How do you resource yourself?
What tools do you use to reset your nervous system when something – a thought, an event, a person – triggers your warning system?
My resource is the ocean and its horizon. Rest your body and allow your attention and intention to ride on your breath as your gaze travels out to the horizon and back to you, skimming over the tides as they travel out to the horizon and into your shore. Sometimes it takes a few rounds, but it always brings me back to my body and into the present moment.
Ocean to the Horizon
“The body functions as a whole and it is only as a whole that we should attempt to comprehend it.”
(from Dr. Erich Blechshmidt’s seminal work, The Ontogenetic Basis of Human Anatomy: A Biodynamic Approach to Development)
Recently, a client came to me with back pain following an injury. She is very body-wise and has experience with many complementary healing modalities as well as experience with allopathic, or western, medicine.
Having received biomechanical craniosacral therapy before, she was naturally curious to know how Biodynamic craniosacral therapy differed. I explained that Biodynamic craniosacral therapy approaches health and healing from a holistic perspective.
Rather than focusing on individual pathologies, we identify where the client’s strengths are, creating safety and helping clients to resource themselves. Even when we treat a specific complaint, such as headache, digestive problems, or back pain, we are always approaching from the place of wholeness, health, and the strength of the individual and the individual’s community.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy involves a deeper exploration of the body’s innate healing capacity. Based on the work of many trauma-informed researchers and therapists, we understand that the body retains the memory of past physical and emotional traumas, which manifest as tension, discomfort, and chronic pain.
To facilitate the release of tensions and promote resilience within the craniosacral system, Biodynamic Craniosacral therapists use gentle and nurturing touch. By assisting the body’s inherent ability to heal, practitioners can address issues like migraines, stress, anxiety, auto-immune, and musculoskeletal problems.
October is a perfect time for a system reset. You are invited to schedule a Craniosacral therapy session with me in my lovely Union Square office.