Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a light-touch, manual therapy that releases tensions, as well as restrictions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve overall health.

The intention during your treatment session is most importantly, to facilitate the movement of fluid in your body, release physical and energetic restrictions your body is storing and work on achieving optimal nervous system function.

Every session facilitates improvement in function, optimizes your craniosacral mechanism and fine-tunes your body’s life processes. This in turn alleviates your symptoms and reverses diagnosed conditions.

Improved function of the craniosacral mechanism creates a better flow of your body’s energetic and lymphatic system, advances your physical function, improves structure, facilitates a decrease in pain, improves the condition you present with, offers improvement in health, and promotes optimal healing / wellbeing.

Results are attainable. The body heals under the proper care.

Few structures have as much influence over the body’s ability to function properly as the brain and spinal cord that make up the central nervous system. And few systems have as much impact on the central nervous system as the craniosacral system — the membranes and fluid that surround, protect and nourish the brain and spinal cord.

Every day your body endures stresses and strains, and your structures work to compensate for them. Unfortunately, these changes often cause body tissues to tighten and distort the craniosacral system, which can then cause tension to form around the brain and spinal cord. The result is a barrier to the healthy performance of the central nervous system, and potentially every other system it interacts with.

Fortunately, such restrictions can be detected and corrected using simple methods of touch. Generally using about 5 grams of pressure (about the weight of a nickel), the CST practitioner uses his or her hands to evaluate the craniosacral system by gently feeling various locations of the body to test for the ease of motion and rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid pulsing around the brain and spinal cord. Soft touch techniques are then used to release restrictions in any tissues influencing the craniosacral system.

By normalizing the environment around the brain and spinal cord and enhancing the body’s ability to self-correct, Craniosacral Therapy is able to alleviate a wide variety of dysfunctions.

ADD/ADHD,  anxiety, autism, cancer treatment, central nervous system disorders, chronic fatigue. chronic pain, concussion syndrome, ear infections or colic in infants, fibromyalgia, headaches and migraines, infant and childhood disorders, insomnia, neck and back pain, nerve pain, orthopedic problems,  post-surgical recovery, pregnancy issues, post-traumatic stress disorders, scoliosis, sleep disorders, spinal cord injuries, stress and tension related disorders, TMJ syndrome, traumatic brain injury, trauma recovery, whiplash

Because CST is effective as a preventive health measure, ALMOST ANYONE can benefit from a session. The extremely light touch also makes CST a safe approach for children and infants who have experienced early stress, including birth trauma. By releasing restrictions around the central nervous system early, you may help prevent future difficulties such as learning disabilities or hyperactivity.

There are a few situations in which CST is not recommended. They include any condition in which slight variations in intracranial pressure would cause instability, such as acute aneurysm, recent skull fracture, and cerebral hemorrhage or other severe bleeding disorder. If you have any questions about whether these situations apply to you, seek the advice of your physician before receiving a CST session.

My answer to this is to have NO EXPECTATIONS!

Your body is going to heal the way it needs to heal not how you expect it to heal. CST is performed with the client fully clothed and lying on a comfortable massage table. Using a light touch, the therapist evaluates or “listens to” the body for tension patterns and imbalances. The craniosacral system is accessed and treated using the bones and connective tissue. Skilled CST therapists can enhance fluid flow and balance membrane tension, helping to bring increased vitality to the system. Releasing chronic tension patterns and enhancing fluid motility allows the body’s healing mechanisms to operate more effectively, imparting greater balance and ease.

What is experienced during a CST session is highly individualized. Some say they feel deeply relaxed, while others describe feeling unwinding sensations as the body releases tension. Sometimes, circumstances are recalled surrounding a past trauma or injury that caused the body stress. While this doesn’t happen every time, this process called “SomatoEmotional Release” is perfectly normal and helps the body reverse dysfunction and restore optimal levels of mobility.

Most people who experience craniosacral therapy for the first time report a soothing, relaxing and pain / symptom alleviating feeling during the session. People report various pleasant sensations throughout the body such as a warm feeling, pleasant tingling, muscle twitch, a letting go feeling, muscle relaxation, pressure release, things of that nature.

A craniosacral therapy session lasts 60 minutes , or 90 minutes, and takes place in my quiet, private healing room.  CST is performed with you full clothed and lying, supine, on a comfortable massage table.