Craniosacral Biodynamics has its roots in the ancient healing tradition of listening with the hands to subtle cues from the body’s tissues, fluids, and energies. Practitioners invite the system to release what it’s holding that is ready to release, in order to recover and enhance health and well-being.
An offshoot of osteopathy, craniosacral biodynamics (also called BCST) is now taught and practiced mainly in North America and Europe. Although its osteopathic origins began with an exploration of the craniosacral system of the body (the bones, fluids, and membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord), it can effectively influence the entire body-mind-energy system toward more health and wholeness.
How Craniosacral Biodynamics helps you heal
Craniosacral Biodynamics is a gentle bodywork modality that encourages your autonomic nervous system to move into a rest-and-repair state. In this parasympathetic state, your entire system has more resources for healing than it does when you are experiencing stress — a sympathetic state that prepares you to take action (often called fight-or-flight).
Biodynamics increases coherence within and between the subsystems of your whole body system: your nervous, immune, lymphatic, digestive, and other systems. As coherence deepens, these systems work together with more harmony and efficiency, and you experience a state of peaceful integration and wholeness.
When a person is in a more coherent state there is a shift in the relative autonomic balance toward increased parasympathetic activity (vagal tone), increased heart-brain synchronization, and entrainment between diverse physiological systems. In this mode, the body’s systems function with a high degree of efficiency and harmony and natural regenerative processes are facilitated.
Source: HeartMath Institute.
Biodynamics sessions often include stillpoints, pauses in the rhythmic flow of cerebrospinal fluid that allow your physiology to recalibrate for current conditions and optimize your life force energy.
Training in Biodynamics includes techniques to work with organs, nerves, bones, tissues, fluids, energy, strain patterns, inertia, and more.
Another way Biodynamics facilitates healing is through the inherent healing process, when the healing energy inside instinctively seeks, finds, and releases areas where inertia (which was originally protective) exists in our systems.
Everyone has multiple areas of inertia, because life can include unexpected challenges that our systems contain energetically to keep the chaos from spreading when our resources are overwhelmed. Inertia functions as protection during overwhelm.
Trauma, stress, illness, injury — any form of “too much, too soon” — contribute to inertia. Releasing inertia is key to recovery when protection is no longer useful.
The instinctive intelligence in the inherent healing process knows when inertial areas are no longer serving our well-being, and given support, the system releases inertia, returning that freed energy to the rest of our life force, thus increasing our sense of well-being.
In this way, Biodynamics helps the system reorganize and optimize into a stronger, more resilient state of wellness.
This inherent healing process is one reason clients find that receiving regular sessions is beneficial to their well-being. Releasing inertia from the past increases health and well-being in the present, and the benefits experienced in each session often become cumulative with regular sessions.
