I've been seeing a Daphnae Koop, a cranio-sacral therapist for the past few weeks in the hope that she could help me with my tinitis (vibrating and ringing in the ears) and bad hearing that's recently gotten worse. I heard about her through a Gyrotonic client who swears by her. Indeed, Daphnae's specialty is hearing loss and tinnitis. (She's also known to work wonders with migraines and TMJ). But like so many things, what I've discovered along the way is quite different from (but probably deeply connected to) my hearing loss. Unlike the article I wrote for this magazine several months ago on CST, I will not try to explain how it works, only to say that for me, something quietly profound has been happening in these sessions: my hearing is improving and I'm also beginning to unwind some old trauma that lives in one particular place in my neck movement (not coincidently on the same side as my "bad" ear). I really don't know how to explain it: through gentle guided movement, my body is beginning to release or unwind in the places it was frozen. Daphnae has been a body worker for over 20 years, 15 of those exclusively as a CST. Her hands know things and are able to listen to the body the way a musician hears sound. Trying is believing. CST gets at a deep layer of the physical body, down to the connective tissue that organizes us and where energy flows. You can find Daphnae at the Breathing Room in Wayzata.