Part 1. Introduction
This document describes craniosacral biodynamic approach to the healing of the consequence of cerebral vessels aneurysm. As well as comparing craniosacral method with surgical and ayurvedic treatment that the patient had earlier. Surgical method caused stress and trauma for the patient’s body. The ayurvedic approach that patient used looked more like one-off treatment. Craniosacral therapy (CST) can be considered as the softest one and provided the best result to the patient.
Part 2. Vijay’s story
This story is about Vijay. He was from India and he is 42 years old. When he was 11 years old, one day he started feeling headache and later shared it with his parents. His parents were quite concerned about it and decided to take him to the doctor. When the doctor performed examination of Vijay’ condition, he said that Vijay should be taken to the surgery immediately and that he suspects that the reason for headache could be cerebral vessels aneurysm.
That evening Vijay’s parents started looking for the best specialist who could surgery for their son. Unfortunately, none of them in the local hospitals were available. Finally, they managed to find the Chief Doctor in one of the clinics in Delhi, Mr Anand. Mr Anand agreed to take a flight to their Hometown and start surgery as early as possible in the morning next day. Surgery costed lots of money that Vijay’s family did not have at hand. When his father told his friends and colleagues about this issue, all people around wanted to help and this way they raised funds for surgery.
Surgery lasted 11 hours. Vijay’s parent, their friends and colleagues were waiting for the results with a heavy heart. Prior to surgery Mr Anand told them that it’s only 50/50 chances that he will be able to restore the damaged cerebral vessel and Vijay’s memory might be impacted because they had to perform craniotomy. These were long hours of waiting until Vijay woke up after surgery. He was in coma for several days.
In a while Vijay woke up. Recovery from anastasis was tough. His family was around. He could remember what happened to him, memory was fine. However, it came up that the left part of his body was fully paralysed. It was clear that time until his recovery will be long. He had to start new life in a wheelchair. He had to put aside studying at school and be focused on return to his health. His parents were next to him all the time. He had to get used to the new reality. These days, he managed to recover partially after several months. However, after paralysis, left part of his body did not manage to recover fully. His left leg, left hand and fingers were still immobilised to certain extent.
Part 3. Surgery and trauma
“A brain (Cerebral Vessel) aneurysm happens when a bulge forms in a blood vessel in the brain and fills with blood. Aneurysms often produce no symptoms unless they burst open or leak blood. A ruptured aneurysm causes severe headache and can lead to a fatal stroke. Treatments include different methods to stop blood from entering the aneurysm and diverting blood flow over the aneurysm.
People can go their entire lives not knowing they have brain aneurysm. As long as it’s intact, their odds are good. But there is a risk that the brain aneurysm will rupture, which depends on many factors, including aneurysm size, location and several others. If an aneurysm does rupture, it leaks blood into the space surrounding your brain and sometimes into the brain tissue itself, causing a haemorrhagic stroke.
When the aneurysm leaks or bursts open, blood flows into or around the brain. The pooling blood irritates brain tissue, which can make the brain swell. The result can be permanent brain damage, stroke or other complications such as:
- Vasospasm, when blood vessels get narrower, and less oxygen reaches the brain
- Hydrocephalus, a buildup of spinal fluid around the brain, sometimes called “water on the brain,” that puts pressure on the brain
- Coma, when you lose consciousness for several days to weeks
- Seizures, or muscle convulsions, which can cause further brain damage” 1
It appears that in Vijay’s case, the only viable option was to proceed with surgery to avoid aneurysm rupture, it was life or death situation. If it was possible to have more time to do full examination of his body and brain, for example MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) or CTA (computed tomography angiography), the other conservative treatments could have been possible. Vijay’s parents had limited number of options for their son to be healed. No doubt that they selected the most available and most known treatment back then.
Obviously, during surgical treatment, patient’s body experiences a number of severe impacts, including impact on fascia, blood vessels, muscles, nervous system and also chemical impact caused by anastasis. It can be considered as trauma for the body and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Vijay’s case. We will discuss in the later chapters how the consequences of Vijay’s condition can be treated by craniosacral biodynamics.
Part 4. Ayurvedic clinic
Vijay’s health slowly started retuning to better place with time. However, he still had some issues with his left side as described above. He took care of his body. About 10 years ago he decided to take ayurvedic treatment. This was a 10-day course and his major request to ayurvedic doctors was to alkalise his body.
“In the body, the acid-alkaline balance is important. This is because many functions in the body occur only at a certain level of acidity or alkalinity. For example, the skin, stomach, bladder, and vaginal area are highly acidic to protect us from outside invaders. Whereas most of our other organs and cells function best in an alkaline pH.
When patient has a more alkaline environment, their body is able to function at optimal levels. For instance, alkalinity can aid in the reduction of inflammation, including the brain, gut, skin, and muscles…” 2
The major treatment in the clinic was drinking ghee every day during his stay. Ghee made from organic butter from pastured grass-fed cows has the highest natural source of CLA (conjugated linoleic acid). CLA is extremely important as it boosts the immune system and keeps cholesterol levels. Few more details about ghee:
- “Ghee contains Omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids along with vitamins A, D, E and K2
- Ghee actually lowers cholesterol (Palmitic and Stearic acid)
- Ghee is crucial for proper nerve signalling. Ghee has certain saturated fats that function directly as signaling messengers that influence metabolism, including critical jobs as the appropriate release of insulin
- Believe it or not but your brain is made up of fat and cholesterol and the lions share of the fatty acids in the brain are actually saturated fats
- Ghee is regularly used in Ayurveda for treatment of ulcerative colitis, gastric, peptic and duodenal ulcers
- Ghee is the best moisturiser available to mankind” 3
Ghee has alcaic qualities and this treatment helped Vijay to alkalise his body. After this treatment, he felt a significant improvement in motility of his joints and left side of the body. The challenge was that Vijay did it as “one off” exercise and the effect of this treatment deteriorated after few months.
Part 5. Craniosacral Biodynamic as a treatment for aneurysm’s consequence
When I found out about Vijay’s story, I offered him Craniosacral therapy. My view was that it would be possible to soften the impact generated by the surgery 30 years ago and heal traumatic experience he had during surgery via getting access to his resources, utilising the craniosacral holds and techniques.
I explained to him that “Craniosacral therapy is a treatment that can support patient body’s natural ability to heal itself by listening to the vital forces that move, create, form, maintain and restore health within it.
Using gently compassionate hands with refined perception and discernment and an orientation to wholeness and health is laid the foundation of the therapeutic intervention. The perception and recognition of the regulating forces of life, support their expression in and through the body, that has a beneficial effect to body, mind and spirit.” 4
Session 1. December 10, 2021
First time I met Vijay for the treatment was in December 2021. That day Vijay had difficulty walking because the road was icy, and he had to put additional pressure on his right leg to balance. He also mentioned that he experienced muscle tension in his right shoulder. We discussed briefly his situation and started the session.
Vijay settled on massage table. I started my session at his feet, settled in my fulcra and negotiated contact. I checked what was his comfort zone or internal resources, he said it was in his right elbow. Given Vijay’s condition, I considered it was quite important to understand the resources in his body. I explained that he might change his focus to this place in case he feels any discomfort during the treatment.
Dr. Franklin Sills described resources as “the aspects of a person’s make-up that support and nurture the person’s welfare and ability to adapt to change and traumatic experience. They are strengths that a person can draw upon in threatening or dangerous circumstances. When a person experiences trauma, the quality and availability of resources are critical.” 5
I negotiated the contact and started the treatment. I synchronized to Vijay’s biosphere expanding my attention to his full aura and fluid body. After 5-7 minutes I noticed holistic shift. Inhalation and exhalation of primary respiration became more obvious, I could feel fluid and tissue move and it came together as a whole, the filed has settled.
Per Dr. Franklin Sills, “the holistic shift is a systemic process that manifests as a change in state in the person’s system, within which the resources of primary respiration come to the forefront. It naturally arises as a starting point in session work. This is a theme that was present in cranial work from its roots in Sutherland and was clearly seen in the work of Becker. In a transcript of Becker’s verbal teachings, this “something” was described as a shift in the human system from seeming fragmentation to a sense of wholeness. This is a dramatic shift in orientation from the conditional forces present, and their related patterns and pathologies, to the resources of primary respiration. Potency, fluid, and tissues are then perceived to be a coherent field of action and the system is truly sensed to be unified and whole. 5
This was beginning of my practice, and I spent majority of time focusing on the wholeness, orienting to the midline and listening what’s going on in Vijay’s potency-tissue-fluid field. I could observe that the potency pulls to the left around his shoulder. I focused on neutrality, oriented to wholeness, and expanded my perception. I directed the primary breath to the horizon in front of me at exhalation and to the horizon behind me at inhalation and started feeling the long tide. Inertia point in his left shoulder felt like slight fluctuation within movement of the long tide. Peter Levine, an important trauma expert, called long tide “a coherency wave, as it functions to maintain the coherency of the human system in the midst of all conditions”. 6 I felt a relief in Vijay’s body. After observing long tide for a while, I closed the session.
This first session was an eye-opening for Vijay, he said that he felt relaxation that evening, and he could observe better motility in the joints of his left hand. He was quite keen to get few more sessions.
Session 2. December 25, 2021
Vijay came for the next treatment quite soon, in about two weeks. He expressed his interest to continue the treatment. He felt that the result of the first session was quite impressive for him.
I invited him to lay on the massage table, we settled down, I found my fulcra, negotiated contact, and started treatment at his feet, like last time. I could still feel slight pull to the left side, it felt slightly lighter than in the first session. My major sensation was that the left side of his body was slightly denser, there was some asymmetry between the move in right and left side. In few minutes, after reaching holistic shift, I finished my work with Vijay’s feet and continued treatment with the upper part of his body.
I placed my hands in the vault hold orienting to Vijay’s biosphere. Tissue moved like flower petals, opening at inhalation, and closing at exhalation. However, this move was so unusual, I had a feeling that tissues forgot how move properly, there were rather sharp moves to the side and back, the pattern was asymmetrical between left and right side. In addition, move of the tissues from left and right was desynchronized. I also felt multiple points of swirling and pointing under my hands at different moments in time. As a next step, I placed my hands into occiput hold. Similarly, to the vault hold, I felt noticeable density on the right side under my hands. After listening to this area, I invited CV4 at exhalation.
I monitored inhalation and exhalation for few minutes until I could feel the move of fluid strongly. I noticed minor swirls touching my hands during this process. After a while I invited stillness in this motion at the lowest exhalation point. I put my awareness to Vijay’s fluid body, without focusing attention on particular points. His body accepted my invitation for stillness and slowly stopped its motion at the exhalation. I stayed there, letting go any intention. I could observe that full Vijay’s body was in stillness. He made a deep breath out. His eyes were closed, I could only hear his breathing in and out quietly, he was in full relaxation.
I could feel that even though he looked fully relaxed, his body started energizing more and more. His body soaked more and more into massage table with relaxation and his body enriched itself with more and more potency. Stillness continued for another few minutes and then I invited Primary Breath to restart and felt that Vijay’s body started moving freely in the mid tide which expressed itself much clearer than before.
The reported effects of the CV4 technique are relaxation, decreased sleep latency, improved immunity and self-regulation, as well as decrease in hypertension and improved heart rate variability. Michael Kern referred to CV4 technique as “it can be employed whenever potency reserves in the body are low. They are also useful in the treatment of acute fevers, helping drainage in the body, facilitating removal of wastes, for congestive headaches, sinusitis, digestive disturbances, reproductive disorders, and a wide range of other problems”. 7
After the session, Vijay mentioned that he felt relaxation and it was much easier for him to walk home. He also slept very well after the treatment. He said that he felt better mobility in his paralyzed hand. The result was good overall.
Session 3. February 21, 2022
We’ve continued treatment with Vijay and met for the next session in February 2021. We started with settling down, I found my fulcra, negotiated contact, and started treatment at Vijay’s shoulders. After holistic shift, I placed my hands in the vault hold.
I continued listening to Vijay’s body and felt that there was a fulcrum in the suture between temporal and parietal bone on the right side of his cranium. It has drawn my awareness because disengagement of parietal and temporal bones was limited here during inhalation, there was additional density in this place.
I moved my left hand into temporal hold and put two fingers of my right hand in “V” shape around the suture. “This approach is used to work with inertial forces held in the joints or sutures. It applies two principles of treatment simultaneously – encouraging the movement of potency and fluid towards a site of inertia while facilitating a disengagement of bones that became compressed.” 7 I continued maintaining my wide perceptual field and at the same time drew my awareness to the suture. While I could feel balanced primary respiration under my left hand, the suture was pulsating and felt it full of potency inside. During inhalation phase it remained dense and inertial.
I felt that disengagement continues in the suture and continued to monitor it. I raised an enquiry via my hands “what space is possible here”. In the next inhalation phase, I invited two bones under my hands in V-spread to disengage from each other. I asked for space to manifest in this suture. It was imaginary space appearing between my two fingers. I monitored the primary respiration and invited more space at inhalation. After a while I felt the space opening. During inhalation I felt the suture opening and disengagement could be felt stronger. Step by step the tissues started approaching the state of balance. After state of balance was achieved, I felt that primary respiration became stronger from the right side and became symmetrical between left and right. I stayed in this place for a while and then moved my right hand to temporal hold and continued listening. I felt the resolution of this inertial fulcrum and soon finished the session.
Michael Kern described the impact of challenges with temporal bones and sutures around them as following: “In recognition of the widespread consequences that difficulties with the temporal bone may create, Dr. Satherland referred to them as “mischief makers”. However, this is a two-way relationship because these bones not only influence, but can also be influenced by, other parts of primary respiratory mechanism. The key point in craniosacral practice is that when primary respiration is restored there is a return to normal functioning of cranial bones and their interconnections, as the relationship with their blueprint for health is re-established.” 7
Vijay felt very relaxed after treatment. He said that he was in the state between dream and awakening and could see some visions. He said that tension in his body went away, and he felt his body as very light.
Session 4. April 07, 2022
Our next session happened in April 2022. Vijay noted that he was quite pleased with the results and improved motility of the muscles in his left hand and foot. I started the session at his feet, established my fulcra, negotiated contact, and stayed there until clear expression of holistic shift appeared. I could still feel more density in the left side of his body. My attention was drawn to the pelvic area of his body and sacrum bone. Sacrum bone “articulates with the bones of the pelvis through sacro-iliac joints on each side. This bone is thus the foundation of the spine and helps support the weight of the whole trunk. As such, it plays an important role in the healthy workings of the rest of the spine. Any inertia that affects the sacrum can alter the functioning of vertebrae higher up. This is a common cause of backache.” 7
I moved to Vijay’s sacrum bone. I negotiated the contact and put my right hand under his sacrum. He confirmed that he felt comfortable about it. I used my left hand to connect to the right iliac bone. In a little while I settled down. I oriented to Vijay’s biosphere and mid tide and started feeling move of the sacrum bone. As for the iliac bone, I started feeling the phases of primary respiration as well, I noticed quite strong pull to the left. I expanded my perception and followed this move to the left until it reached the state of balance. I monitored it for a while and asked Vijay if I can remove my hands from the iliac bone. Vijay said it was quite nice feeling during this part of the treatment, he felt relaxed.
To ease the tension in the pelvic area, I explored lumbosacral junction as well. “The lumbosacral junction is the location of an important natural fulcrum for the fluid tide and fluid body as a whole, and compressive issues in its dynamics will strongly affect the quality and strength of the tide. The lumbosacral waterbed is also a repository of potency and compressive forces held in the sacrum and its joint relationships will affect the quality of the fluid tide and lower the availability of potency in the system as a whole.” 5 I asked Vijay if I can put my hand under lumbar spine, while my right hand remained holding the sacrum bone. Vijay agreed. I put my hands in “T” position and oriented my attention to the junction, keeping my perceptual field wide. I listened to the lumbar and sacrum same time to see if there is space available. I felt quite active moves in both areas. I requested Vijay’s body if we can reach the state of balance and in a little while I felt softening of this area. After this state sacrum bone started moving more actively, I felt quite deep activation. I allowed it to continue for several minutes and then asked Vijay if I can slowly remove my hands.
Vijay was quite keen to continue his exploration of CST further. He said that our sessions brough him lots of relaxation. This time he mentioned that he felt very relaxed and cheerful.
Session 5. May 21, 2022
Next month Vijay arrived for the next treatment. This time I started working from his shoulders. I settled in my fulcra, negotiated contact and placed my hands on Vijay’s shoulders. In a little while I oriented to holistic shift. I noticed disturbance in the right shoulder. When I asked what caused this issue, I noticed a distortion in the right side of his cranium. As Michael J. Shea mentioned, “the practitioner commonly experiences tissue relationships as out of proportion to the whole body and especially the sphenoid and occiput. Aberrant tissue motions, such as superior and inferior vertical strain patterns of the cranial base typically fill the practitioner’s awareness. Motion is typically perceived to be organized around tension fields in tissue and bones, especially the sphenobasilar junction or cerebrospinal fluid in and around the fourth ventricle…” 8
I put my hands in modified vault hold and oriented to the wide perceptual field. After few minutes, I started feeling the mid tide and mobility of sphenoid and occipital bones. I stayed in a neutral position just waiting for Vijay’s body to start showing me the patterns. I oriented to Vijay’s entire field, I felt tissue-fluid-potency field moving together. I could feel physiological move of sphenoid and occipital bones however there was also a pull to the right. I identified it as a right lateral shear. The body of sphenoid bone was moving to the right in relation to the occiput bone. I invited space into shpenobasilar junction and offered sphenoid bone to move to the left side. I encouraged tissues, fluids, and potencies to get to the state of balance.
I noticed that after a couple of minutes, there was stillness under my fingers. I maintained a wide perceptual field and felt inertial fulcrum within the tissues at the right side of the junction. I encouraged the potency to move towards this inertial point. The system started slowly centering around the midline. I continued listening and observed that the size of shear reduced a little bit, the move of the junction became more balanced. However, I continued feeling the right lateral shear, but the amplitude of this shear became much smaller.
Vijay felt very relaxed after this session. He said that he was in a state between sleeping and being awake and could hear the sounds in the room. He felt very light after the session. Next day we spoke by phone, and I asked if he had a good sleep. He said that it was great just he had dreams related to work. But overall, it was a great feeling.
Session 6. June 10,2022
In few weeks we met with Vijay again. Vijay has settled down on the bed and felt comfortable. I felt that he was slightly emotional that day and we discussed what was the resource in his body. He said it was in his feet. I started working with his feet after setting up my fulcra and establishing contact with him. After several minutes I felt that we reached the state of holistic shift.
I moved to his shoulders. After listening to his body, I felt asymmetry in primary respiration. On the left shoulder I felt an inertia fulcrum like a swirling point, on the right side it was another fulcrum which felt like pulsation pushing into my right hand. After exploring this asymmetrical respiration for a while I had a feeling that I need to start working with his occiput bone. I settled in occiput hold. I could feel a very active primary respiration there. Few minutes after that Vijay started breathing heavily and I asked if he felt any discomfort. He said it was not physical discomfort but rather my treatment made his emotions to go out.
I decided to approach this challenge via shuttling technique. Per Dr. Franklin Sills, “shuttling is a term that originally comes from Gestalt therapy. It denotes the ability to not be with something—that a person has the resources to notice the activation of a trauma-related process within and decide not to enter it. In other words, people have the option of exploring trauma—or not. They can shuttle into the process and shuttle out of it. The ability to do this is very empowering. They do not identify with or become the process, and are not swept away by it. The process of shuttling can help clients gain some experience of the possibilities of an inquiry into their state. This is not necessarily about expressing emotions or feelings, although this may happen, but is more about exploring and inquiring into them with space and resources.” 5
I recommended Vijay to switch his attention to his feet for a little while and then return to his thoughts inside his head. I guided him repeating this exercise for a few times in a slow mode. I guided him to switch his attention to his feet. I asked what he felt there. He said that it was a relaxing, comfortable feeling in his feet. He described it as warm, soft and comfortable place. His breath started normalizing. I recommended him to stay in this place for few minutes and focus his attention there. He focused on his feet during this time and stayed with his eyes closed. After that I asked him to breath in and breath out deeply, making his breath out much longer. After that we switched his attention to his thoughts. I asked how he felt there. He said that emotional tension goes away slowly, he felt more comfortable. After focusing his attention on his thoughts for a while, I asked him to beath in and breath out deeply. Then we switched attention back to his feet and repeated the exercise. We spent 10 minutes performing shuttling exercise and breathing in each of the points. I noticed that it helped him to calm down emotionally.
I continued with occiput hold. I kept my hands in the occiput hold for a while and then invited stillness at exhalation (CV4). His body stayed calm and quiet. I kept my perception field wide and allowed it to let go. I felt very comfortable while focusing on stillness, it was clear that Vijay made a step to resolution of his emotional trauma. After a little while I felt that Vijay’ system initiated and reignited again and moved into inhalation. I felt primary respiration as clear and calm in his body, his tissue – fluid – potency field stabilized, it was much better rather than at the beginning of the practice. I removed my hands from his occiput bone and returned to his shoulders. I noticed a change how primary respiration felt there. Swirling and pushing in his shoulders went away, the flow was symmetrical and nice. After a while I finished the session.
Vijay enjoyed the session. He said that his discomfort went away, and he managed to relax. He mentioned that he will start making new plans for the future and looked calm.
Session 7. December 16, 2022
We met with Vijay for the last treatment in December 2022. I started treatment from his feet. I established my fulcra and negotiated contact. In a few minutes I felt the holistic shift where tissue, fluid and potency started moving as a whole in primary respiration. I felt more density in the left side of his body and especially lower potency and blockage in his left ankle. While working with inertia fulcrum in his ankle joint, I focused also on Vijay’s nervous system. “Inertial fulcra in the central nervous system affect the natural balance of its motility and can influence its function. Due to the great complexities of the central nervous system, any kinds of disorders can result. Depending on the location of inertia, physiological functions such as lung respiration, appetite, digestion, circulation, coordination, movement and balance can be affected. Psychological and emotional affects can also result.” 7 That’s why I considered this aspect should be explored in Vijay’s case.
I asked Vijay to bend his left leg and settled down from the left side. After settling in my fulcra, I placed my left hand above his left ankle joint and right hand across lumbar spine (L5-L6). I tuned to mid tide and could feel it in a little while, however, I felt potency as very low in this part of his body. I expanded my perceptual field and visualised more space in his joints and nervous system and then directed potency between my hands. I stayed in this position for a while and visualised those nerves between Vijay’s ankle and lumbar spine became stronger and expanded. I visualised golden glow from these nerves and this glow increased and increased. Mid tide expressed stronger and stronger with the increase of the glow.
As a next step I moved to the next hold to connected lumbar and thoracic spine. My left had settled across the lumbar spine (L5-L6) while left hand was across the thoracic spine (T11-T12). I continued with adding potency to this area and visualised nerves uncurling and expanding between lumbar and thoracic spine. With time, mid tide expressed stronger and stronger and could feel reconnection of tissues in his body between the ankle and thoracic spine.
I moved to his head and put my hands in occiput hold. I could feel strong enough potency flowing through my hands. I visualised further expansion of nerves in Vijay’s body from his ankle to the cranium and continued re-integration of the tissues, fluid and potency throughout his body. I stayed there for a while in wide perceptual field stimulating the potency. I waited there and visualised health re-entering his body. In a while primary respiration re-ignited. Inhalation and exhalation became deeper and freer. In a little while I closed the session.
Vijay felt very relaxed after treatment. He said that he was in the state between dream and awakening and could see some visions. He said that tension in his body went away, and he felt his body as very light. His major concern related to stiffness in his left hand before treatment. And now he could feel release in this area and softness in the muscles. Overall, he mentioned that each time after treatment he felt such a release.
Part 6. Conclusion
In this document we’ve discussed quite severe case that Vijay faced with his health. Obviously, long time has passed between different types of treatments he had to heal cerebral aneurysm such as surgery and ayurvedic procedure. With Craniosacral Biodynamic, we had to deal with the consequences of the disease and past traumatic experience.
According to Upledger, “craniosacral therapy may improve the functioning of a variety of body systems. In addition to the central nervous system, CST may promote performance of the digestive, musculoskeletal, respiratory, and circulatory systems.
Specifically for individuals with TBIs (traumatic brain injury), craniosacral therapy is suggested to help reducing:
- Pain
- Disrupted sleep
- Anxiety
- Fatigue
- Cognitive functions (memory, learning, reading, decision-making, reaction timing)” 9
When we started the treatment, I was quite concerned about the severity of the case and was wondering whether we manage to achieve the results and improve Vijay’s condition. That’s why I explored different CST techniques, holds and treatment for different parts of his body to ensure Vijay’s health can be awakened and potency increased. I’m grateful to Vijay for his patience and readiness to be on this journey together with me.
CST treatment helped Vijay to restore motility of the muscles in the paralysed part of his body. The more sessions we had the more I could observe intensity of Primary Respiration. Which means that the therapy re-ignited health in his body to certain extent. Vijay’s feedback about the sessions also demonstrated overall improvement in his health, reactions, and state of mind.
References
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- DNA India (https://www.dnaindia.com/health/column-why-ghee-is-the-elixir-of-life-2566459, Reported By: DNA Team, Edited By: Aseem Dixit, Source: DNA webdesk, Updated: Dec 10, 2017, 09:39 AM IST). Accessed on 29/01/2023
- Khiron Clinics (https://khironclinics.com/blog/how-craniosacral-therapy-helps-with-trauma-recovery/ , published October 10, 2019). Accessed 31/01/2023
- Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Volume One: The Breath of Life and Fundamental Skills by Franklyn Sills, updated reprint, 2016
- Private communications between Sills and Levine, 1999
- Michael Kern “Wisdom in the body”, 2005
- Michael J. Shea Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, 2007
- Flint Rehab (https://www.flintrehab.com/craniosacral-therapy-for-traumatic-brain-injury/ Medically reviewed by Andrew Tran PT, DPT, NCS, CSCS — written by Flint Rehab. Last updated on March 17, 2021). Accessed on 29/01/2023
Appendix
Vijay’s sessions vs Seminars and available CST techniques.
| No | Date | Seminar | Techniques |
| 1 | December 10, 2021 | Sem 3 | Primary Respiration, holistic shift, stillness, resources, CV4 at occiput, state of balance |
| 2 | December 25, 2021 | Sem 3 | |
| 3 | February 21, 2022 | Sem 4 | Disengagement, augmentation of space |
| 4 | April 07, 2022 | Sem 5 | Spheno-basilar junction, lumbo—sacral junction Trauma: verbal skills, freeze/dissociation/activation, Polyvagal theory/social engagement, slowing down/staying with body sensation, resources, being present, creating safety, allowing to discharge |
| 5 | May 21, 2022 | Sem 5 | |
| 6 | June 10,2022 | Sem 5 | |
| 7 | December 16, 2022 | Sem 8 | Limbs and peripheral joints |
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