A spoken demonstration of cranial massage techniques aimed at releasing head tension by working along skull sutures and encouraging fascia release. The practitioner describes locating and subtly separating cranial plates to increase local blood flow, guiding a client (Ben) through slow jaw openings to produce a pin-and-stretch and prompt sighing and tension release.
Moving a little more out of the neck into the cranial massage. So working into those sutures into the brain. You have plates in your head that are held together by sutures. I try to find where those sutures are and separate them minutely. It's a very minute thing. Some people don't think the plates move. Some people do. I feel that they have space. They can gain space.
That allows for the blood flow to come into that area. And you can literally feel like once you open up one of those areas, you can just feel the fascia release. And typically, the client will give a good sigh when you get those. So that's my goal with getting into the actual head, is bringing in blood flow and release and all that tension in the head. You'd be surprised how much tension we hold in our head. Ben feels really tight in here. So part of the jaw work I like to do when I feel tension here is not just doing it in the jaw, but I'm going to do it right here. So, Ben, when you feel me getting into some of these areas, or when I tell you, go ahead and open up slowly, close slowly, and go ahead and just do that five times in a row, just really slow. And you can tell by his reaction in the eyes right there that he's feeling that. And this is like a pin and stretch. So I'm holding a lot of this muscle down. So when he's opening and closing his jaw, he's feeling that stretch from this right here.
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