The craniosacral system encompasses the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. It plays a pivotal role in maintaining the health and function of the central nervous system. When this system operates optimally, it supports the body’s ability to perform at its best. However, disruptions within this system can affect the overall balance of the body, leading to discomfort or dysfunction.
Understanding the Craniosacral System
What is Craniosacral Therapy (CST)?
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on approach designed to assess and enhance the craniosacral system. Through light touch and subtle manipulation, CST works to release tensions within this system, promoting harmony and balance throughout the body. Its effects extend to various other body systems, including the musculoskeletal, endocrine, digestive, and immune systems. By addressing the body as a whole, CST facilitates the body’s natural healing processes, helping to relieve pain, restore mobility, and improve overall well-being.
What is Somatoemotional Release® (SER)?
Somatoemotional Release® (SER) is a therapeutic process that builds on the principles of CST. SER focuses on addressing the emotional burdens, past injuries, or unresolved experiences that can become embedded in the body’s tissues. Emotional trauma and physical pain are often interconnected, and SER provides a pathway for the body and mind to release these blockages. By resolving the residual effects of trauma, SER helps to reduce pain, improve emotional health, and foster a deep sense of calm and equilibrium.
Why choose CST and SER?
Are you living in crisis mode and feeling constantly stressed and overwhelmed?
Do you want to rid your body and mind of residual effects of past injuries and negative experiences?
Are you suffering from sleepless nights and chronic pain that affects overall function and daily activities?
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Whether you are on the path to recovery from a physical injury or surgery, or navigating stress and overwhelm on a daily basis, maintaining balance and harmony in both your body and mind is essential.
You will sleep more soundly, experience less pain, and move through your daily life with greater ease, comfort and confidence.
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity"
Hippocrates (460BC- 370BC)
What to expect from a CST session?
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You will be fully clothed wearing loose clothing. Treatment preferably on massage table relaxed on your back. However, treatment can be in sitting or sidelying – whatever is more comfortable for you.
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Initial 50-60 minutes session includes: comprehensive evaluation of various systems including but not limited to musculoskeletal and craniosacral system. Followed by CST treatment and instructions for relaxation techniques for home use.
Subsequent 50 minute sessions : Your body presents differently each day, as well as how you are emotionally feeling. Therefore treatment sessions will be tailored individually after assessing your body's systems. Other mind/body modalities such as breathwork, visualization, meditation or yoga may be integrated into the CST sessions to help promote carryover at home.
How can Craniosacral Therapy help you?
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By complementing the body's natural healing processes, CST is increasingly used as a preventive health measure for its ability to bolster resistance to disease, and is effective for a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and dysfunction, including:
• Migraine Headaches
• Chronic Neck and Back Pain
• Motor-Coordination Impairments
• Colic
• Autism
• Central Nervous System Disorders
• Orthopedic Problems
• Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries
• Spinal Cord Injuries
• Scoliosis
• Infantile Disorders
• Learning Disabilities
• Chronic Fatigue
• Emotional Difficulties
• Stress and Tension-Related Problems
• Fibromyalgia and other Connective-Tissue Disorders
• Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome (TMJ)
• Neurovascular or Immune Disorders
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Post-Surgical Dysfunction
How Craniosacral Therapy can differ from traditional Physical Therapy....