Release
If someone throws a ball and it hits you in the head, the impact will put a sort of imprint in your body.
  Luckily your body is designed to release any of these normal, day to day imprints that you receive.
  This is like owning a car that has the ability to 'pop out' dents it picks up along the way.
  The dents our bodies pick up are the bumps, bangs, trips and falls of life, and most of the time our body can 'pop' them out or release them successfully.

  Problems only occur when this self-repairing release mechanism is overwhelmed. This can happen if the physical or emotional trauma is too great for our body to cope with.
[The point at which this self repair mechanism gets overwhelmed is different for each person.]

  Our body never stops trying to release a traumatic imprint. Sometimes it is eventually successful and completes the release, if not ,our system becomes depleated from the continual efforts of trying to achieve a release.

  When our body is trying to release a restriction it has a particular movement to it. This is similar to the movement of our body when we breath or of the blood pumping around our body. The difference with the movement our body makes when it is repairing itself is that it is very subtle.

As cranio sacral therapists we have learned to feel this movement. We can also feel where it is getting stuck in the process of releasing. This is crucial because once we can feel where it is getting stuck we then know where to support it.

  It is like watching someone try to roll a big ball up a hill. Every time they get about half way up, they collapse and the ball rolls back down again.

  What a cranio sacral therapist does is walk along beside the person as they roll the ball up the hill then just at the point where they are about to collapse the cranio sacral therapist puts their hand out and holds the ball.

  The cranio sacral therapist continues to hold the ball until the person has gathered their strength and can roll the ball a little further up the hill.
  Then when the person is about to collapse again the cranio sacral therapist supports the ball once more until the person has gathered their resources and roll the ball to the top of the hill, which in this case would be a release.