For Nervous System Balance, Trauma Release, Emotional & Psychosomatic Healing
CranioSacral Therapy
The Body Keeps the Score, and people are coming to realize that the nervous system and their physical tissue can carry more than just physical aches and pains - but the shock of experiences that deeply impacted us, that never had the chance to express, to be heard, and to heal.
The philosophy of Somatic Therapy is that we can reclaim these parts of ourselves, by working through the body and simultaneously work on the mind and psyche.
So these treatments aim to increase sensation, deepen
feeling,
and ultimately reconnect us to our deepest self, our core truth, and our essence lying beneath our stress, trauma, and emotional strain.
CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is an excellent tool at creating states of deep peace, balancing the nervous system, helping the body achieve the deep restful regeneration it needs, and to work through the layers of our day to day stress so that we can unravel the deeper things we have been carrying for much longer.
CST is capable of creating profound shifts that are felt on every level of the human experience, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
CST has also been shown to help with the physical components related to such somatic conditions as Post Traumatic Stress, depression and anxiety.
By using an extremely light touch, the practitioner helps remove obstructions to the cerebrospinal fluid, and ends up facilitating the body's natural and innate healing processes by balancing and deepening connection with the nervous system.
I invite you to try this therapy and see how powerful a gentle touch can be to bypass our exterior issues to create deep change within.
You'll find that once we move past the day to day stress, we drop into a place where we can effectively release things from the far past, relieving the burden of carrying a weight we no longer need to hold on to.
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My name is Daniel... and I came to a profound love of bodywork therapy by going through my own healing journey...
As someone who has gone through it, I will tell you right now - true healing is not easy.
Despite what all of the advertisements for massage and bodywork look like... you know the picture of a relaxed and blissful person laying on a massage table in perfect peace...
That is rarely ever a lasting feeling once we leave the therapist and head back out into the world. We might feel a bit better for a time, a little more relaxed, a little less stressed... but at the first adversity the world throws at us, back into chaos we go...
Only beyond the pain, discomfort, and complicated emotions can we really stay in that place of bliss
for long, and as we are faced with the 'stuff' inside us, it is not always pretty... but in my experience, lasting therapeutic change only comes from facing the pain in order to transform it.
I started my own path due to health complications around a bone tumor in my arm. Growing up with this 'extra lump' shifted my posture, forced my muscles and tissue to contort around the extra mass, and left me with a lot of mental and emotional baggage about my body. I never moved much, I wasn't active or into sports, I was a shy and awkward kid who spent way too much time sitting instead of moving.
If it wasn't for the tumor eventually needing surgical intervention, I probably would have stayed that way. As I adjusted to the new sense of space where the tumor once was, I noticed how my body was still 'stuck' where it had been shifted, even though the problem was supposedly removed... I was still living in the shadow of the patterns my body had maladapted to along the way.
So like many people, I began to look into meditation, yoga, and other forms of healing work, cleaned up my diet and began trying 'everything under the sun' to make an impact in my health and well being.
Eventually I met my Bodywork mentor and received his life-changing work.
In a gasp of breath, I felt him melt through the tissue that was holding my shoulder locked in place. That breath, and that release, showed me that my arm and shoulder were frozen up to my neck without even knowing it, and had likely been this way my entire life.
But it wasn't just a physical experience... I cried emotional tears as all of my thoughts and feelings and judgment around my body came up to the surface and were felt at once. I'm sure at the time my teacher said something to the effect of...
"It's okay, you're safe now to feel these feelings, and they're coming up so that they can come out, and once you let go, this tissue in your arm will move"
And that is exactly how I experienced it - it wasn't until I fully choose to feel it all, the bad and the good, that the pattern was able to fully release and my body was returned to me from the cast of stone it had built to protect me from that pain and dysfunction.
What Past Clients Have to Say...
"There is a new centeredness and space inside of me. There is room to move inside where there was no movement or space. I feel lighter, and more opened. I feel like the changes are still happening and they are wonder-filled.
Daniel's skill is truly beyond compare. His gentle guiding, his ability to read the body, and his skill in bringing about change are exceptional.
Time on his table is priceless.
- Elaine C.
"There is simply nothing as good as what I have experienced here."
- Jacobina O.
"I have known the archetpye of 'little me' has been with me in over 30 years of talk therapy.
With our session today, I was finally able to find and release her from my body. And it's not sad, it's beautiful. I see her purpose now and cherish her role in keeping me safe all this time."
My whole hip and pelvis feels lighter
as if dropping a huge weight that has been with me my entire life.
- Midge B.
"My sister suggested that I get some CranioSacral Therapy because of a recent shock and grief.
Without knowing much about it, I just went for it... and found Daniel and his great reviews. How fortunate am I!
Seriously. Daniel is kind, gifted, skilled, grounded, and tempermentally an exact match for this type of therapy.
It would be hard to say how I felt completely comfortable, at ease, safe, and easily sunken into a very deep state of relaxation...
but my guess is that this therapy is the real deal and Daniel is an excellent therapist.
That safe, deep place is such a nurturing space for my nervous system to radiate healing.
- Peggy D.
I was a professional athlete for 14 years and have worked with some of the best in the world when it comes to bodywork and massage therapists.
My first session with Daniel blew me away. He might be the best I have ever worked with! He is incredible. I have tons of scar tissue and lingering pain from injuries and surgeries, and Daniel was able to locate and provide relief immediately.
I feel extremely fortunate to have found him. I now have hope of a future without pain. Thank you, Daniel!
You are a best kept secret of this region.
- Veronica C.
"I just completed my fourth session with Daniel and it was nothing short of magic. His mastery of skill combined with presence of being and empathy is unparalleled.
Layer by layer, he facilitates an intense level of physical, mental, and emotional unwinding that I have never experienced in my 25+ years of receiveing bodywork.
I will be forever grateful to him helping restore the vitality that was being drained from so much chronic pain.
It is a joy to work with him and I look forward to continuing the journey. Whatever needs to happen to do the longer sessions closer together, I encourage you to do so!"
- Sherri A.
"I first saw Daniel with a very pressing acute pain between my shoulder blade and spine and he literally cured it!
I haven't felt the pain since that session and it was one where I was having trouble taking a deep breath. His touch was therapeutic and obviously very healing,
I was so blessed to have gotten his bodywork that day!"
- Madi C.
“Daniel is a master of his art! Intuitive, precise and highly skilled. What a joy to encounter this kind of massage experience. Muscle issues already subsiding.”
- James K.
"Daniel has such an intentional, light, and intuitive touch that unfurled some seriously locked up spaces all down my spine-- especially in my neck.
Today I woke up for the first time in months without a painful headache coming from the base of my skull.
In fact,
I feel lighter and happier than I have in a very long time."
- Annika B.
Is emotional release work the wrong kind of support for your current needs?
Are you more interested in tackling the physical symptoms?
Resolving chronic pain, improving your posture, and increasing mobility and performance?
Please also check out the work that I do with clients with Myofascial Release by clicking here.