Emily Klik, LMT, CST - Upledger CranioSacral Certified Therapist

I love this gentle bodywork.

Up until 2001, I suffered from terrible headaches and migraines. Finding no relief from medication, other forms of bodywork, various therapies.... someone suggested I try craniosacral therapy. While I didn’t understand it at the time, I figured ‘why not?’, I had nothing to lose, and my head really hurt.

So I saw a gifted CranioSacral therapist who first placed her hands on my head, then after a few minutes shifted her hands to my low back and sacrum. While I didn’t understand this at all, and actually thought “I don’t hurt in my low back, but whatever, this is relaxing!”, I stayed put because it was after all, relaxing. After a few minutes, I noticed the pain in my cranium was starting to decrease, and a clenching feeling in my head started to soften.

30 minutes later, my screaming migraine was barely annoying. The pain wasn’t gone completely, but it was SUCH an improvement. Sitting up from the massage table at the end, I asked “what was that?”. Her simple response “CranioSacral Therapy”.

6 months later, I attended my first CranioSacral class, my first bodywork class EVER in fact, and I fell hopelessly in love with this gentle bodywork. I mentored under that gifted CranioSacral Therapist (the one who released my old migraines) for a few years, took more classes, thus beginning my journey into the mystery of CranioSacral Therapy.

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