Craniosacral therapy is subtle, but powerful, bodywork that uses light touch to locate and release restrictions, tension and pain in our physical and emotional bodies. 

Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, hands-on bodywork technique that supports the nervous system by working with the body's natural rhythms. Using light touch, practitioners assess and release restrictions in the craniosacral system—the membranes, fluid, and bones surrounding the brain and spinal cord—to encourage deep relaxation and self-healing.

Your body has several natural rhythms: your heart beat, your breath, how you digest food, the way your lymphatic system moves. Your craniosacral system has the craniosacral rhythm, and craniosacral practitioners can use this "pulse" to assess and release restrictions in the tissues of the head, neck, and spine. Because "tension anywhere creates tension everywhere", releasing restrictions in these areas of the body can help shift tension patterns in other areas of the body over time

Because craniosacral therapy is incredibly gentle and non-invasive, it is a modality that is appropriate for patients of all ages and health statuses. It can be especially useful for folks who gravitate to gentle forms of bodywork, with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrom or hypermobility spectrum disorders, or who describe themselves as highly sensitive persons. It is typically performed on a fully clothed patient.

How Craniosacral Therapy can help you:

Through gentle and intentional touch in specific areas of the body, craniosacral therapy helps shift tension patterns, promotes nervous system regulation, and encourages coherence between body, mind, and spirit. Many people fall asleep or into a deep meditative state during a session and report feeling less pain and more grounded for days and weeks after a treatment.

Craniosacral therapy can help reduce pain and tension in the head, neck, and torso by releasing restrictions and shifting tension patterns. Additionally, because craniosacral therapy has a profound impact on the nervous system, it can address a wide range physical and psychoemotional concerns, such as anxiety and mood, traumatic stress, sleep issues, digestive irregularity, pain perception, immune health, and more.

Craniosacral therapy can be used on its own, or combines beautifully in a comprehensive treatment plan with acupuncture, massage therapy, or other holistic or biomedical modalities.

What can Craniosacral Therapy treat?

These extremely gentle, full-body sessions are useful for a range of health and wellness concerns, including:

  • Anxiety and depression

  • PTSD & CPTSD

  • Insomnia

  • ADHD

  • Chronic fatigue

  • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome & hypermobility spectrum disorderss

  • Fibromyalgia

  • Jaw pain and TMJ Disorder

  • Long COVID

  • Lyme Disease & tickborne illness

  • Migraines and headaches

  • Chronic neck and back pain

  • Stress and tension-related disorders

  • Concussions and traumatic brain injuries

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