The Osipidal Cranial Release Technique for Sacral Massage Therapy

Video Transcript

"Hi! On behalf of expertvillage.com, I’m Jean Hurley from Siegels Day Spa in Cottonwood, Arizona and we are talking about cranial-sacral release therapy today. I like to sit on an exercise ball and that helps give us fluid of movement. Some of the holds that we do can hold for a 10 minute period, so you want to be comfortable yourself as a therapist. The first hold we do is call osipidal cranial release. Hold and simply without using the thumbs, you want to come to an osipidal ridge with the forefingers and you are going to lift the client’s head without using your thumbs and you are simply creating a pressure point at the osipidal ridge and there we are. You simply find the rhythm. The rhythm to me feels like a J-movement. You kind of get sucked into a J. The rhythm moves 6 to 8 times per minute and it simply feeling the rhythm of the spinal fluid into the cranium and feeling the relax happen at osipidal ridge. The client is usually laying still and quiet. He can, at any time, tell us if he does feel pain at a certain point of pressure."