Innate Wisdom Craniosacral Therapy

23/02/2026

How Craniosacral Therapy Helps with Insomnia and Other Sleep Disorders

Craniosacral therapy has been shown to successfully treat a variety of issues, including sleep disturbance. The gentle approach of craniosacral therapy helps to calm the body and relax the patient. It allows them to enter into a deep, relaxed state which is very similar to meditation. This relaxed effect of a craniosacral therapy session can carry over into the night, inducing a sleep state.

Since it is so much like meditation, craniosacral therapy has been known to help with treating chronic insomnia. When we fall asleep, our brain waves slow down, and many physiological functions necessary for our lives take place.

Our heart rate and blood pressure also start to slow down, then regulate. Throughout the restorative stage of sleep, our breathing slows, blood pressure levels drop and blood flows to repair muscles and tissue.

Patients who have used CST as treatment for chronic insomnia report that they feel like they are sleeping while they are awake. Those who receive CST and also meditate have stated that they can go into a much deeper state when they practice meditation after their CST sessions.

Craniosacral therapy is known to alleviate various types of health conditions. It can have a positive effect on the body’s hormonal system and provides space within the cranial bones which support the pineal gland’s function.

The pineal gland is a small endocrine gland located in the brain. It produces and secretes the natural hormone melatonin. This hormone helps regulate our body’s biological rhythms, including our sleep and wake cycles.

Craniosacral therapy supports the body’s central nervous system, the function of which is critical for getting a good night’s sleep uninterrupted. It helps the autonomic nervous system down regulate from sympathetic to parasympathetic function and hence a relaxed state to facilitate sleeping.

CST effects the flow of cerebro-spinal fluid which is produced in the brain, it provides the energetic blueprint for the head and body. As a result of optimal fluid flow throughout our system we experience clear thinking, relaxation, and have more control over mood regulation. Regulating our body’s autonomic nervous system is essential for our overall health.

Dr. Alex Kaminsky

22/02/2026

shares: “Francis Weller once said, “The heart needs grief and gratitude in constant conversation with one another, and since grief deepens the heart’s capacity to know what another person may be feeling, I’m holding onto both.”

Engaging in grief and suffering can also open the heart to joy and delight. If we refuse to walk the path of grief, we may be faced with small lives that are controlled by our emotions. In a happiness-obsessed, fear-based culture, good and bad emotions are viewed as binary to be navigated with precise caution. But the soft animal of the self often needs a safe container to surrender to a new life.

Have you ever tried “befriending” the full spectrum of your emotions?”

In Cranio-sacral Therapy, we gently contact the body’s intelligence, offering it the chance to release what it no longer needs—physically, emotionally, and energetically.

So if you’re feeling tightness, fatigue, or imbalance, it may not just be structural. Ask yourself:
What emotion might this area be holding onto?

Find out more about our upcoming courses and unique integrated biodynamic approach with Cranio-sacral therapy at ccst.co.uk ♥️

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22/02/2026

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
How much disease it has fought off.
How many times it could have failed but battled on,
how many ways it could have broken but did not.

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
And each day it has done this amazing job,
without your help,
without your approval,
your acceptance,
your kindness.

Each day it has soldiered on,
regardless of the constant stream of negativity,
pulsing its way from your brain to your cells.
Not good enough.
Not attractive enough.
Not the right shape.

Perhaps it’s time to see your body for what is truly is,
An amazing and mind-blowingly competent machine.
To get your soul to where it needs to be in this life.
To let you live.

I wonder if you know,
how much better you would be as a team.
I wonder.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I wish I Knew’

21/02/2026

Your body doesn’t heal in urgency.
It heals when it feels safe.
Stillness isn’t doing nothing... it’s giving your nervous system the conditions it needs to repair, rebalance, and restore.
Through gentle touch, nothing is forced and nothing is imposed.
Instead, space is created for the body to recognise itself again — to rediscover its rhythms, restore balance, and soften patterns it may have held for a long time.
In this way, healing does not come from doing more, but from allowing more.

16/02/2026

In a world that moves fast and often asks us to override our inner signals, supportive touch can feel almost radical. Yet it is deeply familiar — something we recognise instinctively. We place a hand on a sore neck, cradle a child, or hold a friend’s hand when words fall short.
Healing does not always come through intensity. Often, it emerges through listening, patience, and the quiet intelligence of human contact. Our hands have always known this language — we are simply remembering what has always lived within us.

15/02/2026

“Balance is key. In everything you do. Dance all night long and practice yoga the next day. Drink wine but don’t forget your green juice. Eat chocolate when your heart wants it and kale salad when your body needs it. Wear high heels on Saturday and walk barefoot on Sunday. Go shopping at the mall and then sit down and meditate in your bedroom. Live high and low. Move and stay still. Embrace all sides of who you are and live your authentic truth! Be brave and bold and spontaneous and loud and let that complement your abilities to find silence and patience and modesty and peace. Aim for balance. Make your own rules and don’t let anybody tell you how to live according to theirs.”~
~Rachel Brathen

13/02/2026

Craniosacral Therapy is part of a long tradition of gentle, hands-on healing. It is subtle and quiet work — less about “fixing” and more about listening, less about technique and more about connection. With light, respectful touch, the nervous system is supported to soften out of habitual tension, fascia can release long-held restrictions, and the body is given space where it may have felt compressed or guarded for years

13/02/2026

11/02/2026

Craniosacral Therapy for Babies & Children
Is your newborn unsettled, fussy, or struggling to sleep?
Does your baby have colic, digestive discomfort, nursing challenges, or ongoing restlessness?
Is your older child experiencing physical, emotional, learning, or behavioral difficulties?
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on therapy that supports the nervous system and helps release tension from the body. When challenges are addressed early, they are less likely to develop into larger issues later on.
How CST May Help Babies
CST may support:
Fussiness and inconsolable crying
Sleep difficulties
Colic and digestive problems
Nursing challenges
Torticollis
Cranial molding or birth compression
Respiratory strain
Structural imbalances
Bonding and attachment challenges
Integration of the birth experience
Birth is an intense process. Even smooth deliveries can leave stress patterns in a baby’s body or nervous system, affecting sleep, digestion, and settling. Gentle CST helps the nervous system regulate and supports the body in releasing compression and tension

11/02/2026

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) supports deep rest and relaxation by helping to calm the central nervous system and gently shift the body from a “fight-or-flight” (sympathetic) state into a “rest-and-digest” (parasympathetic) state.
Using a light, non-invasive touch—often described as about the weight of a nickel—CST works with the tissues surrounding the brain and spinal cord to ease restrictions and tension. This subtle approach encourages the body’s natural ability to settle, regulate, and move into a deeply restorative state