About Us - Institute of Craniosacral Studies

The Institute was founded in 1999 to integrate and teach the broad spectrum of approaches to Craniosacral Therapy that has evolved in recent decades. The training is firmly based in the work of William Garner Sutherland, who discovered the Primary Respiratory System, and includes the later contributions of other practitioners who have helped to develop the understanding of Craniosacral dynamics.

Students are introduced to a wide range of skills, within the context of a holistic understanding of disease processes, shock and trauma, and psycho-emotional influences. These include pre- and perinatal as well as early developmental patterning. Emphasis is put on students accessing their own internal processes to enable them to bring their own experience to the heart of their work with others.

'...the fluctuation of the cerebrospinal fluid has a potency with an Intelligence, as I found out. The potency is an invisible "fluid" within the cerebrospinal fluid. The potency of the Tide is what we have to consider...'
William Garner Sutherland