Build a Quality Life Worth Living

by SharonHartnett | May 20, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, mind body & spirit, mindfulness, upledger institute

Choosing Quality

Pain usually gets a bad wrap. However, have you ever considered that Pain is the body’s ally when it comes to telling you something needs to change?

As a Craniosacral Therapist, I often touch a person with light or medium pressure, and they’ll surprisingly tell me that they were not aware of a pain in a certain part of their body. When I used to do deeper Structural Integration Work, people would make faces as they realized how much hurt they were living with inside on a daily basis. The body is quite wise and can usually manage simple healing well. However, what I am talking about is the embedded chronic isolated pain some of us experience, and not ever knowing how to move it through its natural cycle of completion.

When we get stuck in pain, the body shouts “pay attention”. Yet we may not know how to heal. Often parents or friends after time will say, “get over it” or they lack sympathy because they don’t understand the suffering that can accompany chronic pain. However, we didn’t necessarily ever learn or know how to deal the pain. Instead-we did our best and eventually learned to ignore these precious signals in our body telling our brain something is missing. But the sensations are still buried there, even when we go numb. The wound festers.

Somatic Emotional Release Work helps us to understand that there are pathways to feeling better. Working with people for close to 30 years, All the time, I see people rising to find their well of deep resources to heal. Their own mindfullnes and body awareness allows them to travel deep within and to gently lean into the soft pain and release it. In very basic terms, changing our mindset to how we approach healing our pain and feeling it can transform it completely.

Being human, we meet pain many times in our lifetimes. But that doesn’t mean that we have to continue to carry it with us forever. Whether it emotional or a physical disturbance, meet your pain and find an easier way to move through life. Many people who look toward body centered work find deep release and feel better in their bodies.

You are Worth Living a Quality Life

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

Find The Best Craniosacral Therapist For You.

by SharonHartnett | May 19, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K

To Perform Craniosacral Therapy (CST) at a High Level, takes many years of training. Personally, I studied at the Upledger Institute. I believe that they teach with skill, and provide a great foundation for Craniosacral Practitioners to help their clients heal and feel better. Developing true skill though takes experience. The more hands on we get with people, the more we learn. Our clients are our best teachers, as we listen and support with our hands and our Presence.

Probably the most well known originator of the Craniosacral work started with Dr. William Sutherland, an Osteopathic Physician who discovered, not only that the power to heal lives within the body, but also many manual approaches that are still practiced today.

Later in the 1970’s and 80’s, Dr. John Upledger took the reins, and further researched and Co-Created the Upledger Institute. Now there are many thousands of students taking classes at the Institute, and learning how to tap into the Power of the Craniosacral System. A once unfamiliar manual approach is now becoming well known through much word of mouth, based on the great success stories, as well as studies done with, for example, brain trauma experienced on the football fields.

In order to practice Craniosacral Therapy professionally, a practitioner needs to have some type of license for manual work in most places. But this does depend on the state or the country. From an Upledger perspective, classes are taught, building one on top of the other to help the practitioners deepen and widen their skill set. We learn about the brain, the cerebral spinal fluid, and quite a bit about the whole Central Nervous System. As a student advances through the curriculum, the work gets more detailed, and when a practitioner is interested, they can begin to dialogue between the body sense and the client mind. It’s genuinely a beautiful experience to be with, and observe the body’s own inner wisdom help a person to re-connect with the body with grounding, integration and embodiment.

There are many people who take one course, and they may add it into massage, physical therapy or in their field of practice. It’s a fine accompaniment to many practices. However, if you truly want to get a real feel for the work, it’s useful to look for a practitioner who is certified. The first level of completion at the Upledger Institute takes a lot of commitment and thorough understanding of the techniques. This is when a practitioner becomes a “therapist”. The highest level is the Diplomate. The work to accomplish this takes dedication and a passion for sure. It’s a lot of work, and it means a lot to get this Certification. Any Therapist who meets this criteria knows the work well and is quite experienced.

If you are looking for the best therapist who is certified in your area, check out reviews, testimonials, and also how many classes they have studied. If you go to www.upledger.com, you’ll get an idea for the area of specialties they offer. Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, yet powerful manual approach with trust the intelligence of your body. If you want to find out more, contact a therapist in your area with questions. Most of us would be glad to take some time to see if it is a good fit for you!

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

I AM Here. You ARE Here.

by SharonHartnett | Apr 27, 2024 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K

There are arguments for how many universes exist. It’s all a matter of perspective and understanding. Which, of course, is still very limited in the human way of thinking. We have no idea what exists out there, although we have plenty of ideas.

Still, one thing we are capable of doing is being curious about our own lives. And this is a very intelligent way to live indeed. To be open to all the possibilities, and to find meaning in every experience is mind blowing. Wouldn’t you say?

One question that I sit with today, is that out of all the universes that breathe and live today, that You and I have ended up right where we are. Living in these bodies. How amazing is that, whether in good time or difficult?

So what do you want to make out of this opportunity of Being You?

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

Embody The Deep Ease Within

by SharonHartnett | Apr 27, 2024 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K

Peace Inside

Recently, I have noticed that the people on my table find peace and are very deeply relaxed after a Craniosacral Therapy Session. Sometimes, they even fall asleep. When they wake up, they don’t necessarily notice huge changes, but they yawn and walk away as if they had done a day of meditation. I have even heard them quietly mention on the way out that it’s the most calm they have ever felt after any type of session. Maybe even in years.

For me, it’s interesting because I used to do very deep fascial layering work called Structural Integration. I loved this type of manual therapy because I WOULD feel deep changes at the end of sessions. I was rarely sore aterwards, but the therapy would often be so uncomfortable. Sometimes it hurt.

After years, I have learned that we don’t have to have our clients leave feeling beat up in order for them to unwind and feel their best. The most gentle & mindful of listening and trusting of the body’s own healing mechanisms is the most simple and profound way to optimal functioning and wellness.

Ater a session, when a person is getting ready to leave, the best compliment is that they don’t feel restrictions and pain any longer. There didn’t need to be any huge catharsis, although it is welcomed if it does happen. Instead, they have totally de-stressed and feel so relaxed in the most pure and self-correcting manner. It’s in this deep type of meditative stage where the body is in motion, yet totally at ease.

If you would like to re-connect with your center, and deepen through the direction of ease, call Sharon Hartnett CST-D!

703 509-1792
www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

Craniosacral answers the question, “How long until I get better”.

by SharonHartnett | Apr 23, 2024 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K

Every person has the capacity to heal. Sometimes physically, and sometimes not. But there is always room to a find more deep connection, peace and a sense of faith of Self.

This is the way I approach helping my clients to heal. The modality I primarily use is the Craniosacral System. That is because it is closely tied with the nervous system and is such a great way to help bring the mind back into balance internally. When the mind and body are in harmony, it’s easier to access the Inner Wisdom necessary for health and wellbeing.

Some people have a strong sense of qi or essence that helps one to turn around a disease process easily. Other people, by the time they reach me, their systems are fading. This does not mean that they won’t get better, but it does usually take more of a concerted effort to get back onto the path of wellness.

Craniosacral Therapy, from my perspective supports self-nourishment using Upledger techniques to help the body be at its best. What a therapist can do is share what we sensing and feeling if you are curious. But no person can tell you if you will heal in a certain way. It’s truly up to how you as a “Whole”person address your journey and Inner Resources.

I often suggest doing about 5 sessions to evalueate is the Craniosacral Therapy is right for you. It’s almost always helpful, with very few contraindications. And often enough I have witnesssed many people learn, grow, and feel better with just a few visits.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D Upledger

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com