Craniosacral: the healing offered by deep listening
Craniosacral therapy is a subtle and profound healing form that assists the body’s natural capacity for self repair. It supports your body's innate ability to balance, restore and heal itself, as well as helping to reduce stress and build your underlying energy. When a Craniosacral therapist places her hands lightly on you, she is using them to listen to your 'Breath of Life', a rhythmic impulse that can be felt throughout the body. Your body responds to this sensitive touch by beginning to listen to itself.
A feeling that you have been heard in the truest sense of the word is a common experience during and after a Craniosacral session.
With this deep listening of the cells rhythmic movement, which is fundamental to life, your body will sense the support available and use this to begin to release and let go of whatever it needs to. Craniosacral therapy essentially helps the body to release restrictions that inhibit the body’s normal, self-correcting tendencies.
Sometimes all the body needs to activate the healing process is a light touch by a skilled hand. Craniosacral therapy supports the self-healing of the mind, body, spirit and emotions. It can have profound physical and psychological benefits and can reduce stress and increase well being.
A feeling that you have been heard in the truest sense of the word is a common experience during and after a Craniosacral session.
With this deep listening of the cells rhythmic movement, which is fundamental to life, your body will sense the support available and use this to begin to release and let go of whatever it needs to. Craniosacral therapy essentially helps the body to release restrictions that inhibit the body’s normal, self-correcting tendencies.
Sometimes all the body needs to activate the healing process is a light touch by a skilled hand. Craniosacral therapy supports the self-healing of the mind, body, spirit and emotions. It can have profound physical and psychological benefits and can reduce stress and increase well being.
Working with adults
Craniosacral therapy is so gentle that it is safe and suitable for people of all ages, from babies to the elderly, and also people in fragile or painful conditions. Due to its gentleness and effectiveness, many people include it as a component in their personal wellbeing. Clients report having more energy, sleeping better and an improved immune system.
Specific conditions that may benefit from craniosacral therapy include:
Specific conditions that may benefit from craniosacral therapy include:
- Anxiety and stress
- Sleep disorders
- Exhaustion and chronic fatigue
- Digestive disorders
- Trauma (physical and emotional)
- Back, neck and shoulder pain
From the blog archives:
Coping with overwhelm
What type of depressed are you?
Why self-regulation is so important
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Stillness...resonates with the deepest part of us
10 steps on the road to health and wellbeing
Craniosacral therapy and stress
Craniosacral - the parasympathatic nervous system's friend
Space to breathe
Sleep and the importance of CSF
Coping with overwhelm
What type of depressed are you?
Why self-regulation is so important
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Stillness...resonates with the deepest part of us
10 steps on the road to health and wellbeing
Craniosacral therapy and stress
Craniosacral - the parasympathatic nervous system's friend
Space to breathe
Sleep and the importance of CSF
Working with babies and children
Parents commonly bring their baby for Craniosacral therapy in the first few weeks following birth. Craniosacral therapy is a nurturing and calming approach to childhood healthcare. The treatment process is gentle and supportive to the physical and emotional needs of the individual child.
Some of the conditions that may be helped include:
Some of the conditions that may be helped include:
- Colic
- Difficulty settling
- Teething
- Digestion disorders
- Distress after a traumatic birth
- Poor sleep patterns
From the blog archives:
The impact of trauma on the developing brain
The mystery of consciousness
How our brains are shaped in childhood
How do babies experience their birth - by Graham Kennedy
Craniosacral therapy in pregnancy
How birth can impact on breastfeeding
The impact of trauma on the developing brain
The mystery of consciousness
How our brains are shaped in childhood
How do babies experience their birth - by Graham Kennedy
Craniosacral therapy in pregnancy
How birth can impact on breastfeeding
My experience and qualifications
- Mental Health First Aid (2023)
- Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership - Child Protection Inter-agency (CPIA Level 3) (2022)
- Resonance Training - Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (2017 - 2020) - Assistant Tutor
- Human Baby, Human Being (June 2019)
- Trustee for the Craniosacral Therapy Association (Dec 2015-Dec 2018)
- Breath of Life Conference (2017)
- Chronic Fatigue Symptoms and Craniosacral Therapy with Viola Sampson (Dec 2016)
- Nick Totton, Embodied Relating at CSTA AGM (2016)
- Craniosacral Research Workshop (2015)
- Babies, Children and Parents CPD seminar with Sheila Kean (2014) - Assisting
- Homeocurative CPD with Andrew Stones (2014)
- Breath of Life Conference (2013)
- Babies, Children and Parents CPD seminar with Sheila Kean (2012)
- Breath of Life Conference (2011)
- Registered Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist at Resonance Trainings (2011)
- Counselling Certificate (City and Guilds 3701, 3702, 3703) at Halesowen College (1996)