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CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY

Why CranioSacral work?
CranioSacral Therapy improves your body's ability to take better care of you, by helping to release tension and self-correct. It helps relieve a wide spectrum of pain, illness and dysfunction. People come for many reasons, a few being:

stress and fatigue
neck and/or back pain
headaches
sinus issues
chronic pain and tension in the body
TMJ
central nervous system disorders.
emotional issues
and more...

Key CranioSacral Concepts:

The Body is a whole unit that works together

The human body is well designed for the job it does

The Body is a self-regulating and self-correcting mechanism

Movement is Health (if something is stuck, the body won't heal as well)

CRANIOSACRAL seeks to use the least amount of pressure necessary to return the body to a place where it can self-correct again. Usually this means just a small amount of pressure will be applied (this is a light touch therapy). If you use too much pressure the body could start to guard or hold itself, especially around areas that have had injuries (old or new).

What is CranioSacral Therapy?
CranioSacral Therapy is a light-touch form of bodywork that releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance.

Few body structures have more influence over your health and well-being than your central nervous system (CNS), and few body systems have more impact on your CNS than the CranioSacral system. This system includes the soft tissue and fluid that protect your brain and spinal cord.

The whole body is encased in connective tissue. Every day you endure stresses and strains that the body absorbs, but it can only handle so much tension before the tissues begin to tighten and potentially impact the brain and spinal cord. This can often compromise the function of the CNS and the performance of nearly every other system in your body.

CranioSacral Therapy releases those tensions to allow the entire body to relax and self-correct. Using a gentle touch the session begins with an evaluation of just where some of those tensions are manifesting (often in areas different than where there is pain or discomfort). Then light techniques are used to release any restrictions that are found. By freeing the central nervous system to perform at its best, CranioSacral Therapy naturally eliminates pain and stress, strengthens your resistance to disease, and enhances your health and well-being.

What is a session like?
You will lie comfortably on a massage table, fully clothed. The therapist will place hands lightly on the body to assess the cranial rhythm, to encourage a balancing of this rhythm, and to free up any connective tissues restrictions along the body. By carefully listening with the hands to locate areas of weak fluid flow or tissue motion, the source of the dysfunction can be located. Light manual techniques are then used to release those problem areas and improve the form and function of the CNS. What you experience from your session is highly individual. The sessions are often deeply relaxing. CranioSacral is a gentle practice and so is effective for all ages, from newborns to elders.

*CranioSacral sessions will often be augmented with Ayurvedic practices and suggestons and sometimes; Yoga Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Myofascial, Lymph Drainage, Trigger Point, or Intra-Oral Work

SESSION RATES:
1 hour: $70
1.5 hour $100

INSURANCE ACCEPTED
L & I, PIP (auto), Premera, Lifewise

Bethanie Sand, LMP
CranioSacral
Ayurveda

Office: 3620 California Ave. SW 2nd floor Seattle, WA
Contact: (206) 949-8442