This blog is for biodynamic craniosacral practitioners and anyone interested
in the power and poetry of biodynamic practice.
Clinical Confidence: Had It but Lost It? Oddities Beyond the Dynamic Stillness
Have you lost the perceptual cues that used to guide your way in Biodynamic sessions? This can happen when we get deeply familiar with the Dynamic Stillness. In Biodynamic Craniosacral…
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The Body That Can’t Be Damaged: The Quantum Leap from Tissue to Fluid
Have you seen the documentary film My Octopus Teacher? In it, Craig Foster develops a relationship with an octopus. Although an octopus is simply a sac of fluid, it can…
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Improve Your Outcome Through the Genius of Non-Doing
Any Biodynamic practitioner will tell you that our stillness carries something valuable and trustworthy. When we stop trying to make things happen, we discover an underlying wisdom that effortlessly expresses…
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Biodynamic Mastery, Part 2. How To Function When Stillness Is Profound
Early in my career I knew so much. Now, it’s almost laughable how little I know. Yet I’m confident that my sessions are fruitful for my clients; and they seem…
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Biodynamic Mastery, Part 1. More Skill, Less Information
Mastery seems like you should know more and more. Weirdly, in the field of Biodynamics, as we gain maturity in the work, we know less! How do we understand this…
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Not Just Tides: The Ascending Current
The Biodynamic Craniosacral community has settled on four embodied qualities to which we aspire and to which we attune. They are: We could also refer to the biodynamic qualities as…
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Big-Picture Biodynamics in 50 Questions
What is a body? What is your felt experience of the substance your body is made of? Does that substance ever change in feeling, texture, tone, or quality? Does the…
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Any Part Will Do: The Versatility of Wholeness
Biodynamic Craniosacral Work is about wholeness. So why does our field emphasize cranial bones, dural membranes, and cerebrospinal fluid? Books, education, and practice all place a high priority on these…
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The Building Blocks: Cranial Wave, Fluid Tide, Long Tide
A reader asked about the terms Cranial Wave, Fluid Tide, and Long Tide. Biodynamic Craniosacral Work typically uses these terms to describe three subtle motions, which we feel in or…
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Losing Perception of the Tides: The Secret Second Phase of Biodynamic Craniosacral Work
A student recently asked, What does it mean to progress on the Biodynamic path? There are many elements to mastery in our field. In the first phase of our education,…
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Biodynamics: Birthright or Evolution of Consciousness?
Biodynamic Craniosacral Work introduces us to four qualities of body: Neutral (Tissue), Fluid Tide (Fluid), Long Tide (Potency), and Dynamic Stillness (the non-physical dimension). Do these four universal expressions of…
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The Chief Corner Stone: Not Seeking A Shift
Biodynamics abounds in paradox. Perhaps the most counterintuitive element of our work is that we don’t seek a shift in our clients. At least, we don’t seek a shift in…
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Things We Weren’t Taught About Stillness: The Problem with Empathy
The empath is a channel of non-ordinary perception, in which your own body’s signals reliably reflect what’s happening in your client’s body. I first learned about this channel from Hugh…
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Naming Things in a Biodynamic Session: Does It Matter?
We say we aren’t the ones conducting the treatment. We defer to a therapeutic agency more potent than our own will. Yet our education teaches us to follow the narrative…
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Networked: More Challenging Than You’d Think
Are you convinced that your body is an isolated object, separate from everything else? Do you experience that your isolated brain is carried around passively by the workhorse of your…
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