Have you ever had a physical injury that seemed to plague you long after the site had healed? That's not as unusual as you might think. Even when CranioSacral Therapy releases restrictions in body tissues, sometimes a release of emotional energy is necessary to fully discharge a trauma.

In those cases, we encourage a SomatoEmotional Release session. Research conducted in the late '70s by osteopath Dr. John E. Upledger and biophysicist Zvi Karni led to the discovery that the body often retains the emotional imprint of physical or emotional trauma or shock.

These imprints, especially of intense feelings that may have occurred at the time of injury — anger, fear, resentment, grief—leave residues in the body called "energy cysts." The body responds to an energy cyst by effectively walling it off and compensating around it, rather like a boulder in a stream. Although you can adapt to energy cysts, over time your body requires extra energy to continue performing its day-to-day functions. Then, as years pass and the body becomes more stressed, the adaptive pattern of the body loses its effectiveness; symptoms begin to appear, and become more difficult to suppress or ignore.  learn more