Publications

"The Healing Power of Therapeutic Dialoguing" [28 KB .doc]
Washington State AMTA Newsletter, January 2004

As humans, we have a deep longing and need to be seen as whole, integrated and healthy beings. We do not experience ourselves as separate parts, broken down into psyche, body, or mind. We are each one of us a whole person. If the body is not well, neither is the psyche, nor is the mind, and vice versa. Pain affects all aspects, so does happiness.

"Listening to the 'Breath of Life': The Deep Work of Cranio-sacral Therapy" [48 KB .doc]
AMTA Massage Therapy Journal, Spring 2003

Over 100 years ago, while in the last year of his studies to become a Doctor of Osteopathy, William Sutherland was walking through the halls of the School of Osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri when felt himself being drawn to the disarticulated cranial bones that he had passed by many times without further notice. He felt transfixed by the articulation of the Sphenoid and the Temporal bone, "then, like a blinding flash of light came the thought, 'beveled, like the gills of a fish, and indicating articular mobility for respiratory mechanism.'" This man, who had never heard inner voices before, was so struck by this revelation, that he dedicated the rest of his life to exploring the movement of the bones of the skull.

"The Ease and the Challenges of Cranio-Sacral Work" [28 KB .doc]
Washington State AMTA Massage Journal, July/August 2003

The ease and the challenges of cranio-sacral work are the same: being present, listening, and non-doing.

This modality works with the cerebral spinal fluid or CSF that surrounds the central nervous system. The CSF supplies the central nervous system with nutrients and removes its waste, amongst other functions. The central nervous system registers all information coming into one's being, and gives out directions for responses. For example, the nerves of the hand send messages to the central nervous system when it touches a hot plate. The central nervous system registers this information and directs the hand to withdraw. It also registers when a person sees another person suffering and responds with sadness, fear, the desire to help, or other emotions.

"Shifting Our Focus: From Disease to Health; From Alienation to Home" [32 KB .doc]
January 2003

"To find health should be the object of the physician. Anyone can find disease."
~ Andrew Still

The father of cranial therapy is William Sutherland. But in his texts, he makes clear that his approach to patients is rooted in the theory of his teacher, the founder of Osteopathy, Andrew Still. In 1850, Andrew Still introduced a revolutionary paradigm with the science of Osteopathy declaring that the doctor was not to focus on disease but on health. This idea of finding health rather than treating disease is still a revolutionary in most fields of western health care, be it psychology or medicine.