Craniosacral Therapy involves very gentle touch. Touch that listens to the person's being and their energy and offers a reflection and container within which the body's innate intelligence emerges in its unique quality and ever-presence. ​

Through this unimposing gentleness the body is able to relax and open up. We are not focussing on symptoms and disease, but on strenghtening the underlying system in its resources, so your body can release restrictions and restore vitality.

Through this gentle contact on different parts of the body, the craniosacral fluid, which surrounds our brain and spinal cord can be contacted and felt. It moves in wave like rhythms (cranial rhtyhmic impulse, mide-tide and long-tide) that are unique to each one of us. It's movement is refered to as the breath of life. The breath of Source itself breathing through us in its clarity, all knowingness and living stillness. This involuntary motion resides underneath our autonomic rhythms of heart rate, breath, pulse, etc. in a still space. ​​The cranioscral rhythm can be felt anywhere on the body and particularily in the head, spine and sacrum. This is because these three spaces are seamlessly connected by a membraneous fascial sac (the meninges). This sac houses the craniosacral fluid which moves within it in a wave like motions of flexion (filling) and extension (draining of the craniosacral fluid).​​​​​​

By interacting with this fluid, the body is able to relax deeply. Restrictions that are held in the body can release. Through the gentle listening touch, a holding space is created within which the body's innate wisdom can express itself and self-correct, re-integrate trauma and shock and harmonize the different levels of experience. ​​​​

Craniosacral therapy can benefit a person on many levels because it encompasses the whole being. It commonly brings a feeling of deep relaxation and warmth, as the whole person - their mind and their body begins to engage with the underlying life-force and is encouraged towards a more calm and integrated state of being. 

Engaging with our underlying life force in this way can

𖦹 reduce stress and restore balance
𖦹 improve sleep
𖦹 reduce anxiety
𖦹 alleviate or resolve pain
𖦹 release tension

The origin of pain and symptoms, such as migraines and headaches, can lie in tissue restrictions in the membranes between the skull bones (sutures) or around the vertebrae and the sacrum. Manipulating the fascial tissue and the flow of the fluid with light pressure where there are restrictions, can release them and alleviate or resolve chronic pain and symptoms such as migraines, headaches, neck pain and jaw tension that were a result of that. 

Just as much as craniosacral therapy can address pain and symptoms and induce the nervous system into the healing zone, it is also a healing art that can bring oneself into deeper connection with oneself and the living breathing world around us. Like a door into the deeper fabric of ourselves and the universe. ​

What happens during a Craniosacral Therapy Session?

During our time together, you are comfortably lying on your back on my massage table, fully clothed and with a blanket to keep you warm.

By now, we have had time to get to know each other a little bit and for you to share about anything that felt important to you.​ There will be time to settle together.

Now the session begins. I will start with making light hand contact at your ankles and sitting quietly to tune into your body and listen. What does it want to show me? What does it need? I will then place my hands on parts of your body (e.g. the knees, diaphragm, shoulder, head) that your system 'lit up' to me. 

You may notice that your whole body begins to relax and settle. You might also become aware of feelings and physical sensations or feel the movement of your unique craniosacral rhythm and small adjustments inside of you. 

I may ask you what you are noticing and offer space for you to share anything that may be happening for you and what you may be noticing. Voicing anything that arises for you during the session is very welcome, just as much silence is. 

1hour/$105 | 1.5 hours/$140