About Helena

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Helena Turner is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (dip. BCST/RCST) practicing in her private home-clinic in Mount Nelson, Tasmania. As well as treating clients, Helena facilitates weekly tea ceremonies in Fern Tree at the Zoë Dojo.

Helena is a senior hatha and yin yoga practitioner with over a decade of study and teaching experience. She is also a poet and her work has recently been published in the Cordite Poetry Review. You can listen to her poetry on her podcast, The Deep Shore, where she records short immersive episodes set to nature soundscapes.

On the other side of life, Helena is an experienced wilderness guide and has led multi-day hikes all over Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Japan. She now runs annual Vision Quest programs in southern lutruwita with the team at Circle Back Tasmania.

Helena’s work and offerings are designed to support your journey toward greater embodiment, health, and relational safety. She draws on a multi-disciplinary breadth of knowledge and experience in relation to the body and mind, including both their physicality and energetics. Her professional clinic work is informed by years of practice exploring consciousness and transcendent experiences, spiritual growth and maturity, relational healing, eco-somatics and embodiment practices, taoist and yogic philosophy including many years of personal meditation practice.

Helena works with these systems holistically—in allyship with the greater forces of nature—to support health, regulation, and increased capacity to live a full, heartfelt life.

BCST has enabled Helena to journey through debilitating chronic depression and restructure her entire life to support her soul-led purpose. It is through her own experiences on the table as a client that she has come to know its depth and potential as a body-based practice.

It’s an honour to support you in cultivating ease, resilience, and the kind of personal power that arises from a deep sense of being at home in yourself and in the world.

Helena is a lifelong student and inquisitve learner. She earned her Diploma of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy through the internationally accredited Body Intelligence school — a comprehensive two-year practitioner program. She has recently completed postgraduate training with Etienne Piersman in New Zealand, which centred on working with the sphenoid (a central bone in the cranium) and continues to receive regular professional supervision. Helena is a member of the Pacific Association of Craniosacral Therapists. She holds a BA in anthropology and creative writing from the University of Queensland..

Work With Helena

  • Helena's sessions have left me feeling deeply relaxed and more connected to my body. I felt beautifully held throughout the sessions, and each visit felt cumulative and more powerful than the last. Highly recommended!

    —Elisse Kleiner

  • Helena takes me exactly where I need to go in every session. This work is incredible and Helena’s awareness, skills, knowing and care was evident from the moment we met. If you haven’t tried this modality, give it a go, you won’t regret it.

    —Kristy Sullivan

  • Helena is lovely and very easy to communicate with, and I felt welcomed and supported. She listens carefully, explains everything clearly, and helps to curate an appropriate treatment plan if you'd like to. She has a caring nature and interesting knowledge. I tend to leave feeling heard, refreshed and relaxed.

    —Louise O’Leary

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