Cornwall Craniosacral

20/11/2024

This is an interesting article from 2023. In BCST we tune into the vagus nerve and its health within the system. Wouldn’t it be great if the same researchers were as interested in BCST and its abilities rather than inanimate gadgets, and if people were prescribed BCST instead of a device they clip to their ear?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/23/the-key-to-depression-obesity-alcoholism-and-more-why-the-vagus-nerve-is-so-exciting-to-scientists?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=M.F_22+_UK_DAILY+MAIL_Best+Countries_7D_(DC30%25-12.11)&utm_id=RM_1_TOF_SALE_ARTICLE+ADS_A.BID&utm_content=2024_OCT_W03_CREDIBILITY_UNAW_STR06_Articles_VAR01_TheG1_Multiple_GENERAL_STAT_+1x1__ENG_45+916_LP:The+Guardian_2TXT_5HD_DC:30-day+money+back_SN_LD2024-11-14&tw_source=fb&tw_adid=120212640788120485&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMABhZGlkAasU1RFqoWUBHbtQai-rni5ZKbEtAMtTPxeXSdm54yvGE5iu8jL4FcMASME_K2hChmyHCA_aem_IiANQjxjjUxqZ8DNEpjIyA&campaign_id=120211634143450485&ad_id=120212640788120485

Stimulating the vagus nerve is being hyped as the simplest way to reduce stress, dampen anxiety – and could even curb obesity. But what exactly is it? And how does tickling your ear help?

18/11/2023

It is so good to see randomised trials proving the efficacy of CST - maybe one day it will become an accepted part of conventional healthcare 🙏

The Effect of Craniosacral Therapy on Blood Levels of Stress Hormones in Male Firefighter Cadets: A Randomized Clinical Trial
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/11/914

10/10/2023

Beautifully explained. I’ve always said to my clients CST is the language of touch and my hands do the listening 🙌

CHEESE AND CHALK,
TOUCH AND TALK

Our eloquently sensitive hands attune to the multiple rhythms of the Tide and recognise anomalies of motion in Primary Respiration. We get on the ground floor of subtle physiology, the essence of life itself. By detecting and ameliorating deviation in the rhythms pulsing in our bodies we can improve health in its multiple dimensions.

In recent years, much emphasis has been placed on verbal skills in our profession. How we speak to our clients, the sound of our voice can help to regulate the social engagement system. Well-chosen words can reassure and reframe the perception of an experience.

But the language of touch can reach deeper. Our hands have the power to regulate neuropsychobiology through the magical medium of Primary Respiration. This is where we excel, this is where we can make the biggest difference to the physical and emotional health of our clients. This is our distinctive contribution, our palpatory mastery, our direct reach into life lived in the body.

03/10/2023

Millions of us live with this debilitating condition. One sufferer describes taking matters into her own hands

16/08/2023

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“When you are in relationship to the Cranial Rhythmic Impulse (CRI), you are in direct relationship to the suffering of the [horse] or human in [their] form" (Sills)

This must be appreciated and respected.

Biodynamic clinical work at the CRI level is via recognition and acknowledgement of suffering, resourcing work (creating a felt sense of safety), and a re-orientation of the system to the deeper tidal forces and the stillness that underlies them.”
(Sills)

Seeing their Essence - seeing their Health, their Wellness. Seeing beyond the story or stories they may be presenting with.

Inviting our client below the pathology, to something greater, which is their Origin, their Wholeness.

08/06/2023

14/05/2023

Great to see some ‘scientific’ evidence being published to support CST 🙏

Effectiveness of craniosacral therapy in the treatment of infantile colic. A randomized controlled trial
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0965229918309452

28/04/2023

I am hearing of more and more cases of vertigo symptoms and truly believe CST can help.

Temporal bone misalignment and motion asymmetry as a cause of vertigo: the craniosacral model
Conclusion: Clinical experience suggests that craniosacral therapy is a powerful evaluative and treatment modality for vertigo patients who have not found relief from medical treatments.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19943575/

16/04/2023

TRAUMA AND INJURY

Substantially, trauma treatment focuses of the long-term psychological, emotional and behavioural impacts of trauma; the big ways in which lives are disrupted in the wake of trauma. Yet trauma is often accompanied by injuries to the physical body - shattered bones, wounds, traumatic brain injuries, post-concussion scenarios, post-operative adhesions. The inherent treatment plan will most often prioritise major injuries which present as areas of condensed potency, constricted tissues and roiling fluids. Our hands-on therapy can radically speed up the recuperation from such injuries. As a result, the potency liberated from these injury sites will be available to orchestrate more profound levels of healing across the body-mind continuum.

08/04/2023

Utility of craniosacral therapy in treatment of patients with non-specific low back pain.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25694375/

06/04/2023

TOUCH AND TRAUMA

I hear more and more craniosacral therapists say that they specialize in treating trauma. And we certainly make a unique contribution to that field. In the last thirty years or so there has been a revolution in the understanding of the neurobiology of trauma and powerful new treatment methodologies have followed. The frontrunners are sticking to Peter Levine’s essence statement ‘Trauma is treated in the body not the mind’.

That’s where we come in. A major feature of trauma physiology is autonomic dysregulation. All the things that the ANS controls go haywire – sleep, digestion, temperature regulation, immune response, blood pressure, heart rate and sufficient oxygen supply to the brain to maintain attention and cognitive function.

With our outstanding palpation skills, we can detect altered function in the major autonomic centres like the cardiac plexus or the prevertebral ganglia, the crucial Vagus nerve, and the brainstem. And with our therapeutic touch we can restore primary respiratory function in these neural tissues. With touch we are healing trauma from the bottom up, from the body to the brain, along the gut-brain and the heart-brain axes. And we should be shouting from the rooftops about our distinct competence and why craniosacral therapy facilitates recovery from trauma. It’s about what we do that other therapies do not.

26/01/2023

Science is finally catching up!

Researchers reveal ultra slow waves of brain activity are linked directly to our state of consciousness.