CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is based on Cranial Osteopathy and works with the craniosacral system that accommodates and circulates cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain and the spinal cord. This generates a very subtle rhythm and by listening to and working with the body as a whole, whilst using a light touch and a series of specific gentle hands-on techniques, we can help the body to identify internal restrictions that need releasing.

What is SomatoEmotional Release™ (SER)?

SomatoEmotional Release™ (SER) is a therapeutic integration of the body and mind. It’s a spontaneous process where the client’s inner wisdom brings forward emotions, memories or sensations of recent or past incidents, injuries or trauma. The body has its own ‘inner treatment plan’ and will bring essential aspects for resolution and healing as needed and the therapist will facilitate and honour that plan in a gentle, non-directive yet supportive way. Whilst SomatoEmotional Release™ may be an uncomfortable process or experience, physically and emotionally, it ultimately frees the body from pain and restrictions and brings the client greater emotional freedom and comfort too.

“Body, Mind and Spirit is self-healing.”

Why CranioSacral Therapy?

CranioSacral Therapy techniques support and balance the whole body to facilitate natural self-healing, as the craniosacral system has inherent self-correcting abilities.

Physical and emotional restrictions can be released using these techniques allowing the body to naturally rebalance itself.

CranioSacral Therapy is used in different ways by different people; some use CranioSacral Therapy for relief of a physical complaint. This could be as a result of a recent injury or even something that has been causing a problem for a longer period of time. Physical injuries, however old they are, may result in you compensating for the pain experienced elsewhere in the body. CranioSacral Therapy can help to gently realign the body, relieving restrictions and pain.

Others use CranioSacral Therapy as a means of regular and ongoing self-care and maintenance in order to manage emotional related issues, for example, stress related problems.

A CranioSacral Therapy Session.

CranioSacral Therapy is carried out in a warm, calm and peaceful setting where the recipient (and Therapist!) is fully clothed at all times.

The therapist begins with a series of evaluation techniques to establish your CranioSacral rhythm and ‘listens’ to where your body may need help to release internal restrictions.

Then, continuing using a light touch, the therapist uses a series of specific gentle hands-on techniques that focus around the head, working on the individual cranial bones and along the vertebral column, listening to and working with the body as a whole.

There are other techniques that the therapist can use, for example, working with the fascia, which is tissue that runs throughout the body internally and hard palate release techniques, that works with the bones in the mouth.

Treatment sessions usually last 45 minutes to an hour. Your first session will last a little longer as additional time is allocated for an initial medical case history to be taken, in order to establish an overview of your current state of health and to gain an understanding of things that may have happened recently or in the past.

Potential Benefits.

Each person will have a different experience to the next, there is no right or wrong way to feel during or after a treatment session. It will be as personal and individual as you are!

Some of the benefits after a treatment session may include:

• A sense of inner calm
• Feeling more relaxed
• Feeling revitalised
• Feeling energised
• Feeling more balanced emotionally
• Feeling clear-headed and able to think and make decisions more clearly
• Able to sleep better
• On a physical level, feeling better aligned and pain relief.

Natural Holistic Self-healing.

CranioSacral Therapy techniques enable the body to naturally recognise and identify areas that are not working to their optimum level and perhaps need healing. Following a treatment session, the body will continue to ‘process’ the techniques used during the session, to naturally heal and realign the body.

Regular CranioSacral Therapy sessions may be required to help support the healing process. It is also good to have regular treatments as part of your self-care and maintenance regime.

How many treatment sessions will I need?

Everyone is different and will respond in their own way and in their own time to CranioSacral Therapy. The number of treatments needed will vary from person to person. It is recommended that you receive a number of treatments over a period of time to get the full benefit from the Therapy, and continue to have treatments on a regular basis to maintain the benefits experienced.