Craniosacral Therapy is a subtle, deep-reaching and powerful. It is a light-touch hands-on body therapy. The therapist is trained to connect deeply through the hands as they connect gently with the body; the tissues respond to the connection, dance, ease, release. The experience of a treatment varies person to person depending on sensitivity. Most find it a profoundly transformative and gently held process that enables an unravelling of unhealthy constrictions in tissues, energy, nervous system, emotions. It covers a wide spectrum of issues from the very structural injury to emotional problems and everything inbetween.​Traumas, physical and emotional, sudden or incremental, can cause the body's tissues to contract. Sometimes the tissues remain locked, storing the suffering/injury and creating further restrictions in connective tissues. This might manifest as any number of structural and/or emotional problems. As a therapist I am trained to feel and assist subtle movements of tissues, structures and energies, enabling gentle but effective release. People come to Craniosacral treatment for many physical conditions such as injury, back pain, headaches,migraines, neck pain, trigeminal neuralgia, joint pain, tinnitus, tight muscles, sciatica.  

 

.​SomatoEmotional Release/Therapeutic Imagery and Dialoguing was originally developed by John Upledger as an important part of his school of Upledger CranioSacral Therapy. The concept of 'tissue memory' is well-known these days. John Upledger's definition of SomatoEmotional Release in the context of Craniosacral treatment is: "the expression of emotion that, for reasons deemed appropriate by some part of the client's nonconcious, has been retained, suppressed and isolated within the soma. We might think of the soma as the 'somatic psyche'."​For many clients, a carefully developed process of interfacing with this 'somatic psyche' or body-knowing, through dialoguing, provides a rich therapeutic experience. It can release/ transform energy-blocks that have been stuck in the system for many years and are ready to move on. Old traumas or holding patterns, physical and emotional, isolated and ongoing, can be worked with in this way. Equally, many people choose this as a favored modality simply because they wish to work with all levels of their being without separating the body and the psyche. It is a deeply transformative and revelatory process with the inbuilt safety that only material that is ready to transform will come up. Just as with Craniosacral work as a whole, there is no 'pushing', no agenda - equally in SER the process is lead by the client's own inner wisdom and at its own pace. Although it can have challenging moments, it is also a gentle and creative process that leaves clients feeling enriched, clearer, and often enlivened.