Stress release and alignment to help the body restore itself

A Craniosacral treatment helps release body stress and misalignment that compromise the body’s natural healing ability. Systemic body stress prevents healthy flow of the cerebrospinal fluid, which bathes and cushions the brain and spinal cord in a tide-like ebb and flow. Also called the primary respiratory rate or breath of life, this is the first rhythm indicating life, as it is present in the embryo long before our lungs were formed.

When this fluid is allowed to move freely around the central nervous system, it promotes a state of well-being, health and balance.

Disease, trauma, tension and pain impedes this rhythmical flow and obstructs the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid. Instead of our innate ability to maintain homeostasis – adapt and adjust to external and internal change or “role with the punches”, we become rigid and compromised in our defended state and posture, leading to chronic pain and inability to heal.

Craniosacral therapy explained 

Craniosacral therapy enhances physiological functions by the use of sensitive and gentle mobilisation of the Craniosacral system. This system encompasses the bones of the cranium, the skull, all the way to the sacrum at the base of the spine and extends to every cell of the body via connective tissue, and cerebrospinal fluid, which bathes and cushions the brain and spinal cord. It is based on findings about the body’s subtle make up by osteopaths in the USA over 80 years ago. Read more. 

 About a craniosacral treatment

Craniosacral Therapy is gentle, non-invasive and use neither manipulation nor probing. It supports and triggers the body’s innate wisdom to effect the necessary healing responses. Clients usually find the treatment deeply relaxing.
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Sandra Smit
Muizenberg,
Cape Town

 

 

Self, stillness & healing craniosacral therapy

“When you loose touch with your inner stillness, you loose touch with yourself. When you loose touch with yourself, you loose yourself in the world.
Your inner most sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I am that is deeper than name or form.” – Eckhart Tolle

The quote beautifully describes the coming home to self, perhaps a universal longing of being human. This “self” is a constant truth, a place from where we can integrate our distracted, scattered and broken parts, back to wholeness. Where our adaptive, responsive and dynamic existence overcomes stagnation and isolation, to re-enter into flow. This is from where we heal. This is the self where we resource from, where we dip into the calm and clear water of our inner world, where the mind comes to rest and our system can reset.

Two important questions one may ask of oneself is:

1. How do I know when I am not in the centre of my being?
2. What is the most effective way to get back to my inner stillness?

Sometimes we acquired a “bracing” posture from a traumatic event, or over time tension builds up in our system. Craniosacral therapy helps to release the origin of stress responses that keeps the body locked in a compromised position, to more easily return self to stillness, inner equilibrium and healing.