Practitioner
John Patterson
I am a Craniosacral Practitioner who has recently trained under the Stillness Touch lineage of Charles Ridley. With 15 years of practice, I integrate Sensory Repatterning with the Stillness Touch style of Craniosacral to help clients rediscover the body’s innate ability to heal.
Certificate & Education
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Graduated from Life Energy Institute in the Craniosacral Unwinding Program.
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Studied at Upledger Institute finishing all four core classes over a 2 1/2 year period.
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Dynamic Stillness Touch Masterclass 1.
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Graduate of IPSB (LA"s premier bodywork school).
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1 year of Feldenkrais training with Anat Baniel.
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500 hr. registered yoga teacher graduate. Taught at Santa Monica Yoga, Yogaworks and Bel Air Bay Club.
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Reiki Level 2 Graduate.
Healing Through Stillness
Our Philosophy & Mission
Our Philosophy
Unlike modalities that impose a treatment plan, Stillness Touch pauses, listens, and surrenders to a deeper creative force—what we call the Potency—that orients the whole being toward wholeness.
Mission Statement
We help you settle into calmness, release tension and fear held in the body, and strengthen the resources that support health and vitality.
Our Therapy
Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral Therapy is a subtle yet profound and powerful hands-on technique, developed by Bill Sutherland founder of cranial osteopathy.
Craniosacral can help relieve any stress-related symptoms.
Some may come for Craniosacral Therapy because they have acute physical problems like headaches or bad backs, or long-standing problems both physical and emotional. Others come for ongoing support in their busy lives and for help to meet life’s challenges.
Unlike some modalities where the practitioner imposes a treatment plan onto the client this work creates a unified field that elicits an invitation for the client to enter a stillness that is alert and present.
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