Maria Nofuentes

Hello, my name is Maria, I decided to become craniosacral practitioner when I realized how life can be changed positively with such a delicate touch.

My life took a U-turn in 2008 and craniosacral guides me as a philosophy of life.

I was born in Galicia (Spain), but I lived a long time in Andalucia where I went to college. I studied Agronomy and I worked few years at the University, but in 2009, after my postdoctoral stay in Trento (Italy), I decided to have a break in my academic career.

By following a theatre course in Trento I felt the need to reconnect with myself - to look inside - and that was the beginning of a new path. I wanted to understand how our body communicates to ourselves - and to others.

In 2010 I moved to Turin and I enrolled in Physical Theater Atelier Philip Radice and in Accademia delle Libere Arti e delle Scienze Parallele known today as

Accademia Nazionale Craniosacrale. For 4 years I received training and supervision in craniosacral therapy and meditation. Since 2012 I have my own craniosacral therapy practice.

During 2019 and 2020 I was trained in Family Constellations by Cecilia Altieri in Brussels. My intention is to integrate this therapy with craniosacral therapy; During the treatments, memories belonging to the family system or another system may come out which can be treated on the table during the craniosacral session or in an individual family constellation session.

I like to continue studying in order to broaden my knowledge and perspective. I have done the Living Anatomy course at the Craniosacral Therapy Educational School in London. The course in Cranial Paediatrics with Ian Wright Bsc.(Ost.), DPO, MSCC, MOCI, and the seminar The Mindful Embryo: An introduction to spiritual embryology with Dr. Jaap van der Wal M.D., Ph.D.

I follow the work of Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Gabor Maté and others, on how trauma produces a series of changes in the nervous system and brain and how somatic experience can be seen as a tool to ‘release’ trapped energy and help people recover from trauma.

I like to practice daily meditation and since 2015 I have been dancing, I attend workshops especially with Ana Stegnar and Eve Bonneau. With Eve I have collaborated in her research: 'from the felt body to language' and 'body conversation'. Since 2021 I am part of Talking bodies, an amateur contemporary dance group in Leuven.

I am member of embrace - a network of professionals engaged with the soma—the experiencing body created in 2021. We are artists, movement educators, and therapists whose work nourishes embodied intelligence. If you want to know more about us, you can subscribe here to our newsletter.

Our body talks to us continously, by listening to it (us) we re-connect with ourselves and our life can become much lighter and easier. I love craniosacral therapy because it is a gentle and kind way to work in our personal histories throughout our body while we regain and acquire awareness, space and freedom.