ABOUT ME
Hi! Thanks for being here.
I’m Dixie Turner, a native-English speaking, registered Craniosacral practitioner living and working in Berlin.
My Path to This Work
My path to bodywork has been shaped by direct experience of both suffering and healing, and by a deep curiosity about how we come into fuller relationship with ourselves and our lives.
Before training as a Craniosacral practitioner, I spent years working as a support worker in London’s homeless sector—primarily in drug and alcohol services and a shelter for vulnerable young women. This work brought me face-to-face with the profound ways trauma and disconnection live in the body, and drove me to seek approaches that could meet pain with genuine presence rather than just management.
My interest in somatic work is also personal. In my late teens, I experienced what I now understand as a spiritual emergency—a period of intense disorientation for which I had no support. It took years for my nervous system to find ground again. When I first received Craniosacral, something shifted very quickly for me. I felt a reconnection to creativity, possibility, and aliveness that had been inaccessible for years. Before leaving that first session, I knew I would train in this work.
My Approach
Since completing my training five years ago, Craniosacral Biodynamics has continued to reveal itself as a practice of deep listening—to the body’s inherent intelligence, to the subtle rhythms and forces that organise our experience, and to the possibility of profound self-regulation and integration.
I’m particularly drawn to the transpersonal dimensions of this work: the ways that gentle, attuned touch can create space for people to encounter themselves more fully, and to discover a greater sense of wholeness, ease, and belonging.
Who I Work With
I welcome everyone to my practice, and I’m especially interested in supporting neurodivergent folks, highly sensitive people, queer and LGBTQ+ clients, and those navigating complex experiences of embodiment, trauma, or spiritual emergence. I understand from lived experience what it means to move through a world not built for different nervous systems, identities, and ways of being. My practice is informed by this lived experience, and by a commitment to creating sessions that honour each person’s unique needs and pace.
Background & Training
Alongside Craniosacral work, I offer traditional Thai Yoga Massage and have a background in teaching yoga, movement, and meditation. I continue to facilitate the discussion forum for Michael Stone’s Foundations in Teaching Mindfulness Meditation course through Yogacampus in London, and I maintain my own contemplative practice within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. I also assist my primary Cranio teacher, Michael Kern, in his Berlin workshops.
I have an academic background in philosophy—particularly existentialism and phenomenology—which continues to inform how I think about embodiment, consciousness, and what it means to be human. I’m comfortable holding space for both somatic experience and the deeper questions that often arise in this work.
All sessions are offered in English from my practice in Neukölln. I receive regular clinical supervision to support ongoing learning and professional development.
I’m honoured to do this work, and I’d be glad to explore whether Craniosacral work might support you on your own path.
Main Professional Qualifications:
Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner – with Kira Balaskas in London, 2023 – 2024.
Heroic Coaching – 1 year certification program with Brian Johnson, 2022.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy – Craniosacral Educational Trust (CTET), with Michael Kern, 2018-2020. Registered with the International Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings (IABT).
Experiential Anatomy 1 year diploma at CTET, 2018.
Meditation Teacher – Mindfulness Facilitation Mentorship Program (MFMP) with Michael Stone at The Life Centre, London, 2016.
200h Yoga Teacher – Bristol City Yoga, 2014.
Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory Post Grad. Diploma, Middlesex University, 2009.
Modern European Philosophy and English Literature B.A., Middlesex University, 2001.
Continued Professional Development:
The Flowering of Potential: Working with Neurodiversity in the Developing Child, Adolescent and Adult – 3 days, with Ian Wright at CTET, 2023.
Formative Embodiment: Keys To Self-Forming and Self-Empowerment – 4 days, with Dr. Jim Feil at CTET, 2023.
Birth from the Baby’s Perspective – 1 day with Matthew Appleton, 2023.
Cranio and Working with Long-Covid – 1 day with Sarah Nesling, 2023.
Dr Stephen Porges: The Significance of Polyvagal Theory for Touch and Somatic Therapies – 1 day, with Dr. Stephen Porges at CTET, 2022.
Working with Ancestors and Ancestral Trauma – 1 day with Mary Bolingbroke, 2022.
Trauma Series – Working with Activation, Working with Dissociation, Working with Developmental Trauma – 3 days, with Sarah Nesling, 2022.
The Biodynamics of Death and Dying – 3 days, with Michael Kern at CTET – 2022.
G.R.A.C.E. Training in Cultivating Compassion-Based Interactions – with Roshi Joan Halifax, Upaya Zen Center, 2021.
Movement for Trauma, certification program with Jane Clapp, 2021.
Fighting Monkey Practice & Trauma Stress Recovery, with Jane Clapp, 2020.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief – series of workshops with Francis Weller, 2019.
Mindfulness for Trauma with Michael Stone, 2017.
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