Biodynamic Gratitude

Preparing for a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy session, I am washed by waves of gratitude to be able to engage in this profound practice. I feel honoured and privileged to have been led to this work and guided into deepening into Biodynamics.

Each session is like a prayer. We speak to establish a safe settling of our relational field, then settle together, she on the treatment table, me beside it. A sense of vast fields of energetic support envelop us as our breathing deepens, our tissues begin to melt, old patterns already dissolving into more universal states of being.

I hold her feet, listening, settling further. Pulsations and fluctuations present as stories of conditions met and history past. I acknowledge them, welcome their expression being held within wider fields within fields.

These faster expressions of what we call Cranial Rhythmic Impulse (CRI) are like waves on the surface of the ocean affected by changing winds, storms, activities of life. Under them await deeper tides, manifestations of a mysterious presence we call the Breath of Life, a source of what father of Cranial Osteopathy called “Intelligence with a capital I.” This “bio-intelligence,” as my Continuum mentor Emilie Conrad called it, guides our formation in relation to universal bio-principles, supporting and expressing underlying perpetual health.

In Biodynamics, as in Continuum, we orient to the Health. As A. T. Still founder of Osteopathy stated, “To find Health should be the object of the physician. Anyone can find disease.”

The Health expresses as a settling of CRI waves, with a coming forward of a deeper tidal motion in relation to an energetic midline. These subtle tidal rhythms are an expression of “biodynamic” or universal forces organizing life from conception throughout life.

The client takes a deep breath as her system settles under the everyday activations. We both begin to have a delicious sense of wholeness. We are whole beings, developing from one united cell, differentiating into our parts as embryos in the womb.

In session work today, as often occurs, there is a sense of tissues dissolving, form returning to prior formlessness. I feel like I am holding a tiny embryo, face forming on the huge heart bulge, bones fluid coming into form within this new context of the holding field of our session.

The client also reports a sense of being in the womb. We both feel birth-related forces in the neck and cranium letting go and she is welcomed into a new world, a new life, a new body.

Upon completion, I continue to rest in gratitude. Grateful for the sacred space we share in sessions, the opportunity to let go and listen deeply, where my own expectations, assumptions and ego needs can soften as a truer inherent treatment plan unfolds.

In gratitude I thank those who have come before me in this beautiful work. And those who follow. May the world and all her inhabitants know more peace, ease, fluid grace and even love as we continue this practice.