04/09/2025
🌿Craniosacral Therapy Found Me🌿
It was 18 years ago, and I was still in massage school. That morning, I walked into class with a low-grade fever and a locked jaw-I couldn't open my mouth more than half an inch.
It wasn't the first time this had happened. Since I was a child, my body would respond to stress and anxiety in this way-fever, tension, and a tight jaw that made it hard to eat or speak.
At the time, I didn't understand what was happening, but looking back, I can see that I was carrying a lot.
Trying to live up to expectations-family, culture, society.
Doing more than I can handle.
Moving through a recent breakup.
And holding so much inside that had never been spoken-silently screaming through my body.
It was obvious I wasn't feeling well in class and a fellow student came over and offered me a session. She had just completed a Craniosacral Therapy workshop and wanted to practice.
I'll be honest—l wasn't someone who believed in what I thought was purely energy work at the time. To me, it felt too abstract, too intangible. I was there to learn sports massage. Give me muscles and fascia, not... whatever this was.
But I was also uncomfortable-and open. So l said yes.
As I laid on the massage table, she placed her hands on my feet and stayed there quietly for a long time. I was so exhausted, so l let go and allowed myself to rest.
Then something gradually began to shift. I found myself in that in-between space-not asleep, but not fully awake either. Aware, yet deeply relaxed.
At one point, I thought her hands were still at my feet, but she was already cradling my head.
I had lost sense of time and space. Eventually, I drifted into the deepest sleep I'd had in days.
When I woke, I was alone in the room.
I slowly sat up and tested my jaw... and to my surprise— It opened... fully!
My fever was gone.
My breath felt deeper.
My posture felt straighter.
Something had realigned inside me.
All from what looked like "nothing."
That experience opened something in me. The modality I once brushed off as "airy.-fairy" had worked its way into my cells, my nervous system, and my heart.
I now offer this work to others.
Craniosacral Therapy isn't about doing more-it's about listening.
It offers space for it to remember its original state of health.
Everyone responds to it differently.
Some feel subtle shifts at first, like a soft unwinding.
Others feel deep relaxation. Some, especially when going through something acute, feel it powerfully right away-like I did that day.
There's no "right" way. Only your way along with the Intelligence within you.
And in honor of Craniosacral Therapy Awareness Month, I'm opening some special spots for those who feel drawn to experience this work.
I'll share more very soon. For now, I just wanted to share this memory-because it still moves me to this day.