An Integrative Approach to Healing
Maura Kelly, owner of The Sunrise Room, offers Craniosacral Therapy & Holistic Healing in Westmont & Frankfort, IL.
With 15 years of experience as a licensed physical therapist, Maura offers a unique combination of scientific knowledge, gentle touch, and intuition to guide your healing process. She offers gentle, evidence-informed body work, for adults, children and infants across the western Chicagoland suburbs.
She believes in the body's innate ability to heal itself, and provides a safe and loving environment for each healing session. Maura offers a broad range of holistic healing modalities, including Craniosacral Therapy, Craniosacral Fascial Therapy, Reflex Integration, Breathwork, Guided Meditation, Intention Setting, Chakra Balancing and Reiki.
Find deeper healing through Craniosacral Therapy.
Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, hands-on healing modality that works with the body’s connective tissue, nervous system, and natural craniosacral rhythms. Using light touch, the practitioner listens for areas of tension, restriction, and imbalance and supports the body in softening, releasing, and reorganizing at its own pace.
The craniosacral system is comprised of the cranium, spine, and sacrum as well as the brain, spinal cord, and spinal fluid encompassed within. Because the fascia and nervous system influence the entire body, Craniosacral Therapy is experienced as a whole-body treatment rather than work focused in one isolated area. Sessions support relaxation, decreased tension, greater body awareness, and a deeper sense of ease and regulation.
Craniosacral Therapy is rooted in Osteopathic principles, evolving through the contributions of physicians including Harold Magoun, William G. Sutherland, John E. Upledger, Hugh Milne, and Don Massat.
The focus of Craniosacral Therapy is to promote the movement of cerebrospinal fluid in and around the Central Nervous System (CNS), with the goal of enhancing the body’s innate healing abilities. A well-nourished nervous system, having all of its structures balanced, will function optimally. A disruption to the flow of cerebrospinal fluid may cause an imbalance and contribute to pain, illness, and dysfunction.
At The Sunrise Room, Craniosacral Therapy is used as more that a physical technique. Sessions may also incorporate breath, meditation, and intuitive listening to create space for physical, emotional, and energetic patterns to settle.
Craniosacral Therapy is performed in a broad range of realms, from physical and mental, to emotional and spiritual. The benefits of your Craniosacral Therapy will go as deeply as you’ll allow it to, improving whole body health and performance.
What to expect during a Craniosacral Therapy session:
CST is a deeply relaxing modality, performed in a quiet, comfortable setting, with the client lying on a treatment table, wearing comfortable loose-fitting clothing. The practitioner may guide the client in breathwork or a brief meditation, to allow full relaxation. The practitioner will then apply gentle touch to bony prominences along the craniosacral bones to feel for disruptions in the craniosacral rhythm or flow. If a disruption is detected, the practitioner will use light touch to open up congestion and re-establish a balanced flow of cerebrospinal fluid. This will improve the function of the CNS as well as many other systems of the body, such as the digestive, musculoskeletal, respiratory, and circulatory systems. When the restriction is released, the client may feel a physical release such as muscular release (light twitching sensation), body unwinding, emotional release, slight changes in body temperature, coughing or heavy breathing.
If your belief system allows for a deeper, multidimensional healing, Craniosacral Therapy will connect the scientific musculoskeletal system with the vibrational, energetic nature of the body and spirit. This will allow healing of the body, psyche, and spirit. In addition, it will awaken your light, cleanse your energy, and balance your chakras.
I can help with
Migraines
Concussions
Physical Trauma
Orthopedic Injury
Chronic Pain
Memory
Cognition
Trauma Spectrum Response
Insomnia
Anxiety
Depression
Addiction
ADD-ADHD
Learning Difficulties
Autism
Motor Coordination
Infant & Childhood Conditions
Alignment
Energy Balance
Intention Setting
Restoring Immunity
Schedule your session today.
We are ready to get you feeling better. Healing sessions will be personalized to fit your needs. Our sessions are appropriate for all ages.