Your body has its own intelligence, all the way down to the cellular level. We are raised in a society that expects our bodies to work and when they don’t we take a remedy. As a culture we are not taught to listen. We run over what is being shown.
Our bodies speak to us when we’re tired, eating poorly, stuck in fear, or dissociating. Yet no one really teaches us how to respond—only how to cope or push through. Medicine recognizes that stress is a primary cause of disease. Its role is often not preventative, but rather to support the body once it’s already in crisis.
Bodywork is a gentle way to explore the unique way we hold emotions in our bodies. Its complex and layered but underneath pain and illness is likely unprocessed emotions. Patterns of fear are passed down through generations, through experiences, and through our DNA.
Somato-emotional release is a way to support the release of emotional memories that were unable to be processed at the time.
Emotions are learned, expected of you.
Parents are starting to teach emotional intelligence to their children. It’s new. For many of us, as young children our fear, anger, grief, worry, ect.. often went unshared. Our primary way to survive was to shut it all down and figure out how to fit in.
Craniosacral therapy is gentle deep work that can include somato-emotional release. It’s not meant to be overwhelming, or recreate traumas. The goal is for you to create a relationship with your body and your knowingness to uncover and release exactly what is right for you in each session.
Information has energy attached to it. Angry words and actions carry the frequency of anger. When someone is angry we often take in the frequency of anger with the information. Most of what we are holding onto was never ours in its origin.
Somato-emotional release gives the body permission to let go of other people's energy it is holding onto. Your presence with yourself is how your body knows it is safe to let go of resistance, protection, fear, bracing. Inner work restores a deep connection to you in a loving nurturing way.
Releasing patterns of fear and worry from the past creates space to lift off the layers that hold chronic pain, illness, fatigue, hypervigilance, and hypersensitivity in place. We’re so used to our patterns—so resilient in our resistance and protection, that we often lose the clarity to sense any fear, anger, or worry that created it.
We all have an inner wisdom, a knowingness that we can connect to. Our own inner truth. It’s the foundation for why craniosacral therapy is so effective. We trust your inner wisdom to guide the session.
In session the client's body runs the session. It knows where to start and how to progress. As therapists we learn to read the body and guide you into your own awareness.
This world is on a fast trajectory of change. If our attention is only on the outside world, whether it is reacting to our job or our family, we will be tired, unfulfilled and ungrounded.
Finding our center empowers us, energizes us, and aligns us with the forward momentum to create a good life.
We are souls embodied on earth. An amazing planet of renewal and diversity. We experience a lot of our life separate from nature. We forget that we are nature, we breathe air, eat from the earth, drink water, and maintain a temperature. We are creating just as she is. We are given the gift of renewal everyday in ways none of us are aware of.
The placebo effect is shows within us a power of renewal no one comprehends. It’s been shown over and over that our hearts desire combined with the belief that our body is given what it needs is enough for some people to find their own ability to heal.
The beauty in our diversity also has its drawbacks. One person can recover from a car accident quickly, while another can be in shock and stuck presenting symptoms no one can explain. Medicine doesn’t see us as whole, only parts. Your inner wisdom, your knowingness sees the whole of you. The solution is often within you.
Medical wisdom has many positive solutions. It can screen, repair and replace. It can’t do your inner work for you.
Testimonials
Hey Gail. I just wanted to thank you for the session the other day. Wow. I spent the day sort of muted…in as much stillness as my life would allow…feeling like things had been reconfigured, I just laid low. And then Mon eve I realized: “OMG…I have just released this stuck grief around this one person that no matter what I did it just wouldn’t lift. Wow. Gail did that.” It’s like all my preparatory work up to that point finally paid off when you unblocked the energy, or whatever it is you did. Words cannot express the miraculous effect. And the perfection of the timing, since tonight I happily, giddily, said good riddance to 2013 and the angst I couldn’t shed. All that is to say I am grateful …and I am excited about what this year holds for me. Happy New Year!!
— Linda Albright
Over my life, I have seen many practitioners of different kinds. I have had neck pain, reproductive surgery, and life traumas. The work I am doing with Gail Bernson is very special. From physical pains and discomfort to the deeper issues inside, Gail takes a holistic approach. She scans and approaches the whole of me, not just my body. She “listens” to my body-mind-spirit for where to go and what to do. How does she do this? Darned if I know! If I could do it I’d quit my job and do it it, too, it’s so cool. Extraordinary gifts of discernment, insight, training, and knowledge interplay artfully as she places her hands on or over my shoulders, my eyes, my head, my neck, my toe. How does my body call her there? How does she “hear” it? All I know is, it happens, and I leave transformed, not just pain-free. Who should go to Gail? Anyone with anything challenging you, from physical to systemic, from acute to chronic, from curable to untreatable, from mental to spiritual. Her easy-going, down-to-earth persona takes the woo-woo out and leaves the results in. I am so grateful for this work, experiencing deeper healing at a time when life is calling me to show up bigger and better. Gail is beautifully supporting my body-mind-spirit to do just that.
— Susan Babcock