Polarity Therapy
Benefits: Brings coherence to the energetic fields that surround and permeate the body. Relief of physical and emotional pain. Promotes peaceful nature and soothes the nervous system. Aids in giving one greater self sufficiency.
What to expect: Polarity Therapy differs from all other systems of health in that it encourages deep personal transformation. This comprehensive system of health allows us to examine ourselves in a safe space... to unearth the pains, behavioral patterns, obstructions, and distortions that lie within our physical form.
Energy fields and currents exist everywhere in nature. Connecting currents run through and around us, creating a vast field of energy. In the Polarity system, health is viewed as a reflection of the condition of the energy field.
Expand your knowledge: Polarity Therapy is the system of energy medicine developed by renowned naturopath, osteopath, and chiropractor, Dr. Randolph Stone. Polarity Therapy asserts that the balanced flow of energy in and around the human body is the foundation of good health. In Polarity Therapy, we approach the body as one piece of a complex energetic network. Stress, trauma, and other life events can create blockage or overflow in our field and result in physical pain, mental distress, and disease. Many of these hands-on techniques use the concept of positive, negative, and neutral poles of the body to facilitate release. The five element theory and the major and minor chakras (energy centers) also play a key role in treatments. The advanced corrective sequences within Polarity Therapy allow us to shift major structural issues within the body. For example, we have tools to address flat feet, inverted feet, everted feet, knock knees, bow legs, anterior or oposterior tilt of the pelvis, a high hip, a lifted shoulder, a sunken chest, and a subluxation in the spine. There are over 600 manipulations and they are extremely specific—all the way down to the correction for a bunion.
CranioSacral Therapy
Benefits: Balancing of the nervous system. Trauma release. Improved postural alignment. Enhanced overall well-being. Increase in immune system function.
What to expect: With years of experience in "entrainment" - the fine tuning of the hands to read the vital signs of another energy system - your practitioner will be able to assess the blockages, restrictions, and stagnations within your body and release those twist and turns so that energy may flow freely, promoting good health.
In the hands-on practice, CranioSacral Therapy reverses inertial patterning, the physical expression with how we have dealt with traumas over the course of our lives. A restriction within this system can manifest anywhere else within the body. For example, a sprained ankle on the left side could ultimately lead to headaches coming in from the right parietal bone.
Expand your knowledge: Over 100 years ago, Dr. William Sutherland, the founder of CranioSacral Therapy, discovered that the cranial sutures were actually designed to oscillate between two positions - flexion and extension. He understood through palpation and deep meditation that the sutures of the cranium express small degrees of motion. After many years of devoted research, he concluded that this impulse was stimulated by the inherent life force of the body and he called it ‘the Breath of Life’. Sutherland also found that this intrinsic motion cascades rhythmically down the spine, affecting the nervous system, controlling the flow of cerebrospinal fluids, as well as the structure of the spinal column and the glandular systems in the brain.
Just a century ago, osteopaths made gentle physical adjustments to the skeleton to help fix ailments from the common cold to life threatening diseases. Today however, a DO functions more similarly to an MD. This inherent human need for touch has been filled by practitioners of various types of Massage, CranioSacral Therapy, Ayurvedic techniques, acupuncture, and other alternative modalities.
