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Make Your Life Easier by Slowing Down

Make Your Life Easier by Slowing Down

Make Your Life Easier by Slowing Down

So much of what we do seems important. It all stacks up. But slowing down and taking one thing at time is a great tool to get things done even more efficiently.  We think more clearly when we give space and quiet to our minds. 

 

Enjoy Your Life

There is no treasure more valuable than to truly “Be Yourself”.  How you discover this is to be mindful, and allow the wind to bring it to your attention.

Not only listening to your thoughts, but also sensing into your body.

Make the time to listen and meld with your own “Being”.  The dance between therapist and client with Craniosacral Therapy and Visceral Manipulation, can take you deep into the evolution of your soul.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

6797 N. High St. #333 Worthington, Ohio 43085

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

Experience Personalized Craniosacral Sessions:Unlock Your Bodies Potential to Heal

Experience Personalized Craniosacral Sessions:Unlock Your Bodies Potential to Heal

What Happens in Craniosacral Sessions?

First of All, I’d like to say that Craniosacral Therapy is not Massage. Although, there are many massage therapists who get interested in this type of manual therapy because it is so valuable in helping people to move back into long-term health. The Craniosacral Sessions look much different.  It’s light touch, yet very powerful.

When You come in for a Craniosacral Session, you stay fully clothed.   Most sessions last about an hour. Personally I keep them at 75 minutes. Instead of using lotions and creams, a Craniosacral Therapist listens intently to the person’s Craniosacral Rhythm which is created in the brain, and flows around the nervous systems.  The sessions are very quiet unless the person on the table begins to deepen into a cellular memory or feelings.  Advanced Cranosacral Therapists are trained to help when this happens.  If you are looking for someone Certified, check out www.upledger.com. They are the leading school teaching Craniosacral Therapy.

It’s an experience unlike any you have probably experienced.  A whole body melding and transformation occurs.  It’s your own Deeper Wisdom emerging and bringing calm and centeredness most often into the session.  People often tell me, that it’s the most calm they have felt in a long time.

For more information, contact Sharon Hartnett. at 703 509-1792.

www.craniosacralatherapistcolumbus.com

6797 N. High St. 333 Worthington. 43085

 

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Here’s How to Build Intimacy Safely

Here’s How to Build Intimacy Safely

Intimacy Within

Actually most people who find their way to see me are searching to find a deeper intimacy within themselves. The symptoms they usually express include stress, and quite often pain. These though are truly only layers. 

With somatic bodywork, the body tells the history.  Stress and pain walk hand in hand with physical tension. As we age,  with life’s twists and turns, it’s easy to move away from our physical body cues. The body tightens. The tissues contract and fluidity dries up.  We don’t necessarily complete healing processes in real time, and we feel it.  Ultimately, we end up carrying around old unresolved patterns and habits that distract us from our very real and deep Inner Resources and Core. For someone who is trained in Somatic Bodywork, this is easy to see and to feel in the relationship, and by noticing posture and through touch.  For those of us who are ultra-sensitive, we can experience this even being in the energy of the person.

What I have found over the years to be true, is that in order to feel whole and complete, we must become intimate with ourselves through mindful awareness. With Craniosacral Therapy, we as therapists listen to the body intently.  We pay attention to the rhythms and vitality.  We hold space for our clients to meet themselves through the different layers of consciousness by connecting to the Craniosacral and Nervous Systems primarily.  Sometimes this is easy for clients. At other times, it is very difficult to sense and feel who and what we truly are. Quite often as the trust builds, clients will connect with their fears, their tears, and pain, later to watch them dissolve and find new freedom.

In order for a session to be supportive, the Craniosacral Therapist needs to stay neutral, and in respect to the Deeper Well of Wisdom inside.  We Craniosacral Therapists are the mirrors who help people to find the way back home.  And to me, this is back to experiencing their True Selves. That spark that is You, deserves to be found.  There is a great and precious gift waiting to be known.  This is the potential evolution of each individual.

I don’t expect that most people have this experience all the time.  But the more and more we have the moments of Self-Realization, we learn to break negative patterns and to remember our own confidence, love and power.  We find deeper and greater meaning in life.  This does mean taking an intimate look within.  Craniosacral therapy can be a doorway to do this.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

The Quality of Touching Fascia and the Craniosacral System.

Craniosacral Therapy

Touching the Facia and Craniosacral System from an Artistic Craniosacral Perspective.

I love this floral picture of the various layers in color.  It reminds me of how when I am listening to the Craniosacral System inside the human body, that the fascia is so closely related to everything. Visually one can see these bright vibrant colors in this picture individually, but we can also notice the melding and adding into the interconnection of the whole in beauty.

That’s how it feels when a Craniosacral Therapist is listening with our hands.  We feel the many layers of conscious cells, tissues, organs and sytems which are alive and communicating. There is a deliciousness to understanding in a deeper context how the body is organized and flowing through our gentle manual touch. Swimmingly, there  is so much information moving through the super highways of the fascia.  The sensitive in our hands are feeling the fascia acting as the medium of interconnection and dynamic motion.  To me, it feels like the Craniosacral System is at the bottom of the well which informs the rest of the body how to move through life.  The fascia is the orchestra playing out the song.

As Craniosacral Therapists, we can’t isolate the work we do.  We tune in, and listen.  Pieces arise and move toward the whole. We meld, and blend, just like this gorgeous artwork.  Patterns and Essence Intelligence lead the way to healing and growth.  Something profound happens when we connect with the cerebral spinal fluid and its rhythm, so that the nervous system finds peace and it’s own sense of inner agency.

Craniosacral Therapy affects us in a way that awakens the Higher Self and Inner Wisdom. It provides a bridge to sourcing ourselves and finding meaning and understanding in our lives.  After years, of receiving and offering this work, I find it to be a road to the “Taste of Bliss”.  Yet, we all discover what is meant for us through each interaction we make, when and at the time that it right for us.  With enough mindful work, we discover that the wonder of the body is always here.  Most often Craniosacral Therapy slows us down, and activates that which moves from dormant to vibrance  and resonance. It helps us to be freed to live in the moment.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

6797 N. High St. #333

Worthington, Ohio 43085

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

 

Build a Quality Life Worth Living

Build a Quality Life Worth Living

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.

Find The Best Craniosacral Therapist For You.

Craniosacral Near Me

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.

I AM Here. You ARE Here.

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

Embody The Deep Ease Within

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”.

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

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

 

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Embracing Wholeness and Wellness

Embracing Wholeness and Wellness

wholeness

Knots on the way to Wholeness

This morning, I woke up considering wholeness. Dreaming about my early childhood. I was bathing in that quiet serene place where I felt connected to my father’s side of the family. Memories of cousins, and second cousins. aunts, and uncles. The family coming together. One big family. An extended family. Close. I was a crumb, that made up a cake, and I felt safe in the bosom of my family. I felt happy. I felt even more deeply content at my Grandmother’s house when everyone was there. She came from a large family, and the web was thick.

Next, I dreamt about my mother’s family. Seeing my grandfathers cousins at his funeral, and my Grandmother Mary’s family from Pennsylvania. Back then people easily traveled in for a funeral to pay respects. Soothing to the soul to have a sacredly held transition. Even though my grandfather was adopted, people who knew him from decades past gathered.

I felt farther beyond in the thread where even in absence of knowing, the line continued back generations earlier. My Pa came from somewhere unfamiliar to me, but the person who bore him, and the one before her, they all make up a chain that never can be broken. No matter the circumstances, the love, the hate, the good and bad decisions, the lines are made, and the order never does break. What is born is not unborn.

I was lucky to have been brought up in the refuge of this large family as a very young girl. It is something that gave me a taste of happiness. Even if it was later going to fall apart.

Today, in my 60’s though, I have fine memories that help me remember that I come from two long lines that individualized into very different families, different cultures, and different religions. These ancestors of mine moved across different parts of the earth, each living a life worth living. Because of course, all of life is worth living. They all faced good times and hard times, but somehow made it through and lived enough to continue the line on. They all add up to nourish me through their time and experiences here, and now my children too.

In that state between waking up and getting out of bed, I also felt how if I traveled back even farther, that the two threads would eventually come together as One. Realizing again in my life that although we have different experiences, and different beliefs, that we all come from the same lacework. All of us our interconnected, and the Life Force that blesses us to be human beings is the same. It is powerful, and the more we stand together, we remember this.

Quite often these days, there is an emphasis to live in the NOW, which helps us be in wholeness. Perhaps because scientifically, that’s all there really IS. But as human beings, we do live in space and time. We do have this web, of which we all are a part. We have all struggled and suffered to some degree. If we are fortunate, we have also found miracles and love too. We feel. We sense. We get to experience this beautiful world. These moments are so valuable. It feels to me like it’s important to not rush towards enlightenment or heaven so quickly, but instead to savor what we are and have now. We will meet all the parts, and know ourselves as it all unfolds.

This Sunday morning, I write to remind every soul, that we are a knot of individuality in the web of life that crosses time and space. And we are also born from the One Source. If we want to find peace & joy, and if we are to stop creating violence and hate so strongly, we must remember that we all come from the same place. We are sand on the beach, a pebble in the creek. We are Creations of God, or Source, or the Universe’s Creative ability. Whatever we believe, we are One and the Same.

Maybe it’s important to remember this. Perhaps some might want to find a new quality meaning in life. Maybe this is a good reminder that without each other, we are nothing. Do you feel like you are living a life worth living. Do you do things which uplift others? Especially someone you don’t know or care for? Even the smallest changes count.

What if, when you wake up in the mornings, you connect to your Higher Self, sensing into your wholeness, and set your intention to make a positive change by facing your Lower Self with love? Start within to wake up to what is real. It will change you. And when you treat others well, especially those who seem different than you, when you give them an opportunity, you give this to yourself as well.

We are a tapestry that dances across all the universes. Every act touches the Whole. All the threads, and all the knots, we all have value, just by Being.

Sunday Morning Dreaming
Sharon Hartnett CST-D
703 509-1792
www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com