{"id":1262,"date":"2016-03-07T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cranio-therapie-stuttgart.de\/?page_id=1262&lang=en"},"modified":"2025-04-16T22:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:09:25","slug":"how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cranio-therapie-stuttgart.de\/en\/how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"About Cranio"},"content":{"rendered":"

About Craniosacral Therapy (Cranio) and the biodynamic approach in Craniosacral Therapy<\/h1>\n

What makes the biodynamic approach in craniosacral therapy special<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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Craniosacral therapy is a very gentle physical body-oriented treatment. \u00a0It is based on working with the craniosacral rhythm. This rhythm can be felt in the fine pulsating of the cerebrospinal fluid. \u00a0It can also be felt in the movement of the cranial bones as well as in a very subtle movement that one can learn to sense in every part of the body.<\/p>\n

Bios means life in ancient Greek, dynamics means power or strength.<\/p>\n

Biodynamic craniosacral therapy, or the biodynamic approach in craniosacral therapy, or biodynamics, connects with the formative forces. These living formative forces shaped the embryo. With great mindfulness and presence, I connect with those forces that sustain, enliven, and support us.<\/p>\n

The essence of biodynamic craniosacral work is slowness and stillness.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In cranisacral therapy is a rhythm also called \u201cbreath of life\u201d<\/h2>\n

The craniosacral fluid nourishes, moves and protects the nervous system from the head (or cranium) up to the sacrum. The rhythm inherent within this fluid is often referred to as the \u2018breath of life\u2019, and is akin to the rhythms of the breath and the heartbeat.<\/p>\n

Treatment consists of gentle physical contact guided by an empathic listening on a body-based level. Receiving this kind of a treatment can cause the following results: Body parts can respond with beneficial compensatory movements, tissue can pulsate and hardened parts of bodily tissue can come into awareness and start to melt. Through being treated in this way, the body learns to remember it\u2019s innate original health. These initiated body-inherent responses can be deep and lasting.<\/p>\n

For the last 13 years I have been studying biodynamics and working more and more with the biodynamic approach in craniosacral therapy.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The real explanation of craniosacral therapy takes place on the treatment couch<\/h2>\n

Craniosacral body work can only be verbally explained up to a certain point.\u00a0 The real explanation takes place on the treatment couch through experiencing the results for yourself.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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<\/i><\/i><\/span>Further Info and History<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Dr. Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917)<\/h3>\n

Dr. Andrew Taylor Still was an American physician, surgeon and the founder of osteopathy and osteopathic medicine. \u00a0As a son of a Methodist minister and physician, medicine and religion were already very intertwined in his upbringing. At a young age, Andrew decided to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps as a physician. He was always looking for a deeper understanding of disease and new ways to restore health. He was also a deeply religious man, regarding spirituality as inseparable from the science of healing.<\/p>\n

Before the Civil War, Still witnessed the death of his first wife, and two of his children. He remarried and after the Civil War, three of his children died from meningitis and another died of pneumonia. The experience of such extreme personal loss, despite medical care, left Still completely heartbroken.\u00a0With earnest, he began to look for a new understanding of health and disease, and prayed intensely for new insights. A short while later, the basic principles of osteopathy opened up for him. He was shown in prayer that the human body works as a unified whole and has a tendency to regulate itself from the inside. He was shown that structure and function are closely related and interdependent, and that the mobility of all structures is a pre-requisite for the body\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

The foundation of osteopathy can also be applied to Craniosacral Therapy (CST).<\/p>\n