Who can CST Help?

As cranial work is so gentle and sensitive, it is ideal for people who are highly vulnerable:

• babies and children

• the elderly

• traumatised people

• critically ill people

• people with learning disabilities or genetic conditions

You don’t have to be ill or troubled to benefit from CST either. People who are healthy, happy and strong can use CST to switch off, relax and help clear their system after a period of intense work, physical exertion, or fun. Everyone gets overstimulated and run down from time to time. Craniosacral Therapy can quickly ease the system down.

What is a session like?

Lying on a couch, fully-clothed, you will feel a light hand contact almost anywhere on your system, but mainly around the cranium/head and sacrum/base of spine. More sensitive people sometimes feel warmth, tingling, coolness, or a sense of floatiness or movement, others will simply notice themselves relaxing and sinking into the couch, going into a day-dream-like state. You can expect to find treatments relaxing and peaceful.

The effects of a treatment are often subtle and take place over the course of a few sessions. For example you may go to an osteopath/chiropractor to help with an acute pain, which s/he may clear in one session. However the pain may come back in a few months time. With Cranial work, often the pain will take a few sessions to release from your system, but when its gone, its often gone for good.

Each body tends to allow change at a pace which it finds manageable, therefore some people may have an immediate reaction after one treatment, whereas others will barely notice anything at first. The important thing is that Craniosacral Therapy brings about change gradually but long-term. Often people report, months down the line, that they have just sailed through a situation that used to really challenge them without even worrying about it, or that their aches and pains have completely cleared. People very often forget about symptoms until Julian asks them.

For acute symptoms you can expect to have a session once a week for a few weeks until symptoms clear. For more chronic conditions it is advisable to start with a treatment once a week, and then moving onto once a month, for example.