About Aaras
After completing a four year full-time training at the British School of Osteopathy in London, which specialises in the teaching of advanced cranial and structural osteopathic techniques, and having previously worked and learnt with several exceptionally experienced osteopathic elders, Aaras now practices as a principal osteopath in Sussex, and works in collaboration with private medical doctors and consultants.
Aaras is experienced in treating people from prepartum and postpartum women, new-borns, children and the elderly, with a wide array of presenting health issues, both acute and chronic in nature and a range of ailments from very simple health issues to very advanced-complex health issues, and so called “end cases”, many of whom have previously seen multiple professionals for their ongoing health problems.
Aaras’s work has taken her all over the world from being a volunteer paediatric osteopath at the Osteopathic Centre for Children in Harley Street, London, to a long-term volunteer osteopath working in communities worldwide; including India, New Zealand, Nepal and in slums, shanty towns and makeshift medical camps in Africa, including remote rural villages in Kenya and Tanzania, where she provided humanitarian osteopathic and medical health care.
Early childhood observations from her family and friends in the medical field suggested she had very therapeutic hands which led her to medical training in holistic therapy using a hands-on approach, that being osteopathy.
Aaras favours working intuitively, using very gentle non-invasive osteopathic approaches - mainly cranial osteopathy as well as gentle but effective structural techniques e.g. visceral (organ) techniques, soft-tissue techniques, rhythmic mobilisation techniques - as well as stronger techniques like manipulation of joints, if required. As a reflective practitioner, her treatment approach helps patients regain their sense of self or what cranial osteopaths term ‘midline’ to restore their true innate potential
She offers exceptional personal care and is dedicated to her vocation as an osteopath and has recently enhanced her clinical experience in postgraduate paediatric osteopathy by gaining postgraduate qualification at the Osteopathic Centre for Children.
Her predominant aim as a practitioner when treating, is to "love my work so that my work is love made visible".
What Can Osteopathy Treat?
A wide spectrum of both physical and cerebrospinal nervous system imbalances from back pain, sleep disturbances, trapped nerves, pregnancy / menstrual disorders, headaches, migraines, sinus and dental problems, lymphatic, circulatory, digestive and postural issues can be treated using osteopathy.
Osteopathic core principles let an osteopath identify the root and therefore the cause of a person's problem, this is communicated to the osteopath and the inherent health within the body is used to treat the health issue.
The basic foundation of osteopathy is understanding the importance of treating the health of a person as a whole, rather than the body as parts and not focusing on the disease.