CranioSacral Therapy

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Looking for new and genuinely effective ways to gently relieve tension, stress, and pain?

CranioSacral Therapy enables you to tap into your mind, body and soul, (your whole being) and provides relief by:

- Helping you to get in touch with the roots of your pain, tension and anxieties.

- Enabling you to understand both your melancholy and joy.

- Deepening your connection with every part of yourself.

  • - In managing the anxieties about our social systems breaking down.

    - In managing chronic pain conditions such as migraines and headaches, and back pain.

    - In managing long-term illness and nurture a new sense of bodily well-being by finding new stability and ease.

    - In recovering from surgery, anaesthetic and medicines, and managing the body’s reactions to surgical intervention and care.

    - In managing cancer and recovery.

    - In managing of feelings of being weighed down by all the family dramas.

    - In dealing with the overwhelming pressures of work.

    - In caring for a partner in declining health.

    CranioSacral therapy can be part of your programme to improve your whole body health through tender and nurturing care.

  • In a CranioSacral therapy we are observing through light touch the craniosacral rhythm, which is the third rhythm of the body after heartbeat and breathing. You lie fully clothed on a soft couch and the therapist uses a light touch, holding different parts of your body, maybe your neck, or your head, shoulder or a leg, and then waits patiently. And then:

    - Mechanoreceptors in your skin respond to the light touch.

    - Your body tissues begin to unwind the release their restrictions.

    - Your central nervous system interprets this as calming.

    In CranioSacral therapy we invite you to talk about what you are noticing happening in your body. And if we choose to pay attention to a particular part, for example, your gut and the organs of digestion, you might gain some insight into, say, a painful bowel condition.

    And CranioSacral therapy can be surprising -

    • where we touch can have an impact on distant parts of your body

    • holding your belly might trigger activity and thoughts in your brain

    During a CranioSacral therapy session you can talk or you might prefer to remain quiet. The choice always rests with you. And each session will be different. In Upledger CranioSacral therapy a particular type of conversation between the therapist and client can lead to somato-emotional release. This is the release of perhaps long-held emotions from your body either through movement, laughter, tears or silence.

    It is always the case that this only happens when your body’s inner wisdom knows that the time for this is right for you.

I highly recommend Bernadette as a CranioSacral Therapist, particularly if you have, like me, Neurodiversity, experienced trauma and need a trusted, safe space to gain support for barriers that are preventing you from being your best you.

Bernadette has a phenomenal natural skill as a therapist. I have been lucky enough to work with her, receiving treatment, for many years. She has a lightness of touch, an effortless kindness and intuitive nature which instantly puts me at ease. She is warm, open and a patient practitioner adept at working with all kinds of people, including me and my complex trauma and learning difference with sensitivity and calm peacefulness. I’ve made gains in one CranioSacral session that had taken months and months of talking therapies to unpack.

[Emma Myers, Independent Occupational & Horticultural Therapist]