Posts Tagged ‘Dynamic Stillness’
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 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 MoreBiodynamics: 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 embodiment represent something that everyone can enjoy? Or are they evolutionary steps that require a leap of consciousness? To both of these seemingly opposite questions…
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 MoreBeyond Vagueness
“That was so relaxing,” or “That felt good, but I can’t put into words what happened. It was just very quiet.” Are your biodynamic clients prone to vagueness? Awareness of what has shifted helps my clients appreciate and maintain the changes they have achieved in the session. In this post I explore two ways that I help…
Read MoreDoubt and Uncertainty, Part 1: The Power of Not Knowing
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous I don’t know. (Polish poet Wisława Szymborska) The Biodynamic paradigm expresses our essential clinical inability to be certain. The paradox is that the more we lean into uncertainty, the more successful our work becomes. The Biodynamic practitioner acknowledges that our mind doesn’t know with certainty what is…
Read MoreWhy Don’t I Feel the Tides Anymore?
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.…
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