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Craniosacral Therapy

Practitioner

Rosemarie Amey FICHT

What is Craniosacral Therapy?

Craniosacral Therapy is a hands-on therapy which assists the body's natural capacity for self-repair. You will lay on a treatment couch, the practitioners hands listen's via light touch to what your body needs and helps to relieve pain and tension held there.

In craniosacral therapy it is your body rather than your mind that sets the priorities, so you may find that the reason why you came for treatment may not be the first thing to change.

Usually a series of treatments allows you to gain the full benefit of Craniosacral due to this accumulative effect.

Craniosacral Therapy is agentle approach developed from discoveries, about the body's physiology, made by osteopaths in the USA around 100 years ago. These findings show that all cells in the body express a rhythmic movement which is fundemental to life - and which has been called craniosacral motion. This motion is so subtle that it is barelymeasurable with instruments, but a trained therapist is able to perceive it.

How does Craniosacral Therapy work?

The body's tissues contract under physical or emotional stress. When shock is severe or accompanied by strong emotions,the tissues stay contracted.

Trauma stress and strains that remain in the body restrict the body's functioning and may give rise to problems over the years. Restrictions in the body's functioning shoe up in the way that craniosacral motion is expressed. Craniosacral therapists are trained to feel and releasethese restrictions. The therapists uses their hands to amplify the patterns found which gives the body an opportunuity to let go to an easier way of functioning. The resultant releases give greater ease to both the body and emotions.

Who can Craniosacral therapy help?

This therapy is suitable for people of all ages, from babies to the elderly. It is often beneficial for fragile conditions and during pregnancy, after accident and for new borns.

Craniosacral Therapy and Babies

Babies and small children appreciate the way that craniosacral therapy speaks to them and they can respond to it particularly well.

Regular Treatment

You don't have to be ill to receive treatment. The easing of life's stresses, and increase in vitality you can get from craniosacral treatment can be a welcome treat at any time.

ALL OUR PRACTITIONERS ARE FULLY QUALIFIED AND INSURED

Prices correct at time of publishing May 2006

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