Craniosacral therapy can be a deeply relaxing experience. The sessions take place with the client lying fully clothed on a massage table, using very light and gentle touch.
In the treatment, as the practitioner, I work closely with the flow of energy within and around your spinal cord and cranium, and the light particles in the cerebral spinal fluid that contain high vibrational information that maintain health in your body.
I will often hold the sacrum and the cranium as an access to listening and acknowledging the flow of this energy, and the tidal forces present within it.
As I become present to the conditions in your body and biosphere during the treatment, I am acting as a mirror, reflecting back to your own deep inherent intelligence. As your body shifts into a space of wholeness and awareness, this intelligence within you, will prioritise an inertial issue to work with.
It is humbling to witness the complex cosmic ordering forces realign themselves to the exact route of your healing, and also deeply reassuring to know that as a practitioner, I'm not expected to mentally figure out what comes first, and in what order, to facilitate your healing journey, It's a journey from the heart, and who better to know what is best for you than your own witnessing conciousness.
During the sessions, as you deepen into your own stillness, you can become receptive to the unconditional love and creative healing flow of the breath of life. This powerful energy which is all knowing, all loving is present at all times and is the very source of all nature. Some would say it is the presence of God. The breath of life literally breathes new life, health and higher vibrational information into the cells and tissues and biosphere of your body, creating healing on many levels. In Craniosacral therapy we literally 'drop into it' as we expand into stillness.
HOW MANY SESSIONS WOULD I NEED?
If you are dealing with a chronic health issue,it is always better if you can come for a number of sessions, for at least 6 sessions, leaving enough time between sessions for the healing to integrate. This can be anything between a week to a month, or even longer. You may start to feel an improvement quickly, and your body can often need time to adjust before another session.
If your need is for support with something that does not have a long history you may find that one or two sessions may be enough. Even a chronic back pain can sometimes clear up in just one or two sessions.
You may simply want to come to help create or maintain balance if your experience of life is always busy, fast tracked, or you are sensing some emotional overwhelm.
If you have a health issue, often the first few sessions will be clearing the pathway for the vital forces of what we call the energetic 'midline' to flow freely through the central shaft of your body along the spinal vertebre, providing the resources to take your healing to a deeper level. The core issues that have been organising your symptoms of dis-ease, be it emotional, physical, mental or spiritual, can then come into the forefront, given that they are now present to enough health, light energy and information in their environment to resolve themselves.
Some clients come for less sessions, it really depends what you are dealing with at the time.
CRANIOSACRAL SOUL JOURNEY
In a session, the environment expressed in your biosphere, the qualities of emotions, mental processes, and experiences held in the fluids and tissues of your body are part of the way your body communicates what's coming up for healing. These expressions of your experience of life, have a vibration, or cellular memory. When we are left incomplete with a situation in our life, we retain the memory and often unconciously recreate similar situations to try to resolve what is incomplete from the past. In craniosacral therapy the acknowledgement of these incompletions can create resolution, and a clearing for new experiences.
We all hold the memory of our experience at conception, our period in the womb, of our birth process, and our growing experience of life in the field of our being. It is fascinating how our lives in the present have their fundamental ways of being founded in our earliest experiences.
An example of this could be someone who is constantly feeling dominated by life. This person may have had an experience of being in the womb where there are no bounderies between mother and baby, where the mother may have experienced overwhelming emotions or a shock of some kind, and her baby then identifies with that experience as being it's own. Later in life the person may find themselves feeling overwhelmed in relationships or at work.
We all have certain situations in life that trigger us, even though we don't always know why, and they limit our relationship to ourself and others.
In Craniosacral therapy these issues often become present in the field while we are working. By acknowledging whats present, the suffering, the vibration that holds it in place in the field becomes transformed, life occurs differently, possibilities emerge where they were not present before. You can then have a clearer access to your own life purpose, your own soul, and enjoy a new found freedom in relating and connecting with others.
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY?
Craniosacral therapy is safe and effective for anybody, from tiny babies to adults of all ages. The gentle placing of hands on the the body is relaxing and nurturing and there is no physical manipulation or massage envolved.
Babies can greatly benefit from craniosacral therapy if they are unsettled or too quiet. The birthing process in itself is a powerful experience, whatever way they come into this world and they can be left with issues of compression from the strong contractions of labour, and a residue of shock if the umbilical cord has had to be cut quickly. The treatment helps the baby to connect with their new world and resolve any inertia from the birth which can help with colic, sleeping problems, crying and other symptoms of distress.
Pregnant mothers can also benefit from the therapy as thier body takes on carrying and supporting the new baby in their womb. Lower back issues can be helped and general well being supported to a better level enhancing the possibility of a well resourced health and birth for mother and baby.
Anyone involved in a car crash or other whiplash injury would greatly benefit from a series of sessions to address the resolution of trauma in the tissues and fluids, and the memory in the nervous system. If left, the results show up over the years as a gradual depletion of resources in all areas of the body. Craniosacral therapy will literally give these people their lives back as the cerebral spinal fluid starts to flow in its tidal motion again through the whole nervous system.
Craniosacral therapy can treat a myriad of different conditions, given that the treatment allows for the resolution of the cause of disease. As a client, it makes a big difference if you can be accepting of your condition and open to your healing. Before coming to the first session, I recommend taking a few minutes to ask how much you want to heal yourself, what's at stake for you, what your condition is costing you in your life, and what you could create for yourself if you were truly happy and healthy.
This is a list of examples from the CSTA web site of some of the conditions that can be treated with craniosacral therapy.
Arthritis
Asthma
Autism
Backpain
Birth trauma
Bronchitis
Cerebral Palsy
Chronic Fatigue
Colic
Depression
Digestive disorders
Drug withdrawal
Dyslexia
Exhaustion
Frozen shoulder
Headaches
Hormonal disorders
Hyperactivity
Immune system disorders
Insomnia
Menstral pain, PMS
Migraines
Post-dental trauma
Post-operative issues
Problems during and after pregnancy
Sciatica
Shock: Physical and emotional
Sinusitus
Sports injuries
Stress and stress related illnesses
Tinnitus and middle ear problems
TMJ/jaw problems
Visual disturbance
Vertigo
Whiplash injuries
