Introduction to Cranial Sacral Therapy

This class will teach the student the basics of Cranial Sacral Therapy, the Cranal Sacral System, production of the Cranial Sacral Fluid and the palpation of the Cranial Sacral Rhythm. Based on Dr. Upledger’s work, this course begins with a brief history and development of the modality, and then jumps right in–offering hands-on self-perception labs that will give the student a self-experiential understanding that will assist their development of sublte touch therapy. Students will learn how to perceive the flexion and extension of the CSR and continue to work with that rhythm as a foundation, building on to it with an array of different techniques, as each lab is presented. Students will also be introduced to working with 3 and 4 planes of fascia by meansof “stacking” in order to assist diaphragm releases. The basic understanding of the diaphragms in relationship to the Chakras will be presented as well as a basic review of the O/A region, brain-stem and Cranial Nerves as well as a fresh perspective of TMJ and a basic compression/decompression technique to assist with TMJ disorder.