Craniosacral Therapy is a highly effective light-touch manual therapy for healing from many forms of trauma, both current and past, and serves well in one's health maintenance and stress relief program. It helps process/integrate the trauma and orient the nervous system to safety in the present moment instead of staying stuck in the trauma memory.
This Therapy is gentle and safe for people of all ages.

What is Trauma?

Trauma is created when an experience is overwhelming to us, mentally or physically. Common experiences that may generate trauma are accidents, injuries, sickness, emotional events, abuse, surgery and birth. When an event is overwhelming the fight, flight or freeze response is triggered but not released. This is an important response designed to protect us, however it's only designed for short bursts.
Fight or flight tenses muscles & tissue, constricts blood vessels, shuts down digestion & elevates the nervous system.  Freeze tends to shut most things down. These responses are great when dealing with a bear - choice between fighting, running away or playing dead. But when this response remains in our bodies - even in part - our natural functions and processes stop running smoothly. Over time trauma can contribute to many symptoms such as tension, migraines, fatigue, chronic pain, digestive problems, back & neck pain, fogginess, anxiety and many more.

How does Craniosacral Therapy help?

Craniosacral Therapy is very effective at releasing trauma, it works with small tissue movements that are naturally occurring in the body. By palpating these movements the practitioner is able to feel where tissue is moving freely & where movement is impaired. The areas with impaired movement correspond to trauma patterns in the body. By working with these movements we can invite the body to regain movement to impaired areas & release the pattern that is causing imbalance. This results in trauma release & clients often notice uncomfortable feelings & emotions in the body releasing safely & easily. Craniosacral Therapy does not push or force release in the body as this would be counterproductive when working with trauma. All release occurs at the client’s pace which is why Craniosacral Therapy is so effective with trauma. Clients often report a sense of ease & wellbeing after release as holding on to trauma is very tiring for us and our bodies!