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William Garner Sutherland
La Terapia Cráneo-Sacral (TCS), nace de la mano de William Garner Sutherland (1873-1954) en Estados Unidos.
Sutherland empieza a trabajar como aprendiz en una imprenta y posteriormente se dedica al periodismo en donde oye hablar por primera vez de Andrew Taylor Still ( 1928-1917) padre de la osteopatía, y de los maravillosos resultados que éste obtiene frente a algunos dolores físicos que las personas sienten.
Así que Sutherland, decide visitar la escuela de osteopatía que Still ha fundado en Kinsville (EE.UU) . Queda tan impresionado, que decide emprender su formación como osteópata , convirtiéndose en su mejor discípulo.
En aquella época se pensaba que el cráneo era una especie de caja rígida, y que los huesos de la cabeza quedaban soldados al acabar el crecimiento.
Durante muchos años Sutherland emprendió un estudio exhaustivo acerca de los huesos craneales, su obsesión llegó a tal extremo , que acumulaba cráneos por todos los rincones de su casa, y los comparaba entre ellos. Su casa se convirtió en un laboratorio de experimentación, lo que su mujer llegó a calificar de :“la época craneal de su matrimonio”.
Un día, observando un cráneo desarticulado y armado, le llamó la atención el biselado de las superficies articulares del esfenoides con la escama del temporal, imagen que relacionó con las branquias de un pez. Esto, que le hace pensar en la movilidad articular.
Fabricó un casco de experimentación con correas, y con esto empezó a estudiar en su propio cuerpo. Conservaba éste casco días enteros cambiando los puntos de apoyo y las presiones, y empezó a sentir dolores que nunca antes había tenido: dolores de cabeza, transtornos de la visión, síncopes etc. Luego desarrolló unas manipulaciones de movilidad de Líquido Cefalorraquídeo (LCR) que aliviaban sus molestias.
En 1939 escribe The cranial Bowl ( La bóveda craneal), en donde expone su visión mecanicista , sin embargo este libro no es bien recibido ni entendido por la comunidad esteopática de la época.
Sus investigaciones sin embargo, le llevan a desarrollar la osteopátia craneal, basada en micromovimientos craneales, el estudio del Sistema de Membranas, el Líquido Cefalorraquídeo ( LCR), y la relación entre pelvis-sacro y cráneo-sacro.
En los últimos diez años de su vida dio a conocer el conceto Aliento de Vida, un sistema de trabajo basado en el movimiento de los fluidos y las fuerza primarias, conocido como Respiración Primaria.[:en]Craniosacral Therapy (CST) was developed in the United States, by William Garner Sutherland (1873-1954).
Sutherland started his working life as an apprentice in a printing shop, and later he became a reporter, where he first heard of Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917), the father of osteopathy, and of the wonderful results he obtained in curing some of the physical pains people had.
So Sutherland decided to visit Still’s school of osteopathy, which he had founded in Kinsville (USA). Sutherland was so impressed with it that he decided to begin his training as an osteopath, eventually becoming his best disciple.
In those days, the cranium was considered a sort of rigid box, whose bones became ‘soldered’ when the person reached adulthood.
For many years, Sutherland studied the cranial bones exhaustively. His obsession was such that he had skulls in every corner of his house in order to compare them with one another. His house became an experimental laboratory. His wife called this “the cranial stage” of their marriage.
One day, he was observing a skull that had been dismantled and he noticed the bevelled edges of the articular surface that joins the sphenoid bone with the squama of the temporal bone, an image he related with a fish’s gills. This made him think of articular mobility.
He then made himself an experimental helmet, held with straps, and with it he started studying by experimenting on his own body. He would wear this helmet for days on end, changing the points of pressure and he began feeling pains he’d never had before: headaches, vision disorders, syncopes, etc. Then he developed the manipulation of the mobility of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which eased his troubles.
In 1939 he wrote The Cranial Bowl, where he explained his mechanistic vision; however, this book was not well received or understood by the osteopathic community at the time.
Nevertheless, his investigations led him to develop cranial osteopathy, based on cranial micromovements, the study of the Membrane System, the Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) and the relationship between pelvis-sacrum and cranium-sacrum.
During the last ten years of his life he developed and made publicly known the Breath of Life concept, a work system based on fluid movement and primary forces, known as Primary Respiration.[:]
