Posts Tagged ‘Healing’

Beyond Relaxation: The Limits of Explaining Biodynamics As Nervous System Regulation

Why does Biodynamics work? I’ve heard many practitioners say it’s effective because it regulates the nervous system. Indeed, that’s an essential aspect of any healing modality, especially in the frenzied atmosphere of sympathetic overload that burdens many of us. Some practitioners are particularly skillful in working therapeutically with specific elements of the nervous system. For…

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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 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…

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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 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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