Welcome to Myofascial Release Centre

The Myofascial Release Centre is Australia's leading educational training centre for advanced trainings and courses in Myofascial Release Therapy and Craniosacral Therapy. The Centre is founded by Patricia Farnsworth DRM, RCST. One of Australia's most qualified practitioners and educators in Myofascial Release and Craniosacral Therapy.

The Centre was founded in 1994 to bring advanced training in MFR/CST to Australian practitioners, and to provide whole body treatment approaches for the treatment of pain and dysfunction.

The effectiveness of Myofascial Release and Craniosacral Therapy has brought a new dimension to therapeutic practice, with an impact and degree of acceptance unprecedented in the history of health care.

Using this State-of-the-art approach, you will learn to evaluate and treat the following:

Why Combine Myofascial Release with Craniosacral Therapy

There are considerable benefits to practitioners and clients alike by combining Myofascial Release with Craniosacral Therapy. Some clients who have received excellent soft tissue body work get to the point where the treatment plateaus or partially regresses because only part of the fascial system was treated. Conversely, some clients who are just treated with Craniosacral Therapy may experience relief of symptoms only to have them recur. There are logical reasons for these occurrences.

If one narrowly focuses only on the craniosacral system and pays no attention to things like muscular spasm, structural restrictions and fascial constrictions outside of the dural tube (covering fascia of the spinal cord) then these imbalances and restrictions will pull the dural sleeves like powerful anchors, overwhelming and restricting the craniosacral system over and over again.

These distortions of course lead to poor biomechanical efficiency, reduced circulation and a reduced nerve impulse conductance or impingement. This has considerable ramifications when dealing with the elite athlete looking for optimum performance, or the client who is looking for answers to painful chronic long term conditions. The fascia has a major impact on the cranial system, influencing cranial tides, fluid movements and meridian conductivity.

One may look at fascial and cranial work as being yin/yang. The craniosacral system as being a tiny delicate system embedded in a larger fascial system - both are mutually dependent on each other for balance of the whole. Thus if one system is affected, this will disturb the other.

If you are interested in advanced trainings we invite you to peruse further pages on this site that will detail more information on these exciting therapies. The trainings are referred to as Somatic Craniosacral Therapy as they combine in a logical sequence Myofascial Release and Craniosacral Therapy.