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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. (13th century poet and mystic Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, also known as Rumi) I find that when I am trying to solve a problem with my mind, or I’m uneasy about not performing well, I retreat to trying to make something happen. It’s especially easy to see this in…
One of the first questions I hear Biodynamic Craniosacral students ask is: “How in the world do I talk about this with my clients?” Here are a few pointers. 1. AVOID AN EMPHASIS ON EXCITING EXPERIENCES. It is easy to fixate on generating an experience for your client. This is a risky strategy. After all,…
The crisp biodynamic map devolves into a mishmash. There’s a certain amount of grace to the learning process. But given enough time, every student of Biodynamic Craniosacral Work becomes familiar with the journey of consciousness from a Neutral to the Fluid Tide, Long Tide, and Dynamic Stillness. We can call this the Ascending Current of Primary Respiration.…
From crusty bread to a delectable cream-filled donut. Many textbooks describe the Fluid Tide (or Midtide) as a rhythm of two to three cycles per minute, compared to the Cranial Wave at eight to 14 cycles per minute. I’ve even heard the Fluid Tide’s juicy fluctuation described as “the two-to-three.” But that sounds so, well,…
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