Craniosacral Therapy

The practice is a gentle fingertip touch, noninvasive healing technique performed on a fully clothed patient lying on a massage table for fifty minutes creating an overall calming effect. The craniosacral system surrounds the brain and the spinal cord, creating a core rhythm in the body that is transmitted along fascial planes throughout the entire body, all the way to the extremities. This rhythm is like our heart beating or breathing.

The practitioner gently moves the skull bones stimulating the flow of the cerebrospinal fluid, which bathes the surfaces of the brain and the spinal cord. This restores a natural rhythm to the central nervous system. Any trauma, physical or emotional, recent or past, which we have experienced, will be stored in the fascia as traumatic memory. Their release in this process facilitates physical and psycho-emotional healing. Craniosacral therapy actually restores the body's own innate healing power, the body's wisdom.

If each person's body is map reflecting his/her life experiences, your body is your life story, made visible. As infants we are spontaneous, alive and expressive. As we mature, life impacts upon us, often in traumatic ways. Many body ailments are actually expressions of painful, repressed childhood memories and often birthing traumas. Our survival makes us defensive, which in our body is manifest as tense muscles and shallow breathing. With less breathing there is less oxygen and less energy and feeling.

Different energy blocks create different physical realities and because the nervous system (i.e. the craniosacral system) regulates all other organs, any impairment in its function can and will affect your overall health and ability to feel free and joyful. A blocked throat or jaw will keep us from crying out or screaming whether for pain or joy. Humiliation or fear of it will curtail communication. Blocked shoulder and arms inhibit our desire to grab or hit, but also exhibit our deep need to be hugged and held. Waist blockages restrict our yelling or crying as well as our breathing. Tight leg and foot muscles curb our rebelliousness and reduce our ability to stand up for ourselves. Blockage in the pelvis, connected to the lower back, buttock and legs is connected to sexual dysfunction. This tension dulls our sexuality and causes lower back pain.

It requires much determination, courage and honesty to let go of these blocks. The release of sadness, anger, or loss that a body contains will renew a person's energy and aliveness. Relax and rejuvenate with this mind/body/spirit therapy.

Your Inner Physician and You: Cranio Sacral Therapy Somato Emotional Release by John Upledger..

I'm providing therapy services to the region in:
New York: New City, White Plains, Rye, Mamaroneck, Scarsdale, Hartsdale, Garrison, Tuxedo Park, and Pomona;
New Jersey: Greenwich, Stamford, New Haven, West Haven, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Norwalk, New Canaan, Westport, Danbury, Milford, Shelton, Trumbull Paramus, Montclair, Englewoord, Englewood Cliffs, Newark, Westwood, Allendale, Teaneck, Tenafly, Alpine, Ft. Lee, Hoboken, Ridgewood, and Warwick;
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia