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| The Functional Model. . . Craniosacral Therapy has its roots in osteopathy. The work has gone through a few changes over the century. It began as a bone-adjusting, manipulative technique practiced only by osteopaths. Over time it evolved into a gentler, functional style. Many craniosacral therapists work this way, coaxing tissues and bones into adjustment. Their fingers give subtle suggestions to the clients system to help create more mobility between the bones, muscles, and connective tissues, freeing the fluids and blood flow (refer to headache article as a for-instance), and easing nerve compression. The Biodynamic Model. . . A biodynamic style also emerged that is quite subtle, profound, and deeply effective. In this model, the practitioner’s fingers “listen” with careful attention to a level in which the anatomical body acts as one whole fluid field in order to self-correct without being manipulated. This biodynamic field has been dictating your form and function from conception onwards. When you were an emerging embryo, it established a mid-line that your body grew and organized around. Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy aids your body in reorganizing along this midline according to its own design. The body/mind is encouraged to slow down to a deep, systemic stillness. This allows it to uncouple from patterns it may be holding, whether in the tissues, nervous system, or psyche. More recently, there are practitioners who work by orienting to subtle metabolic forces of the embryo. We began as shaped protoplasm, and have an embodied memory of that. On a deep level our bodies continue to organize (and maintain themselves) through an intention set down in the fluids during our embryonic development. In the deep rest and stillness of biodynamic craniosacral therapy, one can reorient to these developmental organizing forces, and a sense of undifferentiated wholeness. My training has included all these styles. |
| 3rd Coast Craniosacral formerly Craniosacral BioDynamics of Evanston |
| Ginger Tolford Crisenbery Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist NCBTMB Approved Provider 725 Washington #108 Evanston IL 60202 847-328-8433 contact by email |
