Jen Hornyak ®BCST
Hi, I'm Jen. I have over 12 years experience in the healing field. I am a registered Craniosacral Therapist, Ayurveda Counsellor, and Reiki Master (Level 3). I am a member of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (BCTA NA), and the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA).
The Ayurveda college - Narayana - from which I qualified, is only one of 12 Ayurveda schools in the US that is recognised by NAMA (the National Ayurvedic Medical Association). My two year training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy was through the global Body Intelligence. I also completed a certificate in treating babies and children through Cranial Osteopath Dr Jonathon Evans of Kindred Academy (see his many insightful youtube videos). My Level 1, 2 & Reiki Masters (3) is accredited by the International Natural Healers Association, and I am also a Life Coach with a diploma accredited by the International Council for Psychotherapists.
I have a BA honors degree in Philosophy, and Post Graduate Certificate in Theology, Philosophy & Literature.
My passion is to help you come back home to your true whole, healthy and joyful Self. Please reach out with any questions you may have, to 513 610 5167.
Hi and thank you for taking the time to look through these pages. Here's an overview about my own discovery of CST.
I first discovered Craniosacral Therapy whilst living in Australia in 2010 and having suffered recurring, intense 'seizures' for eight years (and a lifetime's history of depression and anxiety). During the worse times I could have several episodes a day, losing consciousness, collapsing to the floor, suffering memory loss before and after, and having full-body convulsions. There were periods of days when I was unable to walk (my legs wouldn't function), nor able to read more than a line from a book without fading out. My ongoing pursuits to be an academic in Philosophy were continually challenged, and eventually crushed.
All of this was a tremendous blessing in disguise.
Little did I know at the time that Life was forcing me out of my head (quite literally, so it felt), into my body. And into my Soul.
In Sydney, Australia I was advised to see a Craniosacral Therapist. I had no idea what that was, (nor how to pronounce it). During our first treatment, she placed her hands on my legs and said with great compassion,
'You have a lot of trauma in your body.'
That was the beginning of an incredible healing journey.
As I continued having treatments, the seizures began to heal, being a result of chronic PTSD from my whole life (and possible generational imprints that had been passed down into my DNA). I began to reconnect with my blood flow, my cerebrospinal fluid, my bones, my heart. I could feel Life and loving energy flowing through my whole body and mind. My nervous system, which had been seemingly beyond repair, began to balance and repair itself. My heart and eyes opening to a new way of Being.
All through my therapist's touch, warm presence, wisdom and guidance.
Furthermore, I began to feel not only connected to my own self, but to something much vaster, all-encompassing, safe and unconditionally loving, unconditionally present. I was having the felt-experiences of all the eastern-philosophical texts about enlightenment and the inter-connectedness or the Universe that I had been studying in the previous years. The books no longer mattered so much. Life is Here.
And life took on a new meaning. There was love, joy, peace and wellness. An abundance of hope and purpose. Health and happiness. Even as my body was healing, and sometimes pain experienced, there was the pure seeing that who I am at the core is whole and healthy. Untouchable by illness or disease. Pure joy. Pure love. And one with the Cosmos.
It is my belief that all of life's challenges (including those to our health) are divine opportunities for going deep within ourselves, beneath the shallow waters, to heal our past, present and future, and remember who we timelessly are.
The process of embodiment is a gift!
I am here to support you with this.
With love, Jen
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During the course of our lives our bodies become patterned, shaped and conditioned according to how we can deal with stresses or traumas. If we are unable to dissipate the effect of these experiences, they become locked in the body as sites of inertia - until a time that we become able to process and resolve them. These sites of inertia create distortions in the natural rhythmical movements of the Breath of Life [life-force], leading to a sense of fragmentation and hindering the ability of our essential health to manifest at a cellular level.
Due to an accumulation of these stresses, tissues can become imprinted with the memory of unresolved experiences and so act like video tapes which may keep replaying whenever stimulated. We may then cycle around in repeated patterns of physiological and psychological behaviour, as our responses to situations become conditioned by experiences already held within us. These patterns are commonly caused by factors such as physical injuries, emotional and psychological stresses, birth trauma and toxicity.
The emphasis in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is to help resolve the trapped forces that underlie and govern patterns of disease and fragmentation in both body and mind. This involves the practitioner developing finely-tuned skills of palpation and perception to sense the body's subtle rhythms and any patterns of inertia or congestion. Through the development of these skills the practitioner can read the story of the body, identify places where issues are held and then follow the natural priorities for healing as directed by the patient's physiology.
Michael Kern - Craniosacral Therapist and Author
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