Origins of the Work

 Health is our beginning, our origin, our original nature – it contains our name and it’s meaning.                                                                                                                                                                    –  James S. Jealous DO

Yucatec Maya Healing

Miss Beatrice was born in the caul on January 18th, 1948 in the village of Santa Familia, Belize. Her family migrated from Yucatan, Mexico during the caste war in the late 1800s. In Yucatec Maya culture, being born in the caul (amniotic sac) is the sign of a healer. As far back as she could remember, Miss Beatrice was connected to the spiritual world and always interested in healing plants.

Fire Heart

My name is Miss Beatrice Torres Waight. I am 100% Yucateca Maya and Maya is my first language.  I was born and raised in Belize, Central America and I had the Yucatec Maya ways passed down to me through many generations. Fire Heart is a book about Miss B’s life in her own words. The book is transcribed from direct spoken word of Miss B and includes Yucateca Maya wisdom, recipes, history, ceremonies and plant lore. All proceeds go to support the education of her grandchildren in Belize.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST)

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a non-invasive touch therapy with roots in Indigenous Wisdom and Knowledge, specifically from the Lumbee and Shawnee First Nations people of Turtle Island. This healing modality was influenced by the bone setting practices of our Indigenous relatives. In addition, BCST is a branch of Osteopathy founded by Dr. Andrew T. Still who brought these two modalities together. The complex history of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, as well as many touch therapies, is held, and coupled both with reverence and an invitation. Fellow Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapists, Ruti Wagaki, author of, Decolonizing Our Origin Story: A Pathway Toward Communal Healing, and Susan Raffo, author of, Liberated to the Bone,  articulate this with historical reference, compassion, and a pathway to deepen one's own understanding of the direct link between social justice and the work of  healing as individuals, communities, and societies, which centers the necessary practice of healing justice as a way of life.

In practice, BCST is a gentle non-invasive, hands-on session for the whole body. Performed on a massage table, the client is fully clothed and the practitioner touch is light and still. The session’s focus is to support the inherent health of the whole being, especially the nervous system (NS). The NS dictates all of the body’s functioning, constantly sending and receiving information.

BCST practitioners understand how an optimally functioning healthy nervous system performs. We are trained for years on how to use acute perception skills to perceive subtle physiological changes. We also are aware of the energetic map that underlies one’s basic health and symptomology. We believe that health is never lost no matter what the ailment. We use our ability to identify the parts of the nervous system that are not functioning optimally and our awareness of the “always available health” in the body to assist the system in bringing itself back into balance. This supports greater ease and helps the body decrease symptoms.