AWAKENINGS HOLISTIC

                                                                                                           Richard Crandall

                                                                                                Even Angels need Grounding

   Richard is a therapist and healing arts practitioner. He holds licenses in mental health and substance use counseling, practices craniosacral therapy locally and non-locally and offers polarity therapy globally. Office hours are Monday through Thursday.

   Richard loves to hike the hills and mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire. His hobbies are music and working with wood.

He has a wonderful partner for the past 28 years and enjoys family time with his neices and nephews, great nieces, counsins and step grand daughter. He is an active participant in the local recovery community and hosts two weekly on-line support groups. 

   Richard entered the world of alternative healing through meditation in 1976. He studied TM in Andover, MA while working full time and going to school full time. After completing an associates degree in computer sience he began to study Tai Chi Chi Kung in 1985 in Massachusets with Rylan and Gunther Malon and later continued classes with Master Mantak Chia and his senior instructors of the Healing Tao. Richard attended retreats and practiced Tai Chi, Healing Sounds, micro cosmic orbit, fusion meditations and Chi Nei Tsang Massage.

   Upon returning home from a retreat of Master Mantak Chia, Richard searched locally for a school of massage and polarity and began study in Portland. Maine at the Polarity Realization Institute now called Spa Tech also located in Massachusetts. This training led to a calling when after being shown a polarity contact the words"this is what you have been looking for" came to Richard. He then enrolled in a 880 hour course in Polarity Holistic Bodywork  which he completed in 1998. Richard then moved to Vermont to start his healing arts business and began to work in the upper valley in the White River Junction area. In 1999 Richard began studying with Roger Gilchrist of the Wellness Institute and completed a foundation course in biodynamic craniosacral therapy in 2002. Richard assisted Roger Gilchrist in his Washington DC biodynamic craniosacral foundation training before entering a three year Masters Degree in Psychology. Upon completion Richard obtained his License to practice alcohol and drug counsling in New Hampshire in 2008 and obtained a license to practice clinical mental health counseling in Vermont in 2012.

   Richard's work experience as a counselor started at the Danvers State Hospital (1986) and Baldpate Hospital (1987) and later at Seaborn Hospital in Dover, NH from 1988 to 1993 before working at the Ann Marie Connelly Crisis Center in Dover from 1993 to 1998. Richard then left the Dover area and began to work as a massage and polarity therapist in Quechee, Norwich and White River Junction, Vermont. He continued to work at the Burton House from 2008 till March 2020 and then started offering his services non-locally during the pandemic and today has a studio office at his home in Windsor where he offers in person polarity and biodynamic craniosacral to friends, former clients and family. Richard offers virtual craniosacral therapy globally and virtual counseling to Vermonters. 

Richard has practiced Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy since 1999 and Polarity Therapy since 1995.

Richard has practice Chi Nei Tsang since 1994

Richard is Licensed to practice Clinial Mental Health Counseling and Alcohol and Drug Counseling in the State of Vermont

He formerly lived in New Hampshire and moved to Vermont in 1998 to offer his services as a healing arts practitioner.

Master of Arts Degree in Psychology from Vermont College Union University & Institute in Brattleboro, VT (2004 -7)                                                                                                    

Bachelor of Science from Franklin Pierce College (1989-91). 

Associates Degree in Computer Science from Hesser College (1976-77)

Biodynamic Craniosacral training at the Wellness Institute (1999-2002),

Polarity and Massage training from the Polarity Realization Institute, in Ipswitch, MA & Poartland, Maine, (1994-1998), 

Studied Aromatherapy Massage at the Canadian Holistic Training School (2003)

The Healing Tao (1986 to 1994). Topics included Micro Cosmic Orbit Meditation, Tai Chi Chuan Yang 

Style Short Form 13 Step, Healing Sounds, Chi Nei Tsang and Fusion Meditation I and II.

His first introduction into alternative and complementary holistic health was the work of meditation presented at the Andover,

Massachusetts where Richard was introduced to Transendental Meditation (TM)  (1976).