Biodynamic Cranial Touch – Charles Ridley

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Biodynamic Cranial Touch Classes are for everyone interested in learning about presence and the extraordinary potency of non-invasive touch. We welcome beginners, advanced practitioners, and everyone in between to learn a new way of sensing, feeling, being, and touching.

This gentle touch invites you to become aware of the Breath of Life as it welcomes you, relaxes you, and heals you. Where most craniosacral work ends, the threshold of biodynamics begins. Join us in discovering what awaits us by cultivating this deeper level of presence, touch and healing. These classes are instructional and experiential.

Biodynamic Cranial Touch – The Initiatory Course

Prerequisites: Open to All – Especially suited to Energy Therapy Practitioners, Craniosacral Therapists, Qi Gong Practitioners, Massage & Movement Therapists, Yoga enthusiasts and Meditators looking for a deeper experience.

This class is for anyone interested in learning about the healing power of touch and intention. We teach this amazing work by using meditation, Biodynamic Cranial Touch, and sharing. Health practitioners, therapists, body workers, teachers, cranial practitioners and those who wish to begin or further develop an understanding and a practice of non-invasive touch are all welcome.

This class is a requirement for Dynamic Stillness mentor programs developed by Charles Ridley, author of STILLNESS: Biodynamic Cranial Practice and The Evolution of Consciousness. You may take this class without a commitment to take the mentoring program.

Class Description

In this 3-day class we will explore mutual touch as a way to experience the central healing channel that exists within the body. We will create a healing space using meditation; explore heart awareness, and what it means to be in tonal match to the one we are touching. This leads to powerful encounters with The Breath of Life (according to biodynamics, the power that forms and heals the body). This course is designed so you can gently immerse yourself in and develop a living, intimate touch that connects you and your client to the Breath of Life, without applying any outside force or intention.

Our work emphasises a neutral disposition of quiet and still presence centred in our heart of hearts with an attitude of non-doing and non-efference. Much of the focus is on the practitioner’s experience and sensing in a bodily way what the “tone” of the field is. You will be taught practices to support learning how to remain unwaveringly present so that we can “Be still and know, I am.”

For students and practitioners of CranioSacral Therapy, this class offers a deepening and clarification of that which is more purely defined as biodynamic craniosacral.

21 contact hours : Course tutor is Giorgia Milne

Topics covered in class include but are not limited to:

• Introduction to the philosophy and practices of Biodynamic Cranial Touch as developed by Charles Ridley
• History, theory and current evolution of biodynamic cranial practice
• Practitioner and Client Neutral
• The three midlines
• Preparation and grounding practices
• How to distinguish the characteristics of the different tidal rhythms
• How those rhythms relate to different levels or states of consciousness
• How to sense the difference between efferent and non-efferent touch
• How to speak from experience rather than images and concepts
• Understanding the major different types of cranial work
• Biodynamic cranial practice and the evolution of consciousness
• Demonstration and practice of contacts for giving BCT sessions
• Anatomy and embryology pertinent to the above
• Integration: From the classroom to the table and into daily life
• BCT as practice, how this approach can become a way of being

There will be exchange sessions at least once per day and preferably twice daily with time for sharing, group discussion, comments, questions and exploration of what was revealed in the field. This is how most of the “teaching” comes through. Required reading is “Stillness” by Charles Ridley or the translated class notes.

Typical Review from a student…

“I highly believe every soul should experience the wonder of dynamic stillness. It is an energy beyond words but so lovingly familiar and can’t be lost once reunited. Thank you so much Giorgia for your insight, love and wisdom over an incredible 4 days. As the saying goes…”the simple things in life are often the best.” I highly recommend this workshop to any practitioner from any modality as you will gain an insight to health far beyond comprehension.” Clemente Ruggiero

“Giorgia Milne is not only a foremost teacher in this work, but shares a depth of experience that is seldom seen in class these days. As a student in this class, I was not only given information that filled many gaps in my training as as an energetic therapy practitioner, but answered many unsolved questions that I had about the real purpose of energy therapies.

For those who are polarity therapists, or do acupressure, or any type of energy work, then this class is a must do! It is one thing to read about the presence of the breath of life, but another to experience it! It made the Chinese concept of Wu Wei tangible to me, not just an abstract concept. Now I know, because I have felt and sensed” Peter Farnsworth.