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Energy Therapies
explore the subtle factors that underlie health conditions. These systems
look beneath surface, mechanistic explanations of symptoms to address
deeper causes of healing and disease. Energy therapies are effective,
gentle, safe encounters with generally unseen factors in physical, emotional
and mental wellness.
Energy Therapies generally offer a new paradigm for wellness, the idea
that healing comes from within. This is in contrast to the prevailing
mainstream belief that healing comes from outside, via medical authority,
pharmaceutical correction or surgical procedure. The energy-based approach
states that patients can benefit greatly from introspective self-awareness
and gentle, natural remedies to facilitate and enhance the body’s
own inherent healing resources. External corrective strategies are still
used, but with more caution, and emphasis is placed on empowering people
to take more responsibility for their health conditions.
Craniosacral and Polarity Therapies both originated with American osteopathic
physicians in the mid-twentieth century, and were subsequently adopted
outside the medical profession. Both propose that human health is driven
by a subtle inner intelligence which can be palpated. Both employ hands-on
methods to support this intelligence in its numerous expressions in
the body.
Craniosacral
Therapy, indirectly derived from the work of William Sutherland,
DO (1873-1954), grew out of modern osteopathic medicine. Craniosacral
Therapy focuses on an energetic “ordering principle” which
permeates the body and can be palpated as a tiny tidal movement emanating
from the body’s midline. The ordering principle provides a blueprint
for health throughout all systems.
Polarity Therapy, developed by Randolph Stone, DO, DC, ND (1890-1981),
is based on ancient esoteric health concepts. Polarity emphasizes the
body’s natural cycles of energetic expansion and contraction (called
yang & yin in the Orient), and functional energetic centers along
the spine (called chakras in India).
We consider Craniosacral and Polarity Therapies to be elegant and practical
expressions of energy healing art and science. They inform and support
each other profoundly, giving health practitioners of any modality effective,
gentle and safe methods for understanding and affecting the subtle dimensions
of human well-being.
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