Craniosacral Biodynamics is an approach to the teaching and practice of Craniosacral Therapy that acknowledges the deepest foundations of the human system.
We, as human beings, are seen as
- an expression of the wholeness of life itself
- not separate from the vast forces at work throughout the universe.
A spiritual essence called the Breath of Life is perceived to generate a
- subtle tide-like ordering and organizing principle called primary respiration
- that manifests as a biodynamic life force or potency within the human system.
This intrinsic health
- integrates all cellular and tissue form and function, from the moment of conception until death
- is constantly at work maintaining the best possible balance and homeostasis even in the most desperate circumstances.
The intention of biodynamic clinical work is to re-establish the relationship between
- inertial or conditioned mind-body states and
- the intrinsic health of primary respiration.
Biodynamic work is founded on:
- Practitioner presence
- Establishing a clear, safe and negotiated relational field
- Understanding and perception that health and wholeness are always present
- Honoring a vast Intelligence guiding and maintaining our health, development and formation throughout life, as well as in session work
- Sensing subtle expressions of life founder of Cranial Osteopathy William G. Sutherland called primary respiration, manifesting as:
- Subtle tide-like rhythms
- Potency – an embodied life force that has organizational, protective and healing functions
- Perceiving and differentiating phenomena relating to primary respiration and its interplay with unresolved conditional, historic or traumatic forces
- Orienting to deep formative forces underlying presenting symptoms, tissue patterns or other issues
- Facilitating states of equilibrium and stillness within which potency can manifest healing processes