Have you noticed chronic stiffness, or a light running anxiety that isn’t going away? We are all bracing a bit as the world changes around us. Craniosacral therapy helps you let down and drop into a more natural state of being. Take a break from the outside world, relax and reconnect with your inner world.
Craniosacral therapy is a gentle hands on therapy developed by osteopaths in the 1970’s from the idea that the 22 bones of the skull are not fused but have subtle movement. Techniques were developed to create easier passage of the nerves through the bones to optimize function. An eye turn for example, is often the result of a nerve being compressed in its travels from the brain stem up through the sphenoid bone to the eye. This approach trusts in the body’s innate ability to heal itself and our ability to identify restrictions. By creating space for the nerve, the body takes over and knows exactly what to do to function properly. This concept is applied throughout the body, effecting endless opportunities for change.
Adult clients often come for support through personal development (to change nervous system response to stress, trauma), to address chronic pain, or who have a challenge that needs a whole body approach to resolve.
When the medical model has no solution, a wholistic approach where you become an active part of the solution, is your next best step.
CranioSacral Therapy
Kids come for lots of different reasons. Concussions, headaches, learning issues, eye tracking, coordination.
More and more lots of kids come who are expressing anxiety. As young as 2 year olds and more commonly upper elementary and middle school age.
I teach them about their nervous system. And do my best to work with them to help them separate the fear of the collective, their family and friends from their own body. Helping them find themselves in the mix of everyone else.
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Compression and squeezing through the birth canal, or the sudden pressure change of a cesarean birth can have lasting effects on the nervous system. Craniosacral therapy with newborns supports a gentle, beautiful natural unwinding of the birth process. CST helps gets all the systems working properly — eating, pooping, sleeping. What are you noticing with your newborn; stiffness, a lot of gas, fussiness, restlessness, painful latch, air sounds while feeding?
Tongue and lip tie are common occurrences sometimes remedied by the clipping of the frenulum. After this procedure, or in cases that are less severe, infants benefit from CST as we are able to release the tongue, lip and cheek muscles to ease the tightness in the mouth to better coordinate nursing. Torticollis, which is when the head only turns easily to one side, is also a common with newborns. This is often identified by moms who notice the difference of ease on one side when breastfeeding.
As newborns grow, restrictions that were small become more noticable. An awareness of a head tilt, or hips lifting off the ground. Releasing these frees up the whole body’s desire to roll and twist.
