Here are the three important things that I’d really like you to know:

1. CranioSacral Therapy can be really beneficial for everybody, because it helps you to tap in to your mind, body and soul, in short, your whole being. It can help you get in touch with pain, with tension and anxieties; you can understand your melancholy and your joy, and through CranioSacral therapy you can deepen connection with every part of yourself.

2. We live in harsh times. There is always too much information and too many demands. There are pressures at work, the demands of managing family care, and friends who want to talk about their stress. You want to do the best you can for everyone who needs you. But how do you take care of your own needs? Who is helping you to nurture your own best health and happiness?

3. Your body is speaking to you every moment through signals of ache, pain or restriction, through sensation of pleasure, through releasing tension in muscles and tissues, and through the thoughts and emotions that are a constant inner story.

In a CranioSacral therapy session you can take time to hear the conversation your body is having with you.

Spending time in the presence of yourself gives you the chance to open up to your body’s deep needs, to listen with all your senses to your body’s talk, and then decide how you want to respond. Your body can guide you to make those wise choices.

Here’s a short video on what craniosacral therapy can do for you

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SO, WHAT HAPPENS IN A CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY SESSION?

In 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.

WHAT CAN CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY DO FOR YOU?

CranioSacral therapy is a gentle therapy that can really help you to calm your nervous system, find release from pain, and offer a shift in your thinking by giving you a new perspective on things.

SOME OF THE WAYS CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY HAS BEEN FOUND TO HELP ARE PROVIDING SUPPORT TO

• get to the bottom of your body’s aches and tensions

• help you understand your body’s needs

• learn to be in better relationship with yourself

CranioSacral therapy is also great for all sorts of stress and tension-related problems.

People have used CranioSacral therapy to help them

• manage the feelings of being weighed down by all the family dramas

• be supported in dealing with the overwhelming pressures at work

• be supported in caring for a partner in declining health

• manage the anxieties about all our social systems breaking down

• manage chronic pain conditions such as migraines and headaches, and back pain

• manage long-term illness and nurture a new sense of bodily well-being by finding new stability and ease

• be supported in recovering from surgery, anaesthetic and medicines, and managing the body’s reactions to surgical intervention and care

• be supported through current cancer treatment and living in remission

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

Your options now are:

If you would like to arrange a free 15-minute chat with me to find out more or to ask questions, fill in the form on the BOOK AN APPOINTMENT page.

Alternatively, you are welcome to call me on 07462 775220. I might be in a therapy session and it might go through to voicemail. Please leave me a message and I will get back to you at the latest by the end of the next working day.

WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY

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.

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. [Emma Myers, Independent Occupational & Horticultural Therapist]