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Craniosacral therapy and Sleep

Sleep is a form of nourishment, and a refuge from our waking lives, within which we may dream.

Sleep habits, and attitudes to sleep, are formed in early life, and become built-in to our physiology at a level that is not readily accessible to conscious influence. At times of stress and illness our sleep pattern may break down. As a practising GP, I am acutely aware that this can be profoundly distressing and disabling. However it is now widely recognised that the risks of drug treatment far outweigh the benefits in most cases, and some form of cognitive-behavioural intervention is generally recommended.

Craniosacral therapy offers another useful way to approach sleep problems. Clients often describe CST sessions as having a sleep-like quality, sometimes associated with dream-like imagery. People often feel deeply rested after a session and experience more restful sleep afterwards. Longer term, CST can help with the deeper issues underlying difficulties with sleep; facilitating greater confidence in the natural process of letting-go to fall asleep, and greater trust in the restorative and imaginative powers of the body

To book an appointment phone 0117 9276527

Craniosacral therapy is available on Thhursdays with Matt Gothill. Other times may be possible by arrangement.

Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral therapy is a subtle, holistic, non-manipulative mode of hands-on healing, best understood as a form of ‘joint-practice’ between therapist and client. At the heart of any painful or dysfunctional condition can be found a core of Health. Our Health is the inherent tendency of each part of us to seek a deeper and more nourishing relationship with something larger and more complex than itself. This tendency may be expressed at any and every level of body, mind and spirit. In the tissues and fluids of the body, Health may, with care and practice, be palpated as a felt-sense of the interplay between stillness and movement, much as music can be heard as the interplay of sound and silence.

Being heard in this way, in the context of a therapeutic relationship, seems to facilitate a stilling and resourcing of the whole person. Anyone may benefit from this, but craniosacral therapy has a particular reputation as a gentle but effective way of working with trauma, especially trauma arising in the prenatal period or birth process and manifesting in stress and suffering at any stage of life thereafter.

Our Craniosacral Therapist, Matt Gothill, is also a practising GP in inner-city primary care, and these 2 practices allow him to balance the healing art of craniosacral therapy with the Science of Medicine.

To book an appointment phone 0117 9276527

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