What is craniosacral therapy?

Craniosacral therapy

• is light touch bodywork, practiced with the client always wearing clothes, usually lying face up on a massage table.

• collaboratively includes both practioner and client,

• invites the client's system to remember its underlying health and respond to it

• starts with a belief that there's plenty of health here

• starts with trust that the client may well has more health than not, even though be quite sick

• a modality that can bring deep calm, introducing the kind of rest that may

• a modality that offers the nervous system deep regulation

• an invitation to presence, self-awareness, co-regulation

• a way to practice a felt sense of safety

  
  
  
  

In craniosacral therapy, I keep my attention and awareness open. My intention is to notice what is arising with kindness and appreciation, as I would do in meditation though it turns out to be easier to do for and with others. I also hold a broader intention of my client's well being, the rightness of them as they are. (More on this in my discussion of the Resistance Inquiry practice.)

Through the presence and guidance of practioner, biodynamic craniosacral therapy and somatic coaching invite your muscles and fascia to release and relax; your fluids (cerebral spinal fluid is a star here!) to flow, and the health that is always present in your system to remember itself.

During sessions with me, you may experience deep rest or relaxation states. These support your body's finding the optimal pathways for its own wellness. You may also experience other physical sensations — at times aches, pressure, or pulsing. If discomfort arises, I work with you to foremost support and hold you in the experience as well as soften and release the challenge. Craniosacral and somatic coaching encourage systemic transformation and release of past wounding, whether it appears as psychic, emotional, or narrative pain. 

I sometimes pause when someone asks me, "What is craniosacral therapy?" because it is rich and complex but also because how craniosacral therapy works may seem to be at odds with the West's habit of dividing subjects into ever smaller and usually separate parts. In the realm of craniosacral, we hold everything as an interconnected, interwoven, interactive part of a possibly infinite whole,