ADVANCED CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY
(enhanced with Bio-Energy, Bio-Mechanics, Somato-Emotional Release, Visceral Manipulation, Lymphatic Drainage, Functional Endocrinology, Dao, Reiki
& Medical Clinical Qigong Therapy)
Simona Glekel M.S., L.A., L.M.T., Q.C.M.T.
brainrenew4@yahoo.com
Houston & Austin, Texas
832-798-2262
"I have received CST before, but not with this powerful effect."
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Who is Simona Glekel?
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S. A. Glekel has
- an advanced level in studies of a Craniosacral System - Craniosacral Therapy (CST): Hydraulic One - and its healing therapeutic effect on adults and children.
- She is an Active Member of the American CranioSacral Therapy Association, ACSTA (acsta.com)
- is a Medallion Member of the International Association of Healthcare Practitioners, IAHP (iahp.com)
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She has ACSTA certificates in
- CS therapy I, II,
- SomatoEmotional release, clinical application, and
- CS for pediatrics, including newborns (CSI,CSII,SERI,CASR,CSP).
Simona Glekel also
- holds an M.S. in Engineering, L.A, R.M.T., L.M.T., Q.C.M.T.
- has education and experience in Bio-Energy, Bio-Mechanics, Somato-Emotional Release, Visceral Manipulation, Lymphatic Drainage, Functional Endocrinology, EFT, Dao, Reiki & Medical Clinical Qigong Therapy
From her earlier education and work, Simona Glekel has experience and done research in
- engineering
- herbology
- hydraulics
- environmental studies of water toxicity
S.A. Glekel originally became an engineer in Russia, where she also published 4 technical books, 3 other publications, and has 1 patent. She studied herbology in Russia and has a US certificate in environmental studies and water contamination - knowledge that brings more insight to deal with body toxicity.
In the US she designed and implemented various (engineering) energy systems in compliance with the laws of nature (physics, hydraulic, mechanics). Listed in "Cambridge Who is Who".
Her life, and successful career in engineering, changed after a family tragedy involving a death due to brain damage, after which she decided to switch direction and learn everything possible about the brain/spinal/neurological systems of the body.
Simona Glekel also has extensive knowledge in Bio-Energy and Bio-Mechanics. Her work improves the energy properties of the body, which is of central importance also in CST. Her energy work is enhanced by having completed certificate studies of Visceral Manipulation, Lymphatic Drainage, Functional Endocrinology
& Medical Clinical Qigong Therapy as well as Reiki.
Thanks to all these experiences she now has a unique approach to the body as the most perfect hydraulic/engineering/energy system, designed by the Creator. She has an extraordinary understanding of the interaction within the body of these different systems, which combine different forms of energy. Her extensive knowledge is a major factor in her great success with clients. Another factor is her remarkable intuitive skills.
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What is CranioSacral Therapy??
- CranioSacral therapy (CST) is a gentle, non-invasive method of evaluating & enhancing the function of a physiological body system — the Craniosacral system, in which there is a rhythmical pulse created by the motion of the cerebrospinal fluid. The purpose is to determine if there are any abnormalities in the rhythmic pulse of this body fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. And then to pinpoint and correct the source problems.
CranioSacral therapy enhances the body's natural ability to heal & has proven effective in treating a wide variety of health problems. Serious problems often show substantial and lasting improvement in very short time. For complicated problems always use the most experienced therapist you can find. There can be quite a difference among CST therapists, since it often takes years of work with thousands of clients to reach optimal skill. The therapy was developed by Dr. Upledger D.D.,O.M.M
and Dr. Zvi Karni, PhD, Biomechanics.
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How does a CranioSacral therapist work?
- A CranioSacral therapist is trained to determine if there are any abnormalities in the rhythmic pulse of the cerebrospinal fluid, if the pulse is too slow, too fast, irregular or inhomogenous, and where restrictions are located. Using hands and fingertips with a subtle, hardly noticeable touch, on the fully clothed client, the therapist will gently step-by-step help the body correct various abnormalities and problems caused by imbalances of the Craniosacral system. By the same means skeletal & cranial dislocations are located and corrected. A special form of energy work constitutes another large part of CST, e.g. release of trapped energy in tissues & membranes.
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How is CranioSacral therapy performed?
- CranioSacral therapy is performed by a very gentle touch - about 5 grams – generally no more than the weight of a nickel – to the surface of the body. The essence of this gentle method is to balance the function of the cerebrospinal fluid from disorganized motion into organized order (6 to 12 cycles per minute), which is the normal and optimal state.
The person lies horizontally on a table, fully clothed, while the therapist evaluates and corrects the rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid. Since this fluid represents hydraulic energy, it has a powerful effect on the entire function of the central nervous system and other body systems (circulatory, lymphatic, immune, skeleto-muscular, endocrine, etc.).
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How does it feel?
- A person experiences a state of deep relaxation, sometimes falling asleep, and feeling fully refreshed after the end of the session. CST is being used for insomnia, hyperactivity, depression, nightmares, anxiety. The method increases resistance to stress as well as other environmental damages.
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Are there any problems with CST?
- Well, people recover so fast, that I constantly have to get new clients. People do not need years to get better, rather months. My hardest cases sofar have had substantial recovery in less than 5 months. Of course this is only positive, it is why I professionally chose to concentrate on this very effective therapy.
If you try CST and don't achieve desired result - try a more experienced CST therapist. When it comes to difficult diseases, there can be large differences in results between different therapists, depending on experience, knowledge and education, as well as hands-on skill.
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Is CranioSacral Therapy covered by health care insurance plans?
- There are differences - some progressive insurance plans will cover CST, yet other insurance plans will not cover the treatment. The more recognition CranioSacral Therapy is gaining, and the more people are requesting CST, the sooner it will be recognized by insurance companies.
There is an annual international drive for spreading knowledge of CST - April is designated as the CranioSacral Therapy Awareness month. Knowledge of CST is beginning to spread - more and more hospitals use craniosacral today: see e.g. Huggins Hospital NH, Cincinatti Childrens Hospital, St. Vincent Hospital, Womens Hospital Indianapolis, Columbus Regional Hospital, Griffin Hospital CT.
Plus, there is a proposed DeFazio-Burton bill: "Access to Medical Treatment Act" that, if passed, will give patients right to choose alternative treatments.
Note: The quick and lasting results that as a rule are achieved with CST will make you save money in the long run, even without insurance coverage. And, what is health worth?
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Do you work with children?
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Cerebral palsy
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I am very interested in the welfare and health of children. Currently I have a cerebral palsy baby, 1 year old, that is making fast progress. He didn't move at all when he first came, but after a couple of hours of CST he pushed himself using arms and legs through a simulated birth process during the session.
A 3 year old girl had a big bump on her head, from falling down the stairs, that wouldn't heal. The mother had gone to see a doctor about it, with no change. It took one CST session for the bump to disappear.
CranioSacral is very efficient for Ceasarian babies, who have not had their cranium squeezed like natural-birth babies have had going through the birth-canal - and may have developed problems, e.g. lots of screaming.
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My mother is paralysed from stroke. Can you help her?
- I currently have a 92 year old client who was completely paralysed from stroke 2 years ago. When I started the once-a-week treatment 1/2 year ago she sat paralysed in a wheelchair, did not speak, except for possibly a yes or no, and her skin was full of reddish spots and veins. - Now she can move the legs and hands, she recently was conversing (almost as before the stroke) with her daughter on the phone, and the red spots have disappeared. Note that acupuncture treatment for one year had not made any difference for her.
The length of recovery time depends on the volume of the damage in the brain, how active the person is, the oxygen abundance in the air that the person breathes, etc.
I would say that CST is one of the most effective and safe methods for stroke in existence today.
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What can CST do for slow speech development in children?
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I have had a very unusual case of rapid brain improvement with a boy who never spoke a word in his life. Now, after 4.5 months of treatments not only he speaks words, but sentences. He started compose his own expressions instead of repeating after adults. This is the third case of rapid speech center development in my practice. The first two were nine years old and seven. Those boys started to speak just in two months after the first session.
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What about autism?
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A 9 1/2 year old boy, who had autism since falling on a cement floor from his father's arms when 4 months, was brought to me. When I was first introduced to him nobody understood a word of what he said, he abused his younger siblings, and was a typical autistic child. But he was a talented piano player, and this was his only means of expressing himself.
After 2 months, with sessions twice a week, one Monday his mother rang my door bell and started screaming, before I even opened the door: "My son talks! My son talks!" An unforgettable moment. He had for the first time said a few phrases during the weekend. I continued to work on him for a couple of months, and now, a few years later he is a very normal young man, no longer autistic.
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Have you worked with with Dementia or Alzheimers?
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Yes, I have found that through CranioSacral therapy many families
can find help with these devastating diseases.
Currently (March 2002) I have one lady who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's after being
in confinement and under restraint in a psychiatric hospital
room for months. Two years ago she started getting withdrawn from reality and losing her memory. She is my client since October 10, 2001, coming once a week.
When she first came she didn't know who her daughter was, just that she looked familiar. After a couple of sessions she recognized her daughter, then she remembered her daughter's name, then she started remembering the exact time her daughter last visited.
My client's daughter has become very happy about her mother's
improved memory: her mother recently recalled very old family
friends, who lived in Europe. And there are many other positive
changes: more friendly, communicative, balanced, with
less mood swings. She had a few setbacks in January, but now she is more and
more stabilized both with memory and emotional
conditions. Her family used to complain that she
was "very stubborn", but they now say it is easier to
communicate than before. We continue our sessions.
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Have you had any Parkinson case?
- Yes, for example in 1999 I had a a piano player as a client, who had been diagnosed with Parkinson three years before. One of her hands had strong tremors, and she could no longer play the piano. She had difficulties holding her spine straight. Since Parkinson causes damage of the central nervous system, it affects the sense of balance and causes the spine to lose strength, plus the client is not sure where the ground is. After 6 hours of CST this woman became well enough to be able to cook, and play the piano with both hands. She had to stop the treatment there, even if not fully recovered.
Also, a man came to me with strong tremor in both hands and severe edema - his ankles were very swollen. He had chronic Parkinson since 6 years, his kidneys were quite destroyed, he didn't want to take more medicine and was looking for a non-invasive treatment. After the first session, that lasted two hours, the tremor stopped. After the 3rd session - the ankles were not swollen anymore. This man said: "I have received CST before, but not with this powerful effect."
I had another case, a retired man with Parkinson and severe damage to hips and lower back, he couldn't sit down due to pain, and came with a nurse. After appr. 6 hours of CranioSacral Therapy he didn't need the nurse anymore, could take care of himself and was even accepted into Seven Acres nursing home.
(It is amazing to witness the remarkable power of the body to heal itself, when blockages for healing are removed. But of course you never know in advance what will happen, how much improvement you will get and how fast.)
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What about insomnia?
- Not too long ago a lady called me, who had not been able to sleep for many nights, and had strong anxiety. I gave her a 1 1/2 hour treatment. She called later and said that she now was feeling fine and was sleeping soundly.
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Does CranioSacral Therapy work for migraine?
- Migraines are excruciating headaches, which usually immediately take the sufferers away from normal activities. Migraines affect not only physiological conditions but emotional and psychological as well. They affect communication and can create misunderstanding or/and destroy future communications. Migraines diminish productivity and quality of work and life.
I have had successful experiences with migraines of different nature. Usually migraines are treated relatively fast, unless they are the result of fetus development complications during the mother's pregnancy. I had two young women in their late twenties who approached me for help with this type of severe migraine, that they had suffered daily since they were 2 resp. 4 years old. One recovered after 4 1/2 hours, and the other after 7 hours of CranioSacral Therapy.
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What about TMJ, and can face-lift clients benefit from CST?
- Yes, face-lift clients will benefit in the following way - CST eliminates TMJ syndrome that sometimes comes as the result of a face lift. It also brings flexibility and a softer smile to the face - since tense skin is often a problem after a face lift.
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Can Restless Leg Syndrome improve?
- One of my clients, who approached me with request to help with Restless Leg Syndrome, was in her 70's.
Her mother and grandmother also suffered with Restless Leg Syndrome until the end of their lives.
My client recovered from this genetically acquired neurological condition in two and a half months of non-invasive, gentle treatments (of the brain and spinal cord ).
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What about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
- For example, one of my clients was on disability due to Chronic Fatigue for almost 6 years prior to approaching me for help.
After our 6-7 hours of synchronized work, she got off disability and returned to work, back to her favorite designer's work.
My approach to clients with Chronic Fatigue syndrom is very deep assessment of all his/her energetic patterns and life style. After which I use a combination of Bio Energy methods, including CST, to increase the patient's vitality and energy.
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Do you have any experience with addictions?
- Yes, I do. Drug addictions, alcoholism, smoking usually respond effectively to CST. One of my clients who used to drink before and after work is now, after 15 sessions, not drinking at all. Another client had brain damage from drugs to such a degree that he could only sleep a few hours per night, and had lost two jobs. He is now drug free, his brain has completely recovered from the addiction, and he is continuing his professional career.
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Can CST be used preventatively for drug addictions?
- Yes, since CST helps the brain to detoxify, it may help many American teenagers stay away from drugs. Of course there is a deep psychological reason why somebody starts with drugs in the first place. This topic is close to my heart - I remember my own daughter's teenage years and all the dangers and temptations. CST can be used as effective preventative therapy for middle and high school students. First, CST helps the brain get rid of chemical addictions already there. Detoxification of the brain is why CST usually also will improve study results and intellectual performance, make the student more productive, more balanced, less agitative and fighting, more peaceful. As a result, the need for chemical stimulation diminishes.
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Can you give some other example?
- A 72 year old lady came to me with severe gangrene in one foot. She had been told nothing could be done for her, since she was also a diabetic. After the 3rd session with me, her pain was gone and she could move around like normal. She continued the treatments, since she also had congestive heart failure, that she hoped would improve as well. Her cardiologist had given her a date for when she needed to set-up surgery. The date came, and when I next saw her she could hardly speak, being so excited. She no longer needed surgery, she had been told, since her heart condition had improved.
  
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What Conditions Does CranioSacral Therapy Address?
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CranioSacral Therapy
strengthens your body’s ability to do what it does best: take care of you.
In that way it helps alleviate a range of illness, pain and dysfunction,
including:
- Infantile Disorders
- Autism, Cerebral Palsy
- ADD and Various Childrens Disorders
- Learning Disabilities
- Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries
- Spinal Cord Injuries, Whiplash
- Migraine Headaches
- Abnormal Blood Pressure
- Chronic Fatigue click here
- Endometriosis
- Motor-Coordination Impairments
- Epilepsy, Alzheimer, Dementia
- Post Stroke Conditions, Paralysis
- Chronic Neck and Back Pain
- Scoliosis, Spondylosis,
- Central Nervous System Disorders
- Emotional Difficulties
- Facial Pain Problems
- Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome (TMJ)
- Insomnia, Hyperactivity, Sleep Disorders
- Depression, Nightmares, Anxiety
- Memory Deterioration, Brain Dysfunction,
- Stress and Tension-Related Problems
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Fibromyalgia, Arthritic problems, Abnormal Blood Pressure
- Chronic colitis, Bed Wetting
- Peripheral Neuropathy, Neuroma, Hemangioma
- Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis
- Restless Leg Syndrome click here
- Orthopedic Problems
- Loss of Vision, Hearing or Speech
- And Many Other Conditions
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"I have found this work to
be so exciting that I now not only use it as an assessment tool for
all my clients, but for at least 80 percent of treatment. My
caseload is almost entirely ‘end-of-the-line’ chronic pain with
which other therapies have failed. I am amazed at the results I am
getting using CranioSacral Therapy"
Judith Bradley, P.T., San Francisco, CA
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