Craniosacral Massage is very light and gentle, applying touch with ease on to the body and head, which promotes a release and rejuvenation within tissue structures and bodily organs. A craniosacral massage therapist helps facilitate healing of tight muscles, tendons, and ligaments. As well as effecting in a positive way the lymphatic flow of fluid under the touch.
Craniosacral Massage can be both powerful and relaxing and is based mostly on your intention going into the massage. This is a very good, therapeutic form of body work with tremendous benefits and healing.
Dr. Kaminsky is highly intuitive to the craniosacral methods developed by Dr. John Upledger, and is therefore very effective in treating many different organic and musculoskeletal conditions with craniosacral massage.
Myofascial Release is another benefit of craniosacral massage. Those muscles and tissues below the skin respond by relaxing, unwinding and becoming less painful. Through the stimulating touch by the therapist tightness and spasm diminish as fluid automatically flows into those areas promoting rejuvenation and healing.
Dr. Kaminsky is well versed in Myofascial Release and trigger point work. He works directly with the muscles, tendons and ligaments of the musculoskeletal system to invoke a positive change withing tight, splinting or spasmic muscles. Pain diminishes and muscles relax improving range of motion and the feeling of ease throughout the body.
Craniosacral massage can also positively affect organs and underlying structures of the musculoskeletal system, such as blood vessels, peripheral nerves and the entire central nervous system. Including the spine and spinal cord. Symptoms and conditions borne out of dysfunctional peripheral nerve impulses are positively affected with a craniosacral massage, such as neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, leg pain, sciatica, herniated disks, fibromyalgia and many other issues.
Another component of cranial sacral massage is something called SER, which stands for Somato Emotional Release. It’s basically your body, through hands-on care facilitates a release of stuck unprocessed emotions.
Emotions can become trapped in the body’s tissues and when massaged by a trained cranial sacral practitioner, can cause those emotions to dislodge. As a result, emotion(s) the body has been holding are released. This may express itself in you getting emotional and or recalling the past event or trauma right on the table, or sometime after your session there is continued processing that may take up to a week to complete.
As a result, a feeling of relaxation and body lightness usually follows immediately after. A legitimate SER restores health and facilitates healing in the body and mind.
Working with the musculoskeletal system using craniosacral therapy can offer very profound effects on the mind and body to facilitate healing and better connection.
About Dr. Kaminsky & Craniosacral Therapy
Dr. Kaminsky earned his Chiropractic degree in the year 2000 and is licensed to practice in NY. He has since completed close to three thousand hours of professional continuing education seminars.
For many years now, since 2015 he is using primarily the hands-on techniques of Craniosacral Therapy (CST), a gentle, non-invasive, laying of the hands that brings about reversal, restoration and healing in the human body.
The existence of a Craniosacral Mechanism is scientifically proven to control and be the driver of a moving fluid in the body called cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF), which is produced by the Choroid Plexus in the brain, the life force of brain fluid moving throughout the spine and tissue channels within the human body.
This system is part of the Central Nervous System (CNS) and (ANS) Autonomic Nervous System and its function is to pump this fluid via the internal, interconnected human fascial(tissue) network in the body via the mechanism of the Craniosacral system, which is the physiological function of the brain and spinal cord.
The craniosacral system is the hydraulic mechanism of the brain and body via CSF flow. This physical and physiological component functions by pumping this fluid and energy through its channels of interwoven human tissue within the head and spine outward, internally inside the body.
The craniosacral mechanism is the primary function of a human being that also maintains body and brain health.
The proper physiology of function of your cranial sacral mechanism, via CSF flow, maintains the normal tone of your muscles, provides nutrients to your organs, lubricates joints, keeps active all your cells and organs and keeps you alive. It also carries healing properties against physical stress, bodily traumas, injuries and post surgeries. CSF flows life inside of you by this mechanism.
Cerebro-Spinal fluid is found in every cell, tissue and organ in the body. It is the driving life force of human existence. It sustains life inside your body and allows your nervous system to stay responsive to external challenges of daily living and your mind-body healthy maintenance of your life.
The better your craniosacral mechanism functions, the better the flow of this life sustaining fluid, the better your mind and body can handle physical and emotional stress. An uncompromised, uninhibited flow of this fluid throughout your body allows you to live healthy, without symptoms or medically diagnosed conditions.
The functions inside of your brain is to automatically generate energetic rhythmic impulses that function to pump CSF throughout your body via the craniosacral system / mechanism, regulating your peripheral nerves, nervous system and organ systems, which in turn, sustain your function (physiology) and life. It is an important force that maintains everything functioning in your body. This is what we call the Craniosacral System, or Craniosacral Mechanism. It is the hydraulic, rejuvenating component of your body.
This measurable life force of moving fluid is palpable to a trained craniosacral therapist, like the heart rhythm, pulse rhythm, breathing rate, that can all be heard or felt, so too can the Cranial Sacral Rhythm (CSR) be palpated and measured by a trained craniosacral therapist. It is the foundational diagnostic tool in real-time that can be used to evaluate your current state of health and well-being, or lack thereof.
Compromises of your CSR’s rhythmic pulse, correlates to CSF flow restrictions in the system which the body is unable to self-correct or overcome on its own. This is the reason why over time we develop various symptoms, pain, dis-ease, different health conditions, mind-body disconnect and basically all human physical and psychological ailments.
When the fluid isn’t flowing optimally, your bodily rejuvenation and recovery is affected, and this is where the skill of an experienced craniosacral therapist becomes valuable. By placing his or her hands on your body, including your head and sacrum, the practitioner can detect, feel, evaluate, and rate the SQAR (symmetry, quality, amplitude, rate) of the fluid rhythm; then brings forth a response of the system and its compromises.
With experienced hand placement on different parts the body during a session, the therapist facilitates a positive internal change and brings forth internal correction.
A craniosacral therapist stimulates and helps your rhythm reset, restore and renew, allowing for healing to take place of musculoskeletal tightness and spasms, neurological deficits, autoimmune issues, organ function, many common conditions, pain and the mind-body connection.
Through a practitioners properly focused and attuned touch, your body is facilitated to release channels of fluid stagnation and CSF fluid flow restriction, which ultimately breakthrough, overcome and improve your rhythm and your potential for healing and health improvement.
The existence of the Craniosacral mechanism was first discovered by Osteopath Dr. William Sutherland in the early 1900’s, who called it Cranial Osteopathy. And many years later, through experimentation and research the importance of this system was validated and proven to exist by another Osteopath named Dr. John Upledger.
Dr. John, carried out research in the late 70’s and early 80’s at the Michigan State University, School of Medicine to prove the existence of this mechanism.
After successfully documenting and proving the existence of the cranial mechanism, Dr. John, as he was fondly called, established a teaching institute in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in order to bring to the world this newly discovered and developed hands-on healing therapy, he called it Craniosacral Therapy.
His mission was to teach this powerful approach to all licensed healthcare practitioners outside the Osteopathic profession. Hence the Upledger Institute was born and is still very active today throughout the world.
Dr. Alex Kaminsky is an advanced and certified Craniosacral Therapist, having studied advanced levels including SER, Brain and Pediatric courses. He has built a significant skill-set with many years of experience treating adults, children and babies. To learn more, visit the other pages on this website. Call to schedule your appointment with Dr. Kaminsky.