Today we’d like to introduce you to Kadie Spinks.
Hi Kadie, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
There but for the grace of God go I
(with God as a non-religious 3-letter word pointing at something divinely mysterious, intelligent, and vaster than the human mind).
It’s all grace! Isn’t it? Why any of us are here or are where we are. Even with the hard stuff. Life’s always nudging us along, helping us grow, heal, have fun. Sometimes we just need a little help cleaning the mirror when circumstances have obscured it.
I suppose you could say I’m in the business of helping folks clean their mirrors which means regular tending to my own through various self-inquiry practices.
Whether I am facilitating Drama Improv Club, acting on stage in Sunday Night Live, teaching a Co-Regulation workshop, giving a BCST session or hanging out with my family and friends, I am interested in what is true in the present moment, and how can that truth be explored and digested in the most inclusive and loving way possible. And what happens with consciousness in that process.
That sounds a bit heady, though. Really, it’s like, what’s possible when everyone feels genuinely safe in their own body and connected to their center? & how can I have fun while I help facilitate that?
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Oh it’s been bumpy, but the bumps just nudge me along to wherever I’m meant to be. For anyone into astrocartography, I grew up near and am currently living under the influence of my Pluto line. Hello, facing shadows.
And the road really has smoothed out to a certain degree thanks to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. Going through the 20-month training at Colorado School of Energy Studies with Anna Chitty truly changed my nervous system. It helped me to digest old trauma layers that my body was still holding, and once that life-force-energy is no longer bound up in protection and survival, we’re changed, we’re free-er, more stable.
So it’s not that there are no longer bumps on the road, but my relationship to the bumps has changed. I have more support and inner-resources to navigate them.
& I can’t emphasize this enough — I have learned how to ask for and receive support when I need it. Simple stuff, like co-regulating by sitting back-to-back with a friend. When the body feels held, we have different ideas and thoughts about the world.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I find myself gravitating deeper into the intersection of performance arts + healing arts.
I provide trauma-resolution, nervous-system-informed Somatic Therapy through Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) — a practice of non-verbal listening to the body and energetic space-holding. This helps the body unwind and reorganize back to its inherent health, often wiser and with more physiological resilience. I also teach workshops on Co-Regulation, helping people improve subtle perception skills and give/receive embodied support in their day-to-day lives outside of sessions.
I facilitate a Drama Improv Club that meets monthly, structuring the container with principles from Ray Castellino, a pioneer in pre- and perinatal somatics. These principles, also utilized in my BCST training at the Colorado School of Energy Studies, create true safety where individual autonomy and group cooperation harmoniously coexist. A simple example: brief, frequent eye contact can dramatically increase feelings of inclusion and relaxation. Our nervous systems are constantly scanning environments for belonging and danger, and short bursts of optional eye contact activate the ventral-vagal system to help us feel safe and social (the “brief” part is key because prolonged eye contact can have the opposite effect – just ask any animal in the wild!😅).
I also write and act in theatre and films — creating art and playing make-believe feeds my soul. Currently, I’m a part of a sketch group that performs monthly called Sunday Night Live.
How do you define success?
To live and let live with curiosity and compassion. To speak one’s truth regardless of how it will be received. To experiment!
Pricing:
- 150$/ 90 min BCST session
- 135$/ 60 min BCST session
- 4 sessions for $440 to be used in 4 weeks
- valentine special: 2 sessions for $222.22 (2 months to use, offer ends feb 14 2026)
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.downstreamBCST.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/downstreamBCST
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kadiespinks6698
- Other: https://www.instagram.com/kadie.spinks
