Craniosacral Fascial Therapy

- Releasing trauma in the body -

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​Craniosacral Fascial Therapy was founded by Dr. Barry Gillespie, who merged concepts from craniosacral therapy and myofascial release therapy, in the early 1980s.

 

The craniosacral is the brain breathing, where the brain slowly expands and slowly contracts. It's this expansion and contraction that we call a brain cycle where the brain is actually breathing. The sacral aspect is the tailbone. When the brain expands, the tailbone goes into flexion, when the brain contracts, the tailbone goes into extension. The ultimate goal over a series of sessions is to have a slow expansion of 100 seconds and the brain slowly contracts a 100 seconds, where the brain is very relaxed and very calm, so the whole brain cycle is 200 seconds. It's this craniosacral cycle that allows the brain and spinal cord to move freely.

 

The other aspect to it is the fascial web (connective tissue web), head to toe, finger to finger. It surrounds every muscle cell, goes into every organ, goes around every nerve, every blood vessel, the eyes, the teeth... It keeps the body in structural alignment. It gives us tensegrity. The only problem is that trauma can create strain in the system. If there's strain/pain in your neck or your eye, it can cause issues in your body, and that is what we deal with in CFT.

 

The practitioner does not do the actual correcting. They merely hold the mechanism in whatever position is most favorable for the innate forces within the body, such as the pull of the meninges or the fluctuation of the cerebrospinal fluid, to restore normality.  The inherent capacities of the body will more readily assist the practitioner in the correction of the traumatic patterns.

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To book a 60 min session, fill in the contact form, or send an email to jourdanpilates@gmail.com, or call Hesti on 07580340728.

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