Holding is Healing Craniosacral Therapy

03/04/2025

This is interesting.. 🤔

From birth, your tongue is actually connected to your toes through an intricate network of connective tissue known as fascia.

If your tongue is not resting correctly in your mouth due to mouth breathing, things can get out of alignment in your mouth and the rest of your body.
Tongue posture can lead to a foot imbalance and vice versa because the tongue guides all myofascial continuity structures that run from the inner arch of the foot up through the middle of the body to the tongue and jaw muscles.

When the tongue sits on top of the palate, it seals the oral cavity and holds the throat open like a tent. These muscles support the neck, keep your posture straight, help you breathe, and maintain your posture upright.
Your tongue also acts as a rudder and support system through a fascial line, and when the tongue is down, we breathe through our mouth, and the head falls forward due to lack of support, which leads to poor posture and increased energy expenditure.

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25/06/2022

21/09/2021

Cranio-sacral therapy helps you reconnect with yourself, it is the ultimate mind body integration.

19/09/2021

The transformative effects mentioned in this post are perhaps most evidently experienced by those who set out on the journey of trusting in their body's innate wisdom. Trust the process of CST!

15/09/2021

Cranio-sacral therapy is effective because it is not merely addressing conditions. It promotes the body's own healing ability, enhancing the inherent potential within the body to restore, maintain and enable health and healing, establishing that underlying platform of health and vitality that will enable the body to heal from the stresses of life and to be healthy.

06/06/2021

Interesting article.
https://www.massagetherapy.com/articles/breath-life

Craniosacral touch is a light contact modality that invites the body to self-correct through skilled touch, conscious presence, deep stillness, and a working knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and embryological development. This modality is known by a variety of names, such as craniosacral therapy, V...

06/06/2021

Your tongue acts as a rudder and support system through a fascial line that runs right down to your toes!

In nearly all my patients, I see poor tongue posture, and the links to bad spinal posture, breathing, and other issues are felt right throughout the body.

The simplest way we can see how the tongue is so influential is how it supports proper head posture. When the tongue is down and forward, forward head posture and mouthbreathing occurs.

Over time this associates with a narrow jaw, crooked teeth, and sleep disorders.

But… you guessed it, as always the mouth is a gateway for so many other systems in the body.

The tongue is an extremely complex muscular and fascial rudder system.

It guides all the structures of the myofascial continuity that runs from the inner arch of the foot all the way up through the middle of the body to the tongue and jaw muscles.

Isn’t that amazing?

Actually the tongue is potentially more important for core stability than turning on your actual core.

Our core begins deep under the arch with the insertions of the tendons from the lower leg, especially tibialis posterior.

To find its insertion, feel just under the inside arch of the foot, just underneath and forward of protrusion of the navicular bone you can feel a bit over an inch in front of your tibial malleolus on the inside of your ankle.

This point will respond to a soft-but-energy-rich touch that is held, and also to a more firm and direct fascial release. Pressing here can make a flow of feeling run up the fascial line.

So for better core support, spinal, hip and leg strength, you need to work on your tongue posture.

During exercise practice sealing the tongue to the roof of the mouth, this turns on the fascial rudder to the toes. It takes time and you need to work on making the BACK of the tongue connect to the soft palate. More on this to come.

09/04/2021

The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) plays a very significant part in the vast majority of health conditions. If we are out of balance, the ANS is out of balance. If we bring the ANS back into balance we help to bring our health and well-being back into balance.

Understanding the ANS is vital to a deeper, more integrated understanding of human health and function....

29/03/2021

Cranio-sacral therapy has a part to play in addressing the far-reaching and potentially life-determining consequences of severe trauma and shock, releasing both the physical and psycho-emotional effects of trauma, freeing the patient from restrictive patterns and habits imposed on them by their traumas and restoring tranquility.💫

25/03/2021

One of the limitations of modern medicine is that it fails to acknowledge this as one of the most significant factors in maintaining pain and disease.

And one of the major strengths of cranio-sacral integration is that it not only recognised the inextricable interaction between the physical and the emotional but also addresses that as one unified process.

A great deal of ill health might be prevented through proper understanding of the whole person and the underlying emotional basis of disease, and through treating patients as whole people, taking into account their emotional state and needs.

19/03/2021

Have you booked in for a session with the amazing Anne yet?? Craniosacral therapy is a great gentle way of helping the body relax, self-repair and more!

09/03/2021

Trauma and shock are the underlying cause for the majority of health disturbances, their release is fundamental to cranio-sacral integration.