The Power of CranioSacral Therapy

CranioSacral is a very gentle and relaxing treatment, yet it can achieve powerful results.

Mr. Gir

In summer of 2023, my 11 year old cat Mr. Gir suddenly lost his balance. Not just a little bit, either. He was sitting on the floor, waiting for dinner. As I came near, he looked up at me. The act of looking up caused him to fall over onto his side. This was not remotely normal for him, and it was honestly terrifying.

I checked in with him, he said "I'm okay but please fix it." So I immediately took him to the emergency vet. They asked me all the typical questions, did you get any new plants he may have eaten? Did you change any cleaning products? Did he get into any marijuana? The answer to all these questions was no, but they refused to believe the last one for some reason. Maybe it was my tie dye shirt, I don't know. Finally I got them to stop asking about that, so we could try to figure out what DID happen and fix it.

They gave him a physical exam and did blood work, all of which came back normal. I kept asking about his inner ear, because that's where I felt the problem was. They kept saying it's fine. They told me the next step was "a very expensive MRI, and it's going to be a brain tumor." I checked in with my shamanic guides and felt very strongly it's not a tumor, and said so. They kept returning to it, and I felt like the guy in Kindergarten Cop saying "it's not a tumor!!"

I spent over $500 that night, and left with no answers or help for my boy, who is my heart. I gave him Reiki and I did shamanic work for him, but they weren't the right treatment. He was still very dizzy and unbalanced.

So I took him to his regular vet. They said his bloodwork was so normal it was boring. They checked his eyes and his ears. Said it was all normal. They said the next step is "a very expensive MRI and it's going to be a brain tumor." And we were right back to Kindergarten Cop again. Another $200 with no answers and no help for my boy.

As I checked in shamanically, it felt to me like the bones of his skull were all being squeezed together. I felt so much pressure in his head, it felt so constricted, like being squeezed in a vice. That's when I remembered CranioSacral Therapy.

In massage school I had an introductory course in CranioSacral. I loved it and always said that I wanted to do training in it once I graduated. But life happened, and I had never done it. When I was working in resort spas they never offered that service, so it had always been a "one day" dream that was put on the back burner.

I got Mr Gir scheduled for a CranioSacral appointment. I had no idea what to expect, all I knew was that my guides insisted it would help. It did.

That day, he was about 50% improved in his balance. We rescheduled for the next week. The practitioner told me she had been able to create more space in his head (she, too, had felt that compression) but that if it was a tumor, then it would again take that space up over the next week.

The next week, he was maintaining his balance the same from my perspective. Checking in shamanically, I did feel much less compression in his head. His appointment came, and the practitioner agreed, he had held the healing she'd given him the weak before. She gave him another session, and he improved again.

Gradually we spread his healings to once a month, and he improved to 95% normal balance. He seemed to hold here, not gaining any further improvement, but not losing any either.

That's when I decided to take CranioSacral training off the back burner and finally make it happen. And I'm so glad I did!

I have seen CranioSacral work erase daily migraines my client had suffered for decades, restore proper function in limbs, realign bodies and restore balance in people and animals. All while being very relaxing and gentle to receive. And it can be done over distance, which is ideal for animals as they can relax in their own home while receiving treatment. Distance work is also very convenient for people who may not have a CranioSacral therapist nearby.

In summer of 2025, Mr. Gir suddenly lost his hearing. He slept straight through the vacuum. He then escaped the house as I came in the door. I brought the treat jug outside, shaking it noisily because that always makes him come runnng. He did not come running, though. I found him in the back yard, and came up behind him shaking the jug. No reaction. As I was coming up to him he finally turned around, and promptly jumped back in surprise. He had not heard me at all.

We went to a new vet (I had other issues with the old one) and I explained about his hearing and also his balance issue and told them I thought they were related and that the problem was in the inner ear. But it was a repeat of the previous visits. This time, I told them if it was a tumor, he would be dead by now. It's been 2 years. They say it could be vascular or neural. There is one nerve that carries the information for both hearing and balance from the inner ear into the brain, so this makes sense to me.

At that point it had been a few months since Gir had received a Cranio treatment, so I gave him one. His hearing came back immediately.

One of the main focuses of CranioSacral is to free up the nerves from any pinching or other impingements so that they can function properly. This is as close to a diagnosis as we're likely to get for Mr. Gir. But CranioSacral doesn't require a diagnosis to work, it just works. And that's good enough for us.

Today, Mr. Gir is still doing well. He has good quality of life, his balance is near normal, his hearing is good, and we get lots of snuggles in daily. And he gets his CranioSacral sessions.