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about Danni
My work has been deeply shaped by my own health journey — one that changed the way I understand the body, healing, and what it means to come back into true health.
In what feels like a past life, I worked in business and corporate banking. I never could have imagined I’d be doing the work I do today — and yet, when I look back at the path that brought me here, it feels as though I couldn't have arrived anywhere else.
For two decades I lived through depression, anxiety, and existential crises — what I came to understand as “dark nights of the soul”. I eventually found my way through that mental and emotional terrain, only to find myself navigating the same geography in my body: chronic illness. It forced me to look even deeper at everything I thought I knew about the mind, body, health, and healing.
For seven years, I navigated a complex, multi-system health crisis that conventional approaches couldn’t resolve. For four years I couldn’t breathe through my nose. I experienced severe coughing and anaphylactic episodes, extreme food and chemical sensitivities, chronic fatigue, cognitive impairment, reflux, involuntary body movements and visual disturbances. At times, my system felt profoundly dysregulated, and the effects reached into every layer of my life — physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
In the course of my life I have also experienced multiple tailbone falls, fractured ribs, a cranial injury, four surgeries, being hit by a truck, and the effects of complex trauma from a number of life events. Only through beginning to truly listen to the body’s messages did I come to understand how interconnected these experiences could be. Depression is not purely mental or emotional, and chronic illness is not purely physical. The body can carry patterns long after the original experience has passed.
What this journey taught me is that healing is rarely linear, and it cannot be forced through willpower alone. I have come to understand recovery as a process of gradually restoring safety, connection, and coherence within the system — cultivated and nurtured over time through presence, relationship, and deep listening.
I explored a wide variety of approaches — from medical and functional care to energetic and intuitive modalities — searching for approaches that could genuinely shift what I was experiencing. It was through this search that I found biodynamic craniosacral therapy.
What stood out for me wasn’t just the shifts I felt, but the way it approached healing. Rather than attempting to fix, force, or override the body, it listened. It trusted the system’s inherent intelligence — and that when given the conditions of safety, stillness, and presence, the body may begin to reorganise in its own way.
This understanding shifted something fundamental in me, and it informs the steadiness, patience, and depth I bring to my practice today.
a different understanding of healing
Through both my personal experience and my training, I’ve come to see that many of the patterns we experience — whether physical symptoms, emotional responses, or ongoing challenges — are not random.
They are held within the body and nervous system in ways that often haven’t yet been fully processed, integrated, or understood.
Healing, in my experience, doesn’t come from forcing change. It comes from creating the conditions where the body feels safe enough to reveal what it has been holding — and from there, allowing the natural process of reorganisation to unfold.
Healing is not always experienced as comfortable in the moment. As patterns shift and the nervous system reorganises, sensations, emotions, or old material may arise to be felt and integrated.
These conditions include: presence, depth, space, awareness, perception, stillness, allowing / non-judgment / non-expectation — an ability to witness and be with what is.
This is the space I aim to hold in my work, and to support you in integrating in your everyday life beyond the session.
the story behind Anatomy of Healing
Anatomy of Healing is a deeply personal name — one that quietly reflects many of the experiences, questions, challenges, and signs that shaped my path into this work.
I’ve always been fascinated by the relationship between the body, health, emotion, energy, and healing. Long before I formally studied Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, I found myself drawn toward understanding how humans heal — not only physically, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually too.
In my late teens, I read the book Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss. It was one of my earliest introductions to ideas around energy medicine, the mind-body connection, and the energetic centres of the body. At the time, I don’t think I fully understood the significance of those ideas or how deeply they would later connect with my own healing journey and professional path.
Years later, after becoming seriously unwell in my mid-thirties, I came across another book: Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins. His story of navigating an “incurable” illness through self-advocacy, mindset, humour, and active participation in his healing process gave me hope during a time when I desperately needed it. It strengthened my belief that healing is deeply collaborative — that while practitioners can support us, our relationship with our own body, nervous system, choices, and inner world matters profoundly too.
As I later trained in biodynamic craniosacral therapy, another title appeared in my life: Anatomy of Potency by Nicholas Handoll. In craniosacral work, “potency” refers to the organising forces and subtle rhythms that support life, regulation, and healing within the body. What fascinated me most was the way this work bridged anatomy, physiology, osteopathy, nervous system regulation, energy, and emerging understandings of the body in an integrated and deeply respectful way.
I’ve always been someone who wants to understand how things work — both scientifically and experientially. I’m fascinated by the meeting point between anatomy and intuition, physiology and emotion, structure and energy, science and lived human experience.
To me, the word anatomy means more than physical body parts. It also speaks to observation, exploration, curiosity, and learning to listen more deeply. Through my own healing journey and my work with clients, I’ve come to believe that healing often begins with creating enough safety, awareness, and support for the body to express what it has been holding.
The name Anatomy of Healing ultimately represents the integration of everything that has shaped this path for me:
chronic illness and recovery
nervous system healing
embodied awareness
anatomy and physiology
energy and subtle perception
curiosity and lifelong learning
and a deep respect for the body’s innate wisdom and capacity for change
It is truly an honour to support others as they navigate their own healing journeys. Thank you for being here.
how I work
My work integrates both body-based and intuitive approaches.
Through biodynamic craniosacral therapy, we work directly with the nervous system and the physical body — supporting release of tension and pain, regulation of nervous system, more spaciousness and ease of mind and emotions, unwinding and integration at a pace your system can sustain.
Alongside this, my intuitive healing and soul conversation sessions offer additional ways of accessing healing, clarity, awareness, and insight into patterns that may not yet be fully conscious and are ready to shift.
While these may appear as different modalities, they are guided by the same underlying principle: that your system has an intelligence which already holds the information it needs — and that transformation begins as we learn to listen.
training + ongoing development
I hold a Diploma in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, having completed over 700 hours of training, along with more than 200 hours assisting students and faculty within the classroom environment.
My formal training has included Bones and Fluids, Vertebral issues, Thoracic and TMJ (jaw) issues, Central Nervous System, Stress and Trauma, Paediatrics, Facial Dynamics, Eyes + Vision, Sinus, Organs, Autoimmune.
My work is also informed by ongoing study across anatomy, physiology and neuroscience; trauma and nervous system regulation; the lymphatic system; mineral balance; and a range of intuitive and energy-based practices.
Alongside my biodynamic training, I have spent several years developing my intuitive perception — a capacity I believe we can all cultivate — through psychic development, mediumship, shamanic practice and the akashic records.
I continue to deepen both the scientific and intuitive dimensions of my work. I don't experience these as competing ways of understanding — but as complementary perspectives that can offer different insights into the complexity of human experience. I bring both perspectives into the room while remaining curious about what emerges — listening to the person, the body, and their system rather than imposing a predetermined explanation or outcome.
my studies + teachers
I share my qualifications not just to outline my training, but to honour the teachers and ‘training grounds’ that have shaped me — because everything I offer is the result of a deeply supported, lived journey of learning, healing, and mentorship.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with Ken Gordon — The Institute of Craniosacral Training and Mind Body Healing Centres
Further Craniosacral studies — Eyes + Vision + Autoimmune — with Etienne Peirsman Cranio
Craniosacral mentoring with Doug Jones — Doug Jones Therapy
Akashic Records Intuitive Development with April Curry / Akashic April
Inner Engineering with Isha Foundation / Sadhguru
Shamanic Journey with Tina D’Amore — 3 Crows Healing
Neuroenergetic Kinesiology with NK Institute
Healing mentoring with Molly Brumm — Conscious Heart Kinesiology
Advanced Mediumship with Jamie Butler
Reiki I, II + III with Lida Zannier
Psychic Development with Kalyi Amoto, Denise Litchfield + Ryan Mabee
Mystical school teachings with Mama Molten from Big Island, Hawaii
Holistic Integrated Creative Arts Therapy — College of Conscious Living
Mineral Balancing and Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis with InterClinical Laboratories
Geometry of Healing with Meredith Sands-Keator
Spinal Energetics (current)
Quantum Osteopathy (current)
a final note
I’ve spent many years navigating both chronic illness and deeper internal challenges, and I understand how complex and layered healing can be.
It has also taught me that change is possible — not through force, but through a gradual return to balance, awareness, and connection within the body, while honouring the Self and learning to live more fully in my own truth.
If you feel drawn to this work, I look forward to meeting you soon.
“The body and mind are interconnected. What heals one often heals the other.”
Dr Brian Weiss (Psychiatrist, Past Life and Consciousness expert)
“Because the immune system is connected to the emotions, when you're repressing your emotions, you're also repressing your immune system.”
Gabor Maté (Physician + Trauma / Addiction / Stress / Childhood Development expert)