Having originally studied medical sciences, Franklyn Sills has a long history of training and clinical practice in both psychotherapy and craniosacral therapy. Co-founder in 1987 of the Karuna Institute, he lectures on Buddhist psychology, object relations, shock, trauma, pre-natal and birth psychology. His recent studies include the neurophysiology of stress and trauma.

Franklyn was a Buddhist monk under the most venerable Taungpulu Kaba Aye Sayadaw of Northern Burma, and also studied in the Zen and Taoist traditions, thus bringing a rich understanding of the Buddhist tradition to his innovative work in psychotherapy. His experience in the cranial field has convinced him that the body must be included in any form of therapy. His published books include The Polarity Process, Craniosacral Biodynamics, and most recently Being and Becoming, Psychodynamics, Buddhism and the Origins of Selfhood. Franklyn teaches internationally in America, Germany and Switzerland.

“Franklyn Sills is a true pioneer, working in fields that can seem so different and yet which yearn to come together in intelligent and comprehensible ways: psychotherapy, Buddhism, and prenatal psychology. (…) Sills wears his immense learning lightly and is an affable and empathic guide into some difficult and mysterious areas of human suffering… “

Professor Andrew Samuels

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