After I started training in Craniosacral Biodynamics in 2013, I was curious about some of the terms that were used, like “the Breath of Life,” “primary respiration,” and “dynamic stillness.”
How would I know if I was experiencing these states that are considered integral in practicing Craniosacral Biodynamics? I was meditating a lot, often for 45 minutes or longer, partly because I was on a mission to discover how relaxed I could get while lucid and partly because I believed that there was likely a sensory component for these nominalized terms.
When I asked my first Biodynamics teacher about a state I’d experienced in meditation in which felt akin to sitting on the bottom of the ocean with multiple currents flowing within, through, and around me, his eyes lit up and he affirmed that I was sensing something important in the practice.
Craniosacral biodynamics and meditation overlap each other. After reading the book Craniosacral Therapy and the Energetic Body: An Overview of Craniosacral Biodynamics by Roger Gilchrist, I understood more about the spiritual dimensions that these practices have in common, one often practiced alone and the other using hands-on connection with a receiver.
I later completed a foundation training with Roger.
Here are some quotes from the book’s Chapter 18, “Spiritual Dimensions of Craniosacral Therapy”:
- When one encounters the essence of the life force moving, it is a deeply humbling experience, as there is the immediate recognition that something moves through us that is beyond us as individuals, and beyond the conditions that we hold.
- Note that this approach to therapy is not about a therapist working on a client; it is about a therapist coming into a direct relationship with what is here in the present moment… In a biodynamic approach there is the recognition that experience arises mutually between the client and the therapist.
- Often as clients receive this work they come in contact with levels of their being that were previously unavailable. Many times there is a sense of depth and wholeness that is beyond anything they have encountered before.
- Through specific training and personal guidance, we cultivate our skills of direct awareness… This way of perceiving is cultivated through personal practice… This field of perception then becomes a dynamic process of awareness that is an unwavering therapeutic ally.
- Biodynamic craniosacral therapists, in particular, practice refining their ability to stabilize their perceptual fields at a wide level of awareness.
- In these ways biodynamic craniosacral therapy has important overlaps with meditative practice. Many of the types of practices are similar. Even the nature of the work elicits fairly meditative states a great deal of the time… The process of this type of craniosacral therapy often takes both client and therapist into qualities of awareness and states of being that in other contexts would be described as meditative.
Biodynamic Meditation is a way to learn to experience awareness of the healing currents of life force energy within your own system.
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