CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY

If you suffer from neck or back pain, headaches, whiplash, TMJ syndrome, sciatica, disc injury, or physical or emotional stress and fatigue. Craniosacral Therapy can bring relief by restoring balance and vitality and strengthening your innate ability to heal.

"Carrie has the most amazing, warm, sensing hands."

Susan Reznek
Nurse/ Homemaker

Craniosacral Therapy, or CT, differs from many bodywork forms in two key ways. First, a CT therapist doesn’t massage muscles like you would experience in a deep tissue massage. Instead, the therapist uses specific hand “holds” to provide a gentle yet deep activation and movement of the energy, or motility, within all tissues and fluids of the body- beyond the outer palpable surface. Restoring motility boosts the potency of your life force energy (prana, chi), alleviates muscle tension, restores skeletal balance, and enhances vitality.

The second and most important way that CT differs from other bodywork forms is CT’s attention to the Core Mechanical Link or CML. The CML is defined by one simple thing: a single band of connective tissue that extends from the tailbone up the spine and into the head creating a direct connection to from head to pelvis. Living within this connective tissue is the fluid that protects and nourishes your brain and nervous system, known as the cerebral spinal fluid. Because this fluid is the life force of the brain and nervous system - the “wisdom headquarters” of the body - balancing and strengthening it directly and profoundly enables your body to heal itself.

An example of a common CT hold is for the therapist to place one hand underneath the pelvis cradling the sacrum and the other hand directly above on the lower abdomen. The CT therapist can feel for the motility within the muscles of the lower abdomen, within the organs (uterus, bladder, colon, etc.), within the bones (hips, sacrum, tailbone), or within the connective tissue between any of these body parts as well as up the spine and into the head (sensing the CML). She places her attention into a specific area, wherever your body indicates that a healing change is ready to take place, and then helps facilitate motility and supports your body as it finds balance. In turn, obstructions to the Core Mechanical Link are alleviated and the central nervous system is revitalized. This results in a profound healing experience, often evoking deep relaxation.