What are the benefits of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?This therapy can help your over-active nervous system to re-set itself so you can experience greater rest, peace, and wholeness.
Instead of constantly running in "fight or flight" mode, you can slow down and relax in a way that supports self-repair and rejuvenation functions like sleep and digestion.
This is particularly helpful t0...
• Release trauma
• Recover from the daily stresses of living in our fast-paced worldAs your nervous system functions better, you may feel more at ease in every aspect of your life, work, body, and relationships
What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?
There is an intelligence your body-mind uses to heal itself. That intelligence is linked to the "Breath of Life," a name given to it by Dr. William Garner Sutherland, who studied it for over 40 years.
Through his research, Dr. Sutherland found that this mysterious force expresses itself through subtle rhythmic motion in the body, and that these motions are essential to your:
• Physical health
• Mental clarity
• Emotional well-beingBiodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, profound bodywork involving these subtle rhythmic fluctuations within the body.
Craniosacral Therapists learn to sense where your body is relaxed and flowing with these rhythms. They also can detect areas that may be frozen, locked, or tight from stress and trauma, and help you to receive support for your health and self-repair.
How does it Work?
Have you ever noticed that if you're agitated but near a calm person, you start feeling calmer? Or if you're near someone who's frantic, you feel more frenzied?
Scientists have discovered there is an energy field around each person's body. The biomagnetic field produced by the calm person near you can actually affect the cells and tissues in your body. Because of this, you begin to resonate with the other person and feel calmer. This is part of what happens in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
Biodynamic Craniosacral therapists are trained to work with this kind of resonance and to "listen" to the subtle expressions of your body-mind. Rather than treat specific symptoms or try to fix something, they become quiet within themselves and cultivate...• Peaceful relaxation
• Acceptance of what is
• Awareness of health and wholeness
• Trust in the process as it unfoldsYour body-mind responds through resonance and is reminded to...
• Relax
• Let go
• Take its own steps toward health in whatever way it needs toWho Can Benefit from Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?
People of any age can benefit, including:
• Babies and their mothers, even before birth
• Elders and those coping with dying
• Anyone encountering stress or recovering from traumaPets - can also enjoy the benefits of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
The gentle, non-invasive nature of this therapy makes it particularly appropriate for babies, who tend to respond quickly to treatment and benefit by having birth trauma attended to before its imprints can become deeply ingrained.
What does a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy session look like?
We usually begin by sitting and talking about your concerns and your intention for the session.
During the session, you will be fully clothed, usually lying on a massage table. It is important that you feel comfortable and safe. I will ask you from time to time what you are experiencing, and help you to stay present with whatever arises for you.
When I touch you, I will check with you to make sure that you are ready and that the touch is comfortable. Sometimes it takes some negotiation to get the touch just right so you can deeply relax. I will guide you in this process which, in itself, can be very healing.
Craniosacral therapy involves a very light, gentle touch, often applied to the head (cranium) or sacrum (the triangular bone at the bottom of the spine). At times, I combine this with other forms of bodywork, breath or movement work if it seems helpful. We will probably talk some during the session, although some sessions are much quieter than others.
Sessions usually last about an hour. During that time, I will quietly, gently hold parts of your body, listening to the subtle rhythms and tracking changes in your system.
During the session, you may…
• Relax so deeply that you fall asleep
• Enter a quiet state of meditation
• Feel as if you are dreaming while awake
• Experience memories or insights while on the table
• Enjoy a pleasant sense of warmth, softening, widening or floatingAt times, you may experience other kinds of sensations as energy that has been held in the body is released. If this occurs, I will assist you in staying present with the breath and bodily sensations to facilitate the discharge and help you to integrate and benefit from the experience.
At the end of the session, you may…
• Feel relaxed, but also energized
• Find yourself breathing more fully and deeply
• Stand straighter and taller
• Feel more comfortable in your bodyYou may be surprised to feel a new sense of peace and ease as you leave the office to return, renewed, to your life.
The gentle, calm, loving presence I experience in the sessions helps me accept myself. It gives me permission to be at rest and at peace, and to know I'm held in love by others. I have a sense of bringing a disjointed sense of self into alignment with wholeness. I come to a place of ease.
Ed Rockett, Qigong Instructor
