Craniosacral therapy is a light touch modality that works on freeing up the central nervous system which can have far reaching effects throughout the entire body. This nervous system is enclosed in the cranium and spinal cord in the spinal dura down to the tailbone and is bathed by cerebral spinal fluid in a semi-hydraulic fluid system. This system is “pumped” by the production and drainage of the cerebral spinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain. This produces a “rhythm” that can be palpated throughout the body and assessed for rate, expansion, character, and roughly runs at a rate of 6-12 times per minute. It can be accessed through “bony handles” of the skull bones and the sacrum and ca also be felt into the extremities. Where this rhythm isn’t moving correctly is often where there are restrictions in the tissues which can then be freed.
Included in this modality of craniosacral therapy is the assessment and treatment of “energy cysts” found anywhere in the body. These “energy cysts “ are “ energetically encapsulated” traumas, that were too much for the person to withstand at the time they occurred and can be any form of physical, emotional or mental traumas or any combination of these. They rob the body of energy by being in the body and prevent the tissues they are located in from fully healing. This could be from surgical trauma, high velocity injuries like car accidents and falls, physical assaults of any kind and childhood emotional wounds. Once they are freed the body tissues can heal there and the person has less density in the body and more life force.
Craniosacral therapy stimulates the parasympathetic or calming nervous system so one is often more relaxed and in less pain following a treatment. A treatment is usually done with the person clothed, lying on a soft table in a private room.