What is Craniosacral Therapy?

Craniosacral Therapy is an exceptionally gentle yet extremely powerful form of treatment, increasingly recognised for the depth of its influence, the comprehensive range of its therapeutic effects, and its ability to resolve issues that are not helped by other means.

What does Craniosacral Therapy treat?

Craniosacral Therapy works on many different levels. It influences the musculo-skeletal system, the nervous system, the cardio-vascular system, the immune system, the organs, the connective tissues, the fluids and the energy systems of the body.
Craniosacral Therapy treats people rather than conditions. It is primarily concerned with creating and maintaining a healthy, balanced state on all levels – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. This underlying state of wellbeing enables the body’s own healing mechanisms to operate at an optimum level, and therefore enables the body to eliminate disease and restore health.
Our body tissues contract in response to physical knocks or emotional stress. Sometimes, particularly when the shock is severe or accompanied by strong emotions, the tissues stay contracted. Any trauma, stresses, strains or tensions which remain in the body restrict it’s functioning and may create problems over time.

Because it treats the whole person it can influence all conditions affecting the whole person or any part of the person. Craniosacral Therapy therefore has a very wide range of applications.

 How does it work?

Craniosacral Therapy involves a very gentle touch of the practitioner’s hands, both for diagnosis and for treatment. This light contact may be taken up on the cranium (the head), the sacrum (the tail-bone) or any other part of the body as appropriate, identifying subtle disturbances to the free motion of body tissues, the free circulation of body fluids, and the unrestricted flow of fundamental energy, potency, or vitality – the Breath of Life.

What does it involve?

Craniosacral Therapy is most often carried out with the client lying down, fully clothed in a quiet and peaceful environment. Treatment is usually experienced as a very profound relaxation which may affect the whole person, physically, mentally and emotionally, often accompanied by a feeling of lightness and ease.

Testimonial 

Lenka has helped me tremendously. Following knee realignment surgery which moved the location of my patella more than a centimetre, I had a very slow recovery. After 18 months of trying physiotherapy, my quads were rock solid with knots and I still had very little muscle strength. I initially went to Lenka for trigger point therapy massage to release the tension in my legs. She worked very accurately on the chains of trigger points and my muscles improved dramatically with just three sessions. She recommended cranio as a compliment to the massage. I was skeptical that such a gentle therapy could make an impact, but the change was amazing. As Lenka worked on various points on my legs and back, I was able to reconnect with my leg and release tension in deeper tissues which I had held since the surgery. My leg became more settled, more comfortable when still, and I even slept more easily. Emotionally, it helped me to make sense of the changes in my bone structure and to accept the new location of my kneecap. I am thankful for her work, and looking forward to her helping me again when I have the other leg fixed too!    Lucy

I have been going to see Lenka for three years now, since October 2020. I initially went to see her for her amazing massages which lead me into her cranial-sacral therapy. I had never heard about it before but was open to trying other therapies for my ongoing lower back pain and palpitations I was experiencing due to stress. At the time, the palpitations were severe and through a few dedicated sessions of cranial, Lenka was able to reduce the frequency and intensity of them significantly. At this point, I had been dealing with them daily for about 6 months. I has been offered medication from my Doctor to help with the symptoms which I have never needed thanks to work Lenka has done. I often entered the session feeling overwhelmed with my nervous system in overdrive, but I would leave with a sense of peace and calmness that I was struggling to feel on a day to day basis. The sessions brought up unresolved issues and childhood trauma (things that I just felt were normal all my life) that was contributing to and compounding the physical symptoms. At the time, I assumed my work was the sole reason for the stress but discovered that it went much deeper than that. I don’t believe that I would have discovered this as quickly as I did have, I only been doing talking therapy. The issues she would flag, I would then take to discuss in more depth with my talking therapist, resulting in a deeper sense of self-discovery and recovery. This realisation was especially important once I became a mother and I essentially had to re-parent myself and break old cycles. I cannot recommend Lenka enough and feel truly grateful to her for helping and indirectly my family through this challenging time in my life. She has this unique and rare gift that I wish all adults could benefit from. I went into this knowing nothing about cranial and to be honest, I still don’t completely understand how she does what she does, all I can say is that it has impacted and changed my life for the better and it will always be a part of my life moving forward. 

Claire, London

I have been seeing Lenka for three years for Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and she has significantly helped the healing of my Crohn’s Disease. I remember after my first session I felt a transformational difference in how I moved, felt and slept. I’ve been able to reduce my medication and always leave a session “floating”. My health has significantly improved thanks to Lenka. I cannot thank her enough. We don’t realise how much our body carries; thoughts and feelings we don’t recognise but fester inside us causing stress, that we don’t even realise we are dealing with. Lenka connects with these blockers in our body – you will feel so much better after just one session. I can’t imagine where I would be without my sessions with Lenka.

K.Hazell, London