May 04, 2025
Politics may be a new cause of physical illness and emotional holding. As therapists, we know our model is to be impartial, non-judgmental, ego subordinated and unconditionally present, but how do we proceed? What does treating "politics" in a CST or other manual therapy session look like?
September 26, 2024
Recently, we received this question from one of our students. "How do you document and bill for basic CST?" Our answer to her was "All the definitions of physiological reactions and effects to our techniques are options for documentation and ways we can record results in our notes..."
September 09, 2024
Throughout our teaching we speak of intention of the therapist as holding a safe, gentle environment in which we create a quiet, comfortable space in which the patient can get "in touch" with what their body is trying to tell them.
April 30, 2024
This is a place for CST therapists to view and share quick reminders, insights, tips and more to help us all improve our treatment skills.
February 17, 2024
Are your CST clients feeling encumbered by an underlying emotion? Over time "feeling bad" may lead to chronic tension, anxiety, pain, and emotional stress. That can affect the physical and emotional body to the point of shortness of breath, insomnia, limited range of motion in the neck or back, and headaches among other symptoms. (Read the complete article)
November 05, 2022
As CST practitioners, we hold people in their darkest hour of fear, tragedy, loss, and pain. Our role is to lead them to an awareness that there is an inner strength that can be cultivated; hope can come alive, healing can come and they are not always who they think they are. Helping them return to the wonder of their spring season...
May 11, 2022
The "golden hour" was a lifesaving time on the battle field. If you could get to a wounded soldier within the first hour there was a better chance of saving life and healing. "I have found universal consciousness gives us a literal 'golden hour' twice each day. As first dawn begins to chase darkness from the night, she opens and gives birth to the day as the sunlight bursts forth in radiance on each of us equally with a luminescence of hope, healing, growth and renewal, even on cloudy days."
August 02, 2021
I ask the patient, "Ok, can you use one finger and show me where you feel that?" This causes the patient to instantly reduce the area of concern from the width and breadth of the hand to an area the size of a fingertip. If they point with one finger to the side of the head by the temple, I should immediately think of sphenoid and revisit the vault holds and likely do an efficient OCB, parietals, frontals, and focus closely on the temporals...
May 04, 2021
"We have our own effects of the 'rain' to deal with so that we are whole, healthy, centered and therefore able to hold space for others...It is from adversity we learn to mourn, adapt, heal and grow in the celebration and continuance of life. This is our opportunity to rebuild, renew and care for each other and move forward together again."
October 14, 2020
Recently, in "Don's Circle" we have offered entries on our current times dealing with the pandemic: job losses, financial losses and the greatest of losses -- human loss of life, illness, stress, and the fear of contracting the all-encompassing corona virus. The accompanying uncertainty around our society in social justice, racism, gun violence, division in our politics has made all of us question our future and our very continuance.