CRANIO SACRAL

ABOUT CRANIO SACRAL THERAPY

Cranio Sacral Work is a gentle but potent way of working with the body using a light touch. It supports your body’s innate ability to balance, restore and heal itself as well as helping to reduce stress and build underlying energy. The whole system, integrating physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of the client, are included. It is suitable for everyone, from newly-born babies to the elderly.

The body has self-healing capabilities and is constantly striving for a balanced state of good health. Cranio Sacral Work can facilitate this natural propensity for balance and a feeling of wellbeing in the client. Cranio Sacral Work also recognizes the interconnection between mind and body. Cranio Sacral therapists work with the presence of subtle rhythmic motions that are expressed within the body (particularly the head, spine and pelvis) which is called THE BREATH OF LIFE. The free and balanced expression of these subtle motions is related to our state of health and vitality.

This approach to Cranio Sacral Work unfolds as a form of quiet dialogue. Through this subtle dialogue with the clients body and the organising intelligence of the central nervous system and the connective tissue matrix, hidden or forgotten patterns formed in response to insult and injury can be gently revisited, questioned and reorganised. The process is deeply satisfying and nourishing. Its aim is a more open, calm and graceful way of being.

Instead of attacking illness, a Cranio Sacral therapist works with the life force to promote true healing. Like most complementary therapists, Cranio Sacral therapists do not attempt to diagnose or cure illness. That’s not how it works. It is a subtle, but well-grounded form of healing that can have excellent results.

Technique
In a typical session the client will lie (or sometimes sit) clothed on a treatment couch. The therapist makes contact by gently placing her hands on the client’s body and uses a light touch to tune into the subtle motions taking place. The therapist can evaluate if there are any imbalances within the body and use a range of non-invasive therapeutic skills to relax and thereby promote self-healing within the client.

All animals have the incredible ability to heal themselves, and on the whole are self-healing, constantly renewing worn out cells, and maintaining and repairing any parts that are not functioning properly. Illness is often more a case of the repair mechanisms not working as well as they could, rather than an illness that needs to be ‘fought’. So a Cranio Sacral therapist helps to bring about a state of balance enabling improved function of the self healing mechanisms.

This approach can be seen in conventional medicine too: When bones break, they are simply realigned to the right position, they can then get on and mend themselves; wounds are treated by sterilising and closing them, so that we can sit back and watch as the body miraculously repairs itself. Colds and influenza just get better after they body’s defences swing into action. So it is easy to see why an increase in vitality can improve healing.

Benefits
The benefits of craniosacral therapy are an overall improved state of health and vitality. This is achieved by bringing about improved balance and harmony, so that instead of attacking illness, a craniosacral therapist works with the life force to promote true healing. In this way the body is brought into a better state of balance so that it can heal itself. We don’t treat illnesses, we work with people!

By bringing the body into a more balanced state that favours self-healing, many people with chronic illnesses find craniosacral therapy helps either with management of illness, or leads to a significant improvement in symptoms.

• Tension / stress relief 
• Healing of long term injuries 
• Neck pain, migraines/headaches
• Balance of energy flow 
  
• Cronic back pain 
• Strengthening of immune system 
• Cronic fatigue 
• Deep relaxation 
• Joint pain and disorders 
• Calming of the mind 
• Fibromyalgia 
• Emotional release
• Psychological issues such as anxiety and depression
• Motor-coordination impairments
• Central nervous system disorders
• Concussions
• Traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries
• Temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ)
• Neurovascular disorders
• Post-Traumatic stress disorder 
• Pelvic pain
• Shoulder, elbow pain
• Hip, Knee pain, strain and sprain

Craniosacral therapy has proven especially beneficial for chronic neurological conditions such as problems with coordination, severe hyperactivity and psychological disorders.