This is my first time offering Biodynamic Bodywork at a fair with about 20 vendors. I’m one of two body/energy workers, the other one offering Reiki.
I work with tissues, fluids, and energy, in this modality that developed from old-time osteopathy.
Clients stay clothed except for shoes and perhaps dangly earrings.
I use gentle touch to tune into biorhythms, inviting non-vital rhythms to pause, recalibrate, release imbalances, and add that release inertial energy back into the whole of your life force, giving your more healthy resources.
This form of bodywork helps release stress and trauma, rebalancing your nervous system. This is where your system has more resources to do maintenance and repair, than when you are stressed.
Biodynamics can help with all types of recovery, insomnia, grief, brain fog, headaches, migraines, head injuries, pain, breathing, detoxification, digestive and elimination issues (and issues with other organs).
Anyway, I just finished a 30-minute session on a man named Peter, who is going to have surgery soon for three hernias.
He identified his top two issues as insomnia (for which he takes meds) and pain.
When people have specific issues like this, I want to address them. Some people just want to relax deeply.
So here’s what I did to address Peter’s issues. From holding his heels, I tuned into his cranial rhythm. The cerebrospinal fluid flowing between cranium and sacrum is palpable as a subtle rhythm affecting every bone of the body.
Peter’s rhythm was shaky in the right leg. It several minutes to settle down. I then invited a cranial stillpoint, which lasted a few minutes.
I put my hands on his clavicles to activate his lymphatic system, which helps the body detox.
I touched both sides of his neck to activate his vagus nerves, which send signals between the brain and most organs.
I used a parasympathetic hold at his side to invite his system to move from anxiety about the surgery to a state of calmness, which will help him sleep better and reduce pain.
I ended with a sacral stillpoint, which helps ground the changes.
He was deeply relaxed when our time was up — so relaxed, it seemed unbelievable to him that his system got so calm within 30 minutes.
Wishing him luck with his surgeries.