Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Reiki Therapy
Intuitive Tarot Readings
Services
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
$50-125 sliding scale, 90-minute session
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is “a gentle non-invasive, hands-on session for the whole body. Performed on a massage table, the client is fully clothed, and the practitioner touch is light and still. The session focus is to support the inherent health of the whole being, especially the nervous system.”
I offer sessions that work holistically with your body in the present and the entire history of your body’s experiences over a lifetime and all the inheritances you carry inside you. I am trained to work with your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, and with all your body’s systems, so that you can more easily access what biodynamic craniosacral therapy calls your blueprint for healing.
By accessing a deeper form of rest, our bodies, minds, spirits can repair. I am here to help you to a place of embodied listening so you we can identify, feel, and follow what your mind/body/spirit needs. Clients who are dealing with chronic and acute issues will often experience a welcome decrease in pain and discomfort, and an gentle but noticeable increase in energy, ease, and spaciousness in their bodies.
During sessions we can also often identify and access internal and external resources. We will always move toward your self-knowledge and freedom of choice. When you can access the resilience that is your birthright, your natural healing process is strengthened.
All sessions—and all information about clients—are strictly confidential. You can read her Client Bill of Rights here, which includes more details about her training and experience.
Clients say:
“Sun Yung Shin is that rare being: she manages to weave together deep listening of bodies while also sharing the deep listening she does of herself and the world around her through her poetry. Sun Yung Shin is trained in a variety of modalities but the sign of a good practitioner is also about how much of themselves they bring into the work and Sun Yung absolutely brings herself. Working with her is a gift. Sign up for a session now.” —Susan Raffo
“After my first biodynamic craniosacral session with Sun Yung, I noticed a subtle but significant shift—my body felt lighter, as though some long-held tension had begun to release. Following the next two sessions, I experienced a noticeable reduction in shoulder tension, where I typically carry a great deal of stress. Sun Yung brings a combination of strength and gentleness to their work with a combination of talking, listening, and hands-on work. I'm looking forward to more sessions!” —Haseena
“After one session with Sun Yung, I was able to move my body and tap into my creative space in a way that felt stuck for months. I appreciate the way they support healing through consent, consideration, and care. I have continued seeing Sun Yung for craniosacral work as I benefit each time in some way and learn more about my body.” —Sana
Reiki Therapy
$50-125 sliding scale, 90-minute session
“Reiki, as it is practiced in the U.S. today, dates back to the teachings of Mikao Usui in Japan in the early 1920's. Usui was a lifelong spiritual aspirant, a lay monk with a wife and two children. In Usui's time, various lineages of Buddhist, Taoist, and Shinto practices coexisted as the dominant themes in Japanese spirituality and culture.”
— from the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing
Reiki is a hands-on or “hands-near” form of energy healing. Reiki is a subtle practice but, also like craniosacral therapy, can yield very powerful experiences of healing. I recommend Reiki to anyone who has been experiencing fatigue or low levels of energy, which is unfortunately many of us in our society that keeps us in an over-activated state much of the time.
“Over the past two decades, a number of studies have shown that Reiki treatments help diminish the negative side effects of chemotherapy, improve surgical outcomes, regulate the autonomic nervous system, and dramatically alter people’s experience of physical and emotional pain associated with illness. But no conclusive, peer-reviewed study has explained its mechanisms, much less confirmed the existence of a healing energy that passes between bodies on command.
Nevertheless, Reiki treatment, training, and education are now available at many esteemed hospitals in the United States, including Memorial Sloan Kettering, Cleveland Clinic, New York Presbyterian, the Yale Cancer Center, the Mayo Clinic, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.”
During and even for days after a session—as with many holistic modalities and Eastern forms of medicine—clients/patients often experience marked physical, mental, and spiritual relief from even long-standing states and patterns of low energy, fatigue, depression and anxiety, acute or chronic stress, and chronic pain.
All sessions—and all information about clients—are strictly confidential. You can read her Client Bill of Rights here, which includes more details about her training and experience.
Intuitive Tarot Reading
$75, 60(ish)-minute session
Divination is a widespread cultural practice that takes varied forms worldwide. It can be diagnostic, forecasting, and interventionist, in the sense of changing the receptor’s destiny.*
Divination is as old as predictive and symbolic thought in human culture. The first diviners, shamans, and priestesses may have used consecrated objects and/or their own bodies as mediums to the divine or Otherworldly. The diversity in divination is dazzling and fascinating, revealing an inspiring variety of humanity’s cosmological ideas, values, and priorities.
Oracular tools such as tarot cards allow us enter a slower, gentler, more inquisitive and open space of creativity, imagination, and inspiration. I approach tarot readings with an intuitive, embodied perspective. As a working poet and storyteller for almost three decades, I bring a wide range of artistic experiences, study, and insight to the healing practice of working with images, symbols, archetypes, and narrative.
At the beginning of our session, you may come in with a very clear question or set of queries. You may have more of a general sense of the kind of guidance that would be welcome. If that’s the case, I can offer a few initial prompts to support the development or deepening of your query. You can then select from one of several artistic decks that I have for our use. and you can choose a spread (card layout).
I will shuffle the deck while holding your intention with gratitude and a sense of invitation. You will then select your cards for your spread and place them face down. As you turn them over in order, we will talk about the gifts and insights of each card. After all the cards have been revealed, we will have a discussion about the holistic meaning of the reading and how it resonates with and expands upon your initial query. You’re of course welcome to take a picture of your cards!
You will leave our session with renewed energy, confidence, and appreciation for your own wisdom, inner resources, and capacity to move forward into your next unfolding, flowering, season, or life chapter.
All sessions—and all information about clients—are strictly confidential.
About Sun Yung Shin
신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung Shin (shey/they) is a biodynamic craniosacral therapist and certified Reiki practitioner (Level III Master), as well as an award-winning creative writer. She is the author of thirteen books in multiple genres, including three forthcoming in later 2025 and 2026. She is a frequent artistic collaborator and advocate locally, nationally, and internationally. Please follow her on Instagram, Bluesky, and Facebook for upcoming events, news, etc., and/or subscribe to her Substack for readers and writers, Heart Eater. As of 2024, she is proud and delighted to share a healing practitioner studio inside Sabathani Center with the brilliant healer Eiko Mizushima (she/they), OTR/L, BA, MHP, LMT.
Sun Yung has lived on Dakota land / Minneapolis since 1992, her home base where she is a full-time writer, speaker, creative writing teacher, arts advocate, and community healing practitioner. Born in Seoul, Korea, she grew up in the Chicago area, graduated with an English degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and never left! She worked in information technology for a decade before earning a master’s degree and teaching license at the University of St. Thomas in order to teach high school English (at South High School and then at the Perpich Center’s Arts High School).
Her priority as a teaching artist working collaboratively in community spaces, which includes the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW), the Loft Literary Center, other organizations. She is on the Board of Coffee House Press and is on the Editorial Board of Black Lawrence Press’ Immigrant Writing Series.
Sun Yung is the parent of two Gen Z-aged human beings—and also lives with an elderly miniature dachshund with an excess of personality. She loves to hang out with friends and eat good food, plant things in her pollinator garden, feed the angry backyard birds, and attempt to learn new things such as 2025’s goals 1) how to imitate an older Chinese lady playing mah jong as depicted in Wong Kar-Wai’s classic film In the Mood for Love (Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung Chiu-wai!), 2) the Korean traditional art of 보자기 / bojagi, and 3) run and finish a 10K in August — very slowly.
So, why bodywork?
How do you heal from trauma that you can’t consciously remember? Sun Yung has participated in a lot of talk therapy with licensed therapists over the years, and benefited greatly (thanks, therapy professionals!). However, nothing touched the embodied aspect of the collective trauma of experiencing state-sponsored family separation, cultural displacement, and racism except craniosacral therapy and somatics.
Sun Yung welcomes working with people of all ages, including babies, children, and teenagers. Her practice through word-of-mouth and referrals has come to be centered in serving mostly Native people & people of color, immigrants/refugees, people from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, people with chronic illness/conditions/pain, and others who experience various forms of historical and current oppression and marginalization. She is especially honored to work with people who have experienced foster care and/or adoption.
As a healing practitioner, Sun Yung is deeply informed by ancestral Korean animist, shamanic, and Buddhist practices. Her influences are many, and she is an avid life-long reader and learner. In relation to anyone with whom she is entrusted to work, she strives to be a deep listener, attuned to the needs of the client. Consent is of the highest importance in bodywork, and in fact is an essential part of the work of healing in this society in which our boundaries—bodily, emotional, psychic, spiritual—are rarely given the respect and reverence they deserve.
Please contact her with any inquiries at sunyungshin at gmail dot com. You can make an appointment directly via her Calendly page here.
Photo by Kyra Nygard