“In my 6 months of weekly CranioSacral Therapy with Rowan I saw more healing take place for my chronic pain injuries than in the previous six years combined. I feel like the chains of traumatic experience that I had been carrying for many years have been broken.

During our sessions, I felt healing on both a physical and emotional level. The CST sessions both created space in my body for healing and provided a safe space in which I could respond to whatever arose. The sessions opened me up to places where I was holding onto past trauma and helped me to let go of those experiences.

Rowan is a respectful, gentle healer and a guide. Her sessions are both supportive and creative. Each session she responded to my emotional and physical state at that particular moment and molded treatment around my specific needs. I am grateful for the sessions we have had together.”
– Dr. C.W., Hendersonville, NC

Why is CranioSacral Therapy so Important?

CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a light- touch approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It 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 you’re your central nervous system. And few body systems have more impact on your central nervous system than the CranioSacral system-the soft tissues and fluid that protect your brain and spinal cord.

Every day you endure stresses and strains and your body absorbs them. But your body can only handle so much tension before the tissues begin to tighten and potentially affect the brain and spinal cord.

Unfortunately, this can comprise the function of the central nervous system- and the performance of nearly every other system of your body.

CranioSacral Therapy releases those tensions to allow the entire body to relax and self-correct. Using a gentle touch- starting with about the weight of a nickel-practitioners evaluate your internal environment. Then they use distinctive light-touch techniques to release any restrictions they find.

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.

And because its so gentle, CranioSacral Therapy can be effective for all ages, from newborns to elders.

What conditions does CST Address?

CranioSacral Therapy improves your body’s ability to take better care of you. It helps relieve a full spectrum of pain, illness and dysfunction, including:

• Migraines and Headaches
• Chronic Neck and Back Pain
• Stress and Tension related Disorders
• Motor-Coordination Impairments
• Infant and Childhood Disorders
• Birth Trauma
• Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries
• Chronic Fatigue
• Fibromyalgia
• TMJ Syndrome
• Scoliosis
• Central nervous System Disorders
• Insomnia
• Learning Disabilities
• Autism
• ADD/ADHD
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Orthopedic Problems
• Phantom Pain
• And Many Other Conditions

What Can I Expect from a Session?

A typical CranioSacral Therapy session takes place in a quiet private setting. You remain fully clothed as you relax on a comfortable, padded table.

Your therapist begins by gently touching various parts of your body to monitor the rhythm of the fluid that is flowing around your central nervous system.

By carefully listening with the hands to locate areas of weakness through the body to the original source of dysfunction.

Delicate manual techniques are then used to release those problem areas and improve the form and function of your central nervous system.

A CranioSacral Therapy session can last up to an hour or more. It can be used alone or integrated with other therapies to create powerful effects.

What you experience from your own session is highly individual. The sessions are generally deeply relaxing, creating feelings of warmth or gentle pulsing in the areas the therapist is working on.

How Was This Gentle Therapy Developed?

CranioSacral Therapy was developed by Dr. John E. Upledger, an osteopathic physician featured in TIME magazine as one of America’s next wave of innovators.

From 1975 to 1983, Dr. Upledger was a professor of Biomechanics at the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University.

While he was there he led a team of anatomists, physiologists, biophysicists and bioengineers who performed and published the clinical research that formed the basis for the approach he named CranioSacral Therapy.

In 1985, Dr. Upledger founded The Upledger Institute to teach people worldwide about the value of this effective approach. More than 80,000 therapists have since been trained in CranioSacral Therapy.

The CranioSacral system extends from the skull or the cranium down to the tailbone or sacrum.