Infant Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral Therapy –The Healing Power of a Gentle Touch

Why is Cranio Sacral Therapy So Important?

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a light touch approach that can create significant changes in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole body health and performance.

Few body systems have more influence over your health and well-being than your central nervous system. And few body systems have more impact on your central nervous system than the craniosacral system – the soft tissues and fluid that protect your brain and spinal cord.

Every day you endure stresses and strains and your body absorbs them. But your body can handle so tension before the tissues begin to tighten and potentially affect the spinal cord.
Unfortunately this can compromise the function of the central nervous system in your body.

Craniosacral therapy releases those tensions to allow the entire body to relax and self correct. Using a gentle touch – starting with about the weight of a nickel – craniosacral therapists evaluate your internal environment. Then they use distinctive light touch techniques to release any restrictions they find.

By freeing the central nervous system to perform at its best, craniosacral therapy naturally eliminates pain and stress, strengthens your resistance to disease, and enhances your health and well being.

And due to its gentle nature, craniosacral therapy can be effective for all ages, from newborns to elders.

What Conditions Does Craniosacral Therapy Address?

Craniosacral therapy improves your body’s ability to take better care of you.

It helps to relieve a wide range of pain, illness and dysfunction, including:
• Migraines and headaches
• Chronic neck and back pain
• Stress and tension related disorders
• Motor coordination impairments
• Infant and childhood disorders
• Brain injury and spinal cord injuries
• Chronic fatigue
• Fibromyalgia
• TMJ syndrome
• Scoliosis
• Central nervous system disorders
• Learning disabilities
• ADD/ADHD
• Post –traumatic stress disorder
• Orthopedic Problems
And many more other conditions.

What Can I Expect from a Cranio Sacral Session

A typical cranio therapy session takes place in a quiet private setting. You remain fully clothed as you relax on a comfortable padded table.

Your therapist begins by gently touching various parts of your body to monitor the rhythm of the fluid that is flowing around your central nervous system.

By carefully listening with the hands to locate areas of weak fluid flow or tissue motion, your practitioner can trace those areas of weakness through the body to the original source of dysfunction.
Delicate manual techniques are then used to release those problem areas and improve the form and function of your central nervous system.

A craniosacral therapy session can last up to an hour or more. It can be used alone or integrated with other therapies to create powerful effects.

What you experience from your own session is highly individual. The sessions are generally deeply relaxing, creating feelings of warmth or gentle pulsing in the areas the therapist is working on.

The Development of CranioSacral Therapy and Craniosacral Training

Craniosacral therapy was developed by Dr. John E. Upledger, an osteopathic physician featured in TIME magazine as one of North America’s next wave of innovators.

From 1975 to 1983, Dr. Upledger was a professor of biomechanics at the College of Osteopathic medicine at Michigan State University.
While there he led a team of anatomists, physiologists, biophysiologists, biophysicists and bioengineers who performed and published the clinical research that formed the basis for the approach he named Craniosacral Therapy.

In 1985, Dr. Upledger founded the Upledger Institute to teach people worldwide cranioscacral therapy.

CranioSacral Therapy is practiced worldwide now by nearly 100,000 therapists. Craniosacral training usually occurs through many four day interactive seminars.