In the course of the last 25 years working with adults, then children with developmental and physical delays, I was looking for a way to help people. I found massage in the form of a 650 hour program that focused on alternative healing methods and prepared students to become certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork. Through that program I found that touch has grown into the meaningful contact of life, and whole body connection. There I developed a sense of touch that was purposeful but not demanding, brought change without being attached to the outcome and offered connection without the need for cognition or words. When I began this journey I experienced CranioSacral Therapy for the first time, quickly I knew I desired to participate in this physical as well as energetic work. It challenged my understanding of the world and the body, I questioned what was happening during these sessions, was the practitioner moving or was I, why did I feel so emotional and how can a body part unwind like that. After deepening my ability to connect to the body though the practice of whole body integrative style of Esalen Massage…. I finally moved back toward the first modality to touch my heart, CranioSacral Therapy.

Cindy Nelson finds great purpose in using the healing process employed by gentle, light, non-invasive touch in order to release tension and improve the function of the CranioSacral system. As a pediatric nurse practitioner for 38 years, Cindy experienced firsthand the value and reward of touch primarily through her work with adolescent pulmonary disease. Initially skeptical of alternative modalities, she discovered CranioSacral Therapy (CST) after the practice helped her son ultimately recover from an illness for which allopathic medicine had presented no solution. Studying John Upledger’s unique technique while also maintaining a collaboration with the Integrative Medicine Department of her local hospital, she has created an alternative and innovative healing pathway to greater health.