best of their own internal healing powers.
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