About CranioSacral Therapy

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As your guide in the techniques and protocols of CranioSacral Therapy, I will work with your physical, emotional, and mental body to balance and release pain, tension, and emotions held in your body’s tissues. This work lightly touches tissues of the nervous system as well as connective tissue known as fascia. I begin with Dr. Upledger’s 10-step protocol. Our work can progress to more advanced protocols and deeper layers of release, based on your needs and concerns. Examples of the potential directions for a session include:

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• Mouthwork/Avenue of Expression: a gentle therapeutic technique to release restrictions in the bones at the base of the cranium, in the roof of the mouth, and in the jaw and throat.

• SomatoEmotional Release: a therapeutic process intended to support your body and mind in releasing residual effects of physical and/or emotional injuries, trauma, and negative experiences.

• Chronic Depletion: gently works with patterns of dysfunction/restriction to build resilience when a person has sustained long-term stress and has become so physically, emotionally, and spiritually depleted that s/he is unable to “bounce back.”

• Touching the Brain: has the therapeutic focus on stimulating optimal nervous system health by working with the glial (connective tissue) cells of the brain and spinal cord.

• Unwinding Meridians: Like Eden Energy Medicine, this aspect of CranioSacral Therapy focuses on an energy system known in Chinese medicine, the meridians, and the interface between meridians and the craniosacral system. The intention is to free up energetic blockages in the body. This particular technique can be applied both in light-touch sessions and remote sessions.

 

With the exception of mouthwork, CranioSacral sessions may combine components of these aforementioned techniques.

CranioSacral Therapy is a light-touch and intentional technique that releases tensions and stress deep in the body, at the level of the nervous system, to relieve pain and improve whole-body health. Dr. John E. Upledger, DO, OMM, developed the technique based on his research about cranial osteopathy and the craniosacral system. Like Eden Energy Medicine, this work has many layers, starting with a basic 10-step protocol and progressing, according to client needs, to releasing “energy cysts” that hold the residue of physical and/or emotional injuries or trauma in the body, building resilience, or addressing optimal brain and nervous health.