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Autumn 2020 at Breathe Clinic
COVID 19 Update – Craniosacral Therapy
What is Craniosacral Therapy?
The Nervous System & how we cope with stress
Thank you Breathe Wellbeing Clinic & Jubilee Hall
How we develop neck pain
It’s that moment, totally engrossed in a project at work, that without you really noticing it a gradual tightness creeps into your neck.
Focused on getting the project out, you override the short-term ache, but are left at the end of the day with stiffness in your neck and irritability. A few projects later, and from nowhere you develop a cracking headache. What to do, other than take a paracetamol and keep on going?
Why I love Craniosacral
“Craniosacral what?”
I came across Craniosacral Therapy 9 years ago now. Working as a physical therapist in Oxford, I would cross over with clients leaving their sessions in a deep state of relaxation which you could tangibly feel in the air. Out of all the complementary therapies, this seemed to be the one with a disproportionate impact. How could such a light touch approach bring such successful results?
Waking the Tiger
One of the classic books on the processes underlying trauma “Waking The Tiger” by Peter Levine provides a comprehensive introduction to the mechanisms of the nervous system, and levels of response connected to “fight and flight”, and “freeze”.
Relieving tension headaches
Tension headaches are the most common form of headache experienced in the UK (NHS Choices). Craniosacral Therapy is highly effective in helping lessen the symptoms of tension headaches.
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