Kathie and Cindy

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY

Gentle Effective Bodywork for People of All Ages

CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle, noninvasive, yet effective type of bodywork. Seldom does the therapist use more that five grams of pressure (the weight of a nickel).

The Craniosacral System

The Craniosacral system consists of the membranes and the fluid that surrounds and supports the brain and the spinal cord. It extends from the bones of the head (cranium) down to the bones at the base of the spine (sacrum). The fluid within the membranes is continuously draining and refilling. The filling and draining creates gentle, rhythmic, expanding an contracting movements that can be felt anywhere in the body by the trained therapist. These movements are the craniosacral rhythm. They occur at a rate of about six to twelve complete cycles per minute.

The therapist gains valuable information about where the body would most benefit from change by monitoring the craniosacral rhythm. The source of pain isn’t always obvious.

Benefits For All Ages

Craniosacral Therapy is helpful for people of all ages. It has successfully been used to treat such diverse conditions as headaches, TMJ dysfunction, chronic middle ear infections, vertigo, depression, back pain, joint immobility, neck pain, sinus congestion, migraines, learning disabilities, the effects of childhood trauma and negative touch. In infants, it is used to treat colic, sleep disorders, feeding problems, breathing or digestive difficulties, various congenital, neurological and genetic problems, plus the effects of forceps, vacuum extractor or cesarean delivery.

A Typical Session

You rest fully clothed on a massage table while the therapist monitors your craniosacral rhythm with her hands. She conducts other gentle assessments and corrects the sources of pain and dysfunction using gentle manipulative techniques. This sets the stage for your body to most efficiently use its own power to heal. Because the body exerts considerable energy to adapt to its restrictions, most people fin the sessions to be deeply relaxing.

SomatoEmotional Release

We store our life experiences in our bodies. Because the CranioSacral Therapy techniques are gentle, but powerful, the effects go deep without stimulating the body’s defenses. They can easily unlock the residue of trauma stored in the tissues. This unlocking and facilitated resolution process is called SomatoEmotional Release. It is an integral part of CranioSacral Therapy.

SomatoEmotional Release uses dialoguing and therapeutic imagery along with other verbal, energetic and physical support techniques to initiate change. These techniques promote the discovery and gentle release of the restrictions that contribute to pain and dysfunction.

Emotions rise to the surface, but emotional release is not necessarily a painful, cathartic event. It can be a friendly negotiation between you and you various parts. When we cling to our once-helpful coping mechanisms after the cease to be useful, the reemerge as sources of pain and restriction. The therapist is the facilitator and mediator as she helps guide you toward resolution.

After receiving this process-oriented type of bodywork, people report greater clarity, peacefulness and insight along with positive change in the physical symptoms.

When your supervisor tells you that you need to change careers because the one you are in is killing you, you sit up and take notice, at lease I did.

Deep Tissue Massage is a massage technique that focuses on the deeper layers of muscle issue. It aims to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body through slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the contracted areas, either following or going across the fiber's of the muscles, tendons and fascia.

Deep tissue massage is used to release chronic muscle tension through slower strokes and more direct deep pressure or friction applied across the grain of the muscles not with the grain. Deep tissue massage helps to break up and eliminate scar tissue. Deep tissue massage usually focuses on more specific areas and may cause some soreness during or right after the massage. However, if the massage is done correctly you should feel better than ever within a day or two.

It feels good and it is beneficial to your health. When muscles are stressed, they block oxygen and nutrients, leading to inflammation that builds up toxins in the muscle tissue. A deep-tissue massage helps loosen muscle tissues, release toxins from muscles and get blood and oxygen circulating properly. Because many toxins are released, it's important to drink plenty of water after a deep-tissue session to help eliminate these toxins from the body.

The purpose is to "unstick" the fibers of a muscle while releasing deeply-held patterns of tension, removing toxins, while relaxing and soothing the muscle. It is both corrective and therapeutic.

Jin Shin Jyutsu, a healing art used for over 2000 years, can facilitate the release of energy blockages in the body thereby resulting in more vibrant health. When this energy is unblocked in the body, we can experience profound results. It is uncommon for grateful recipients to call their therapist a few days after session and express amazement at their higher level of energy.

Keeping this life force energy flowing in a balanced and harmonious way increases our personal vibration level for health and joy, so we feel better. Our body has an amazing innate ability to heal and rejuvenate itself. It is our task to remove the blockages that hinder abundant health.

Regardless of health challenge, continually reharmonizing the body encourages positive health maintance. Revitalizing the body’s energy on a regular basis can restore its essence at the level of cause, not merely by masking the symptoms of effect. Pain is a symptom, a warning light that something is out of harmony in our body. Just like the service engine light for a car, pain is an alert that our body needs attention. Our body vehicle cannot be traded in every few years, making routine maintenance and preventative care even more critical.

Linda Chrystal, LMT, owner of Linda Chrystal Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork, has studied Jin Shin Jyutsu since 1991 and is a certified Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner and self help instructor accredited by Jin Shin Jyutsu International, Scottsdale, Arizona, a member of the Florida State Massage Therapy Association (FSMTA), and nationally certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB).

Linda is available for a Jin Shin Jyutsu session on Tuesdays between 2-5 and Saturday's 10-2. Please call the office to secure your healing session.

After 12 years in the insurance industry, Cindy embarked into massage therapy. Cindy joined the team in 2004. She is currently trained in the following massage modalities some certified and nationally recognized:

She has also received training in therapeutic touch, myofacial release, cranial-sacral therapy and touch for health to name a few.