Interview by Mystic Magazene with Richard Crandall 

https://www.mysticmag.com/psychic-reading/interview-richard-crandall/

                                                                                                  AWAKENINGS HOLISTIC

                                                                                                           Richard Crandall

                                                                                                Even Angels need Grounding

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 cosmis orbit, fusion meditations and Chi Nei Tsang Massage.

Upon returning home form a retreat of Master Mantak Chia, Richard searched locally for a school of massage and polarity and began study in Portland at the Polarity Realization Instinute now called Spa Tech also located in Massachusetts. This training led to a calling to take a 880 hour course in Polarity Holistic Body and Massage  which he completed in 1998. Richard 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 the Cranial Therapy and the energtic body course or foundation course in Biodynamic Craniosacral in 2001. Richard assisted Roger in his Washington DC Craniosacral Foundation class before entering a three year Masters Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and obtained his License to practice in New Hampshire as a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor in 2008 and became a licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Vermont in 2012.

Richard has practice as a entry level mental health counslor and substance use counselor 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 Norwich Vermont and White River Junction. He continued to work at the Burton House from 2008 till March 2020 and then started offering his services remotely during the pandemic and today has a studio office at his home in Windsor where he offers polarity and biodynamic craniosacral to friends and family and offers on line services craniosacral therapy          (across the country) and counseling to Vermonters. If you have an interest in his services call or email.

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

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). 

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, 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,

MA where Richard was introduced to TM meditation  (1976).