Author: Craniosacral Therapy/Paediatric craniosacral therapy/Nutrition/NAET/ NLP Health Coach/Mindfulness meditation

Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) R-Nutritional Therapist – R-Craniosacral Therapist – NAET practitioner -PCI NLP Health and weight Coach – Certified Angel Guide MBANT – MCSTA – RCHNC – Mindfulness teacher – Heart-Math “the resilient heart” certificate (DBS certified) Working from my heart is my main way of working, which opens up the heart of everyone I work with! I work with a sound scientific background with the healing and spiritual intuition within all my sessions, from nutritional NAET working with over-reaction to food, hay-fever and more, to craniosacral therapy for babies and mothers trauma, colic and more, adult trauma, tiredness and feeling out of space, to empowering my clients with Neuro Linguistic programming, Mindfulness meditation exercises (becoming present in your life at all times)!

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) Transformational healing, of body, mind and soul

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Craniosacral therapy is a subtle and profound healing form. See your life transmuting into a bliss, healing from inside out!

In a typical craniosacral session, you will usually lie fully-clothed on a treatment couch. The therapist will make contact by placing their hands usually lightly on your body and tuning in. The first thing you will probably notice is a sense of deep relaxation, which will generally last throughout the session. This release of tension often extends into everyday life.

Often traumas from childhood are stored in our body or even cells, and those unconscious traumas, can be triggered at any time in the life of the adults. Quite often with a body injury or illness. Craniosacral therapy allows the body system to feel safe enough to show the trauma, big or small, at the time that the person is ready to deal with, usually when they feel safe enough to share or deal with whatever emotion is attached to that trauma. With mindfulness meditation and heart meditation, the person has a tool to be able to connect with their heart and deal with whatever comes up in a loving space. My work is to connect to my heart and the person heart to reach a stillness where anything is possible, and any healing is allowed to happen in a loving experience. Craniosacral therapy, does not force any trauma out without the person being ready. That is the magical part of this wonderful therapy.

Sometimes the benefits are not immediately noticeable but become obvious on returning to a familiar environment. The work is often deeply moving and exhilarating.

The benefit can also be noticed after few days in some people. The experience is different from each baby, child or adult according to their own need of balance and adjustments.

Quite often the body will start unwinding, this is the fascial unwinding, which often happens in people with high stress, old and new chronic injuries to free the body, and in babies and children.

Our body system can get tight and rigid due to tension from the head to the toe, and often it leads to chronic pain, sleepless nights, and vagal nerve being trapped and hard to function well, leading to possible palpitation, anxiety and much more. Below is a sample of fascial unwinding.

Below are some of the issues that I have seen with fascial unwinding and craniosacral therapy with adults:

  • Digestive system and IBS problems, including bloating
  • Chronic pain from past injuries
  • Chronic pelvic area and back pain
  • Whiplash, old and new
  • Headaches and Migraines
  • Anxiety
  • Post-traumatic Stress disorder
  • Post operations and injuries
  • Post-partum
  • Pregnancy physical and emotional issues
  • and much more

I use CST by itself or with Nutritional advice and NAET treatments to integrate the entire body mind system at a deeper level. I notice that the body respond much more to the NAET treatments and the person feels more complete and healthier in body and mind, each time by releasing old patterns and old issue stored in the body.

CST has been used for babies as soon as they come into life to help the baby system to settle into a normal rhythm and vitality. Very helpful for mothers as well as it help with rebalance the normal rhythmic motions of their system after their labor that is traumatic or not.

Mothers that have seen me for CS also see a benefit from the therapy when their children are teething. I would put an big advice to all mother to have their own treatments after birth and in time of stress as that helps the children as well. As mothers we are connected very much to our children and vice-versa. Quite often we forget that our emotional and physical health is as important as our children…

Testimonial: “We found that Luis was much calmer and present after the Craniosacral sessions. It had a very positive effect on him as well as on us”

NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Elimination treatment)

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I have been using NAET for testing and desensitize food and environmental over-reaction for the past 14 years. For the once that do not know, here what it is and how the person who used it first developed it:
hands-at-the-start-of-treatment-768x1024-before

Hand with eczema before starting NAET and craniosacral therapy with me. 

The theoretical basis of the method is a combination of knowledge derived from allopathic medicine, oriental medicine and acupuncture or acupressure (as I use) chiropractic, kinesiology and nutrition. Dr Devi Nambudripad’s simple definition of an allergy is as follows: An allergy is an adverse physical, physiological, and/or psychological response of an individual towards one or more substances also known as allergens. My interpretation is more of over-reaction from the Immune System.  These substances are usually harmless, well tolerated or even useful for most people. Dr Nambudripad’s approach is the same for full-blown allergies involving the release of immunoglobulin type E (IgE-mediated reactions) in the body, and for intolerance, sensitivities and hypersensitivities (non-IgE mediated reactions). I work mainly with the other antibodies reaction that causes delayed reaction up to 72 hours after contact with them and or masked reaction. I use her technique for diagnoses and treatments of the over reactions to balance the immune system to its normal self. If we apply the fundamental thoughts of oriental medical theory, which asserts that everything on earth is surrounded by an electromagnetic field, this “adverse response” can be defined as “an energy imbalance (in the body) caused by the clash between two or more incompatible energies”. This conflict creates energy blockages in the meridians (energy pathways), and accumulated blockages can cause various complaints and pathological conditions. These incompatible energies or energy imbalances are considered synonymous with “allergies” in the context of the NAET method. Read more about the method on NAET  official website. Click here

I use the combination of NAET and Cranio-Sacral Therapy now, which it gives the extra balance between the body, the mind and the emotional cells. There are lots of research and studies regarding the connection between the body and mind and specifically the mind and the intestinal tract. The mind can affect the intestinal tract and the intestinal tract can affect the mind. Serotonin receptors, which are the receptors that make us happy or unhappy, are found in the intestinal tract as well. Using the combination of NAET Nutrition and Cranio-sacral therapy, I had a higher success rate from before, for the reduction of Irritable bowel Syndrome and reduction in the severity of the food and environmental reactions. Read some of the testimonial on my website.

Hand after 6 months of NAET treatment and craniosacral therapy.

I have summarized my clinical experience in the following book:

Clinical experience of Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) click here to buy it on amazon.

For adults who are still unsure of craniosacral therapy does.

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Vagal nerve balancing with craniosacral therapy! North London clinics, N15 6HA and Life By Margot
The polyvagal nerve is part of the nervous system, and the nervous system is part of the brain that will give signal when things are ok and when they are not. In some cases, adults with childhood trauma can all of the sudden experience stress related episodes with no recollection of when and where that happens. For most people the talking therapy will be good when they know what the problem or issue are, and often they are resolved. But some stress response or trauma will not be reached just by the conscious mind, or it will take months or even years before you can reach it.
Often traumas from childhood are stored in our body or even cells, and those unconscious traumas can be triggered at any time in the life of the adults. Quite often with a body injury or illness. Craniosacral therapy allows the body system to feel safe enough to show the trauma, big or small, at the time that the person is ready to deal with, usually when they feel safe enough to share or deal with whatever emotion is attached to that trauma. With mindfulness meditation and heart meditation, the person has a tool to be able to connect with their heart and deal with whatever comes up in a loving space. My work is to connect to my heart and the person heart to reach a stillness where anything is possible, and any healing is allowed to happen in a loving experience. Craniosacral therapy does not force any trauma out without the person being ready. That is the magical part of this wonderful therapy.

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I have also observed people’s lives changing in better, after few sessions of CST. Things such meeting the right person for them, and getting married, or travelling around the world, for a break, or changing a job to a better career, and much more healing! I have seen amazing healing and experience amazing transformation and transmutation of lives, from Heaven and Earth connections of any type of religion or atheism, All in one and one in All healing power together for the greatest good. In my clinics there are only humans and humanity healing!

Healing of the mind, body and soul!

For adults who are still unsure of craniosacral therapy does.

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Vagal nerve balancing with craniosacral therapy! North London clinics, N15 6HA and Life By Margot
The polyvagal nerve is part of the nervous system, and the nervous system is part of the brain that will give signal when things are ok and when they are not. In some cases, adults with childhood trauma can all of the sudden experience stress related episodes with no recollection of when and where that happens. For most people the talking therapy will be good when they know what the problem or issue are, and often they are resolved. But some stress response or trauma will not be reached just by the conscious mind, or it will take months or even years before you can reach it.
Often traumas from childhood are stored in our body or even cells, and those unconscious traumas can be triggered at any time in the life of the adults. Quite often with a body injury or illness. Craniosacral therapy allows the body system to feel safe enough to show the trauma, big or small, at the time that the person is ready to deal with, usually when they feel safe enough to share or deal with whatever emotion is attached to that trauma. With mindfulness meditation and heart meditation, the person has a tool to be able to connect with their heart and deal with whatever comes up in a loving space. My work is to connect to my heart and the person heart to reach a stillness where anything is possible, and any healing is allowed to happen in a loving experience. Craniosacral therapy does not force any trauma out without the person being ready. That is the magical part of this wonderful therapy.

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I have also observed people’s lives changing in better, after few sessions of CST. Things such meeting the right person for them, and getting married, or travelling around the world, for a break, or changing a job to a better career, and much more healing! I have seen amazing healing and experience amazing transformation and transmutation of lives, from Heaven and Earth connections of any type of religion or atheism, All in one and one in All healing power together for the greatest good. In my clinics there are only humans and humanity healing!

Healing of the mind, body and soul!

Understanding Liver Detox: Importance and Phases Explained

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I have talked in the past about liver and the detox. How important the liver is and how much we undervalue it for what we think about it.

The liver is the essential part of our body and organs, it is the one that protects you from the outside world in the food way. Anything that you eat will go through the liver first and than we pass through the blood and then where it needs to go.

The liver is the one that break down and make up things and compounds. Makes the protein that you need for everything that you do, and most of all detoxifies all the things that you absorb and gets read of everything that you need to let go.

There is phase I that I consider it as the adding the garbage into the bin. Quite often this phase of the liver can be more dangerous, especially if it is too fast compare to the Phase II, which is the garbage man taking the rubbish out, either through urine or through stools.

Genetically Phase I and II unfortunately can be slow in clearing things, which it means that if one of the 6 pathways in Phase II is slow or not working at all, then one of the other pathway needs to work much more.

For example if the pathway called glucoronidation does not work well or slow, if you drink too much or eat heavy food, or do not eat any food for more than 3 hours, you start getting a bit yellow or the jaundice. This is called Gilbert’s Syndrome. Luckily this pathway is supported by glutathione pathway, and if you take the extra glutathione then the jaundice reduces and you feel light and less tired and grumpy! However, if the glutathione pathway does not work well or is slow and the one of the methylation pathway do not work well, than the result could be headache, low mood, tiredness and feeling heavy. This is just a small sample of the possibility. The other coin could be that the phase I is too slow, then the coffee that you drink at 9am in the morning, will still be affecting you by midnight, or if you drink it at 3pm, than is an all night awake. If this is too slow, than it is advisable that you do not eat any Grapefruit, as this will slow down the phase I even more!

Then there the Methylation pathway, which is involved in any of the detox, and making things in our body, including getting rid of the homocysteine and hence affecting the heart and brain. This has also been connected to the epilepsy and autism. Methylation is also involved in making glutathione, this powerful antioxidant, as well as with arginine is involved in making nitric oxide, another powerful antioxidant.

You get the enzymes for the detox and methylation from both your parents, so usually you should get at least one that work, it is slower but it works. But if you get both of your parents SNP that do not work for any of the pathway and especially the methylation, than you are in trouble. And that trouble can start from when you are a baby, as you will not detoxifying any extra toxins that you would inject or ingest.

If you do have either one of the liver detox problem or Gilbert’s Syndrome (a test of total bilirubine from the doctor will tell you if you have it very high), then there is a possibility that you might get a non-alcoholic fatty liver, even if you eat well. Stress or high stress I would say, could lead to extra building stress hormones, which can affect the liver detox pathway. The bile also can start having problems breaking down fat (bilirubine, is from bile and elimination of fatty food into feces), if you do not eat enough vegetables fibers, the fat is not eliminated well enough and the liver might also build up some cholesterol. You might also get a bile reflux, when the sphincter of Oddi is not relaxed enough or closes and opens easily. This can be due to extreme stress, or holding emotions in leading to tight muscles.

The sphincter of Oddi, regulates the flow of digestion, by releasing the bile from the liver and the pancreatic juice from the pancreas to enter the duodenum (the next part of the stomach, where they mix with food to aid digestion. It is a one way valve, preventing the duodenal contents to backflow to the bile and pancreatic ducts.

It is important to seek medical advice if you feel nausea, pain on the right side upper stomach and belly, especially after eating or eating fatty food. If you are under stress from work, and family and more, you might cause the vagal nerve that deals with digestion to shut down leading to the valve and the digestive system to work poorly, and leading the valve to either staying open or shut.

Before getting to that, you might feel food and the stomach looks like you are pregnant within few minutes to half an hour of your meals (this could also be due to low stomach acid). You feel extremely tired, yellowish if you have or do not have Gilbert’s Syndrome, your stools float (you need to flash few times to go down) or are sticky or shiny. This means you are not breaking down your fat. Your urine is a bit more yellow, as you can not flush the bilirubine enough or eliminate enough toxins.

Once you are at this point you need a proper liver diet with plenty of fiber, being strict, with no alcohol drinking and sugar and more, as well a liver support, for about 6 months or more.

As a nutritionist, I would advice the diet, and supplements to go on, as well as having sessions of craniosacral therapy to reduce the stress and vagal nerve sympathetic constant activation, hence regulation of stress and relaxation. This can be a session of at least 5 to 10.

Lifestyle changes is essential in this cases, and understanding your health is more important that anything else!

Email Maria Esposito or call her to make an appointment for a nutritional session and a craniosacral therapy combination.

NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Elimination treatment)

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I have been using NAET for testing and desensitize food and environmental over-reaction for the past 14 years. For the once that do not know, here what it is and how the person who used it first developed it:

hands-at-the-start-of-treatment-768x1024-before

Hand with eczema before starting NAET and craniosacral therapy with me. 

The theoretical basis of the method is a combination of knowledge derived from allopathic medicine, oriental medicine and acupuncture or acupressure (as I use) chiropractic, kinesiology and nutrition. Dr Devi Nambudripad’s simple definition of an allergy is as follows: An allergy is an adverse physical, physiological, and/or psychological response of an individual towards one or more substances also known as allergens. My interpretation is more of over-reaction from the Immune System.  These substances are usually harmless, well tolerated or even useful for most people. Dr Nambudripad’s approach is the same for full-blown allergies involving the release of immunoglobulin type E (IgE-mediated reactions) in the body, and for intolerance, sensitivities and hypersensitivities (non-IgE mediated reactions). I work mainly with the other antibodies reaction that causes delayed reaction up to 72 hours after contact with them and or masked reaction. I use her technique for diagnoses and treatments of the over reactions to balance the immune system to its normal self. If we apply the fundamental thoughts of oriental medical theory, which asserts that everything on earth is surrounded by an electromagnetic field, this “adverse response” can be defined as “an energy imbalance (in the body) caused by the clash between two or more incompatible energies”. This conflict creates energy blockages in the meridians (energy pathways), and accumulated blockages can cause various complaints and pathological conditions. These incompatible energies or energy imbalances are considered synonymous with “allergies” in the context of the NAET method. Read more about the method on NAET  official website. Click here

I use the combination of NAET and Cranio-Sacral Therapy now, which it gives the extra balance between the body, the mind and the emotional cells. There are lots of research and studies regarding the connection between the body and mind and specifically the mind and the intestinal tract. The mind can affect the intestinal tract and the intestinal tract can affect the mind. Serotonin receptors, which are the receptors that make us happy or unhappy, are found in the intestinal tract as well. Using the combination of NAET Nutrition and Cranio-sacral therapy, I had a higher success rate from before, for the reduction of Irritable bowel Syndrome and reduction in the severity of the food and environmental reactions. Read some of the testimonial on my website.

Hand after 6 months of NAET treatment and craniosacral therapy.

I have summarized my clinical experience in the following book:

Clinical experience of Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) click here to buy it on amazon.

Also please click here to read a pdf published studies on the outcome of NAET treatments on peanuts allergies and for a general allergy a case study published on scientific paper (even though NAET does not work scientifically, it works with the physical, mind and emotional system, as well as the energetic system). click here

Monday to Friday we are open week day from 9am till 5pm as last session, for online and face to face therapies. Two Saturdays a month open from 10 till 5pm

Home visits near the area with extra charge is possible. Minimum 2 hours for all home visits. See prices for more information.

Working from (my Home) North London N15 6HA. Full address given on booking.

Crouch end Life by Margo clinic only for craniosacral therapy and pregnancy consultation, for NAET is N15 clinic. Life By Margot clinic address is 84 Park Road Crouch End London N8 8JQ.

Contact Maria Esposito BSc (Hons): 07956662954 or email esposito_m@yahoo.co.uk

How to support mothers and babies with empathy, compassion and understanding. Teaching therapists

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Teaching a combination of craniosacral therapy and NLP for therapists working with mothers and babies.

I am available to teach in courses of therapists and midwives, doula, a combination of holding the baby in a gentle and calm way, and supporting mothers who are anxious and worried about the baby. Mothers who are overwhelmed about being 1st time mother. Teaching mindfulness meditation and heart-math meditation to calm themselves down enough to calm the baby and support the calming nervous system of the baby.

This will help mothers to be and mothers to calm themselves down and also to calm their babies while having colic and to sleep better. Understand their baby cry and more.

If you run a course with babies and mothers and or anything related to mothers and babies and support for mothers and babies, contact me for a possible collaboration and teaching.

How to hold a baby while working with them, plus questions workshop!

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Tips on how to hold a baby while working through CST workshop online click here to read more

This will be a workshop of showing practical tips to work with babies when holding them, calming them down, before or during small adjustments, latching problems, sleeping problems and resistance to sleeping, mild torticollis tips, when they have reflux and colic and holding them and calming them, positions and more. Showing on a baby doll.

Questions on working with babies, what to do and not to do plus.

Zoom Link for the workshop will be given near the time and only if booked.

Recording link will also be given afterwards with 1 hour and half CPD.

Payment of £ 30.00

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Donation based craniosacral therapy drop in clinic for babies and adults

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Tuesdays mornings 9.20-11.30pm (do come in by 9.10am to write your name down) at: Every Tuesdays except on School half-terms

Opens on the 2nd of September 2025

Hornsey Vale Community Centre  60 Mayfield Road N8 9LP.

The Clinic is non-appointment based, closed during school holidays and is for all – babies, children and adults. Private sessions are available all year round.

Arriving at the clinic around 9.10am is recommended to secure a time-slot for your session as at time could be very busy. The clinic is run on a first come, first served basis.

We will be asking to fill in a simple form for adults and for your baby/children. 

How to hold a baby while working with them in CST, plus questions workshop! 27.10.2025

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Tips on how to hold a baby while working through CST workshop online on 27.10.25 and more in 2026

This will be a workshop of showing practical tips to work with babies when holding them, calming them down, before or during small adjustments, latching problems, sleeping problems and resistance to sleeping, mild torticollis tips, when they have reflux and colic and holding them and calming them, positions and more. Showing on a baby doll.

Questions on working with babies, what to do and not to do plus.

Zoom Link for the workshop will be given near the time and only if booked.

Recording link will also be given afterwards with 2 hours CPD.

Payment of £ 30.00 via bank transfer to

Bank transfer to Maria Esposito TSB  code 308472 account 24603860