Body Intelligence Blog

The Web

Top ten things about embryology that are useful to biodynamic craniosacral therapy practice

I am endlessly trying to make sense of embryology. It provides many insights into how the body moves and heals in the biodynamic paradigm. Buying the new, 4th, edition of Larsen's Human Embryology (very good, especially the online features), plus a debate...

TRE: Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises

David Berceli's tension and trauma releasing exercises (TRE) are an amazing tool for helping the body let go of deep, chronic patterns. They are remarkably simple and the process of change they facilitate is very easy to self regulate. The goal of the...

Trees of Life and other thoughts

Despite the fact that lots of us feel disconnected from nature or feel we don't belong here, we are absolute embodiments of the planet we live on. How else could it be? It looks certain that as a species we have arisen...

Uneven lower jaw bone

Real skulls are so cool.  This skull came from someone with an amazingly uneven jaw and really strong temporalis muscles - indicated (I think) by the ridges pulled out on the parietals.  Note also the wormian bones at the pterion and asterion....

Vast Space of the Microcosm

Since the advent of nuclear physics and the study of the atom, it has become more and more evident that the atomic world is not at all what we expected. The smaller you go the less mass there seems to be. At...

Ventricles mediate the CNS ~ the mystery of structure and non-structure

Embryonic development of the CNS has grown out from the origins of the hollow neural tube which still exists as the fluid core of the fully developed brain and spinal chord. Brain growth has shaped and transformed the tube into ventricles and...

Water water everywhere

There's seems to be lots of facts and figures on how much water there is in our bodies. On the whole its somewhere around 60-70% of total body mass. So for someone who is 60kg the following figures are relevant: at 70%...

What does this do to your body?

What happens in your body when you watch this?

Would love to know what this connects with in your physiology. Press Leave a comment above.