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tilden park morning - Susan Feldman CranioSacral Therapy is a light-touch treatment that accesses core membranes in the body that affect the nervous system, with profound results. It focuses on the subtle, wave-like rhythm of your cranial (skull) and sacral (pelvic) bones as they pump cerebrospinal fluid around your brain and spinal cord. Other than the beating of your heart and inspiration and expiration of your lungs, the craniosacral rhythm is the most basic motion in your body. When this rhythm is in disharmony, it is due to tension and torsion of the wrapping of the brain and spinal cord, the dura mater, and this can effect the functioning of your body's nerve transmissions and neurohormones (endorphins, serotonins, etc).
susan and client in a craniosacral therapy session People utilize craniosacral therapy to help: Why is Craniosacral Therapy so helpful and effective? All the body's signals for life are directly or indirectly related to the nervous system. Even hormones are produced by special tissues that are derived from nerve tissue. The nervous system is made out of gel like substances that conduct electricity. This is called a "peizo-electric gel". When gels are torsioned, their ability to conduct electricity changes. Twisting, compression or stretching of this gel creates changes in the body's ability to communicate correctly with itself. The reason why the cranium and sacrum (skull and pelvic areas) are so important to the function of your entire nervous system is because the wrapping of the brain and spinal cord, the meninges, attach via the toughest membrane to the pelvis and skull, but not much anywhere else in the spine. It becomes a tent-like aquarium for your central nervous system. If the stakes (the skull and pelvic bone moorings) are subluxated (locked down and/or out of place) the tent pulls on other far reaching areas. The craniosacral therapist very gently, with not much more pressure than it takes to lift a nickel, finds these stuck areas and begins to coax and unravel your entire craniosacral complex. As this occurs, you begin to feel more relaxed and rejuvenated, the body's vitality is increased and a higher state of health and well-being is achieved. The craniosacral rhythm fluctuates between two phases called flexion and extension. When you are in a relaxed, untraumatized and balanced condition, your craniosacral rhythm is like a rolling wave as it accelerates out into the flexion phase, briefly pauses, and then rolls back into the extension phase, pauses again, and repeats 6 to 10 cycles per minute in symmetry on both sides of the body. If you are in a state of emotional, physical, or chemical trauma, the craniosacral rythm behaves in a pinched, reduced, and erratic way. Certain skull bones (there are 22 different bones in the skull, all with distinct movement patterns) will not flex, extend or rotate in the proper ways. Areas of dural tissue restriction will energetically pull and distort the waves, causing the craniosacral rhythm to be upset, uneven, and out of balance. This disharmony adversely affects the entire body. About Susan Feldman, CMT - Craniosacral Therapist Susan Feldman has been practicing bodyworker for 25 years and for the past 14 years has been exclusively practicing craniosacral therapy. She has received her training throught the Upledger Foundation, and has received 3rd level advanced training in the field, including Somato-Emotional Release. She often works together with her husband of 27 years, Dr. Ethan Feldman, in their chiropractic clinic. Together they have two children, Arianna and David, who are in college, and live in the tiny East Bay community of Canyon, CA. To schedule an appointment with Susan Feldman, CMT - Craniosacral Therapist, call her office in Berkeley, CA at (510) 843-2586 |
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