restriction releases during a CST treatment session the patient may not even notice the affect. Sometimes changes manifest themselves hours or even days later as the body re-organises itself, adjusting and integrating the changes made at the session. Often they can be profound and involve tissue memory releases as well. A child may become noticeably calmer or have increased function in some skill. Effects usually become more evident over time with multiple treatment sessions.

cranio-sacral system and the whole body. Therapeutic dialogue may be used to work with emotional components (issues in the tissues). The techniques used are individual to each client, addressing the whole person, and meeting them where they are to access the best treatment route at the right pace. This improves whole-body health and performance.

The treatment is designed to addressboth current and deeply held patterns of dysfunction which can be caused after accident, life event but also emerge out of everyday physical knocks, bumps, trauma, shock and emotional stress causing the body’s tissues and membranes to contract and tighten, causing the body adapt to get on with things, creating further restrictions (either local or general) in the body, even decades after the event. If not addressed this will cause issues down the line. CST can address damage deep in the body that can be experienced as physical tension/pain, conditions, emotional anxiety, sadness or be non-specific yet sapping us of energy and our vital life force. Eventually this prevents the organs and the body’s systems functioning at an optimum level.

The treatment also acts to alleviate emotional and mental patterns held in the tissues. The body/mind organises events and feelings like a computer. It files and categorises experiences for our future reference. Sometimes things get mis-filed and organised or categorised together incorrectly eg. filing physical injury and attaching it to an emotion experienced at or around the same time. When this element is addressed with therapeutic dialogue, there can be a profound change in the otherwise stubborn physical issue that has showed no or limited response to other techniques. This approach can facilitate the body/mind to re-organise and separate the emotion from the physical issue and free the tissue from the memory, greatly improving healing rate.