Craniosacral is quite a bit different than massage. Clients are clothed and face up on the table. We use holds or certain hand positions to assess and feel the fascial restrictions as they release or "unwind" This unwinding process is usually pleasant and feels very relaxing.
Craniosacral helps stuck and restricted areas remember their natural rhythmic state. It's the lack of rhythm and movement that create the pain and illness we experience. Movement is life, especially rhythmic movement. The benefits of Craniosacral are wide ranging. Due to the focus on the nervous system, and alignment of the spine and skull, many different conditions can be improved.
Most of what we experience in our modern world is a result of constant stress. It keeps our body in a sympathetic state of fight or flight. In this state, healing, digestion, and renewal are turned off in favor of survival. As a temporary experience this is ok, as a chronic state it literally causes the body to break down and affects us psychologically as well.
Craniosacral takes us into a deep parasympathetic state and allows healing to begin. The more we experience this state the more the body remembers how to come back to it again.
The only thing that ever truly heals the body is the body. My goal is to remind your body it already knows how to do that. Craniosacral is often practiced as an adjustment practice similar to Chiropractic both of which have roots in Osteopathy.
