When I started studying craniosacral therapy the first thing the teacher said to the class was, ‘All healing occurs in stillness.’ As a long time meditator who has reaped the benefits from sitting in stillness I immediately knew this therapy was going to connect with me and it has, it has changed my life.

The very first time someone put their hands on my ankles it was another student like me who had no experience of working in craniosacral therapy. She gently placed her hands, closed her eyes and tuned into the flow that was moving up and down my body and then, when she had felt the rhythm, she asked my body with a gentle touch of her hands to be still.

I’d had a bad right knee for a long time that was stopping me from running. Whilst my body was being held in stillness by this student there was a sharp stabbing sensation half way along my iliotibial band. It came and went three times. Then she let go of the stillness. I felt my legs readjust in the subtlest of ways and then our first tentative steps into the world of craniosacral therapy were over.

The teacher told us to observe our bodies over the next few days. He told us that it can sometimes take a few days for everything to readjust and fall back into realignment.

After that smallest of sessions, it had probably only lasted five minutes at the most, my knee got worse and worse. Until about three days later when I was walking up some stairs and it had become so bad that it nearly gave way. For the first time the thought crossed my mind that I might have to have surgery. That afternoon, as if miraculously, the knee pain disappeared and until this day has never come back.

Craniosacral therapy has affected my whole wellbeing. On a physical level I no longer suffer from psoriasis (which I’d had for thirty years), asthma or hay fever. My gut has completely settled and on the whole I sleep better. Craniosacral therapy works on the dural tube, the fine membrane which covers the spinal cord. This is the membrane which all of the nerves from the spinal cord travel through to reach the organs and every different part of the body. If this membrane is healthy and functioning well the stress on the nervous system decreases significantly helping alleviate and sometimes stop completely chronic disease. On a mental level it has addressed an imbalance of the tiny bones in my skull that I have probably been carrying since my traumatic birth. This balancing has allowed a clarity in my head that I wasn’t even aware I didn’t have because I had always lived with the cloudiness. Now though a dull head or headaches are an abnormal part of my day instead of being my everyday existence. Spiritually craniosacral therapy has allowed me to connect in a more authentic way to the truth of who I really am, and the peace that brings is probably the most valuable part of my world today.

If you would like to explore the benefits of craniosacral therapy and discover the peace that it can reveal in your body please contact us at Halcyon Days. We look forward to working with you and your inherent stillness.