What is it?

It is a form of hands-on healing that Liza had developed based on biodynamic craniosacral therapy, where she follows the movement of consciousness in the client's body, which allows it to reach a deep state of balance and profoundly reorganize around its true Health. This whole-istic approach allows the bodymind to reveal the real cause of any condition, be it physical, emotional, or spiritual. The beauty of this method is that it directly engages the body's own self-healing processes to resolve the condition. This extremely gentle yet powerful approach produces lasting and permanent changes by connecting the client to their inherent Health that underlies any condition - leaving the person independent and resilient.

What Conditions Can This Work Help Resolve?

There isn’t a condition for which cranisacral therapy may not be helpful. Even at the latest stages of cancer, craniosacral therapy could help a person access the state of underlying health.

It is suitable for people of all ages including newborn babies, children, the elderly, pregnant women, and can be effective in acute or chronic cases.

The following is a partial list of conditions that this way has helped resolve:

• Chronic pain
  
  
• Emotional/physical trauma of all kinds - birth, falls, accidents, other injuries, sexual or emotional abuse, loss/grief, surgery
  
  
• General fatigue, lack of energy
  
  
• limiting life views and unhelpful imprints that go as far back as a one's conception
• Insomnia, sleep disorders
• Headaches, migraines
  
  
• Inability to form or maintain healthy relatioships
• Chronic sinusitis, recurrent middle-ear infections
• High blood sugar
• Depression, anxiety, inability to focus
• Water retention due to hormonal disbalance or trauma
• Digestive problems/Irritable bowel syndrome
• Hypertension, various cardiovascular disorders
• Many others

Stillness work is excellent for pregnant women and as a preventive therapy because it can facilitate the resolution of imbalances within a patient/client's system that s/he may not be consciously aware of.



How does a Typical Session Go?

Every session begins with a verbal check-in. It is a period of several minutes where the client shares what is presently coming up for them, and set their intention for the work. Verbal sharing in itself has a therapeutic effect, and setting of an intention organizes the field of the session around it. Connection to the Tide, the self-healing force, is established during this time, so the person may already feel themselves in the session process then. This is followed by a hands-on part of the session (although sometimes the work is done off the body), using an extremely light static touch on a fully-clothed body, which usually lasts 40-45 minutes. During this time, Liza helps the client to connect to the Tide, the self-healing force that is a manifestation of one's Health, and allows it to process whatever pathology or disease that may be present. During this time, she accompanies the client through the journey of their self-healing, in safety and with support. The session also removes hindrances to the client's self-healing ability. The hands-on part of the session is then followed by a verbal integration period, where impressions of the session are shared, and sense is made of the experience on the table. This interchange between a direct hands-on experience and verbal sharing allows for a deep integration of the session work, as well as balancing of the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

Listen to the interview about Craniosacral Therapy conducted by Alia Almoayed, a well-respected nutritional therapist in Bahrain.

What Happens in a Session?

The client remains fully clothed and lies down on the treatment table, while the therapist puts her hands on different parts of the client's body, such as  lower back, neck, feet, head. The therapists' hands stay still on each part for a few minutes, while she is listening to the Tide and allows it to do the healing work. The patient's attentions also stays tuned in to the body, as it goes through different sensations, such as heat, cold, tingling, pulsing, or changes in breath. Since the Tide reaches the subconscious mind, many people see colors, have visions, and memories from the past – all of which is helpful in the healing process. In addition to the benefits to the original health concern, most clients leave the sessions feeling deeply peaceful and rested.



How Does it Work?

The underlying belief of Craniosacral therapy is that the body is capable of healing itself. The surgeon relies on the body's capacity for self-repair to complete the work that he/she did after the operation. Every medical doctor knows that the body is always striving towards homeostasis. Even when we take a strong pill, it is still our own body that is doing the healing work, so why not work with that natural power we all have? When the patient's body feels that it is being listened to on such a deep level, the Tide responds and begins to do its healing work. It's as if Health sees itself in a mirror and realizes what needs to happen. The therapist acts as the mirror that compassionately and non-judgmentally reflects the client's processes on the table. This way, the body can find the root cause of its issues, which often results in benefits that are different and greater than what's expected by the client.  What seem to be physical issues are actually unresolved emotional and spiritual problems. Through the Listening and Recognition, the Tide rebalances itself and begins to do the healing work.

Holistic Approach

The great power of the Tide is that it shows the health of the entire person's body, and can, therefore, point to the root cause of the problem, which could easily be in a different part or system of the body than the original problem. Instead of treating separate symptoms, this therapy treats the whole person, which results in benefits much greater than alleviating the original health complaint.

How Many Treatments Will it Take For Me?

If you are experiencing this therapy for the first time, a minimum of 3 sessions is necessary to notice a definite shift in your condition.  If you are coming with a chronic or a long-time problem, it's advisable to undergo a series of 5 to 7 daily treatments, possibly with a short break in between. At the end of this series, the therapist will evaluate the rate of client's improvement and will make a determination on how many more sessions might be needed. Having said this, we always allow room for miracles, as certain conditions, albeit long and deeply-rooted, have been known to disappear just after one treatment.

How Long Does an Average Session Last?

If you are coming for the first time, allow one-and-a-half hours, in which we will discuss your health history and conduct the treatment. I will send you a case history form in advance of the appointment; please come with the form printed and filled out, or send it to me over email one day prior to the appointment.

All appointments other than the 1st one take approximately 1 hr, of which 45 minutes is spent on the treatment table, and the rest of the time is devoted to checking-in and verbal integration. If I feel you need to schedule a 1.5 or double appointment for your next visit, I will let you know accordingly.