This was put forth by a craniosacral association, and while I can appreciate that so many lineages converge in our work, I think it also endangers us to pedestal a modality. I personally feel it is better to remember that Andrew Taylor Still only taught two techniques and believed the technique should be birthed spontaneously through the biology looking for help. I consider techniques some one else’s way to appreciate the anatomy, and that is why I like to focus on understanding connection. If we say we do traditional CST, perhaps we miss our pressure willing to be dynamic, or the referral being made. I remember one session a man came to me with back pain, and doing acupuncture down his bladder channel I could feel where an adjustment would be so helpful, and I suggested it would be really lovely for him to see a chiropractor soon. Two days later, I had a 5 star review pop up online, where the man stated the session was helpful, but goodness that referral to the chiropractor was what he needed and is now pain free. I feel what is best, that a person finds a modality and a practitioner that loves their work, and it serves them as long as it is needed. As with each session and the arch of time with people seeking our care, we do our work and step back. Bruce Lee created Je Kun Do, as a style that was adoptable based on the opponents before him. He understood that staying stuck in any one style would leave him missing a way to meet the opponent at hand. He famously says, be like water. So just an invitation, be open to changing and dynamic tonal matching pressure, be open that a session may take a course you didn’t plan but be like water and change course with the river of the session, remember that sometimes our perception that something or someone else may be needed, and giving a good referral can be a healing action. Do our work and step back.

Each week we focus into a specific segment from the webinar. Tomorrow a video and online course material will be in the classroom space under sphenoid where we take another look at the pterygomandibular raphe.