Hi! Thanks for being here.
I’m Dixie Turner, a registered Craniosacral Biodynamic practitioner living and working in Berlin & London.
I’m also an artist. You can find my work here.
In the years before moving to Berlin, I worked as a Support Worker in the homeless sector in London, mostly in drug and alcohol services as well as in a shelter for vulnerable young women.
It was partly working in these places that drove me to seek out deeper and more subtle ways of meeting the pain and suffering that we all carry from time to time. I became increasingly curious about practices that supported a sense of wholeness and connection.
Another part of what drove me, was simply my own healing journey – cranio has had a profound impact on my life and on my continued process of learning and embracing embodiment.
In my late teens I went through what I now regard as a spiritual emergency. The systems that were there to catch me didn’t provide any guidance and I lost all sense of ground.
It took nearly a decade for the feeling of fragmentation to leave my body. Since then, I am deeply indebted to the teachers and guides who showed me compassion and patience whilst I was busy struggling and pushing, and who held the space for things to self-liberate — without consciously knowing it, this was the biodynamic approach I was about to step into.
The first time I received a craniosacral session, it was immediately clear that this was a path I wanted to follow, and I knew before I left that session that I would sign up for a training. With the sessions that followed, I felt as though someone had turned the lights on behind my eyes. I felt re-connected to a sense of possibility and creativity that had been unavailable to me for a long time. A month later, I began my training.
I have also been teaching yoga, movement and meditation for several years, in London and Berlin, both in group classes and privately – and I continue to be fortunate enough to facilitate Michael Stone‘s Foundations in Teaching Mindfulness Meditation course for Yogacampus in London.
As a Cranio practitioner, I continue to receive regular, on-going supervision for the purposes of professional accountability & on-going learning.
I’m a deep believer in the importance of doing our own personal work of healing as a social responsibility and as a gesture of deep care, not just for ourselves and those close to us, but for all those we share the planet with – and those yet to come.
Qualifications & Continued Professional Development:
Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner Training – 1 year programme, with Kira Balaskas in London, 2023 – current.
The Flowering of Potential: Working with Neurodiversity in the Developing Child, Adolescent and Adult – 3 days, with Ian Wright at CTET, 2023.
Joy of Living program with Mingyur Rinpoche, 2023 – ongoing.
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.
Heroic Coaching – 1 year certification program with Brian Johnson, 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.
Fully Being program with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, 2021 – ongoing.
Foundations of Well Being with Rick Hanson 1 year program, 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.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy 2 year Practitioner Training, registered with the International Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings (IABT) – Craniosacral Educational Trust (CTET), with Michael Kern, 2018-2020.
Experiential Anatomy 1 year diploma at CTET, 2018.
Mindfulness for Trauma with Michael Stone, 2017.
Mindfulness Facilitation Mentorship Program with Michael Stone at The Life Centre, London, 2016.
200h Yoga Teacher Training at 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.
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