Sandy Hanne has been a massage therapist since 1999 but has been massaging people for relaxation and pain relief all her life. A (Usui) Reiki Master Teacher since 2000, Sandy's experience with energy work in thousands of client sessions has provided a deep skill basis for the energetic component of craniosacral therapy.

Sandy has done work based in CranioSacral exclusively for ten years, finding that "it does 3-5 times as much for my clients as any massage modality I studied, or Reiki." Sandy has also studied basic swedish massage, chair massage, shiatsu, lymphatic drainage, myofascial release, hot stone and deep tissue massage. However, she finds that CranioSacral, although more subtle, provides deeper muscle penetration than deep-tissue work and a deeper relaxation than swedish, Reiki or even hot stone therapy. She has been a teaching assistant for founder Dr. John Upledger at the highest level of training (Advanced II), and has studied with him extensively (eight of her 24 classes).