Five Grams of Pressure
If you ask why I began to study craniosacral therapy, the truth is, I couldn’t tell you. It was a half-formed idea that wiggled into my head, and I couldn’t shake it. When I began CST Foundations in May of 2022, the first question asked and answered (in written form) was, “What is craniosacral therapy?” I jotted something down. I had no idea what CST was. None.
What is the nervous system for? What purpose does your fascia hold? Sensory input. Heat vs cold. Danger vs safety. Yes, in its most basic form and function. I didn’t yet understand how foundational to the human existence the nervous system truly is. And once your eyes have been opened, everything begins to connect.
When you tune into the electrical impulses of everything around you, you can’t not in turn hear the pulse of your own. This is meditative, contemplative work. I began to resonate at a different frequency. I knew this was true when dogs at the park began to make direct eye contact with me. They would lock eyes, from quite a distance, sometimes even running across an entire field right to me, like we knew each other from before. (We did not.) I began to talk to plants, excusing myself as I squeezed past them to reach something. Everything was alive in a new and different way.
I tease that learning CST gives you synesthesia. We talk about listening with our hands: hearing clunks, crinkles, sighs. If you go deep enough, visions and images come to life. Sparks fly between you, and my thumbs have been zapped a good number of times. It’s like discovering your sixth sense.
As I continued through my studies, my own body, my own way of being, completely changed. I began to become the person I’d always been, somehow swimming back to her, to the core of who I once was, and had always been, but healed and able to heal.
After nearly two years of studying and practicing, I completed the certification course with Beames CST in April of 2024, and am so pleased to say that I am now a Certified Infant Craniosacral Therapist (ICST-C). This modality of healing and bodywork blends so beautifully with my existing goal of helping babies to feed more easily, digest better, and be calmer and happier. I have already seen babies transform under my hands, and it would be my wish that every baby born gets to experience this work. It is profound.
