CranioSacral Therapy for Migraines in Oakland
I’m so glad you are looking into CranioSacral Therapy to help your migraine headaches. From my studio in Oakland (Rockridge) my clients have found successful reduction in the frequency and severity of migraines. There are many factors that can trigger migraines and CranioSacral can help – especially when paired with other mind-body healing efforts from dietary, fitness, and lifestyle changes. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’re all too familiar with the stress of our urban lifestyle. CranioSacral Therapy is one healing modality worth exploring.
In my sessions, I incorporate CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, SomatoEmotional Release and energy work. It is my goal that you leave your session feeling empowered around your own health and more connected to your body. CranioSacral Therapy helps reconnect you to your body’s innately wise and self-healing capacities. I believe that physical injuries and illnesses are our opportunity to communicate with our deeper wisdom.
What Causes Migraines?
Your best brain is one that is calm, happy, integrated, emanating that Zen moment of bliss regardless of the whirling chaos around you. Perhaps, instead, you’re feeling that your brain is drowning in a sea of overwhelming life challenges and yesterday’s traumas that won’t stop haunting you. Maybe you’re even having nagging headaches, pounding migraines, or notice you act a lot more like a snarling alligator defending his swamp than a happy butterfly alighting on flowers. You’ve had psychotherapy, bodywork, and, frankly, think that your brain should have its act together by now.
You might have an old, or even new, untreated head injury. If you’ve ever had a big fall, even as a kid, you’ve had a head injury. If you’ve ever been in a car crash, you’ve had a head injury. You don’t have to hit your head to have a concussion or even lose consciousness to be diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury . All that has to happen is your brain undergoes a rapid acceleration/deceleration. Whiplash happens in your brain. If you ever did have a CT scan it wouldn’t be able to show the effects of mTBI. The devastating physical and cognitive symptoms can show up months, or even years later.
What is CranioSacral Therapy?
CranioSacral Therapy uses a gentle touch to evaluate and release restrictions in the soft tissues. Once the tissue is released, the body doesn’t have to spend the extra energy to work around the restricted area and you will feel much better. By freeing the central nervous system to perform at its best, CranioSacral Therapy naturally eliminates pain and stress, strengthens your resistance to disease, and enhances your health and well being.
As a skilled CranioSacral therapist, I listen with my hands to the subtle rhythms of the body, detecting restrictions and imbalances held in its various systems, especially the nerves, tissues and fluids. As shifts and changes happen in your body, I will ask you questions to continue to guide the process, and support you to connect with your body’s inner wisdom. Sometimes there are just physical changes, and sometimes during a session CranioSacral Therapy facilitates the gentle release of unprocessed emotion and trauma.
From my Oakland studio, I serve the East Bay communities from Walnut Creek to Berkeley and clients come from San Francisco and Marin for:
CranioSacral Therapy for mom’s and babies
CranioSacral Therapy for anxiety
CranioSacral Therapy for tinnitus
CranioSacral Therapy for TMJ
CranioSacral Therapy for Concussions
Also Now offering Holistic Pelvic Care™ treatments!
Does Craniosacral Therapy Work for Migraines?
Craniosacral therapy, combined with myofascial massage and guided visualization, helps soothe your aching head by releasing tensions in the cranial bones and the intracranial membrane system, smoothing out the kinks in your cranial nerves, relaxing your head, neck, and shoulders, all the way down to your tailbone.
Craniosacral helps by addressing the deepest brain tensions to release old neuro emotional imprints. Guided visualization helps integrate all brain systems; the brain stem (reptilian brain), limbic system (emotional brain), cerebellum (the co-processor), and cerebral cortex (higher reasoning) learn to work together as a team and bring peace to your kingdom.
When the brain is better integrated, there is greater communication between the left and right hemispheres, deeper focus, creativity and calm. It’s what the experts call optimizing executive brain function.The effect is as if you’ve attended a meditation retreat.
I had my first appointment with Sirena and it was magical! It was super easy to book an appointment online. Her beautiful cottage is both warm and welcoming. Her treatment was very relaxing and calming. I felt a sense of peace and calm after my session with her. I can still feel the difference in my body and mind. I thank her so much for her God-given talent and gift that she uses to help others. I highly recommend it!
Sirena is an exceptionally talented healer and a delightful person. She is an experienced, trustworthy, professional cranial sacral practitioner. Her background in occupational therapy enhances Sirena’s deep knowledge of how the body works; she has a magical ability to activate the mind/body connection. I am inspired by Sirena’s creativity and joyful attitude. I would highly recommend Sirena to anyone and everyone.