SESSIONS WITH SĀRA

BIODYNAMIC healing & Integration Work

Space for you to simply be.

join me in meeting yourself
here and now

Moment to moment we are alive with movement from within and without, experiencing a rich palette of thought, feeling, physical sensation, and emotion.At the foundation of this movement lies a dynamic stillness, giving rise to a sacred order of unfolding intelligence guiding us towards health and well-being.When we've lost contact with this stillness, it can be difficult to know what we feel, what we truly want, or to identify what would nourish us most. We may find ourselves returning to the same thought, feeling or situation over and over again, stuck in a labyrinth we don't remember entering into and seemingly unable to find the exit.This is where I can help.The most important journey we will ever make is from the head to the heart.
The most direct means of arriving at our destination is to simply embrace exactly where we are.Join me in meeting yourself here and now.Together we can explore that space and see where it leads. It's an inner adventure, a journey into the unknown. I am here to accompany you, to be a witness and a presence to what is on the other side of the question, the fear, the resistance, and the pain.These sessions are very simple and very deep.It is in this simplicity—this unhurried attention to what is actually present—that insight and relaxation becomes possible. The deepest shifts often happen not through complexity, but through the power of being fully met in your experience.In Kindness,Sara x

Session offerings

I offer two complementary approaches to support you: somatic-based sessions that work directly with the body's wisdom, and dialogue-based sessions where we explore your inner world through thoughtful conversation and guided inquiry.

Biodynamic Healing & Integration

What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy assists the body’s natural capacity for self-repair. It helps resolve the trapped forces that underlie and govern patterns of disease and fragmentation, bringing the body into its natural state of health, where everything moves as a unified whole.There is no manipulation or forced adjustment of structures, only a very light, reflective touch accompanied by deep presence, observation, acceptance and redirection towards health.

Biodynamic forces exist which maintain the order, integrity and homeostasis of all living things. These forces, alive with potency and vitality, arise from stillness and orient around the mid-line of the body. Physical injuries, trauma, or unconscious holding patterns can create resistance to the natural flow of these forces, causing them to reorganize around the blockages in their continued effort to maintain balance and homeostasis. These places of compensation and stagnation inhibit the system's full expression of health.

How We Come to Embody Health

By shifting our awareness to stillness, we allow the restoration of healthy flow to arise and unfold. The wisdom and plan for how this is achieved is contained within the stillness. A natural ordering force, referred to in craniosacral biodynamics as 'The Tide', carries and communicates this intelligence. It is this force that we attune to and allow to guide the session. The Tide is a natural expression of health. Our trust in The Tide and its path is what allows all other natural forces in the body to reorganize themselves and we are gifted with a (k)new sense of spaciousness and well-being. Physical structures start to move the way they were intended, the mind relaxes, the nervous system finds balance, and we experience and embody a deepened sense of self-awareness.This gentle yet potent therapy can be effective for most any issue, be it physical or emotional, as biodynamic integration revolves around establishing the underlying strength at the core of our being, rather than around symptoms and disease.

What To Expect During a Session

Sessions are done in person or at a distance, from the comfort of your own home, using a voice calling platform. We begin with a short discussion where you will be invited to share what has prompted you to meet with me and what you hope to gain from our time together. A clear intention facilitates a more effective outcome.From here, you will lie in a comfortable, quiet and uninterrupted space. I'll help guide your awareness to your body and the session will commence. You will feel me present with you every step of the way. My hands follow The Tide and mirror back to your body any sites of inertia or stagnation so that the unwinding of tensions and trauma can be facilitated.

The Session Experience

The session is client-led, in the sense that it's your body that sets the pace of the work; it will only unfold at a momentum that you are able to comfortably integrate. Generally what is felt is a deep sense of relaxation. You may enter into a space much like the one between waking and sleep. Sensations such as fluid-like movement, heat, tingling, pulsations or waves of energy may be perceived. Sometimes emotional responses can arise as the heart begins to relax in non-resistance. I hold a neutral, compassionate and safe space for these emotions to be processed.

After Your Session

The work will come to a natural close and you will be given time to integrate the session. It's common to experience your body in a whole new way. If you can, give yourself at least a half hour to go for a quiet walk or to relax at home. I will follow-up with you within 48 hours so we may each share our impressions of what occurred during the session in more detail. I can answer any questions you may have and/or recommend next steps.

Please note that longstanding issues require consistent, loving attention and commitment. For this reason, you may want to consider gifting yourself a series of treatments so that you may benefit from the cumulative effects.

Discovery Dialogue for Integrated Action

When we act or move from an integrated place within, where our thoughts, feelings and words are in harmony, we align with a universal order and discover the role we are here to play in each specific context we find ourselves in.Your presence matters. Your integrity is essential. We shine in our own place.The purpose of these sessions is to help you align with your own truth and your own core values. When you come into right relationship with your heart, you can then take the next steps forward with confidence. This next step may even be to simply embrace the unknown with trust and patience until the next action arises naturally.Each session begins with a meditation to bring you into your body and felt sense. Through dialogue, we explore your inquiry on the level of thought and feeling (both physical and emotional). Alternative perspectives can be offered through direct teaching or deeper inquiry, with the goal of allowing you to find your own inner alignment, where your mind, heart and body feel in harmony.

Tools That Can Assist Our Inquiry

These assistive tools offer an external visual structure or point of reference that acts like a mirror. This may help you more easily orient to and feel into your question, prompting insights that guide your inquiry deeper.

Gene Keys

This is an esoteric based system with foundations in astrology, Human Design and the I Ching. Using your birth information (date, place, time) a chart will be generated. This chart will serve as a map, providing insight into your core challenges and gifts. It offers clear points of reference for contemplation as you navigate through life, integrating and transmuting what comes your way.

Archetype & Symbolism Exploration

The unconscious often reveals itself by means of symbols and archetypes. These are universal forms that express in unique yet recognizable ways and can help guide us to uncovering what is ready to be owned up or integrated. They can appear in our night time dreams, through imagery and story, and even surprise us in our everyday waking life. Through our investigation of these symbols and archetypes, we can gain valuable insight into the current and next iteration of our unfolding self. I use Intuiti Creative Cards, dreamwork imagery, or other archetypal visual cues to help you navigate and guide your inquiry.

SARA MONONEN
Your guide & facilitator

In Sanskrit, sāra means 'essence' – the intrinsic nature of something that remains unchanged by circumstance. As nature would have it, my name embodies the very principle at the heart of my practice. Like the innate wisdom of a flower that follows its own perfect unfolding, I guide others toward their inherent wholeness through Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.

The Beauty of Being

There's a moment when a flower reveals itself in full bloom — not striving, simply expressing its nature. This is the same beauty I witness in my practice: the unfurling of your innate essence and inherent health when given space, kind attention, and acceptance.My work flows from a simple understanding: we are not separate from nature but are nature itself in human form. The same intelligence that knows how to turn seed into blossom exists within you, guiding your body toward balance and your heart toward wholeness.Working with the body's innate rhythms, I attune to something called "The Tide", a natural current of health that moves through all living things. Like tending a garden, I create conditions where health and well-being emerge naturally, where tensions can dissolve, and your system is free to express how it functions most organically in an unrestricted way.

The Wisdom of Natural Timing

Nature cannot be rushed. The tree doesn't question the slow stretching of its roots, and the river doesn't apologize for its meandering path to the sea. In our work together, we honour this same principle: slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.When we surrender to the body's own timing, we discover a paradox: patience actually accelerates the healing and integration process. It is in the gentle pauses, the moments of deep listening, that the most profound shifts occur.Our culture often demands immediacy, but nature's wisdom follows cycles and rhythms as ancient as the tides. I've witnessed how honouring these natural cadences allows the body to accomplish in moments what force could never achieve in years. Like a perfectly ripe fruit that falls from the tree precisely when ready, your system knows when to let go of what no longer serves.This patience is not passive waiting, but active trust – a deep recognition that your body holds the timeline of its own restoration. Together, we learn to read these subtle cues, to trust this silent language, and to flow with, rather than against, the current of your healing journey.

Tick, tick, bloom...

My journey with this work began fifteen years ago, staring at an image of Antelope Canyon — smooth, sculptural walls of red earth shaped by water and time. It was a poster advertising Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy sessions. Lured only by the photo, knowing nothing about this modality, I soon found myself lying on a massage table, feeling and witnessing layers of my body and mind I hadn't known existed. In that gentle yet profound experience, I discovered (k)new dimensions of myself, long silenced, a revelation both painful and liberating.A deep desire awakened in me. I wanted to learn how to share these spaces of discovery with others. This led me to pursuing foundational studies with Dr. Leonid Soboleff and later expanding, quite literally, into distance work with Liza Borodkin.My healing practice now intertwines quite beautifully with my work as a florist, sharing the common thread of bringing forth beauty that is already present. Whether arranging flowers or holding space for healing, I am in service to the same creative force: the intelligence of life expressing itself through form.

What Unfolds in Our Work Together

In our sessions, whether remote or in-person, we enter a field of possibility where your body can speak its truth. Distance sessions create a particularly sacred space for those who are highly sensitive, offering protection while still allowing profound connection — it's as if I'm in the room with you, yet you remain safely held in your own environment.The language of healing isn't always verbal. Sometimes it speaks through a deep sigh, a softening around the heart, tears that fall slowly and unexpectedly from the creases of the eyes, or the simple recognition of a pattern long held but never noticed. As your guide, I follow the wisdom of your system, attending to what wants to emerge with patience and reverence.Clients often describe leaving our sessions feeling more spacious inside, as if inner rooms previously closed have opened, allowing fresh air to circulate. The ability to rest deepens, chronic pain and tension eases, a calm fluidity permeates, and a new sense of being at home in the body takes root.

A Foundation of Wholeness

My approach is grounded in over fifteen years of study in Vedanta — ancient wisdom that recognizes each being as already full and complete, here and now. This understanding, paired with formal training in Psychology and Education, creates a holistic framework for our work together.When we recognize ourselves as already whole — not broken, not needing fixing, but perhaps only needing gentle attention and acceptance — everything changes. Like a garden returning to its natural state when tended with knowledge and care, your system remembers its inherent health.Just as a flower needs no instruction to bloom, you carry within you all the wisdom required for healing and integration, including the wisdom to know when outside help is needed. My role is simply to create the conditions where your intrinsic health and beauty can emerge — where the essence of who you are can express itself fully in the garden of your being.

Client Experiences and Reflections

I was having a very difficult time setting boundaries and wanted to get clarity of how healthy boundaries would feel from a felt body perspective, not just my mind. I came to know that some parts of my body do not really feel inhabited, for example the hip region or the whole spine. The aliveness in the body I felt when these parts came to life and were energized was very satisfying and built a new kind of trust in my body.To me it never felt like Sara was on the other side of the world but like she was sitting right next to me in my room. It was almost as if I could feel her hands. The connection that builds through the work between two body-mind-souls is extraordinary in my view. It was very surprising to me how often Sara was accurately describing what I was feeling and sensing in the moment, whether it be an emotion or a bodily subtle sensation. It made me feel very safe and at home. I also appreciate the debriefing after the session which were almost as helpful as the session itself.— Manu (Germany)

Working with Sara has been one of my life's true blessings. From day one she has been a light in my darkness, a beacon of hope and a refuge where I can honestly express my authentic self. Sara is a beautiful soul and has many gifts. One of them is the ability to establish a deep connection during our sessions. Another is to gently help bring my awareness to any blockages that I may or may not have realized. She then lovingly assists me to remain with the feelings that arise and to embrace them. Before I know it, the block has dissipated and flow has been restored. This is just a glimpse into a single session, one must experience to understand. I couldn't have asked for a better teacher on my path to self-discovery and aid in my healing. Ever so grateful.- George T. (Canada)

Sara is phenomenally intuitive. It is a great blessing to recieve from such a highly trained and gifted practitioner.- V. Nunes, RMT (Canada)

Sara is a very rare and masterful healer. I knew she had decades of knowledge and experience behind her but to experience her skills was something else. I felt very safe and held in my session with Sara which therefore allowed me to relax, let go and go very deep. I could really feel her loving heart, intuition and wisdom coming through.An issue that I was holding on to for a long time released and shifted in a fundamental way during the session, and in the days that followed. It feels like she skillfully and lovingly chaperoned me through something very meaningful. I’m super grateful for the work she is bringing to the world.- T. Kaps (Indonesia)

SESSION PLANS

When you invest in Sessions with Sāra, you're not just paying for time; you're investing in creating sacred space for transformation, in skilled guidance that helps you reconnect with your innate wisdom, and in steady support that meets you exactly where you are.

Exploration Session
$180 - 90 minutesIdeal for curious newcomers and those wanting to experience this modality firsthand

A one-time deep dive into your unique needs and questions.
This session is perfect for those new to this healing modality, offering a chance to explore the distinct qualities and benefits of BCST.Together, we'll set a healing intention, and you’ll receive guidance on how to tune in to the subtle signals from your body. You will also receive personalized insights that connect your experiences to your intention.The session includes follow-up care and a discussion of next steps, allowing you to assess whether this approach supports your path to well-being.

Core Support
3 Session Journey
$390Ideal for addressing specific concerns that benefit from consistent attention

A foundational one-month journey that offers deeper exploration and integration. Over the course of three sessions, you’ll build momentum and begin to experience how the integration process unfolds in your daily life, between sessions. Follow-up care is included to support this ongoing process.

Healing Immersion
7 Session Journey
$900Ideal for working through persistent patterns or as steady support during significant life transitions

A two-month commitment that invites deeper transformational shifts.
This immersion fosters self-awareness, emotional healing, and physical well-being. Includes follow-up care and email support between sessions to help you integrate insights along the way.

A Year of Presence
12 Sessions
$1500Ideal for those committed to ongoing personal development, self-discovery and well-being.

Commit to a year of regular monthly sessions that offer continuous support throughout all four seasons. Includes follow-up care and quarterly check-ins to celebrate your insights and refine your intentions.

Urgent Care
One Session with Priority Booking
$200Ideal for acute situations needing immediate attention and insight

This session includes priority booking within 24-48 hours, depending on current availability, ensuring that your needs are addressed promptly.
You will also receive follow-up care and support.

Discovery Dialogue for Integrated Action
$150 - 75 minutesIdeal for those seeking deeper self-understanding and clarity around a specific issue or challenge

In this verbal session we will explore your inner landscape to support you in achieving clarity and self-alignment.For an added layer of depth, you can include a Gene Key reading for an additional $30, which will offer a unique perspective on your life path. A personalized chart and a recording of the session are provided for further reflection.

All prices are in Canadian dollars with applicable taxes included.
Insurance receipts are not offered at this time.
Payment plans are available, please inquire.

CONTACT

Sessions are held at my atelier in Montreal or remotely via live voice messaging.To book a session, please fill out the form below.
Be sure to include your timezone and availability.If you are curious, yet unsure if this is the right modality for you, I'm happy to meet with you for a complimentary 15-minute call and I can answer any questions or concerns you may have.Thank you for your interest and for reaching out.
I look forward to connecting with you.Sara x