Clinical Work: Be Still and Know

Clinical work in Craniosacral Biodynamics is based upon the ability of the practitioner to “be still and know”.

Students develop the ability to:

• be present
• come out of linear thinking and conceptual mind
• enter a more primordial mind state of basic presence
• establish a safe holding environment
• negotiate the relational field with the client
• orient to primary respiration within both their own and the clients’ midline and bio-system.

Biomechanical approaches such as motion testing, de-compressive and functional techniques have been dropped at Karuna. Although these may be helpful, especially within a first aid context, inappropriate use can lock the system up at a particular level and prevent a deepening into more formative forces and healing processes.

In a biodynamic approach practitioners orient to the manifestation of primary respiration and to what Becker D.O. called the inherent treatment plan.

Students and practitioners learn to:

• orient to primary respiration
• recognize different phenomena relating to healing processes emerging at different levels of work
• use appropriate clinical and interpersonal skills for each level of unfoldment

We interact as needed with:

• CRI process
• Fluid body/physical body mid-tide processes
• Long Tide/tidal body processes
• Dynamic Stillness