The Role of Cranial Psychotherapy in Emotional Release

There was a specific pattern of tension that you were aware of that the Alexander technique couldn't really get to or couldn't get to in any sort of reasonable amount of time. In my very first lesson, in my very first experience with cranial psychotherapy, I was put on the table and unlike in the Alexander technique, you can go into a kind of semi-hypnotic state. It's very passive in that sense. And what actually happened was that I started having what felt like a flashback to something that I couldn't recognize that was emotionally very traumatic for me at the time. When I finished crying, the pain in my jaw was done. So that is a particular example of