It’s summer time and we are all looking forward to a vacation. We plan, save, and travel to experience something that brings us peace and relaxation. A lot of resources and toil are spent to find a reprieve from normal life and a new sensation of happiness, but we often discover that when the vacation ends that feeling is impossible to sustain.

I challenge you this year to seek a new approach to peace and wellness. Instead of vacating your life, why not improve them for the long haul. A “therapy vacation” aimed at alleviating the chronic problems you’ve carried with you will go much further in improving your health than any trip or retreat.

A “therapy vacation” is a series of sessions in CranioSacral Therapy and/or Pranic Healing over the course of a week (or two) designed to promote big changes in a very short period of time. A “therapy vacation” can be very beneficial to promote health for those with chronic conditions. Mental, physical, emotional ailments that have persisted for years are harder to address with only intermittent treatment. With a series of sessions, you will receive the largest changes in the shortest amount of time. Unlike weekly or biweekly sessions, where there is a lull between and a chance at regression, a series of sessions happens several times over the course of a week. Each session builds on the last, immediately. For instance, in CranioSacral Therapy more fascia releases can happen without there being time for new restrictions to develop. Similarly, emotional and psychological issues can be treated layer by layer quickly, rather than stalling on a new layer that has come up. This is also a way to quickly relieve significant stress that has built up. For many people living in a fight-flight-freeze response, this is also an effective way to calm the sympathetic nervous system. Or for those with an injury that is keeping you from your typical daily work or recreational activities, a “therapy vacation” could be the answer to quickly make a functional gain toward returning to these activities.

As the vacation season approaches and we look towards our travel plans, I encourage you to use the occasion to make profound changes in your life.