CranioSacral Therapy and Homeopathy

As a CranioSacral practitioner I am struck by the parallel between Homeopathy and CranioSacral therapy. Where CranioSacral practitioners use their hands to facilitate balance, Homeopaths make use of gentle remedies. Where CranioSacral therapy is rooted in anatomical harmony, Homeopathy strives to balance the body’s resonance, changing its expression of illness. Both treat the core, the very root of disease and imbalance.

Homeopathic treatment involves a thorough investigation of the client’s history and the administration of a remedy. A remedy is a diluted form of some substance. It displays the same resonance as the patient’s problem. The remedy works to match the patients’ state at its core resonance. The right remedy is a suggestion to the body to bring about greater self-awareness. This initiates the individual’s life energy/chi/inner physician to bring about a shift to greater balance and harmony in the patient’s body.

CranioSacral treatment involves carefully listening with the hands to treat old imbalances and traumas long forgotten or too difficult to overcome. The CranioSacral therapist applies, with his or her hands, only gentle/dilute forces (a suggestion to the body) to allow release of stored tension in the area. The skilled therapist applies only the amount of gentle force required to facilitate the body to self-correct and remove tissue restrictions. The body has an opportunity for greater self-awareness, initiating the body’s inner physician/chi/life energy to bring about a shift to greater balance and ease. After a session the body may take days or even weeks to complete the gradual self-correction. The body can now begin healing in a way it couldn’t before, without strain or hindrance.

Both CranioSacral therapy and Homeopathy respect the body’s natural method of healing and target the root cause of imbalance. In combination, they are a powerful approach to greater health and well-being, working harmoniously to the same end.