What is Craniosacral Therapy?

Craniosacral therapy (CST) is derived from cranial osteopathy and adapted to diverse professionals with broad range of healthcare licensures: physical therapists, massage therapists, nurses, MDs. 

CST is gentle, but powerful. It helps the whole human—body and mind—orient to health, regardless of diagnosis or situation, by using light touch to influence the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. 

Issues in the flow of this fluid show restrictions and damage in the body, which we experience as musculoskeletal tension, pain, or restrictions; as disorder, condition, or disease; as emotional or psychiatric hurt. The fluctuation of this fluid moves and shapes the skull, vertebrae, and central nervous system, and reverberates throughout the body. Because the movement is steady and rhythmical, perceiving it within any part of the body, even a very hurt part, allows the therapist to access health, even within that hurt part.

CST is especially effective with conditions that conventional medicine struggles to address—chronic pain, migraines, mental health, autoimmune conditions, neurological disorders, addiction. I see people for everything from back pain or migraines to bipolar disorder, addiction, or MS. Most clients feel deeply relaxed during a session. Over the next week, the changes initiated in the session integrate into the body’s tissues as a new way of being.

Any trauma, experienced in the body or mind, finds its home in the body. Our bodies are how we experience life. They are our vehicle. When we hurt, get off track, injured, sick, stressed, broken, ripped, worn down—our bodies know it. They compensate for it. They do all they can to keep us going, whether the injury is physical or mental.

But, we humans also can heal. We are always healing. I watch people heal every day.