Sasha Cessford - McTimoney Body Alignment

01/01/2026

Another year! Let’s make 2026 amazing!

Can’t wait to see you all this year!

Happy New Year everyone!

23/12/2025

The absolute perfect gift for Christmas - The gift of becoming pain free.

19/12/2025

12/12/2025

A technical but extremely good post.

It shows how close the Vagus nerve is to the upper vertebrae.

Have a read, and we can discuss questions in the comments!

💡𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 “𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿”

👉The upper cervical spine (C0–C2) represents the most mobile segment of the vertebral column and serves as a critical neuroanatomical transition zone where the brainstem becomes the spinal cord.

This region plays a key regulatory role in autonomic and sensorimotor function due to its unique anatomical and neurological characteristics:
✅ It houses essential brainstem nuclei involved in autonomic control of:
• Heart rate
• Blood pressure
• Respiration
• Vagal tone

✅ It contains a high density of proprioceptive receptors in the suboccipital muscles, which provide afferent input directly to:
• The cerebellum
• The vestibular nuclei

✅ Sympathetic fibers ascend alongside the vertebral arteries through the transverse foramina into the cranial cavity, linking vascular and autonomic regulation.

✅ This region interfaces with multiple cranial systems, including:
• The trigeminal complex
• The vestibular system
• Oculomotor control centers

🔆 Even minor dysfunctions such as segmental instability, altered joint biomechanics, sensorimotor mismatch, or increased muscle tone—can disrupt autonomic regulation. These disturbances may manifest not only as localized cervical pain but also as systemic autonomic symptoms.

Disclaimer:
👉 Sharing a study is NOT an endorsement.
👉 You should read the original research yourself and be critical.

03/12/2025

🙌🎄 If you have been thinking about having a tune up, then this is your sign 🪧 🎄

I will be off work from the 19th December for 1 month!

Get in touch now!

01/12/2025

I can’t help myself!

Gotta get the healthcare alternate uses in somewhere!

What else could you use your reflex hammer for?

09/11/2025

I see you all at your desk!!!

17/10/2025

Never stop learning. It is the essence that keeps us alive.

I’m hitting the ground running to learn grassroots governance.

I wonder how the learnings will enhance my McTimoney work.

Xx

It’s official! Final results.

Thank you for putting your trust in me, I will not let you down.

12/10/2025

Bursting with joy. Thank you for all your good wishes (and votes!).

Better up my game!

Much love
Sasha 💜

How did I end up in this crazy photo?

Hey, this is me (Sasha) with my unbelievably amazing husband and 2 kids (who are also unbelievably cute and not at all annoying)!

I’m there because “I LOVE this community”.

And now a HUGE thank you to all of you for voting me in.

I am so ready for this, and I want to take you all for the ride!

You wanted transparency- You Got it!

10/10/2025

Wow! Do you know MRI’s were only invented in the 90’s!

Incredible pieces of technology!

10/10/2025

This is huge for Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Patients -

28/09/2025

If there’s one thing I want you to do, then it’s to follow Dr Moz -

I’d like to share a story from my early career in the early 2000’s.

I was treating a patient, I saw an irregular something on the back of his upper arm. I made him promise to get it checked.

I received a letter from that patient a year and a half later. They had waited a while, but my voice was ringing in their head and they finally got it checked out. It was a later stage melanoma. By that time it required significant treatment, and their letter was to tell me they had survived. They expressed regret at not getting it checked earlier.

So I’m saying to you. Get checked by a dermatologist. Don’t wait. And follow this guy, so you can recognise unusual marks on others and help those people too.