Distance Craniosacral Therapy
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Distance Healing is a surprisingly effective way to receive Craniosacral Therapy remotely in the comfort and safety of your own home. In 2020, when shelter-in-place became necessary across the globe, Distance Healing work became a surprisingly effective way for holistic practitioners to continue supporting their clients. During shelter-in-place for COVID, I decided to try Distance Craniosacral Therapy and was pleasantly surprised by how similar the Distance Work is to an In-Person session. For a brief look into my experience, click here. |
Photo by J. Gabriel
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As Craniosacral Therapists, we learn to tune into and work with the subtle energetic levels of our clients, and when necessary as in cases of high trauma, work "off the body" meaning standing or sitting a few feet away. Giving a person support and physical space to connect with their own system can allow them to connect internally as well as build trust with a practitioner. Learning to do this from a distance over the last year, has helped me understand not only my touch work, but also how all living beings are connected energetically. All people, animals, plants and even the individual cell have a unique energetic signature called a "biofield". This biofield is what connects us to each other, the rhythms of the earth and the universal field or matrix.
Another way of explaining this energetic connection is to say that since the 1970s, astrophysicists recognize that particles which occupy the same quantum state remain interconnected at any distance. The particles are said 'to perceive each other', no matter how far removed they are from each other in space or in time. This is known as "quantum entanglement". From this lens, we can see that any interconnection between organisms, such as the Bodyworker and the client, create a special kind of connection and therefore perception, regardless of the physical distance that separates them. During this global health crisis - a trying time of uncertainty for all humanity - what an unexpected and extraordinary gift this is to receive!
In their own words:
"Although I have worked with Tomi for the past three years, still I did not know what to expect with a Distance Cranial-sacral session. I imagined it would be very different. It was, and yet how comforted I felt - both in the experience of being 'held' by her, from a distance, while she worked but how the sensations extended throughout the following days. How to describe the experience with words? It is very primal, like being held in the lap of some trusted person and allowing oneself to be safely seen and felt such that my body lightened, and let go. It was a wonderful, but different, way to meditate and contemplate the inner world of my Being". P.S. 5/2020
"I found that working with Tomi in the Distance Cranio form is also powerful and healing but in a more subtle way than the hands on session. In the distance session, I could feel energy opening up and releasing in my upper back, neck and head that helped relieve tension in my head that I'd had the whole day. I also felt a sense of ease and integration throughout my whole spine and body which made me feel more whole, reducing the stress I had been carrying. I felt my whole system and energy centers relaxing into a deep, calm state. This subtle calm carried into the night helping me to sleep deeply, and into the next day. I do recommend Tomi's Distance work which is healing on a whole system level." A.T. 4/2020
"Although I have worked with Tomi for the past three years, still I did not know what to expect with a Distance Cranial-sacral session. I imagined it would be very different. It was, and yet how comforted I felt - both in the experience of being 'held' by her, from a distance, while she worked but how the sensations extended throughout the following days. How to describe the experience with words? It is very primal, like being held in the lap of some trusted person and allowing oneself to be safely seen and felt such that my body lightened, and let go. It was a wonderful, but different, way to meditate and contemplate the inner world of my Being". P.S. 5/2020
"I found that working with Tomi in the Distance Cranio form is also powerful and healing but in a more subtle way than the hands on session. In the distance session, I could feel energy opening up and releasing in my upper back, neck and head that helped relieve tension in my head that I'd had the whole day. I also felt a sense of ease and integration throughout my whole spine and body which made me feel more whole, reducing the stress I had been carrying. I felt my whole system and energy centers relaxing into a deep, calm state. This subtle calm carried into the night helping me to sleep deeply, and into the next day. I do recommend Tomi's Distance work which is healing on a whole system level." A.T. 4/2020