Hey,

The most important question we ask our clients is "where do you think
(insert condition) came from. Almost every time they know exactly
where it started.

The sacrum piece. There is a membrane system around your brain and
spinal cord. It has 2 layers. The outer layer attaches to your sacrum
at it's 2nd segment. It then forms the lining of the vertebrae all the
way up to the skull where it has some firm attachments around the
foramen magnum and then inside the head. The 2nd layer only attaches
to nerve roots the length of the spine so it is kinda free flowing.
Inside the membrane and around the CNS is a fluid; cerebrospinal fluid.
This combination creates a hydraulic system like the brakes on your
car. Like the brakes a small pressure on one end can be equally
distributed throughout the system so a fall on your sacrum can be
transmitted all the way up to your head. This is what a sacral
concussion is.

As for your mouth. The membrane attaches to most of the bones of your
head with the exception of your facial bones. Because it is hydraulic,
it is also self corrective. It is kinda elastic and with slight
movements can retrace its path back to a more healthy resting place.
Because the facial bones don't have this ability, trauma directly to
them can result in long standing issues that usually need some direct
mouth work to correct.

As for taking the course. I am always in favour of it. It will give
you some insight in that the course looks at how connected the body and
how accidents years ago can still be in our body.

I hope this helps.

Dave

On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:05 PM, michael grogan wrote:

> Hi,
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> I don't know what the sacrum would have to do with this. I am fairly
> sure that I got the deviation in my septum when I fell and hit the
> corner of my mouth on the left side on the corner of a wooden coffee
> table at age 4.
>
> I haven't had any craniosacral training, but I have had about 5 or 6
> sessions of cranioscaacral with about 3 different people. Would
> taking the training help give me insight into my own problem? I have
> been thinking about taking the training next month, in Charlotte, NC.
>
> mike
>
> --- In craniosacralnetwork@yahoogroups.com, David Tomlinson
> <phinsup@v...> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I thought I'd jump in here for a moment.
>>
>> I think the thing to keep in mind with regards to CST is that
>> lesions/restrictions could be coming from anywhere in the body. I
>> agree that the pelvic area can really have an impact on the
> face/mouth
>> but don't assume that. I can't find your original email to see if
> you
>> are a therapist or not but one thing we stress through all levels
> of
>> the training is to be open to anything.
>>
>> As soon as we are going into "fix-it mode" like andrew says it
> becomes
>> very mechanical and not trusting of the body's inner knowledge of
> how
>> to correct things. I would agree with Andrew that a more subtle
>> approach should be used..like using true CST with no agenda and
> letting
>> the client lead the session.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:58 PM, michael grogan wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What do you mean by subtle?
>>>
>>> mike
>>>
>>> --- In craniosacralnetwork@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Cook"
>>> <mail@h...> wrote:
>>>> Hi Mike
>>>>
>>>> I've never used or even seen the NCR balloons - so I can't
> comment
>>> on those - except -
>>>> I'd be careful of applying too much pressure with inflatable
>>> balloons - if you damage anything
>>>> around your ethmoid, it is (in general) far harder to repair an
>>> expansive trauma than it is to
>>>> correct a compresive one.
>>>>
>>>> My experience is that septal/vomer problems which remain stuck
> are
>>> cause by something stuck tound
>>>> the coccyx or sacrum or other deep midline structures inferior to
>>> the umbilicus. If you address the
>>>> tailbone/sacrum, this frees off the faciomaxilliary area some
>>> more, then when that has moved as much
>>>> as it can, you again go back to the sacrum/coccyx... repeating
> the
>>> cycle as many times as it takes.
>>>>
>>>> This is applying CST in a very mechanical "fixit" manner - there
>>> are more subtle, less "fixit" ways
>>>> of working on this which are sometimes far more effective.
> Againm
>>> if you have hit a plateau, I'd
>>>> suggest that maybe something more subtle could be what is needed
>>>>
>>>> Andew
>>>
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