Cranial Osteopathy and Craniosacral Therapy For Babies & Adults Tutorial: 'The Zone Of Acceptance'

Tutorial: Cranial Osteopathy and Craniosacral Therapy for Babies and Adult Injuries, Illness and Trauma

Learning to use cranial osteopathy or cranio sacral therapy to treat patients is of course about technique, e.g. where to put your hands and what to do with them. But it's also much more than that, and this can be clearly seen by one patient responding well to a CST/Osteopathic treatment and the next person gets almost zero benefit from the same treatment and same cranial techniques.

Why? Well there are of course many reasons, but often we think of most of theses as out of our control, e.g, one patient not as healthy as another, not as open to treatment etc. we could talk about this as a patient's "zone of acceptance", and this zone can be wide for some and razor blade narrow for other patients.

In this video we are going to look at this zone, and how we can work with it so that we can work within it, and where possible expand it, as both of these skills will vastly improve our ability to use our cranio sacral and cranial osteopathic skills to help our patients whether that is treating adults or using our craniosacral techniques for babies.

If you are currently practising within pediatric osteopathy or as a craniosacral therapist then you may have been working in this way already and 'naturally' trying to work within that zone, however being more aware of how to deliberately 'work' that zone will help with those tricky babies and those adults with a lot of trauma (especially with PTSD).

If you learning or looking to learn craniosacral therapy and/or cranial osteopathy , be that Biodynamics, the Upledger school or whatever other style you choose then knowing early about this zone of acceptance will really accelerate your understanding of what you are doing.

This is particularly helpful on your initial hands on courses as it help you avoid over treating or irritating the people you work on, and also of course help you understand what is happening if you experience discomfort (physical or emotional) when someone else on the course works on you.

[saradevoy]

So vital to sense into this and it could be a crucial part of their sense of their'boundaries' their NO! Interesting the shft from being horizontal to vertical too.. Being aware of the power dynamics of treatment is an intersting aspect too. Sounds like a powerful treatment. Curious did she come back or if this picture changed again?

[michelledeslauriers]

Thank you! This is wonderfully articulated. I enjoy all your videos so much.

[annikanerva]

this was lovely, thank you for sharing !🙏

[lisamcfarland]

Where have you been all my professional life ❤