​The body naturally seeks homeostasis.
Craniosacral Therapy facilitates this balancing.

​What is Craniosacral Therapy?

​Craniosacral therapy (CST) is a non-invasive bodywork technique that gently creates space by removing restrictions and tension throughout your body, particularly freeing up the vital flow and movement of cerebrospinal fluid.

​This gentle technique takes stress and tension off of the nervous system, imparting a calming and balancing effect on your body and your mental state.

​CST comprises a light touch about the weight of a nickel making this bodywork modality appropriate and safe for all populations especially for infants, pregnant mothers, and during the postpartum period. During a treatment, you remain fully clothed on the massage table.

​Who can benefit from CST?

​CST is wonderful for all ages and is beneficial for all conditions—from those treating severe ailments to those looking for preventative health care.

​Regular CST sessions can help maintain health, well-being, and immunity, as well as ward off depression, musculoskeletal dysfunction and stress. 

CST is an effective for treating trauma or restrictions in your body—whether from a challenging birth, a physical injury or emotional shock to the nervous system. Your body goes into fight-or-flight survival mode. The sooner that restriction is released from the body, the easier and faster the healing process. ​

Benefits of Craniosacral Therapy During Pregnancy​

  • Releases restrictions in your pelvis so your baby can more easily move into an ideal birthing position
  • Prevents and eases low back and hip/pelvic pain
  • For mothers who have experienced miscarriages or hard birth outcomes in the past, CST helps to integrate your previous birth experience, providing an opportunity to release and clear the pain and trauma of the past
  • Provides a space to support you with your concerns or anxiety around pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and motherhood
  • Balances the pelvis and uterus before and during pregnancy to ease and prevent aches and pains
  • Softens the pelvic muscles and tissues to help the body open and soften for birth
  • Provides safe and loving touch to facilitate infant-mother bonding

CST for Postpartum Mothers

​​Craniosacral during the postpartum period focuses on the realignment of bones and tissues restoring emotional balance, pelvic floor health. It helps to alleviate the discomforts of newborn care and mothering.

​A postpartum treatment focuses on structural realignment of the pelvis and spine and rehabilitation of the muscles overworked or weakened during pregnancy. When appropriate, we teach mothers techniques on how best to help themselves recover strength and balance in their bodies
CST also rebalances the emotional system facilitating healing, especially for mothers who have had cesarean births or other unexpected outcomes. If a birth has not gone according to what was hoped for, receiving craniosacral therapy can be a space to pause and notice the changes that have taken place.

​A CST session is always a place of honoring where we are right now, and for a new mother that may include just being allowed this time to recognize herself and her motherhood. ​

Craniosacral Therapy can help infants who:

  • Have experienced surgical delivery via cesarian, forceps, or vacuum suction
  • Are sensitive, have sensory issues, or just seem uncomfortable
  • Have breastfeeding problems or difficulty latching contributing to sore nipples for moms
  • Favor turning their heads to one side & favor one breast or position for nursing
  • Have experienced birth positions such as asynclitic, military, or occiput posterior 
  • Have digestive or elimination difficulties​
  • Are experiencing sleep difficulties
  • Are fussy and hard-to-soothe
  • Hate tummy time
  • Have torticollis
  • Have hip dysplasia
  • ​Are teething
  • Are pre- and post-frenectomy
  • Are spitting up
  • Are colicky
  • Have reflux​

Is CST safe during pregnancy, postpartum, and for infants?

​Yes! Not only is CST safe for everyone of all age groups, but also highly recommended during pregnancy as it soothes both the mother and baby’s nervous system.

Studies show that people who receive loving touch during their pregnancies are better able to provide loving touch to their newborn infants.

​A CST session provides a quiet space to encourage emotional bonding between mom and baby, which can otherwise be short-circuited due to the everyday fullness of life and stressors.

In an ideal world, all pregnant women and infants would receive CST to promote healthy births, babies and families, thus saving on health care costs in the long run!

​Babies and small children respond well to CST because it is gentle, non-invasive, and effective in ways they can intuitively recognize.

Ideally, all babies should receive a CST session as soon as possible following birth. As baby’s head naturally molds to fit through the mother’s pelvis during the birth process, it is normal for the cranial bones to override each other.

​The overrides should resolve shortly after the birth postpartum, but if they do not correct themselves, it is possible they can hinder proper cranial nerve function— leading to digestive issues, colic, and/or breathing, swallowing, or sensory-motor impairments.
​CST can also help babies to integrate a prolonged or precipitous labor as well as birth injuries due to a vacuum extraction, forceps, or cesarean birth. The injuries or trauma may be both emotional and physical. 

​It’s extremely beneficial for children to continue receiving CST periodically throughout childhood as they adapt to the process of growing up: neurologically, physically, and emotionally.

​Children quickly get used to the work as they develop trust in their practitioner and pre-verbal children may actually direct my hands to areas of discomfort.

​For active kids on the go, I can do much subtle work during playtime or even during nap time.

​Parents are often astounded at the way a hyperactive, touch-sensitive, or crabby child will fall into deep relaxation or sleep during treatment.

Craniosacral Therapy

FEE SCHEDULE
Home Visits are also available in the Tucson Metro area with an added Travel Fee of $30 to $50, depending on driving distance from 85712.
SESSIONS for ADULTS
90 minutes — $125
​60 minutes — $95
SESSIONS for BABIES
90 minutes — $125
Sliding Fee Scale available. Please enquire.

COVID NOTE:

​Craniosacral Therapy is being offered following best practice protocols. ​In-person appointments are considered on case-by-case basis.