Posts Tagged ‘Biodynamic Craniosacral session’
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 we talk about the Dynamic Stillness as the end of our “map.” When I say map, I’m talking about the territory of clinical Biodynamic work.…
Read MoreThe 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 respond to circumstances with impressive shifts of appearance. It can take the form of a muscular sprinter, a barnacled rock, a predatory cloak, or a…
Read MoreBiodynamic 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 satisfied with the results. I’m describing a part of our skill development in which the practitioner’s perception of nitty gritty phenomena gets muffled by an…
Read MoreBig-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 body have boundaries? Where are they? What is healing? What embodied disposition is necessary for healing to happen? What are signs that that disposition is…
Read MoreAny 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 parts of the body. Biodynamic pioneer Dr. James Jealous memorably quoted a friend of his: “A visible segment is a segment in trouble.” But what…
Read MoreLosing 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, 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.…
Read MoreThe 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 the moment, while we’re in session. (I’ve written a previous blog about overarching intentions, which I distinguish from efferent activity.) Seeking for something to shift…
Read MoreThings 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 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;…
Read MoreNaming 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 arc of a session and to discern its features. “Is this a Neutral or a Stillpoint?” “Is this the Fluid Tide or the Long Tide?”…
Read MoreNetworked: 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 body? Actually, we exist in a network. Our bodies, our minds, and awareness itself are an interconnected web. Like mushrooms within their mycelium, our bodies…
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