On a recent trip to Vancouver Island I took a ferry from the mainland which sailed through the south gulf islands. Truly one of the most beautiful ferry trips I’ve been on. It was a beautiful day with remarkable low lying clouds...
Read more...I would like to comment about the term “synchronizing” as it is used in biodynamic practice. At first, it means that the practitioner aligns their perception with the slow tempo of Primary Respiration. To perceive Primary Respiration, the practitioner looks inside of...
Read more...As the biodynamic model of practice becomes more refined there’s a gap starting to open up between the nomenclature of the older forms of CST and the new, especially around descriptions of tissue adjustment and reorganization processes. Points of balanced tension and...
Read more...As the biodynamic model of craniosacral practice becomes more refined, a gap is starting to open in the nomenclature of it and older forms of CST, especially around descriptions of tissue adjustment and reorganization processes. In particular, the terms ‘points of balanced...
Read more...Like the snake video, the above video captures some essential elements of hardwired trauma responses. Notice how stiff the mouse is at the start of the video. I am increasingly appreciating how stiffness is a good early sign of immobilisation. Before I...
Read more...Great video showing what happens when you allow your body to breath in the way the cells want without the interference of the mind. Also a great connection between the diaphragm, the spine and other diaphragms take place when he lets go...
Read more...I notice when I treat how the body's most common initial response is to orient to muscular fascial reorganisation. Then after a number of adjustments, there is a shift towards a visceral autonomic reorganisation. This is a more physiological change that eventually...
Read more...The central nervous system is the biggest cluster of neurons in the body. There’s a billion neurons in the spinal chord and 100 billion in the brain. For our size as a species that’s an incredible amount of neurons and we have...
Read more...'Recent reports have emerged suggesting that multiple sclerosis (MS) may be due to abnormal venous outflow from the central nervous system, termed chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI).' Lazzaro M.A. et al (2011)http://www.frontiersin.org/Endovascular_and_Interventional_Neurology/10.3389/fneur.2011.00044/full This is a very exciting article on the how venous...
Read more...
Ged Sumner