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Do you hold your stretches or yoga poses long enough to notice a real shift in the deeper muscles of your body. Do you pause in that stretch to notice how a deep breath often allows you to surrender into a deeper stretch, a deeper release of what is holding tight?
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 Craniosacral Therapy is all about feeling the subtle rhythms and messages that your body is sharing. To sense those subtleties, I need to focus in a different way. It's important that I shut down that analytical Massage Therapist mind that wants to track and follow what makes sense to my soft tissue knowledge of the body. That is not what I want to bring to your Craniosacral Therapy session.
 Providing Craniosacral Therapy clients with homework after their session is really common in my practice. Spending time in a forward flexion posture such as fetal curling or child’s pose is the assignment given most often. Taking time at home to be in this posture enhances and furthers the flexion posture techniques of your Craniosacral Therapy session. It is so good for easing muscular and fascial tension along the spine and dural tube. Your nervous system loves it whether you’re newborn or 99 years old!
The human body is a constant source of amazement in how connected everything is within it.  Addressing the Sphenoid Bone through Craniosacral Therapy Often when my hands are working with the Sphenoid Bone a client will mention that they are feeling sensation further down in their body, around their hips, legs, lower abdomen, lower spine... “That’s weird!” has been the most common comment. But actually, it really isn’t.
Peace and calm may help to regulate one person’s nervous system but may cause another extreme stress, at first. When I google search “How to make the Nervous System feel safe?” the answers are similar. Breathe deeply and be calm.  For some that is not possible, at first. At least that has been my experience with sharing Craniosacral Therapy.
Some clients are able to slide into deep relaxation and find their peaceful centre quickly, while others just don’t. For some their relaxation or grounding point is more found in chaos and excitement. Trying to bring them into Stillpoint likely won’t happen, at first. I realize that their Nervous System is not in a place where it is feeling safe, yet. And this is the important step in meeting a person where they are.  Intraoral Craniosacral Therapy involves gentle, specialized techniques applied inside the mouth to assist with easing tension in the jaw, the palate, the floor of the mouth, sinus cavities, articulations between facial and cranial bones, and other structures in and around the mouth, face and throat.
Through easing fascial and muscular tensions it can be an effective way to address pain in the TMJ, injuries to the mouth, headaches and stress. External Craniosacral Therapy to the Facial Bones and Cranium may be enough to ease these areas but at times additional assistance is needed. As I complete level 3 of advanced Craniosacral Training I was really impressed with how much time was spent in discussion around awareness to being really sensitive when working in a client’s mouth. Discussion was focused on awareness right down to how you put your glove on and it made so much sense.
 A Concussion is something that often brings clients in for a Craniosacral Therapy session, whether for a recent injury or when navigating post concussion symptoms. Headaches, “foggy brain”, problems with balance, “shooshing in the ears”, problems with concentration, ongoing sensitivity to light or noise, Depression, Anxiety, more Emotional or experiencing mood swings… are just some of the symptoms that clients have mentioned post concussion.
 Sometimes selfcare is not just about bubble baths and meditation, sometimes it's about recognizing and then addressing issues that need to be resolved, with consistency, so that you can clear them. It can be more arduous work like clearing physical clutter to allow for increased clarity of mind, or making self care appointments ahead of time to ensure that you honour the commitment to healing you've promised yourself. It may be focusing on taking your life in a new and more empowering and supportive direction.
 In a recent discussion amongst Holistic Practitioners the question was asked “Why do clients come to see you?” “Why do they come back?”
After thinking about this I decided that a part of the reason was perhaps, the opportunity to take a “time out” for however long they were on my table. That for an hour or more they could rest in mind, body and spirit, not be “on” and not have to be “doing”. Instead for a short time they could just rest and be. Why do I get this impression? Because the thing I hear from you most often is “I have never felt so relaxed. Ever." Taking “time out” or resting your mind, body and spirit is a crucial part of physical, mental and emotional health. It does not have to be earned. |
Teresa Graham,
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