Research, Articles & Case Studies

At CST Partners, we have committed ourselves to a holistic healing approach that transcends conventional boundaries, addressing not only the mind, but also the body and spirit.CranioSacral Therapy, a cornerstone of our therapeutic offerings, is more than a physical intervention.

It is a gentle approach that accesses the deeper layers of Trauma, often held within the body, by engaging with the nervous system in a gentle non-invasive way.

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Effects of a traumatic event can penetrate into tissues of energy into a victims body! Sometimes our bodies hold back on a traumatic event that happens in our lives which sometimes gets bottled up inside and causes us different issues like pain. It can be released through CranioSacral Therapy called SomatoEmotional Release.

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Children in the Compassionate Touch program are taught a simple practice termed Helping Hands that can be used if another child has been hurt or is feeling discomfort.

They place a light touch on the child that is hurt in the area and is accompanied by a pulsation for the injured child. The Helping Hands help make the child feel better much faster with the compasionate touch! 

Let’s break it down. “Viscera” are your soft internal organs, such as your kidneys, lungs, stomach, and liver. So, visceral manipulation is a type of gentle hands-on therapy that assesses and addresses organ mobility.

This therapy, developed by French osteopath and physical therapist Jean-Pierre Barral, highlights the importance of treating the body as a connected system.

These children were studied for compassionte touch helping each other when getting hurt or for younger children "Owies". Helping Hands were helping to assist someone with physical pain, but also to helpthose who were emotionally distressed or unhappy.

Vagus means wondering in Latin, it is the long pathway of the branching of our Vegus Nerve. The Vegus Nerve runs down the neck, they travel into the chest and sends branches to the heart lungs and then passes through the diaphram to innervate all the organs in the body.