CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY – THE HISTORY

Dr. William Sutherland discovered CST over 100 years ago. Dr. Sutherland studied under the founder of osteopathy, Andrew Taylor Still, at the first American School of Osteopathy. He had insight that the cranial bones articulated and are closely connected to interrelated tissues and fluids at the body’s core. This system has a unique rhythm like that of your breath and heart, and can be felt throughout the entire body.

At that time, few believed him because the movements were very subtle and could only be felt by a person with highly sensitive hands. In his day, Dr. Sutherland was denouned as a “heretic” and a “quack”. It was only in the 1940s - some 40 years after he first proposed his theories – that Dr. Sutherland's work began to gain wider acceptance among medical practitioners.

     Dr. William Garner Sutherland

Today, highly sensitive computerized medical diagnostic equipment confirm that Dr Sutherland had been right all along. Dr Sutherland's theories are now accepted as medical fact.