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Deeper Healing to Embody Wellness
Your body holds it's own innate wisdom and ability to heal. Emotional and physical stress can create physiological responses that manifest as pain, illness, and anxiety. Craniosacral Therapy, Reiki, and Somatic Healing Practices address these restrictions, balance the nervous system, and allow your inner healer to restore and calibrate to radiant health and wellness! Learn to feel safe in your body and embrace your natural state of joy.
Craniosacral Therapy
Based on Osteopathy, Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on treatment during which the practitioner tunes in to the rhythm created by the cerebrospinal fluid as it is pumped throughout the tissues surrounding the brain and spinal cord. This rhythm allows the practitioner to connect with all the structures of the body, from bones to organs, from regions of the brain to ligaments and muscles, and really “listen” to the body. CST requires an excellent understanding of anatomy, as well as a sensitive touch.
What can CST actually do for me?
CST promotes healing by balancing the Central Nervous System, in other words, it can calm the flight/flight/freeze response and promote relaxation. Why is this so important? A body in a state of stress cannot heal. Your body is an extraordinary machine with innate wisdom and the capacity to heal. Stress, unprocessed emotions, accidents, injuries, and physical or emotional traumas can create physiological responses within the body that manifest as pain, illness, and anxiety. CST can find restrictions not just in the physical, but often the emotional and energetic layers, and rebalance and release them. Your body’s own ability to heal itself can then work more effectively.
The dural system containing the cerebrospinal fluid acts as a pressure regulation to protect the brain and spinal cord. Many impact injuries, accidents, and traumas cause misalignment or compression in the vertebrae and the bones of the face and cranium, as well as adhesions in the dura surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Modern concussion protocols call for realignment and decompression of cranial and facial bones after the first week following a concussion. Using light touch, a Craniosacral Therapist is able to “unwind” restricted tissues and restore alignment.
Craniosacral Therapy is an effective treatment for:
Post-concussion symptoms Headaches/MigraineNeck and Back Pain TMJ Chronic Pain Fibromyalgia Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Anxiety/DepressionStress/Chronic Fatigue
CST is NOT: A cure-all. A contraindication for infants
Reiki
Reiki is a powerful yet gentle modality of energy healing that channels Divine light to address restrictions, often created by negative thoughts and feelings about the self, within the physical body, subtle body, and the energetic. Practitioners who are drawn to Reiki come from a place of compassion and kindness and because Reiki is guided by spiritual consciousness, it can do no harm.
Somatic Healing Practices
Yoga, Therapeutic Exercise, Somatic Movement, Bellydance
Andrea Eden Vos, PTA, CST
After years of studying, teaching, and performing movement practices from fitness to dance, I became a Physical Therapist Assistant to deepen my understanding of anatomy and kinesiology, how to optimize movement, and to facilitate recovery from injury and pain. Like many professionals in the field of Physical Therapy, this comes from a place of my own personal injury and pain that impacted my ability to perform the activities I loved. While working with countless patients in an Outpatient Orthopedic setting, I noticed patterns emerging of the complexity and nuances of why some people were dealing with chronic pain vs. others, and the physiological responses created by stress and emotional trauma, and began looking beyond basic musculoskeletal structures. This brought me to enroll in the Craniosacral Therapy program at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA in 2018. The study and practice of Craniosacral Therapy has been pivotal in my own healing journey and spiritual development. CST is one of the main tools I use for connection to self and the allowing the body's innate wisdom to illuminate the path. If the body can store unprocessed emotions and trauma, let's rewrite those stories with self-agency! Along the way to my Certification, I became attuned as an Advanced Reiki Practitioner, received my 200hr Yoga Teacher Training Certification, took classes in Animal Communication, and kept up on my continuing education for Physical Therapy, all while working full time and teaching Fitness classes. That is the quintessential Manifesting Generator! My vision is to open an actual Animal Sanctuary and Retreat Center, thank you for your part in the story!
I am available for both Craniosacral Therapy and Reiki sessions at Eden Wellness Sanctuary in Lynnwood, WA, and customize additional techniques for you that may include therapeutic exercise, somatic healing movements, and more. I look forward to meeting you wherever you are on your healing journey! Please contact me for a free phone consultation to see how I can best be of service for you.
