What is Cranio Sacral Therapy
CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a therapy method that is carried out by soft and gentle touches, enhancing and boosting our body’s birth-owned regeneration. CST’s positive effects to many physiological problems such as body ache, systemic and emotional health loss/decrease in function has been confirmed since 40 years.

Essentially CranioSacral Therapy supports the body to relieve the jamming which body have difficult time to deal with. The therapist does not decide how and how much that something has to be done by her/himself, instead identifies the steps by listening to the body’s responses. This sensitive approach makes so that the method is carried out safely and effective.
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Unlike many other therapy methods applied to human body, CST aims to support human body’s born-with regeneration mechanism in way that is gentle and soft, but also effective.
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While many traditional treatments priority is to fight the sickness; CranioSacral Therapy’s principal is to stimulate body’s own resources to be used for its own regeneration capability. The therapist mainly focuses on the brain and other physiological elements that surround the spinal cord, enhancing the homeostasis of the nervous system. One of the first things that consultants of CST is a deep sense of relief as the nervous system calms down and gets to a point of balance. This deep sense of relief can even continue for days after the consultant gets back to his/her daily routine.
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CST’s effects can be summarized as;
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1. Nervous system regulator: Our otonomous nervous system has two parts, Sympathetic and
Parasympathetic. Sympathetic nervous system prompts us through during difficult conditions, enabling our body’s fight or flight responses. Most of our body’s resources are arranged focusing on our body’s survival. When the situation that is sensed as dangerous and difficult ends, parasympathetic system interferes and facilitates digestion, repair and rest actions. Human body needs parasympathetic activation in order to facilitate those actions such as toxins are filtered, tissues are regenerated, consumed foods are digested. However in our modern days where the unwanted stimulants and chronic stress never decreases, our parasympathetic nervous system can’t be activated sufficiently, resulting with decrease on the renewal and repair actions. This decrease shows itself with chronic ache, lasting exhaustion, digestion problems and severe anxiety mood swings. CST sessions with its gentle and soft approach enables the expressions of Parasympathetic nervous system to be facilitated, so that body’s regeneration and repair actions can be conducted once again.
2. Repairing the effects of trauma: As many somatic approaches do, CST accepts that in the occasions that emotions are not processed, but are stored in our body’s memory. Those experiences that creates a burden in our body’s memory, after a while shows themselves as body ache without a cause, chronic exhaustion, fears and anxieties. CST not only helps with the accumulations that cause chaotic effects to our body to let go of, but also helps with the removal of the trauma memory.

When trauma is the topic, CST specifically effective for the process of experiences in our life periods such as when intrauterine, the moments of birth or early childhood because it allows for safely healing of experiences that don’t have any verbal expressions or conscious memories which caused trauma without being triggered again.
3. Cooperation with the Body's Inner Intelligence: From the moment of fertilization, our bodies have an infallible road map. This is an inner intelligence that ensures step-by-step intrauterine development and allows the system's resources to repair themselves after birth in case of illness or damage. For example, when we get a cut on our finger, even without any intervention, the capillaries instantly constrict and blood loss decreases, while at the same time the white blood cell count increases and protects against infection. This is one of the simplest examples of the functioning of the body's Inner Intelligence, which knows that whatever happens in any situation, healing will take place. Rather than interfering with this Inner Intelligence from the outside, the CST practitioner cooperates fully with it in a neutral approach that mirrors where the disorganization/disorder is and provides the serene environment necessary for it to unfold and function to its full potential. In this way, the repairs that take place are as far as the individual can encompass, without side-effects and quite permanent.
CranioSacral Therapy is a holistic approach to bodywork that has been proven to be effective in many physical and emotional conditions because it helps your body take better care of you by activating its amazing self-healing mechanism.