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Descending 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 four substances: tissue, fluid, potency, and void. What is their relationship to one another? Is there a bigger whole in which they participate? Biodynamic author…
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, we learn to reliably perceive and engage the four building blocks of the Ascending Current: Cranial Wave, Fluid Tide, Long Tide, and the Dynamic Stillness.…
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 Milne. For years, I looked to the empath channel as a primary source of information about my client’s experience. My right leg tingled or ached;…
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.…