Listen to your symptoms as these are your body’s messengers and your inner guide to health.
My Craniosacral Therapy (Integral Health, Cape Town) training was a transition out of the corporate identity I was struggling to let go of, and the entirely new trajectory my life was called along when I was forced to reconcile my own lifestyle choices, healing crises and full-being dis-ease. Training took place over 14 months and involved intermittent week-long modules (including Anatomy&Physiology, Philosophy, Nutrition, Functional CST, Embryology) with deep-dives into practical application (case studies) and self exploration, development and research. I have been practicing for well over a decade and have done various post-grad courses with international lecturers and online courses in various specialisations.
This is the foundational modality I work with because of how all-encompassing it is. The Craniosacral Therapy sessions you have with me may not be anything like a standard biodynamic session elsewhere because of all the additional modalities I show up with and generously offer in any client engagement. Clients say I have a magical touch.
San Silbernagl
Everything the senses are exposed to leaves an imprint on the cells of the body, which carries information from as far back as conception. Any injury or dis-ease can create compensations that affect how an individual grows and lives, and when the system has compensated for a period of time it creates a new fulcrum within the injury, wound, dis-ease or trauma. Physical issues are often deeply-rooted in unresolved emotional and spiritual problems which have been ignored or denied, either out of fear or trauma. This indicates that treatment as early as possibly is crucial to prevent long-term imbalances and disharmony.
Craniosacral Therapy is an integrative anatomical modality that works functionally with your central nervous system to awaken your deep healing intelligence. Light-touch palpation holistically re-orientates your body’s innate ability to reveal and release the trapped forces that underlie and drive trauma and dis-ease, thereby awakening all layers of consciousness. It is not prescriptive but functional; not static but in perpetual harmony.
What appeals most to me is how this modality anchors my academic mind whilst encompassing the intelligence of the universal blueprint. What appeals most to my clients is that it’s not about tweaking, twisting, cracking and manipulating the system back into compliance in order to continue ‘business as usual’, but rather a re-training of what the body was born to know.
Clients sometimes book Craniosacral Therapy after having had more ‘severe’ work done because of long forgotten pains that have once again emerged for healing. Often all this more radical work does is align the body with the compensations the system has established in order to find a new set point around the misalignment as opposed to bringing the system back into inherent homeostasis. After years of working around a false fulcrum it may feel uncomfortable at first to heal this deep disharmony, which is why it is important to commit to a holistic healing protocol that takes your system through the discomfort and into a rhythm of re-membering its capacity to self-heal. When a body has dis-ease it has a capacity to find ease and it’s in the acceptance of the dualities that true happiness, health and harmony can be found.
Tami Solomon
Working with the cranial nerves and holding the entire central nervous system, I offer a safe space of containment for your own internal forces to find their outer limits and, in doing so, define a way to organise themselves. This can mean that the initial focus of my work is not always on eradicating the compensations, which can quickly put the body back into a state of dis-harmony. It can also involve working in small increments to first finds ease within the compensation in order for the system to feel safe enough to return to its original balance and wellbeing.
This is not a quick-fix therapy but a slow process of surrender and recalibration of the nervous system.
Who can benefit?
Because Craniosacral Therapy accesses the individual’s underlying health, there is no ailment that it cannot help ease or cure. Craniosacral Therapy is also excellent as a preventive therapy because it can facilitate the resolution of imbalances within a system that the individual may not even be consciously aware of. Treatment can begin at birth and can be used throughout life; receiving this healing therapy can exponentially improve the body’s resistance to ailments and increase its ability to heal.
What to expect in a session
You remain fully clothed on the table while I work with expertise and intuition, using a light-touch palpation technique on different parts of your body for several minutes at a time. You may feel heat, cold, changes in breathing, tingling or pulsing sensations. Memories, visions and traumas can also emerge with depth of therapy. It can be emotional as well as deeply restful so it is beneficial for you to stay tuned into all these sensations, which are ultimately a guide towards your own unique healing process.
Craniosacral Therapy for Children
From the moment of conception, a child’s life is a whirlwind of change and development. Restrictions arising during birth and childhood may result in difficulties, which are often simply dismissed as attention disorders. Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle approach, which children respond to well and, because they have not created such deep compensations in their bodies, they often experience immediate release. Craniosacral Therapy also affords them the important process of being aware of, and responsible for, their own physical and emotional wellbeing.
How long is a session?
Ideally a 120-minute session should be booked initially, followed by 90-minute appointments. 60-minute ‘top-up’ treatments can be booked after several months. Approximately 80% of the time is on the table. This is a dynamic modality that brings greater awareness to the body’s innate healing ability, which begins on the table and can continue for several days after a session. Leave enough time afterwards to resource with rest, water, and attention to the subtle changes taking place in your body.
How many treatments are necessary?
It is always dependent on what level of dis-ease, discomfort or dysregulation we are working to resolve, or adapt to. As a guideline, I suggest committing to 3-7 treatments as some conditions resolve quickly and some are deeply-rooted and can take more sessions to shift. You can start with bi-weekly or weekly sessions and gradually reduce to bi-monthly, monthly and so forth. As a preventative therapy, you can schedule sessions weekly or bi-monthly, indefinitely.
Do I need to book a single modality?
No, not necessarily. Because the body functions as a whole and because this is a client-led therapy, focus may be on areas other than where symptoms occur and you may find that the reason you came for treatment is not what changes first. Because I offer a broad range of specialised modalities I guide clients on their own path to health through bespoke sessions that include Integral Coaching, Dynamic Meditation, Transformational Yoga, Somatic Release, Nature Immersion, Water Therapy.
It takes courage to heal and I understand that this in itself needs to be treated with great care and compassion. When I work with you and your health, the first session is exploratory and we get to learn about each other and if we walk well together on this healing path. After that, I request a commitment of at least three to seven sessions to explore the inner and outer landscapes of your being so as to better integrate this rites of passage experience.
Book a session for yourself, your child, your spouse, a friend or a pet by completing the form here, scanning the WhatsApp QR Code or by email at wellworthbeing@gmail.com
I do not prescribe or diagnose – any recommendations are suggestions only. From my heart to my hands to your health.
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