CRANIOSACRAL TECHNIQUES CAN TRANSMIT FAR REACHING EFFECTS THAT TRAVEL INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE BODY ALONG THE FASCIAL PATHWAYS
Create limitless possibilities to overcome dysfunction and chronic pain allowing the transformation to vibrant well-being!
Craniosacral Therapy addresses fascial disturbances throughout the entire body from cells and organs to brain, spinal cord and all other functioning systems, offering a more global and comprehensive approach that focuses on finding root causes of dysfunction, chronic pain or illness, rather than simply chasing symptoms.
I am passionately committed to sharing this transformative work with you and tap into the heart of healing which lies in our ability to listen and perceive – more than just an application of a technique.
what exactly is
Craniosacral Therapy?
FASCIAL STRUCTURE EFFECTS OPTIMAL FUNCTIONING
Empowered Understanding
Our bodies are made up of fascia, a three-dimensional, web-like connective tissue matrix extending uninterrupted through the entire body. It forms a structural and functional continuity that connects every part of the body to every other part of the body. It encases, interconnects, supports, protects, separates, cushions, and interpenetrates internal organs, bones, muscles, glands, fatty tissue, blood and lymph vessels, and nerves.
When our fascia is healthy, these structures can slide and glide on each other and function optimally. Our life impacts and traumas can disturb, distort and drag into our fascia, creating thickened and stiff restrictive strain patterns that accumulate over time and cause local, distant or full-body stress that can lead to dysfunction, pain and/or illness.
The brain and spinal cord has a massive influence over the body’s ability to function properly. The membranes and fluid that surround, protect and nourish the brain and spinal cord is called our Craniosacral system. Every day our body endures stresses and strains. Although our structures work hard to compensate for them , over time tensions can tighten and deform our Craniosacral system which in turn stresses our brain and spinal cord.
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Craniosacral therapy - how does it work?
Light touch techniques are used to interface (meet and communicate) with these fascial restrictions in such a way that facilitates the body’s innate ability to self-correct, release and stabilize, thus creating a more optimal environment for the brain, spinal cord and all other body functions.
“We didn’t think Fascia was that big of a deal, but now we know it is everything”
- Jean Claude Guimberteau. Surgeon
Craniosacral Therapy
is reported by clients to be effective in helping to relieve a wide range of symptoms associated with:
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 disorders. If you have any questions about whether these situations apply to you, seek the advice of your physician before receiving a CST session.
Are there any conditions that shouldn’t be addressed with CST?
Chronic Pain
Central Nervous System Disorders
Chronic Fatigue
Concussion Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Headaches & Migraines
Neck, Knee & Back Pain
Orthopedic Problems
Sciatica
Post-Traumatic Stress
Scoliosis
Spinal Cord Injuries
Stress & Tension Related Disorders
TMJ Syndrome
Irritable Bowel
Acid Reflux
Whiplash
Traumatic Brain Injury
Sinus Vertigo Tinnitus Issues
Improve performance, posture & preventative maintenance
Scar Tissue
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
DEMENTIA
In Craniosacral circles there is a saying: “There can be issues in the tissues.” The body retains memory not only in the cortex of the brain, but in every cell of the body. The engagement and resolution of old “issues” may help rid the body of the residual effects of trauma, injury, or suffering, along with an opportunity to achieve deeper levels of self-awareness.
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Tailor Made Packages to SHIFT, MOVE & TRANSFORM your well-being.
Awaken & Align
The A&A Package offers you the perfect way to begin or maintain your wellness journey.
With 3 pre-paid sessions, this package is designed to help you awaken a deeper connection with your body, learn about fascia and why and how you are out of alignment, reduce stress, pain, dysfunction, and experience the profound benefits of Craniosacral Therapy. Committing to consistent sessions ensures your journey is effective, supportive, and tailored to your well-being needs.
This transformative journey empowers you to trust your body’s innate wisdom and embrace a state of profound well-being. With consistent, personalized care, you can unlock your path to healing, growth, and vibrant health.
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RELEASE & RENEWAL
The R&R Package offers the ideal way to deepen your commitment to health & nurture your body’s well-being.
With 6 pre-paid sessions, this package provides a convenient and affordable way to prioritize your health. By investing in your well-being, you create a space for transformation, develop a deeper understanding of your fascial nature and how it influences all that we do and feel. This investment also provides you with ways to proactively engage our fascial network in order to make the changes you need to re-direct your path to one of more ease, range of motion and liberation.
This transformative journey empowers you to change your trajectory by optimizing, embodying and integrating the fascial transformations that unfold. By committing to regular sessions, you create a foundation for long term changes, sustainable results, repair and healing.
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IMPACTFUL INTENSIVE
The Impactful Intensive Package is your pathway to achieving unburdened relief, deeper self-awareness and a renewed sense of optimism and vitality.
This uniquely tailored sequence of daily 2 hour sessions, over a coarse of 4 consecutive days , will play a pivotal role in creating an new foundation, opportunity and environment for resilient, sustainable and healing changes to occur.
With the Intensive Impact experience, you are committing to a journey of alignment, restoration and transformation. This package will launch you into new possibilities to fully integrate body, mind and emotions into a harmonious state of well-being.
Beyond therapy sessions, these empower and guide you toward accomplishing your goals and meeting your needs.
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Step into a life of balance, vitality, and profound transformation with the Awaken & Align, Release Renewl & Impactful Intensive Packages, your ultimate access to unlocking the full potential of Craniosacral Therapy and your empowered well-being.
I'm here to support you explore new possibilities and to help with unresolved issues ranging from headaches, concussion recovery, neck/lower back pain to anxiety and stress. Fascia is the CONTEXT in which ALL of your LIFE PROCESSES take place and for ALL MOVEMENT.
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What Is Craniosacral Therapy?
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a profound light touch, non-invasive, cutting edge manual modality that releases tensional strain patterns and restrictions deep in the body, thus facilitating the body’s innate ability to self- correct and heal.
CST was developed by Osteopathic Physician, John E. Upledger after extensive clinical research at Michigan State University. Established in 1985, Upledger Institute International has trained more than 125,000 therapists worldwide and offers more than 600 courses in 50 countries.
CST is particularly effective for conditions such as chronic pain, headaches and migraines, stress and tension-related disorders, issues related to the central nervous system, recovering from surgeries or concussion, scar tissue release, motor vehicle incidents and other traumas.
CST is a modality that promotes fluid exchange throughout all of our tissues, which contributes to facilitating the innate ability of the body to recover, self-correct and heal therefore improving general immune function and increasing vitality to the systems.
What Conditions Can Be Helped With Craniosacral Therapy?
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 a 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 in interacts with. Fortunately, such restrictions can be detected and corrected using this light touch technique that interfaces (meets and communicates) with them throughout the entire body. This offers a global and comprehensive approach that focuses on finding the root cause of dysfunction, chronic pain or illness, rather that chasing symptoms.
This modality creates a way to enhance the body’s ability to self-correct, release, stabilize and heal, thus creating an environment for more optimal functioning of the brain, spinal cord and all other body systems.
how does craniosacral therapy work?
A Craniosacral session takes place in a quiet, private setting. You are lying fully clothed, on a comfortable massage table with fresh linen. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing, preferably not jeans. The therapy is a gentle, hands-on modality using "light touch” that evaluates and “listens to” the body for tension patterns and imbalances. Sessions typically last about 60 to 90 minutes.
Sometimes, circumstances are recalled surrounding a past trauma or injury that caused the body stress. While this doesn’t happen every time, it is perfectly normal and helps he body reverse dysfunction and restore optimal levels of mobility. 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, which can be profound.
What Can I Expect During A CST Session?
Just as each individual experiences CST sessions differently, the results can be diverse as well. You may leave in such a relaxed state that you feel like sleeping for hours. Or you may leave full of boundless energy. You may feel a decrease in pain or an increase in function immediately after the session, or the effects may develop gradually over the next few days.
Since CST helps the body resume its natural healing processes, it’s common for your improvements to continue weeks after the session. You may also experience a reorganization phase as your body releases previously held patterns and adapts to a new state of wellness.
Just as each individual experiences CST sessions differently, the results can be diverse as well. You may leave in such a relaxed state that you feel like sleeping for hours. Or you may leave full of boundless energy. You may feel a decrease in pain or an increase in function immediately after the session, or the effects may develop gradually over the next few days.
Since CST helps the body resume its natural healing processes, it’s common for your improvements to continue weeks after the session. You may also experience a reorganization phase as your body releases previously held patterns and adapts to a new state of wellness.
What Will I Experience After A Session?
Just as each individual experiences CST sessions differently, the results can be diverse as well. You may leave in such a relaxed state that you feel like sleeping for hours. Or you may leave full of boundless energy. You may feel a decrease in pain or an increase in function immediately after the session, or the effects may develop gradually over the next few days.
Since CST helps the body resume its natural healing processes, it’s common for your improvements to continue weeks after the session. You may also experience a reorganization phase as your body releases previously held patterns and adapts to a new state of wellness.
Yes, CST is a very gentle and non-invasive therapy. It is considered safe for most people of any age. There are very 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, ask your therapist and seek the advice of your physician before receiving a CST session.
Is Craniosacral Therapy safe? Are There Reasons Not to Receive CST?
Just as each individual experiences CST sessions differently, the results can be diverse as well. You may leave in such a relaxed state that you feel like sleeping for hours. Or you may leave full of boundless energy. You may feel a decrease in pain or an increase in function immediately after the session, or the effects may develop gradually over the next few days.
Since CST helps the body resume its natural healing processes, it’s common for your improvements to continue weeks after the session. You may also experience a reorganization phase as your body releases previously held patterns and adapts to a new state of wellness.
Good question! The intention of CST is to facilitate CHANGE. Most of us have embedded chronic restrictions in our fascia, that may have been there for many years.
If given the opportunity to release, along with the investment of client participation and possible life style changes, a good majority of these restrictions in our bodies can move into a different and refreshed fascial arrangement and hence into a new way of being in the world!
how long will benefits last?
Just as each individual experiences CST sessions differently, the results can be diverse as well. You may leave in such a relaxed state that you feel like sleeping for hours. Or you may leave full of boundless energy. You may feel a decrease in pain or an increase in function immediately after the session, or the effects may develop gradually over the next few days.
Since CST helps the body resume its natural healing processes, it’s common for your improvements to continue weeks after the session. You may also experience a reorganization phase as your body releases previously held patterns and adapts to a new state of wellness.
The number of sessions required varies depending on the individual, why you are coming in and your condition. Most people will feel significant changes after one to three sessions. Additional sessions may be required depending on the severity of the problem. For chronic disorders, ongoing weekly, monthly, or bi-monthly treatments might be in order to change embedded patterns to maintain ease and comfort or keep the condition from getting worse.
I recommend trying three to five sessions initially. After that, we can see how you feel. If you feel 100 percent better – then you are off! If you are 50 percent better, you may try a few more sessions. If you feel absolutely no change, which is uncommon, then perhaps Craniosacral Therapy isn’t a fit for you.
how many sessions will i need?
Just as each individual experiences CST sessions differently, the results can be diverse as well. You may leave in such a relaxed state that you feel like sleeping for hours. Or you may leave full of boundless energy. You may feel a decrease in pain or an increase in function immediately after the session, or the effects may develop gradually over the next few days.
Since CST helps the body resume its natural healing processes, it’s common for your improvements to continue weeks after the session. You may also experience a reorganization phase as your body releases previously held patterns and adapts to a new state of wellness.
Craniosacral Therapy is a holistic modality that takes into consideration how one’s emotional state can affect the physical body and vice versa.
SomatoEmotional Release is an adjunct to Craniosacral Therapy that allows the exploration of the emotional, mental, or spiritual aspects of pain, disease, or dysfunction. If issues of that nature arise while receiving structural bodywork, SomatoEmotional Release can provide a space to facilitate and shed light on emotional/physical relationships.
Does Craniosacral Therapy work with emotional states that may affect the physical body and vice versa?
Just as each individual experiences CST sessions differently, the results can be diverse as well. You may leave in such a relaxed state that you feel like sleeping for hours. Or you may leave full of boundless energy. You may feel a decrease in pain or an increase in function immediately after the session, or the effects may develop gradually over the next few days.
Since CST helps the body resume its natural healing processes, it’s common for your improvements to continue weeks after the session. You may also experience a reorganization phase as your body releases previously held patterns and adapts to a new state of wellness.
A broken appointment is a loss to three people:
You – because you miss your scheduled treatment.
Another client – who could have used your appointment time.
Your therapist – who could have been treating someone at that time.
Cancellations and rescheduling: require a minimum of 24 hours’ notice.
Failure to do so will incur a full session fee.
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