Meet your practitioner

Monica Raphael

dip. Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

Monica Raphael earned her diploma in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) in 2015. She is a member the Pacific Association of Craniosacral Therapists (PACT) and previously served on the PACT committee. She has assisted the Body Intelligence Training BCST diploma course as a Student Assistant for the six years.

Monica’s fascination with anything anatomy and touch therapy first drew her to study and practice remedial massage in her twenties. Soon after she began decades of Alexander Technique lessons from Jane Refshauge, and extended her love affair with the internal intricacies of movement, studying qigong intensively for 10 years under Li Yong Liang and Master Liu de Ming, as well as Chinese Medicine at Southern School of Natural Therapies.

It was one of her Chinese Medicine university classmates who introduced Monica to BCST, and although she was thoroughly committed to studying oriental medicine, there was no unseeing or unknowing what had been revealed during those handful of BCST sessions. The ever deepening appreciation of living anatomy and embryology afforded by practicing BCST is the hook that keeps her captivated.

Monica completed the Toyohari Meridian Therapy training in 2013 and remains an appreciative and humble student of this awesome healing modality.  She is a member of the Australasian Branch of the Toyohari Association and serves as the current president of the Melbourne Branch.

Your practitioner maintains:

• current Working With Children Check

• current Advanced First Aid and Resuscitation

• current Mental Health First Aid