9 Tips to Biodynamic Brilliance

Craniosacral Biodynamics is an amazing practice that offers gifts and healing to both the practitioner and the client. Here are some tips to enhance your Biodynamic journey, particularly as a practitioner or student:

1. Recognize that the brilliance of Biodynamics is not about you! Of course, you are brilliant because we all are. And your choice to practice or receive Biodynamics may be an expression of that brilliance. Biodynamics, however, involves letting go of our little ego selves and needs to allow the mysterious presence we call the Breath of Life to do its work.

2. Consider yourself to be a vehicle for the Breath of Life. Know that an Intelligence greater than yours or mine is available to be witnessed by you. William Sutherland, founder of Cranial osteopathy, called it “Intelligence with a capital I.”

   

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3. Settle into a state of mindful presence, where you can be aware of your own sensations and experience and widen your awareness from there to include the client.

4. Support the relational field in settling. The inherent treatment plan will not unfold easily if the client isn’t experiencing safety within the relationship with the practitioner. Facilitate the client’s orientation to resource – what supports us in knowing we are ok and can be with whatever is arising. This is a way to orient to the health that is always present.

5. Listen for a sense of holistic shift. This is a shift from the speed and activity of everyday life, the effects of history and conditions, the waves on the surface, into a deeper, calmer state. We sense a softening of tissues, a melting into fluidity, a perception of wholeness, of primary respiration coming to the foreground, like the sun coming out from behind the clouds.

6. Support holistic shift through orienting to resource and support, widening your field of perception, orienting to your own support of breath, earth, sense of feet on the floor, seat under you, being suspended within fields within fields of support, physical cellular-tissue field, suspended within fluid body (the fluids within the physical body as well as the energetic field extending out 20-30 inches or 50 cm beyond the skin) with its fluid tide, suspended within the vast energetic tidal field of long tide, all suspended within dynamic stillness.

7. Trust the Tide. This was Sutherland’s advice to his students and followers. As practitioners, we learn to settle ourselves into a receptive state, and be present with what arises as expressions of a greater healing intention. Listen with respect, curiosity and spaciousness. Intend to be present with the client’s process, and support the client in being present with it. Don’t narrow in your attention with your interest. Learn to hold whatever presents as suspended within fields within fields of support. As healing intentions arise, be with their unfolding, orienting to dynamic stillness. It is not about doing. It is about being present with.

8. Give time for the process to unfold. It may happen quite quickly once the holistic shift has happened, but this shift may take several sessions to occur. Once a holistic shift has happened, it continues to deepen. Holistic shift is not a moment in time; it is a process. Factors like the practitioner’s ability to resonate with deeper dynamic stillness and Biodynamic forces, the client’s history of trauma, shock, overwhelm and ability to settle under them, and the felt sense of safety within the relational field between them can facilitate or intervene with the healing process. The settling, itself, may be the most important healing that needs to occur. Don’t worry if the symptoms the client has presented haven’t resolved immediately. Deeper healing is at work.

9. Allow your heart to be opened when touched by the Breath of Life. This is not an everyday event, but can be life-changing. For me, it is an experience of profound love, heartful presence, often accompanied by a feeling of holding a tiny little one in my hands. The miracle of life unfolds. The is Biodynamic brilliance!

Heartful Presence