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Healing Old Trauma with Massage

Love with Mindful Contact is the Best Healer for Trauma

Trauma can start young. Children are naturally trusting and they have basic needs. They look to adults for acceptance, love, nourishment and so much more so that they can grow and thrive in this world.

Yet statistics say that child abuse is reported every 10 seconds.

In most cases, children adapt and survive many cases of abuse and trauma, but that doesn’t mean that the mind and body have processed the whole experience/s.

So as adults, often in a trusting massage relationship, emotions and sensations come up as the body eventually reveals old patterns that may have developed as a trauma defensive reaction. Traumas can include something like falling off a bike as a child, being scared by a loud argument, re-occurring abandonment situations or being terrorized by an event.

Most people have touched into some type of trauma whether small or life impacting and developed strategies to cope with life without being fully aware. But through a series of mindful Craniosacral Therapy or other types of bodywork- the body’s own intelligence can set the pace for healing. Not only in the body, but the sensory information is related to the brain as well to restore balance.

Opening the human heart through gentle contact to heal past trauma.

 

Craniosacral Therapy

Sharon Hartnett LMT, and Certified Advanced Craniosacral Therapist has trained to work with trauma at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, the Hakomi Institute, and the Upledger Institute to understand how the body holds and can release trauma in a safe and comfortable environment. She has worked with soldiers, victims of rape, neglected children and adults who face physical challenges due to accidents in their childhood.

In the Craniosacral Therapy sessions, licensed counseling is not provided , but what does happens is that dialogue can help the process open up. As the younger “child consciousness” shows up organically, support and love are held without judgment. When the younger energy is acknowledged, accepted, cared for, and allowed to feel deeply in the body, often the process is able to complete and no longer circulates as anxiety and reactionary systems anymore.

Sometimes, when talk therapy doesn’t help with a physical challenge, going to a trained Craniosacral Therapist  CST, who trained in ethics and in holding a compassionate container to support their clients in this process, will be the way through. When no other avenues have helped you to integrate, the body intelligence may be able to complete your healing through the mind, body, and spirit connection.

It’s important to say that this is more of a self educational type of session as Craniosacral Therapists are not necessarily licensed psychologists or such. The Craniosacral Sessions are one of Self-Discovery that has helped many to find inner peace and love.

All information shared during sessions is confidential.

For more information, contact Sharon Hartnett CST-d in Columbus, Ohio  

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

 

Craniosacral and Tools for Foot Pain

Craniosacral and Tools for Foot Pain

Foot Pain: As we get older,  we pick up certain habitual patterns that contribute to how we feel and move.

Personally I have had issues with my right foot for years from a childhood sprain and twisting. The best I felt was about 20 years ago after going through a Rolfing 10 series.  After we finished,  I remember feeling so great and actually standing taller that I decided to study Structural Integration (SI) myself.  For years now, I have been doing SI work and I have seen miraculous changes with my clients. But since I have integrated Craniosacral Therapy, some Feldenkrais that I learned and a few basic tools into my daily practice and table work, I have shared these concepts in order to help others.  I like to see people get better!

So here is what helps me and my clients:

  1. Structural Integration helps the whole body come into alignment.  Myofascial relationships shift and work more efficiently with gravity.
  2. Craniosacral Therapy (CST)  relieves dysfunctional issues in the cranium and brain, and also with the fascia.  In addition, it helps to enhance fluidity around the joints and in the tissues and to support a nervous system that helps clients to feel balanced and more vitalized.
  3. The below tools have helped me too and give me a sense of self-empowerment to change.

 

Red Ballrelieving foot painfoam roller

 

The roller, red ball and Yamuna foot fitness tools can be used daily to break up old patterns in the feet.  But this goes way beyond just the foot.  As the tension there begins to melt, the tissues going up the leg and trunk change too.  You will start to feel your hips changing and your posture relaxing.  Use your daily practice as medicine, and I invite you to go out on a limb and find some good bodyworkers to facilitate.

Good-Bye to Foot Pain!

Blessed day and blessed feet to you!

Sharon Hartnett LMT, CST, SI & Brennan Healing Practitioner

740 966-5153

Columbus, Ohio

www.massageincolumbusohio.com

Chronic Pain Relief

Chronic Pain Relief

If you are still looking for chronic pain relief… you have probably already tried many conventional means to no avail.

How about giving yourself a new option with Cranosacral Therapy?

Craniosacral Therapy (CST)  offers a gentle, yet effective method that releases tension deep in the body. Over time,  CST’s effects can be expansive and life changing.  By listening deeply to the body’s Central Nervous System’s physiological processes through subtle palpation, a CST therapist can find and treat misalignments, chronic pain areas, sore muscles and nerve pain conditions.  Craniosacral Therapy has also been known to help with conditions like: Fibromyalgia, MS, migraines, sports injuries, neck and back pain, along with others acquired from trauma based accidents or experiences.

A good article from one of Upledger’s teacher for more information that I recommend in Massage Magazine is:  https://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms/mt/article.php?id=13489

I have found that clients who only partially recovered with general massage have found longer lasting pain relief with CST.  Just Recently,  a new client after about 5 sessions excitedly told me that her body was feeling “great”.   I know from her intake that this was a huge shift. The reason for this is that rather than focusing mostly on the muscles, the CST therapist is dialoguing with the internal wisdom of the brain, spinal cord, and surrounding tissues and cerebrospinal fluid.  By doing this, the intelligence within can be expressed to promote health and wellbeing.

Pain Relief

Pain Relief

 

The body returns to it inherent self-correcting healing abilities by being supported by healthier fluid dynamics, structural integration and optimal CNS functioning.

If you are looking for something that can help you relax and rest better or on the opposite spectrum create more energy and vitality,  this might be your best alternative. Through its balancing effects,  clients often walk away feeling refreshed, more grounded, and pain-free.

Sharon Hartnett CST, LMT, SI, Brennan Healing Science

(740) 966-5153

www.massageincolumbusohio.com

 

Somato-Emotional Release

Somato-Emotional Release

What is Somato-Emotional Release (SER)?

SER begins with an atmosphere of trust, respect, and gentle touch.

Often when I work with clients for a period of time, long-held negative beliefs and residual trauma energy can start to come to surface.  This may be a small gentle reminder of an uncomfortable feeling, a tear running down a cheek or a deep anxiety or stress that has energetically been frozen within the cells. We call this an “energy cyst from a Craniosacral Therapy perspective.  The energy from the historic trauma isolates itself as a compensation but it not entirely let go.

The Upledger  Craniosacral approach to working with Somato-Emotional Release involves a very natural type of presence and touch into the Cranosacral system that supports the process of releasing old trauma’s such as:  car accidents, PTSD, warfare, violence, divorce or any type of experience that feels overwhelming.  If the cycle of feelings does not complete itself, it remains until given the opportunity to heal.  By dialoguing with the Craniosacral System, the true intelligence within will lead the way to self-correct into health and wellbeing.  Craniosacral Therapy is a professional therapeutic modality that balances, restore and brings greater awareness to clients.

Craniosacral Columbus Ohio

Craniosacral Columbus

The old painful messages melt away and give way to the Present moment.

By taking the road of self-discovery with CST, new awareness will help you to make better choices in your life with more clarity and heart.  Bringing the physical, feelings, beliefs and heart into coherence opens the door to health and wellbeing.

Sharon Hartnett CST, LMT, SI & Brennan Healing Science Practitioner

(740) 966-5153

 

 

Listening with Craniosacral Therapy

Listening with Craniosacral Therapy

In Daily life,  most people stay busy, and it’s easy to become distracted.

One of the best things that I like best about Craniosacral Therapy, is that it creates a sacred space for silence.  During a session, clients lay on a table fully clothed, close their eyes, and relax.  Stress is let go. In the quiet of the moment, many layers of consciousness have the time and ability to arise and be expressed.  For many people, this means that they have a unique opportunity to be mindful, introspective and have an experiential of unfolding.  Wonderful healing can take place, along with integration and growth.

 

I believe that this state of Grace in awakening is always available to us, however; it’s easy to miss due all the things we schedule or how we decide to live.  It is in our best interest to balance action with receiving,  thereby giving us the chance to live in “Being”.

As a Certified Craniosacral Therapist,  my priority is to align with “listening” and help my clients to find their Inner Physician through resonance.  What this means is that I focus on the CST rhythm primarily as it allows me to emphasize around the brain and spinal cord and how they relate to the rest of the body.  By supporting balance, strength, rate and symmetry, the client optimizes through inner dialogue in the moment.  In many instances, one can feel this as the therapeutic pulse picks up and sounds its healing potential.  In other cases, tissues release and energy is flows or an electrical buzz travels under the fingers.  In addition to the CSR (Craniosacral Rhythm), there are so many other things going on that intuition can lead me towards-the beating of the heart, the way the body moves with each inhale and exhale,  the sound that loudens or softens as the body changes,  all of these have a voice that the wisdom of the body is ready to reveal.  By using the fascia and the bones as my prime manual tools,  change is encouraged and a sense of wellbeing is the end result.

Another reason why I recommend Craniosacral Therapy to many people is that it is very gentle.  This type of hands on therapy can be used during pregnancy, right after birth to seniors with sensitive skin and/or health issues.  We use about a nickels worth of pressure until the tissue takes us deeper.  No forcing or tough manipulating.  Yet believe it or not-  profound change can occur through this quiet listening and supporting through the craniosacral system.

If you are needing some help with energizing, or quieting CST is quite helpful.  If you are in pain- helping restrictions or adhesions to dissolve opens the pathways to healthier dialogue.  The body is a whole being and awakening it to its possibilities is exciting as it brings one back to center and wellness.

Sharon Hartnett LMT, CST, SI

614 372-6598

www.massageincolumbusohio.com