This quote from Stephen Levine about being homesick for God accurately captures why I’m so drawn to Craniosacral Biodynamics, and why I want to share the practice of Biodynamic Meditation with you.
Today’s sit: breathing, central energy channel, sensations, Tide, radiance at my face, swirliness in upper abdomen, sacral stillpoint.
I dreamed I was dancing, able to leap high enough to touch the branches of trees, and to descend to the earth safely, only to do it again and again and again, higher, higher, almost floating back down, with buoyancy.
How exhilarating!
So… We were talking about the Tide, about sensing the Tide ascending and descending in your central energy channel.
How to be still and bring your awareness to that channel, the channel that is home to and connects your chakras.
The cranial pole of the channel (crown, sahasrara chakra) opens upward, to heaven, the cosmos, the universe, spirit.
That upward direction is called levity.
The sacral pole of the channel (root or muladhara chakra) opens to the earth.
That direction is called gravity.
Gravity and levity. Grounded and open to Spirit: balance.
My dream was about levity.
Who needs a dream like this?
Someone who is growing a private practice in Craniosacral Biodynamics, exploring Biodynamic Meditation with you :-), teaching, making 5 trips this year for training and personal growth, who is now also looking at a new location after 12 years in the same place.
Lots going on. Balance needed.
Today’s Biodynamic Meditation was about breathing, posture, sensing Tide. I invited a cranial stillpoint. Ajna chakra, radiance at my face, crown chakra. Swirliness in my cranium, then in my abdomen at manipura chakra, then in pelvis, ending with sacral stillpoint.
Balanced.
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.” ~ Dogen Zenji
This quote from Dogen has stayed with me from my early Zen days, and I’m finding it handy when life presents challenges.
Yesterday I learned that I may need to find a new place to live in the coming months.
This morning, my adored one messaged he’d started having symptoms of COVID. I’ve been exposed. I’ve escaped it so far, one of the few.
Here I sit with change, hoping for the best outcomes on all counts, holding confidence in that.
My Biodynamic Meditation was deep. Breaths, posture, radiance at my face, Tide in central energy channel. Healing energy in pelvis, heart center, ajna chakra, balancing my instinctive, emotional, and mental centers.
The healing energy knows I need to be resourceful. It knows!
Sometimes in Craniosacral Biodynamics sessions, the practitioner’s head involuntarily nods, from brainwaves heading into delta territory.
That happened, too. Delta, change.
What is this swirliness that I sometimes sense in my Biodynamic Meditation sessions?
Another name for it is the inherent healing process.
Synonyms for inherent include intrinsic, integral, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inner.
I believe this inherent healing process is available in all of us humans…and Biodynamic Meditation is a path to discovering it in yourself.
To sense our own self-healing, our minds need to be calm, gently focused within on our sensations to the point of familiarity, and receptive to what we notice.
This is the heart of why anyone would want to learn Biodynamic Meditation.
Continue readingMy intent when starting today’s Biodynamic Meditation was to keep my attention focused more on my sensation, with little distraction from my monkey mind.
It worked.
Intention is so powerful. It’s like making a promise to yourself and then honoring it.
Continue readingToday’s Biodynamic Meditation was different.
Radiance at my face from the start, after 5 physiological sighs.
Tide moving up and down in my central energy channel.
No stillpoint unless it was brief, more of a pause.
Then…sensations in the skin, especially of my arms and legs. Pleasurable.
Continue readingWhen I wake up too early, I listen to a Yoga Nidra guided meditation on YouTube, led by Liam Gillen.
That happened this morning.
I’d stopped it from playing about halfway through the last time I listened so I could sleep.
This morning it started where I’d left off, and I realized I’d never heard the second half of it!!
It’s that good at getting me to sleep.
What I heard was a guided tour of the chakras, moving energy up the central channel, chakra by chakra, from root to crown.
Continue readingGo within and find the dance.
We are polyrhythmic beings.
Breath. Heartbeat. Circulation. Tides. Internal and external rotations. Digestion. Circadian rhythms. Fluid motion. Cellular activity. Neuronal activity. Lymph flow. And so much more.
To become still in body and mind is to begin to sense the magnificent dance occurring within each of us.
L’chaim!
Continue reading“We are exploring what we’re exploring with.” ~ Gabrielle Roth
I’ve been looking for an image showing the central energy channel through which the Tide flows in Biodynamic Meditation (and Craniosacral Biodynamics). (This post is one in a series of posts on practicing Biodynamic Meditation, on Instagram, this blog, and Facebook.)
This one is closer to what I experience than most of the images.
There are maps…and then there’s the territory, conceptual information and felt experience.
IMO, we need maps to show us where we’re going. The territory is what we’re exploring.
In yoga anatomy, the sushumna nadi is the channel that connects the crown of the head to the pelvic floor.
Continue readingMy Biodynamic Meditation this morning started with 7 Bhastrikas, sukhasana, and radiance at my face.
Then, sensing the Tide, mixed with monkey mind, until stillness prevailed.
The Tide seems to be a fundamental part of our well-being.
It’s so close, yet most of us don’t know about it until someone tells us, and even then it takes motivation to deepen our perception and discover it in ourselves.
There’s no science on it (yet), but it seems obvious that something so regular is actually regulating something.
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