It Has To Be Me Episode

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY

Lee Veal

Episode #77: October 23rd, 2025

THE GOLD FROM THIS EPISODE

“Craniosacral therapy is the art of encouraging your innate healing power to come into full glory.”

Lee Veal

Craniosacral Therapist

“Fascia has its own intelligence—a magical communication system that is available and responsive whenever we turn inside and look. It is the way of the heart. It's not of the mind, it's about intuition. The heart is the biggest electromagnetic generator of the body, far bigger than the brain.”

Lee Veal

Craniosacral Therapist

“The cranial rhythm is fundamental to the entire body. A practitioner needs to know the anatomy and the factual underpinnings of the body, and feel the rhythm of your brain pulse. Wherever there's fascia, you're able to tune into that potent cranial rhythm, and awaken the body’s natural intelligence to mobilize and heal itself.”

Lee Veal

Craniosacral Therapist

“Babies are masters of facial language because the language of the mind doesn’t impede that level of communication. You hold a baby and they know what they want. Babies are all about intention. Their story is not in words, it’s in movement.”

Lee Veal

Craniosacral Therapist

“Everybody should be doing Tai Chi and Qigong every day. The Chinese know how the body moves in its original state so we can unwind trauma lodged in the tissue, and release the story of fear.”

Lee Veal

Craniosacral Therapist

“We are being tortured by conventional chairs and furniture—we don’t move in our natural way. To connect with your original physical template, get on the floor, squat, sit on a ball, wiggle on the floor. Do all the things a baby would do.”

Lee Veal

Craniosacral Therapist

“We eliminate pain and don't know how to listen to it. Change the paradigm of the wound from something that has to be healed to something that reveals. Pain gives us access to the inner world in a way that nothing else can.”

Lee Veal

Craniosacral Therapist

“If you fall, it's not how you landed, but how you got there that has to be listened to so that the body can unwind, recover, and release. It’s the body's story.”

Lee Veal

Craniosacral Therapist

in THIS EPISODE

  • Lee Veal gives us the scoop on craniosacral therapy and how it leverages our innate healing power by working with the body’s connective tissue and communication network—the fascia. 

  • In Lee's youth, two life-threatening accidents left him in debilitating pain. Rolphing, craniosacral work, and other healing modalities were instrumental in his recovery, prompting Lee to go to chiropractic school. Assisting a cranial osteopath and seeing and experiencing the life-changing effects of treatments inspired a passion for craniosacral therapy and a now four-decade career as practitioner and educator.

  • Lee walks us through the significance of the original wounding we all experience in being born. Then lays out why connecting in adulthood with the body’s’ fascial language is the key to recovering from deep-seated ailments and moving with ease as we age.

  • We go over the importance of keeping our fascia healthy, and why tapping into our brain pulses is so effective in releasing physical and emotional trauma. Lee covers the physical practices to do every day, shares what the behavior of babies teaches us, and challenges us to rethink the furniture we’re sitting on!

  • In a surprising perspective, Lee sees pain as something that reveals, not just as something that needs to be healed.

  • He says: Lie down, trust your body, and listen to the story it’s sharing with you.

TESS'S TAKEAWAYS

  • Craniosacral therapy unlocks the innate healing power of the body to rebalance.

  • The heart, not the mind, is the biggest electromagnetic generator of the body.

  • Fascia is the way of the heart. Its intelligence is not of the mind, it's about intuition.

  • Fascia records and responds to every experience, intention, emotion, injury, and story.

  • Listen to your physical pain as a way to access what is going on in your inner world.

  • Conventional furniture restricts the body’s flow. Get on the floor, squat, and sit on a ball.

  • Train the body to move in its original state to unwind trauma with Tai Chi and Qigong.

  • “Doing nothing” is not passive—it’s a sacred discipline. 

ABOUT LEE

With over 40 years’ experience in the healing arts, Lee Veal draws from a variety of movement vocabularies to support recovery in adults, children, and babies. 

Having an undergraduate degree in biochemistry, Lee attended the Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City, and graduated with a focus on cranial sacral, working alongside a cranial osteopath. He also studied Sanskrit, yoga, meditation, Tai Chi, Thai Massage, and Qigong with three masters from China.  

In 1988 he established his practice, working entirely from a cranial perspective, and joined the first integrated healing center in Kansas City, in association with an MD, an acupuncturist, a Feldenkreis therapist, and a Rolfer. 

Lee’s unique approach draws from Qigong, and integrates cranial sacral with therapeutic Pilates, contact improvisation, sound healing, and diverse internal arts. To help people of all ages recover from trauma, he developed the Advanced Cranial™ system of Myo-fascial release and gentle resisted movements.

As an educator, Lee devised a curriculum for training instructors. Since 2006 he has devoted more time to research and development, and to teaching cranial work to babies and their parents.

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