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CranioSacral Therapy (CST) was recently featured in an article at midwiferytoday.com:
CranioSacral Therapy in the Midwifery Model of Care
Here is a post I made recently regarding CST and Obstetrics (OB) at BodyworkOnline.com

Here are some clinical discoveries of the application of CST to OB
* We have been able to use CST instead of Pitocin to both start [...]

Here’s a two part video from a Gainesville, FL local news station about a 13-year old girl with severe scoliosis and her family’s struggle to get CranioSacral Therapy covered by their insurance.
Part One
Part Two
Part two has video of Dr. John Upledger working on the 13-year old, and speaks more about CranioSacral Therapy than the first [...]

Yup. That’s right. I completed my certification process on Thursday August 7, 2008! I spoke about my written exam and a bit about the certification process in this previous post.
I was unable to take my practical exam with the examiner in my city. But I believe it happened for a reason. I tested with an [...]

For those who don’t know, I have been working on my CranioSacral Certification through the Upledger Institute. It is a very thorough process that involves a written essay exam, practical hands-on testing and an objective multiple choice exam. I became a certification applicant back in April of 2006. From April 2006 to April 2008 I [...]

I have recently begun being a moderator for 2 bodywork threads over at BodyworkOnline.com. I am the co-moderator for:
Massage & Holistic Therapies (Techniques, modalities, etc.)
and
Student Forum
I’m pretty excited about this opportunity. I’ve never done anything like this before.
There are many posts about CranioSacral Therapy throughout the forums. I would love to see more CST therapists [...]

I have been reading Peter Levine’s book, Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma. One of our CranioSacral Therapy instructors mentions this book in several classes. So, I thought it was time to buy it and read it. It has been a fascinating, very educational book about how trauma, of any kind, can get stuck in [...]

This book was just released on April 29, 2008 … so it’s hot off the presses. I have not received my copy yet, but when I do I will read it and post some of my thoughts.
If you’ve read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts ….

Here is my second post on the subject of Infant CST from the BodyworkOnline.com forum:
I have a couple points to discuss.
First, yes extra training is recommended. In Upledger CST training, we spend a morning in CSTII talking about working with newborns and children. At this stage we do not recommend that therapists start working with [...]

I have been involved in a discussion over at BodyworkOnline.com regarding infant CranioSacral Therapy. (Read full post here.) But I thought I would post my responses here as well. They are fairly detailed and contain quite a bit of information regarding CranioSacral Therapy during gestation, labor and delivery. Here’s my first post on the [...]