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The Neurovascular Institute Therapies
Craniosacral Therapy
Profound Neutral
Neurovascular Integration
Craniosacral Therapyhas its American roots in the birth of Osteopathy, as founded by Andrew Taylor Still in the mid-1800s. Dr. Still developed a treatment philosophy that honored the original perfection of body, spirit and mind, with techniques to mobilize the healing flow of fluids throughout the body. The work that we know today as Craniosacral Therapy generally refers to a light-touch therapy that addresses the bones, membranes and fluids surrounding the brain and spinal cord (including the bones of the cranium and sacrum at the base of the spine).
However, even a light touch can carry a heavy intention and override the authentic healing process of the tissues. Over the many years that I have been working with the craniosacral system, I realized that if I held a very neutral yet supportive intention, without blending into the patient’s process, the self-corrective wisdom of the tissues could show itself with more vitality and more meaningful results. This approach named itself “Profound Neutral.”
Profound Neutral…is a way of holding the tissues with the utmost respect for the divine process that manifests from the matrix to our molecules and beyond. All multi-cellular organisms find their balance in the ‘neutral zones’ of their physiology; it is to this restorative balance point that we resonate. Profound Neutral supports the body at its key point of balance and reorganization; it allows the body to change in a way that is authentic and meaningful. It allows the patient to feel their own original flow of health and own their internal resources for healing.
Profound Neutral is my breath, my truth, my deepest Self. It is the calm stillness, the joyful flow, the juicy passion, the Infinity we Know.
It is the pause between inhale and exhale; it is the place beyond dreaming and yet thoroughly here. It is the arms that rock us safely to sleep, it is the hand that holds ours as we venture into the unknown.
It is the place and presence of our dynamic stillness from which all vitality flows. It is our starting place in ourselves, in our work, in our lives.
From this place we reach out to the world of Neurovascular Integration.
Neurovascular Integration…. comes from the depths of Profound Neutral. From the starting place of our own dynamic stillness, we place hands on our patients to awaken their resonance with their own place of stillness: it is here that the healing dialogue begins. When we come from this place, all fluid rhythms are free to express themselves and the infinite wisdom of our original perfection speaks.
Neurovascular Integration follows basic hand-holds from foot to head as we support the edges of the tissues and “hold a space” for reorganization to occur. As we support the unfolding of the stories of the tissues, energy shifts from the over-ride of the mind to the primary rhythms of the flow that formed us. We can be in our bodies, and in our world, in a place of authentic ease.
Neurovascular Integration engages the healing forces already at work within the tissues rather than the obstacles that may be obstructing that flow.
It is a leap beyond mechanical cranial approaches; it embraces the divine dynamic flow that carries us in this very moment. It lets us be right here in our bodies, right now.
