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A beautiful craniosacral experience

Bodywork offers many gifts, to both the giver and receiver. Recently I was gifted with an absolutely beautiful experience combining trigger point work and craniosacral therapy.

It started with one finger finding a crucial trigger point, hidden deep in the neck close to the vertebrae. His fascia had eventually led me right to it, and as I connected to it, pressing into the point, he groaned and said, “That’s the spot I was trying to find myself.”

Following my intuition, I began searching for a connection to his skull. Maintaining the connection to the trigger point with one hand, my free hand made contact with his jaw, then the parietals (bones on the sides of the skull), finally coming to rest on the occiput, the bone that makes up the back of the skull.

Resting the fingers of one hand lightly on the occiput, still contacting the trigger point with the other, I felt for a connection between my hands. The occiput began to unwind, spiraling gently. It didn’t take long before I felt the trigger point begin to unwind as well, and my sense of the motion spread from both my hands until I could fully observe the connection unwinding itself.

As the unwinding reached its zenith, the tissues between my hands contracted as the occiput and trigger point seemed to stretch toward each other, reaching a still point, and then—whoosh!—everything released and a small gasp escaped his lips.

I love this vignette because it illustrates the power (versus force) that I like about craniosacral work. Following, not forcing, the body facilitates powerful releases and allows the body to heal.

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