Ellen Mossman Craniosacral Therapy and Education

Ellen’s Craniosacral Anatomy class was such a blast! It brought the depth of knowledge I was looking for paired with intuitive wisdom and exploratory fun :)

Ellen is an exceptional teacher, and I can’t recommend her classes and workshops highly enough. Her approach allows for students of varying experience and learning styles to fully absorb and process information – while simultaneously being entertained, engaged, and amused.
By using experiential learning methods, and focusing on presenting information in many different ways, Ellen creates space for learning on many levels, and in many ways. I have found her workshops to be not only deeply educational, but also lovely, enjoyable experiences that continue to resonate long after they are over.

I have not been a part of the SCT world, and knew nothing about it. I was recommend to Ellen by a friend who had good success with healing. I came to see Ellen for a golf injury that wasn’t getting better with deep massage. The work she did helped right away. However, the really exciting thing is that I have had asthma for 36 years, and resigned myself to the fact that I would always suffer with wheezing and coughing. Ellen suggested that she work with my lungs, and did so in the very gentlest of ways. She moved slowing and carefully, as she does all her work. She in very respectful of her patients, (I assume not just me!) I have noticed a remarkable improvement in my breathing. The first Spring in many years that I haven’t made a visit to the emergency room. Wonderful!

I have been receiving professional body treatments for over 30 years. I have been going to Ellen for craniosacral treatments the past 10 years. Sometimes I go when a body part is aching, sometimes I go just to get back in balance. Ellen has great knowledge and intuition of every inch of the human body and with her eyes can read into what’s out of whack in your body! She is a master at what she does, there’s a reason why she teaches cranial sacral classes all over the United States. I always feel like I am in great hands while lying on the table. I feel amazing when I get up off the table and for weeks later too! If you have any type of injury she can help you out for sure. Ellen also has an amazing sense of humor and great warmness! I feel right at home the minute I walk in her door
I leave a session with her feeling refreshed, renewed and rejuvenated. Do yourself a favor and go see her !

I’ve been a bodyworker for 10 years and a CST practitioner for five years and I’ve studied with Milne Institute and McKinnion Institute locally and taken 3 courses with Ellen to date.
I highly recommend Ellen’s Craniosacral education courses. She is really the best Craniosacral Teacher I’ve ever had — a blend of deep anatomical knowledge, humor (she has me in stitches often), and at the same time I’ve felt incredibly focused, connected and grounded in her classes. She actually gets me excited about anatomy!
She is a great CST practitioner too, gentle, caring, skilled. Even trained in trauma therapy (which heck, who hasn’t suffered some kind of trauma in their lives?).
Much recommended.

I used to be a Cranio-​Sacral practitioner and have been a body on bodyworkers’ tables for thirty years. I’ve had good, bad, and mediocre sessions in the Bay Area. Lately I’ve been bonking my head, feeling low back pain, and overworking, so I knew I was in need of a tune-​up. A few days ago I blew into town and had the great good fortune to schedule my first CST session with Ellen, and I agree with the reviewer who gave her 12 out of 5 stars.
What a great session, and what a fabulous person. Really knows her stuff, so seasoned, very observant, very very professional, great boundaries, yet managed to create a warm, even fun atmosphere.
During the session, I dropped into that delicious deep state, so healing in itself, that a good CST worker can invoke. By the end of the session, I’d left my lumbar pain on the table, found new freedom for my tailbone and hip joints, released the head compression, and given a boost to my well-​being. I knew I’d done myself a good deed. Now if I can just move her down to San Diego…

Ellen is highly regarded as a practitioner and instructor by the craniosacral therapy community (I know as I asked some of the best in the nation for who they would recommend in the East Bay area).
But she also knows probably another half dozen somatic therapies. Combine that with her sensitivity, attunement and support and you could not ask for more. She works the physical, mental, somatic, and emotional parts and beyond.
With a light touch and humor she works gently with you to resolve the stuck and hurt places in your body and soul. I can’t recommend her enough.

I have been looking for good body work for years to deal with pain associated with some vertebral anomalies. So after trying about 15 modalities from PT to massage to acupunture. A friend finally said «try craniosacral therapy.» I saw three providers before Ellen and I have to say she is the best. She uses a good balance of intuition and knowledge of anatomy in her work. It never hurts and is sometimes transforming. Seeing her has really saved me. She is also an instructor and sees all ages– kids too.

I have to speak up and recommend Ellen Mossman for Craniosacral therapy! Her work is the deepest and most gentle — and best — that I’ve ever encountered, east coast or west.
I saw her for back pain and insomnia; I’m now pain-​free and sleeping like a rock. I was so impressed, I sent my 77-​year-​old mother to her, too. For the past year and a half, she’d had dizziness associated with her angina and medications. The doctors told her it might go away on its own (or it might not) and recommended a chiropractor. Mom didn’t want anything quite that ”vigorous” so she went to see Ellen instead. After a couple of sessions, no more dizzy spells — and I can’t remember ever seeing my mother so relaxed.
Ellen has 26 years of experience doing many different types of bodywork, but she’s raised Cranio to an art form. She collaborates with neurosurgeons, psychotherapists and chiropractors, and she also teaches Craniosacral. Headaches, TMJD, neck & back problems, chronic pain, stress, anxiety, insomnia, depression, trauma resolution — I’m sure there’re more, but those are the things that come to mind, that I know she works with.