craniosacral fascial?

[shivaa]

I have been taking craniosacral therapy courses. And I am just starting to get a handle on how to unwind a client. But I just had another therapist ask me is the unwinding I do the same as craniosacral fascial unwinding t017 . I thought maybe she was thinking of the unwinding that can be done on the floor, but no she meant on the table.

I am so confused what is the difference?

 

[Lorri M]

craniosacral fascial?

Not sure if I am fully understanding your question, but unwinding is unwinding, at least to me. It can be very still and internal, or it can be large, whether on the table or ending up on the floor. Philosophical differences between MFR unwinding and CST unwinding are there: CST seems to believe (or at least used to) that the larger motions are often the bodies attempt to move out of a significant point, or avoidance. Therefore they may wish to keep one more focused. MFR often states that full blown unwinding is the true expression of the restriction, be it physical or emotional. Limiting this full motion is viewed as missing the point.

I have seen both extremes work and work well. Often people blow off the steam with a large scale unwinding but get to enamored with the process that they lose track of what was underneath. Hence the repeated unwindings at repeated seminars. People often benefit from looking inward more, changing the pattern.

 

[?h??? ???? h???]

craniosacral fascial?

The unwinding I have been experiencing seems to come from within and slowly moves out. I was just confused with it being asked if it is the same as craniofascial therapy.

 

[M D]

craniosacral fascial?

Some schools of CST (Milne/visionary) view the gross physical unwinding of limbs to be mostly/always a good thing, although it's said that body often goes through a bunch of unwinding that's not the "real" unwinding as a decoy, before it gets to the heart of the matter.

Others (Ridley/biodynamic) view it as always as a defense mechanism of the body, a sign of the client's boundaries being crossed or pushed.

Another biodynamic teacher I've talked to has indicated that:
- sometimes clients can get into the habit of simply building up a charge, blowing it off with unwinding, and then going on to build the charge back up... meanwhile it's easy to think that progress is being made or real work is being done when it isn't.
- sometimes unwinding can drive a negative pattern deeper into the body

I myself have experienced unwinding as a good and healing thing, and also as a response to subtle boundaries being pushed or ignored. So I find myself thinking it's best to draw from all the above models and not rely on any one of them to cover ALL situations.