Final Craniasacral Therapy session

I’ve been busy with traveling and interviewing but I finally made it to my last craniasacral therapy session and I wanted to share a bit about it:

The experience of it is not what I had anticipated.

I guess I thought something more akin to a massage, thinking that the touches had to be hard or firm.

But this is not the case:

I felt the energy of her body and gentle touches, but that’s the thing:

The therapist uses small micro movements on places on the head (cerebral) and the sacrum (the mid section). Through slight manipulation of certain bones they get the cerebral fluids flowing. It sounds so bizarre, I know. I thought so too. But I felt/feel differences.

During the therapy session, I grew deeply relaxed, feeling the need to deeply breathe.

I gradually grew to feel that I had a weighted blanket over me, like my limbs were weighed down.

It is the closest that I have ever felt to being in a trance, meditative state, but even that doesn’t come close to accurately describing it.

Because that makes it sound like my body was nearly conscious, but as my therapist says— “stuff is happening.”

The biggest (and weirdest) indicator of that for me was a lot of intense rapid eye movement. Involuntarily. Like I was asleep during the REM stage.

I had some minor twitching—-though not as much as last time.

But those eyes, man, they kept moving back and forth, quickly, at a rate that even after the session, when I tried to make them do that, I couldn’t make them move so fast.

Odd, indeed.

Getting off the therapist’s table feels like I am drunk or on a cold medicine high because I have a loss of balance, almost like I forgot how to move.

Then—very sleepy.

I got home and was very mellow. And slept like a log last night.

With PTSD, and my own mental health issues, sleep does not always come easily for me. I am always thankful for a night’s sleep when I can say, happily:

“I slept like a log!”

I hope to do some more craniasacral therapy in the future and to learn more about it—an interesting experience and healing experience.