Fiona is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and a practitioner of Shamanic Healing with a background in Tibetan Buddhist teachings.
about me
Fiona Smith has a background of more than 20 years in Tibetan Buddhist teachings. She considers them the heart of her work and the inspiration for her way of Being in the world.
She trained in Core Shamanism with the Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Studies and embraces Shamanism as a spiritual path. Fiona is a practitioner of shamanic healing, a shamanic counsellor and a shamanic gardener. She teaches a basic introductory course to Shamanism and advanced courses.
Fiona is a trained nurse, has a degree in Women's Studies with Sociology, is qualified to teach P.G.C.E.(F.E.) and has studied Psychosynthesis, a transpersonal psychology. For more than 8 years she taught personal development courses to women from vulnerable backgrounds, both in prison and in the community. For 5 years she worked for a charity as an outreach education worker in Hackney with young people and families in crises. She has also worked for 3 years as a professional notetaker and communication support worker, at St George's Medical School in South London, supporting a profoundly deaf student attending a Bio-Medical Science degree.
Fiona holds a diploma in Craniosacral Biodynamics and qualified as a practitioner of biodynamic craniosacral therapy with the Karuna Institute in 2007. She is a registered, and insured, member of the Craniosacral Therapy Association UK
She is greatly inspired by the work of Franklyn Sills with whom she studied, Ged Sumner and Hugh Milne.
Fiona increasingly combines craniosacral work with her shamanic healing practice.
Shamanic Consultation
This is for individuals seeking shamanic healing, advice or guidance from the Spirits as a doorway into the work.
There will be time to talk about what the issues/queries might be. We will explore this in depth together in order to create a clear intention on which to base the shamanic journey.
The clearer the intention the clearer the journey and the answers/advice given.
Once we have a clear intention that sits well, and feels right for the client, I make the shamanic journey to ask the spirits for their help & advice.
I speak the journey out loud so that the client can receive the information and energy in the moment. I also record the journey so that they can take it away and listen to it again.
If the journey resonates for the client we can discuss following up the advice and/or healing recommended by the spirits and if it doesn't resonate it can be put aside and let go of.
A shamanic consultation lasts an hour and a half and the cost is £60.
For an appointment call Fiona on 020 8986 8046 / 07944426399 or email\ fiona@breathedragon.co.uk
Shamanic Healing
Healing is remembering what has been forgotten
about connection, and unity and interdependence
among all things living and non-living.
Jean Achterberg
Shamanic healing is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of the causes of spiritual illness. The reason for illness is seen as an imbalance of power, our life energy. People who have power loss, loss of aspects of their life energy, often feel a lack of grounding and connection to themselves and to their surroundings. To restore balance Fiona works with the spirit power of the Universe to find and retrieve lost power or to remove the spirit of an illness, an unwanted power intrusion. She offers traditional techniques of shamanic healing to provide healing, reconnection and restoration.
The healer deals with the mishandling of the gaps that occur in one's life, with one's losses of spirit.
Chogyam Trungpa
Sessions last 2 hours
Cost: £80 - £100
For further information please call 020 8986 8046 / 07944426399
or email fiona@breathedragon.co.uk.
Shamanic Courses
The Path of the Shaman
This weekend basic course gives participants a practical introduction to Core shamanism; the classical methods of the shaman to enter the non-ordinary world of the Spirits for problem solving, healing and balance.
We will learn to make the shaman's journey using the traditional methods of dancing, drumming, and singing to meet and connect with our spirit helpers and teachers, and explore the world of the Spirits. Basic shamanic healing will also be taught. We will share the experiences of the journeys together in the circle, and learn how to understand them. We will look closely at the ethics of shamanic work and the benefits of being shamanic in our daily lives.
This course is an introduction for anyone who's interested in Shamanism and it's also a gateway for further shamanic courses. Date: July 2011
Time: Friday 6.30pm -9pm Saturday 9am - 6pm, Sunday 10am - 5pm
Venue: TBC in Cornwall
Cost: TBC This course will be run as a small group with maximum 10 participants so an early application is recommended.
To book a place or for further information please contact Fiona on 020 8986 8046
or email fiona@breathedragon.co.uk
Shamanism and Sexual Energy 1
This magical course is an initiation and awakening into the realms of the Sacred sexual energies. The main focus of the course is on working directly with the spiritual energy of our sexuality to bring healing and balance into our lives. Sexual energy is also creative energy balancing this energy brings harmony into our lives and into the world.
The work is experiential, we will be working with journeying, and dance, drawing, and ceremony to connect with the spirits and bring the spiritual power back to ourselves and into the world.
This is an advanced shamanic workshop and all participants must have done a basic course in core shamanism and be able to journey easily to the world of the Spirits.
For further information please phone 0208 986 8046 or email fiona@breathedragon.co.uk
Shamanism and Sexual Energy 2
The Dance of the Dragon
The Dance of the Dragon is an ancient, earth based, spiritual practice.
During this course we deepen our relationship with the Sacred sexual energies. With a clear intention we will dance the harmony of the energies learning to truly feel the power in our bodies and to listen deeply to its teachings. We will learn to use the power for healing and balance in nature and with others.
This course is for those who have completed the Shamanism and Sexual Energy 1 course and who wish to deepen their work with the Sacred sexual energies.
The work is experiential we will be working with journeying, and dance, meditation, drawing and ceremony. The course is run in small groups of 4 people so an early application is recommended.
For further information please phone 0208 986 8046 or email fiona@breathedragon.co.uk
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle yet profound 'hands on' healing therapy that supports the body's natural tendency to find health and optimum balance. In this approach, we, as human beings, are seen to be an expression of the wholeness of life itself.
For treatment , you will usually lie on a treatment couch, fully clothed, and experience the very light touch of the therapist's hands. You may feel a deep sense of relaxation which usually lasts for the whole session and possibly become aware of heat, tingling, pulsations or other sensations. With subsequent treatments this sense of relaxation often extends into every day life. The work raises the natural vitality of the body's system and can help resolve psycho-emotions held in body patterns, nervous system dysfunctions as well as muscular/skeletal diffuculties and birth trauma.
Stresses, strains or tension tend to lodge in the body and can restrict the body's functioning giving rise to problems over the years. These effects can be physical (ie. backpain, migraine or digestive disorders) and /or emotional (ie. anxiety or depression). This extremely gentle therapy uses no manipulation. The therapist listens, via the hands, to what is going on in your body and facilitates the body's vital force to manifest and bring about intrinsic change and reorganistion. In this way the therapist identifies and treats pain or tensions held in the body.
Craniosacral therapy is so gentle that it is safe and suitable for people of all ages, from babies to the elderly, and also in fragile or acutely painful conditions. It is client-led. Your body will set the pace of the work, so you will remain comfortable, in control and able to integrate the changes that occur.
How does Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy work?
Craniosacral therapy is based on a number of findings that were highlighted by osteopaths more than 100 years ago. These findings show that in health, all cells in the body express a rhythmic movement fundamental to life - which has been called Primary Respiration. The full and balanced expression of primary respiration is fundamental to good health. Health is seen as something active, not just absence of disease. This intrinsic health, primary respiration, integrates all cellular and tissue function and is constantly working to maintain balance. It is the flow of life itself through the body.
Restrictions in the body's functioning show up in the way that primary respiration is expressed. In treatment the therapist identifies any areas of stress or strain and encourages a restoration of subtle motion. As well as releasing the body's tensions, this frees up the energy which the body was previously using to hold itself in contraction. So one of the benefits of the treatment is an increase in vitality, in the level of energy available, which can have far reaching consequences for increased physical, emotional and spiritual health in every day life.
Sessions last one hour and the cost is £50
For an appointment call Fiona on 020 8986 8046 / 07944426399
or email fiona@breathedragon.co.uk
Service Categories
Craniosacral Therapy, Meditation, Spiritual Healing
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