WHY IS CRANIOSACRAL THRAPY SO IMPORTANT

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

Few body structures have more influence over your health and well being then your Central Nervous System. 
And few body systems have more impact on your central nervous system then the CranioSacral system the soft tissues and fluid that protect your brain and spinal cord.

Unfortunately this can compromise the function of the central nervous system-and the performance of nearly every other system in your body, especially the endocrine system.  CST releases those tensions to allow the entire body to relax and self-correct.  Using a gentle touch-starting with about the weight of a small coin practitioners evaluate your internal environment.  They then use distinctive light-touch techniques to release any restrictions they find.

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

And because its so gentle, CST can be effective for all ages from new borns to elders.

WHAT CONDITIONS DOES CST ADDRESS?

CST improves your body’s ability to take better care of you.  It helps relieve a full spectrum of pain, illness and dysfunction, including:

• Stress and tension related disorders
• Motor-coordination impairments
• Chronic neck and back pain
• Migraines and headaches
• Chronic fatigue
• TMJ Syndrome
• Scoliosis
• Fibromyalgia
• Orthopaedic problems
• Brain and spinal cord injuries
• Infant and childhood disorders
• Any many other conditions.

WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM A SESSION?

A typical CranioSacral therapy session takes place in a quiet, private setting.  You remain fully clothed as you relax on a comfortable, added 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 CST 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 therapists is working on

HOW WAS THIS GENTLE THERPAY DEVELOPED?

CranioSacral therapy was developed by Dr John E Upledger, and osteopathic physician featured in Time magazine in one of America’s next wave of innovators.

Form 1975 to 1983 Dr Upledger was a professor of Bio mechanics at the College of Osteopathic medicine at Michigan State University.

While he was there, he led a team of anatomists, physiologists, 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 about the value of this effective approach.  More than 80,000 therapists have since been trained in CranioSacral Therapy.