CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a healing art that works with the energies creating and maintaining health in the human system. While not a manipulative therapy, it has its roots in osteopathy and has evolved to include influences from human development, pre and perinatal psychology, trauma resolution, and recent advances in neuroscience. CST supports nervous system regulation and allows the resolution of conditions resulting from stress and trauma.

Practitioners use an educated, gentle, non-invasive touch to engage with the expressions of health in the system. The modality is known to be deeply relaxing for the nervous system, strengthening for the immune system, and balancing for the endocrine system. The cerebrospinal fluid bathes and protects the brain and spinal cord and carries an intelligence and potency (life force), which becomes mixed with other bodily fluids. The cerebrospinal fluid also fluctuates and creates a variety of tides within the system.

As the therapist — from a place of stillness — listens to these internal tides, the client’s system begins to access its own inner resources, a little like finding keys to previously locked doors. The therapist listens deeply to the system, tapping into its inherent intelligence, while focusing on the system remembering its original blueprint of health. The therapist encourages the client’s system to access its own resources, offering new choices and possibilities at every level. During a session, you may experience sensations as energy that has been held in the body being released. The session quite often involves a process of letting go of patterns inhibiting your health and vitality.