Craniosacral Therapy in NYC
Craniosacral Therapy with Dr. Alex Kaminsky
Craniosacral Therapy NYC. Is essentially the therapeutic interaction between the giver and receiver of care. Craniosacral therapy is a focused, intended and concentrated hands-on light touch corrective approach along specific points on the patient’s body, spine, neck, and head that bring about correction and improvement in the function of the Central Nervous System.
The intention of the hands-on approach is to facilitate the release of physiological / energetic blockages, or stuck (negative, disruptive) emotions and past traumatic events and injuries the energies of which your body’s tissues are holding on to. The traumas need not be severe, but rather could have been very, very mild.
These stuck / trapped energies that are due to unprocessed, unresolved emotions, injuries, traumas and experiences from your life have accumulated and are ultimately now creating symptoms and health conditions in your physical body. The traumas, negative emotions and unpleasant experiences are catching up to you.
Pain, spasm, fatigue, head pain, any symptom felt by you is a direct link from inside your body of negative, unpleasant, difficult, unexpected, and traumatic events / emotions you have experienced in your life that the body has not forgotten. Energy of these emotions are stuck in your body. Your experiences are trapped, as you may have gotten over things consciously, but your body has not yet processed them at the nervous system level.
The focus of care is to facilitate your body to release that which the body has accumulated and held on to, which is now interfering with your life processes, not serving your highest purpose, causing pain and other ailments. Releasing this with Craniosacral Therapy, Somato Emotional Release, Myofascial Release or other in-office techniques, will allow your body to restore itself, heal, and fulfill expression of your best self by expressing your optimal health.
Releasing trapped, stuck emotions and negative energies will open new possibilities for your health and healing.
How Does the Body Heal?
The therapeutic / healing bodywork from a cranial sacral practitioner facilitates your unprocessed emotional / energetic processing release. Once enough releases are achieved, your particular symptom, pain, issue or condition improves. The nervous system improves with each release, and helps your body make physical corrections, and restore the mind-body complex.
The body heals because the physical body is dependent on the state of health of the energetic body within you. Yes, we have an energetic system the physical body is dependent on. The energetic body has an anatomy just like the physical body. You have Chakra, Meridian Points, Health Rays, Aura and other invisible layers of the energetic human anatomy.
When stuck negative energies are released from the energetic body with Craniosacral Therapy the physical body and mind-body improves.
The Body Can Heal at Any Age
Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, noninvasive hands-on treatment that taps into human self-healing capabilities by stimulating correction and improvement from a wide variety of symptoms, conditions, dysfunctions, ailments and pain.
The Body Stores Negative Energy
Trapped, stuck, stored energy are unpleasant emotions and physical traumas you have experienced, which carry an energetic charge.
Unresolved, unprocessed emotions and traumas which carry an energetic charge become stuck in the energetic system of the body. The body often does not process to resolution by the nervous system these events and can express its effect many years later and at any time in your life.
Emotions such as fear, jealousy, betrayal, hate, disappointment, etc., trapped in our energetic system can start to affect us physically.
Stuck / trapped energies are simply past experiences / emotions not dealt with effectively by the energetic-physical mind-body, and can be recent or decades old, and they disrupt the function of your body causing pain, most symptoms and many different conditions.
You Can Release Trapped Emotions and Physical Accidents
Craniosacral Therapy can facilitate your body to release these emotional energies, traumas and unresolved experiences, resulting in your physical and emotional healing and maximum expression of wellbeing.
Benefits of Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral Therapy purpose is to release stuck, depleted, congested or old energies from the body. Improving the function of your body, ultimately improving your health, vigor and wellbeing.
Craniosacral Therapy can provide people relief from:
- TMJ
- Scoliosis
- Headache
- Neck and Back Pain
- Shoulder Pain
- Insomnia
- Torticollis
- Fibromyalgia
- Other Conditions
Take Care of Your Body
Once pain and symptoms disappear, conditions reverse, you will be in a position to feel bliss, euphoria, happiness, stillness, calmness and the feeling of a content balanced nervous system in your body. All are effects ultimately of an optimally functioning Craniosacral Mechanism.
Achievable with several premier modalities such as Craniosacral Therapy including Somato Emotional Release, and Myofascial Release.
Cerebrospinal Fluid is the Body’s Life Force
The most important physiologic function of the human body is optimal flow of Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF), a major component of the Craniosacral Mechanism.
Looking at our health history, ancient Egyptians used crystal Energy Rods for health and healing. Tibetan Monks practiced Thoba Khujatag, a form of cranial manipulation, the Indian Yogi’s channel Kundalini energy through the spine, the Chinese work with Chi and Meridian points to restore balance.
These methods are all meant to positively effect the flow of Cerebrospinal Fluid, the hydraulics or the energy mechanism of the living body, another words known today as Craniosacral Mechanism.
Origins of Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral Therapy was developed by Dr. John Upledger during a research time-span of five years. In the year 1978 Dr. John E. Upledger set up a research team at a medical school in Michigan State University.
After their research on real patients ended with incredible results in 1983, Dr. Upledger set up a teaching institute called the Upledger Institute in Palm Beach, Florida, which is alive and well still today, training many practitioners in Craniosacral Therapy.
The allopathic medical community continues to write-off these results and still today do not embrace this powerful model of care. But it is real, Craniosacral Therapy offers genuine results.
Alex was born in March 1972. At the age of 7 he started to experience frequent headaches with all the conventional symptoms of a Migraine headache. His particular headache resulted in him experiencing auras, nausea and sensitivity to light with no particular trigger to the onset of the migraine.
After years of treatments, therapies and medications, his headaches were no better and Alex continued to experience them all throughout childhood and into young adulthood. Some years the headaches would come monthly, some years every two to three months and some years weekly. His headaches were incurable, there was nothing that could alleviate the symptoms and head pain. Until he experienced cranial manual therapy, which resulted in the complete eradication of his life-long Migraine Headaches.
At the age of 16 Alex noticed a mild deformity in the right side of his ribs, a slightly lower right shoulder and the experience of constant lower back pain. Although mild, a diagnosis of Idiopathic Adolescent Scoliosis had been labeled.
At the age of 18 he was involved in a serious car accident that exacerbated his lower back pain. Throughout the years Alex had tried a multitude of conventional treatments but continued to suffer on and off with lower back pain, even throughout Chiropractic school and beyond.
In 2015 and fifteen+ years out of Chiropractic school, Dr. Kaminsky participated in his first and life changing Craniosacral Therapy seminar and he was fascinated, intrigued and hooked. It all made sense, he was immediately astute to its methods and since that first seminar, and as a result of trading sessions of Craniosacral Therapy with his colleagues, his back pain subsided and till this day has never returned.
Dr. Kaminsky decided to enhance his skill-set to better serve his patients. He began reaching out to other craniosacral therapists, cranial osteopaths, and many types of leading practitioners from various fields for advise and consultations He also enrolled in Upledger continuing education seminars with a focus on mostly hands-on manual and alternative therapies.
And, as he gained knowledge with his own health issues, he has learned to help more and more patients achieve great health results.
Dr. Alex Kaminsky is headache free and low back pain free, and has committed himself to a life of learning, teaching and treating patients. His emphasis is on the patient’s stored patterns of the body and each individual healthcare needs.
Craniosacral Therapy FAQ
Bodywork is an art based on the practitioner’s experience, diagnostic ability, intuition, therapeutic skill-set, intention and various other factors. Dr. Kaminsky’s approach is to first and foremost examine the physical body. Second, evaluate the energetic system for indicators, mainly the Chakra energy centers. This approach provides for him a focused body-map as to where on the body to begin the hands-on Craniosacral Therapy treatment.
Every person is different. Sometimes improvement is felt immediately, sometimes after a few sessions. Sometimes after many sessions and rarely no improvement at all.
Our bodies are capable of healing. With craniosacral therapy the body conforms to the touch and facilitates a release, often numerous releases. It is a physiological, energetic release, stagnant fluid release, tissue movement release, a lightening of tension, easing of pressure, a letting go response of the body. Every type of release brings you closer to Optimal healthy Function and Well Being, out of pain, improvement in symptoms and potentially your condition reversal.
From the interaction of the practitioner to the patient via placement of the hands on to the patient’s body, healing begins. The body draws-in the practitioner to where hand placement begins the session and continues to move from region to region on the head, neck, spine and cranium.
CranioSacral Therapy is a hands-on, manual body work modality that facilitates healing and improvement in the body and head. It was developed between the years of 1975-1983 by Osteopathic Physician Dr. John Upledger and his team at Michigan State University.