What is Cranio Sacral Therapy?
Cranio Sacral therapy is a gentle therapy that uses a light touch. By using light touch it helps inhibit the Sympathetic Nervous System and activate the Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS).
The PNS is the body’s rest and restore state. Most people are unable to reach that state on their own. Activating the PNS allows the practitioner to feel the craniosacral rhythm and use it as a guide to restricted areas in the body.
What are restrictions?
Restrictions in the body can be any number of things. Adhesions, scar tissue, knots, impingements, chronic pain, trauma to name a few.
Restrictions can be released in a number of different ways. A release can be softening or lengthening of the muscle. It can also present itself as a muscle twitch, body adjustment, deep breaths, eye flutters, or stomach growls.
During the session, you may:
Relax so deeply that you fall asleep
Enter a quiet meditation-like state
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 floating
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 body
You may be surprised to feel a new sense of peace and ease as you leave the office to return, renewed, to your life
Notice an improvement in your sleep patterns