{"id":415,"date":"2018-01-18T10:59:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T10:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bodycollege.net\/?page_id=415"},"modified":"2024-03-09T06:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T06:29:42","slug":"bcst","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bodycollege.net\/bcst\/","title":{"rendered":"About Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Section BC banner art of touch laptop” module_id=”partone” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ background_image=”https:\/\/bodycollege.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bc_home_banner_2022_v2.jpg” custom_padding=”0px||200px||false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”100px||100px||false|false” custom_padding_phone=”||50px||false|false” custom_css_main_element=”background-position: bottom center;” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_5,3_5,1_5″ disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”BC banner the art of touch” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_enable_image=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”What is BCST?” _builder_version=”4.16″ header_text_color=”#0d0d0d” header_font_size=”45px” header_3_text_color=”#0d0d0d” header_3_font_size=”25px” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”100px|||” header_font_size_tablet=”” header_font_size_phone=”40px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]\n
Not feeling is associated with pain, anxiety and major health issues:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Some of the most devastating medical and public health problems of our time – depression, substance addiction and intractable pain – are centred on pathologies of feeling’<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Damasio A and Carvalho GB (2013) The Nature of Feelings: Evolutionary and neurobiological origins.\u00a0<\/em>Nature Reviews Neuroscience<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Relational Touch 200 words” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]\n Humans are polyrhythmic. With skill, the rhythms sometimes coalesce into a feeling of wholeness.<\/p>\n Touch is enormously powerful. Non-doing, \u2018relational touch\u2019, that listens without fixed agendas, supports coherent rhythms and order to emerge.<\/p>\n There is a distinct quality of feeling a whole person. In addition, there is a distinct quality of feeling a whole person in a wider context that includes the surrounding space.<\/p>\n Aliveness is founded on movement, breath and awareness.<\/p>\n The taoist notion of order in the world as the \u2018way\u2019 of least resistance is deeply useful. Manifesting health can appear as elegance and non-striving in our interactions, coupled with a sense of letting go from within.<\/p>\n We can have perceptions of other people, but we can wildly over interpret what we feel. In the absence of the possibility of objective knowing, it is good to be super cautious.<\/p>\n Truth emerges in the dynamic between the client and therapist. Focus on stories of safety and agency. Expand people\u2019s \u2018felt sense\u2019 capabilities. Try shifting the narrative of self away from limiting metaphors of damage and permanency to adaptability and renewal.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/bodycollege.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bc-simple-hands-v1.png” title_text=”bc simple hands v1″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”hands simple” _builder_version=”4.16″ border_radii=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ always_center_on_mobile=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Craig interoception trained” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]\n You can learn to feel more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Your interoceptive awareness is key to everything \u2026\u00a0It can be trained.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Craig AD (2015) How Do You Feel?<\/em>\u00a0Princeton University Press<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”merzenich detail” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]\n Learn to feel lots of detail:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018A strong, refined, detailed and coordinated representation of information from any given region of your body is, by its fundamental nature, anti-pain\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Merzenich M (2013) Soft-Wired.<\/em> Parnassus Publishing.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”movement optimist” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]\n Science backed goals for working with back pain:<\/p>\n Develop skills to feel more connected to the body<\/em> Greg Lehman 2019<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Keeping BCST simple” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]\n I love biodynamic craniosacral therapy; the art of using touch to support health. When you touch people they change. It is that simple.<\/p>\n Many people struggle with safety; it can be hard work negotiating being in the body. Coming into relationship with a skilled therapist can ease the pain. The inherent drive for self-regulation within our physiology is very powerful.\u00a0Appreciating how the human body strives for health, and how health is expressed as coherence, connection, and a pulsing flow, is the skill of cranial work.<\/p>\n The essence of my work uses presence, education, movement, and touch to help people reconnect with health. I use embodied presence supported via non-doing touch.<\/p>\n Awe and wonder is a huge part of biodynamics. It is mesmerising being alive, being conscious, and being part of nature. There is is lot of spirituality in the writing about biodynamics. It often over complicates the simple process of touch. When people use the word spirit I just insert the word nature. Spirit does not speak to my experience, it is frequently far too speculative. There are many responses to the mystery of why there is \u2018something other than nothing\u2019. Religious frameworks are not part of my practice or teaching of biodynamic craniosacral therapy.\u00a0I find they tend to obscure and confuse the simple path to the body.<\/p>\n The other big complication for me in the field of cranial work is a focus on alignment models. I am deeply uninterested in the position of bones and in trying to line up, stretch, and balance tissues if the focus is on an external model of how something should be positioned. Cranial work, despite the unfortunate name, is really not about how bones in the skull move. Sutherland\u2019s model is in urgent need of an update in the light of so little evidence supporting rocking bones. The head probably creaks and accommodates tensions in membranes and muscles, but it is becoming increasingly hard to justify more than that.<\/p>\n There is wonderful evidence to support what happens in biodynamic cranial session. There is good science on the power of mindfulness and presence, touch feeding our sense of self, and on how education about pain and the nervous system works as a tool to relieve pain. We know that being in relationship with other people and the wild and natural world supports health. There are clear models on how interacting with the neurology of creating safety helps to overcome trauma. Systems theory helps us understand how intelligence emerges from complexity. That is a lot of great stuff without recourse to mysticism, esoteric anatomy and outdated paradigms of \u2018issues in the tissues\u2019.<\/p>\n Keeping it simple is my constant goal. I try to be as present as I can whilst using a light touch. As the relationship deepens I can be a witness to the patterns held in my client\u2019s gently pulsing body. Something happens, always.<\/p>\n Easy really.<\/p>\n Steve Haines 2015<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/bodycollege.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trs-Fast-Company-June-2016-Recommender-sm_edited-1.png” alt=”trauma is really strange fast company 2016″ title_text=”trs Fast Company June 2016 Recommender-sm_edited-1″ admin_label=”trauma book open” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”melzack and katz no body” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]\n Feeling is hard, our brains can create a disconnected, virtual body:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018We\u00a0don’t need a body to feel a body.’<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Melzack R and Katz J (2013) Pain.<\/em> WIREs Cogn Sci 2013, 4:1\u201315<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”paradox” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]\n Focus on feeling safe and try to avoid worrying about intense sensations:<\/strong><\/p>\n Studies ‘suggest that individuals with non specific low back pain are over-responsive or over-attentive towards sensory inputs that potentially signal \u2018danger to the lower back\u2019 and require action to protect the spine.’<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n There is a paradox for people in pain of not being aware of the slow-background tone of body sensation (interoception), and, at the same time, being hyper-sensitive to potentially threatening sensory inputs.<\/p>\n https:\/\/bodyinmind.org\/sensorimotor-impairments-non-specific-low-back-pain\/<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”What is BCST 2018″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]\n Biodynamic craniosacral therapy is an interactive process of embodied connection. The main tool is non-doing, relational touch, informed by meditative awareness. Biodynamics is a simple and powerful practice that supports presence, groundedness and health.<\/p>\n Craniosacral therapy is an active engaging with the complex business of feeling. There is an explicit goal of supporting embodiment and perceptions of safety inside the individual.<\/p>\n In the dynamic of relational touch, there is the potential for new feelings, new stories and new meanings to arise. Truth emerges as a shared story between client and therapist, informed by phenomena of being within a sensitive organism. We aim to generate concepts that promote health and sensations of joy, ease and agency.<\/p>\n We are shaped by experience. Biodynamics attempts to work with the whole person and the totality of their story. From pre and perinatal experiences, to adverse childhood events, to being embedded in oppressive and unequal power structures in society and culture. We support people to self-regulate and develop resilience in the face of an intense, and often overwhelming, morass of feelings, drives and behaviours.<\/p>\n There is a enormous power inside all of us to learn and grow from adverse experiences. We have a body that is self organising and always striving for harmony. Health is expressed as connection and coherence in a rhythmically pulsing body. In biodynamics health is met as an active seeking for balance that is inherent to being alive.<\/p>\n Biodynamics, as taught by Body Intelligence, is trauma-aware bodywork informed by neuroscience and pain research. We aim for a coherence, clarity and repeatability and avoid complex esoteric anatomy. \u2018Keep it simple\u2019 is one of our mantras.<\/p>\n However simple is not simplistic. We teach in-depth understanding of the anatomy of the body and the physiology and psychology of the defence cascade in response to the perception of threat. People learn life changing skills to support down regulation of overprotective reflexes. We celebrate complexity in our ability to make and remake meaning as we respond to body events and stimuli.<\/p>\n Biodynamics is fundamentally hopeful in our belief that even the most painful stories and constructs can be reshaped with the right support and enough resources.<\/p>\n Body College focuses on down-to-earth biodynamics, stripped of outdated biomechanic paradigms, cautious of mysticism and of imposing spiritual paradigms on healing. Embodied spirituality is explored as a sense of connection to self, to others, to nature and to mystery. The wider field of connection is rooted in deep embodiment.<\/p>\n Biodynamics is a process of learning how to feel with the therapist as a somatic guide. A guide who is focused on supporting clarity and connection to the world of sensations. A guide who is skilful in promoting self regulation to safely discharge cycling defence cascades. A guide who can help us feel more than our history and open doors to new feelings of joy, connection and ease.<\/p>\n Steve Haines 10 Mar 2018<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/bodycollege.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/steve-circle-trityga-wall-v1.png” title_text=”steve circle trityga wall v1″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Steve Wall” _builder_version=”4.16″ border_radii=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ always_center_on_mobile=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”podcasts” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\n Steve Haines interviews with Ryan Halford – Touch and Trauma and Simple BCST Jane Shaw interview with Ryan Halford – Jungian Theory and Biodynamics\n
Relational Touch \u2013 Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in 200 words<\/h1>\n
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Learn to feel safe with intense sensations<\/em>
Become a ‘movement optimist’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nKeeping Biodynamics Simple<\/h1>\n
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What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?<\/h1>\n
Podcasts from Body College tutors<\/b><\/h1>\n
https:\/\/www.craniosacralpodcast.com\/episode-155\/<\/u><\/a>
https:\/\/www.craniosacralpodcast.com\/episode-106\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.craniosacralpodcast.com\/episode-124\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n