Getting the Most From Your Craniosacral Therapy Visit
You may have heard it before, but a craniosacral therapy treatment doesn’t finish when you leave your practitioner’s office. The changes that began during your treatment create more changes, like the falling of dominoes. This is why you are encouraged to rest after a treatment, drink plenty of fluids, and wait at least 24-48 hours to experience the full effect of a treatment.
Have you ever wondered what you can do before, after, and between your craniosacral therapy visits to make the effects of your treatments deeper, last longer, and lead to real change?
Well, if you haven’t, I hope you’re thinking about it now!
Below, you will find ideas to experiment with. These are things I personally use and have found effective. You do not need to DO ALL THE THINGS. Please do not let this become a new source of stress. I hope you find something that brings comfort and is accessible.
I will continue to add to this offering.
Use a Still Point Inducer:
A Still Point Inducer is a device you can purchase, or make, to give yourself a “mini” craniosacral treatment at home. Use of this device can improve the health of your craniosacral system with ongoing daily use. It also helps reduce tension through your entire body.
I’ve made a 9 -minute video to help you understand the Still Point Inducer, how to make your own, how to use one, and how it works:
Move Your Fascia
We remember that our fascia connects our entire body. This is how the head bone is connected to the foot bone and everything in between. We have deeper fascia that holds our organs in place and allows them to move without creating friction and pain, and more superficial fascia that connects our skin to our muscles and our muscles to our bones while fitting into all the spaces in between. Our fascia is full of nerves, blood vessels, fluids, and more. Our immune cells travel through these spaces too. We want soft, pliable, well lubricated fascia in our every-day life. So, let’s get moving!
Deepen Your Body/Mind Connection
There are many ways of doing this yoga, meditation, dance, rock-climbing, craniosacral therapy, somatic therapy, etc. The goal is to increase your body awareness so you can better understand your biological rhythms and signals. A fast-paced, productivity-focused life distracts from this; so does dissociation from pain as a coping strategy. Your time on the treatment table will help you develop this awareness, and daily attention to body/mind connection will solidify and deepen it.
One tool I have found particularly helpful for this is yoga nidra. Please enjoy the recorded meditation below as often as you like. Try not to fall asleep!
Receive Care Regularly
In the video below, I walk you through my thought process when it comes to scheduling people for craniosacral therapy at just the right frequency. We don’t want to stretch visits so long that you lose your progress, and we don’t want to schedule them so frequently that your system is overwhelmed.
Develop Your Imagination
The link I share is for a free course created by the former head of my spiritual order, the Garden of Flowing in Perpetual Happiness: Coming Home to Ourselves. In it, Phillip Carr Gomm provides twelve nature-based guided Yoga Nidra sessions that are enjoyable, relaxing, and an opportunity to develop your inner sight and imagination.
