What is Biodynamic Cranial Approach?
Biodynamic Cranial Approach, in general, focuses on the last discoveries made by Dr Sutherland. Later, his student Rollin Becker, DO, and then Jim Jealous expanded upon that understanding.
“Be Still and Know, I am”
These are the words etched on the grave markers of the founding father of Cranial Osteopathy, William Sutherland and Adah Sutherland. Profound teaching that continues to live in and evolve our consciousness is expressed through this work.
In the final years of Dr Sutherland’s remarkable life, he described the therapeutic force he felt like the “Breath of Life.” This breath, more fundamental than our ordinary breath, has rhythm and ”Intelligence”, and it is “the Tide that is making the corrections.” Dr Sutherland’s teachings spanned what we now understand as mechanical, functional and biodynamic cranial approaches.
Cranial Osteopathy originated out of Osteopathy through William Garner Sutherland, and Osteopathy came to us through his teacher, Andrew Taylor Still. This is the contemporary and Western origin of the work; however, I wish also to acknowledge that the sacred and healing art of laying on of hands is ancient and thus a natural and inherent human capacity that crosses time and cultural barriers.
Like having a heart rate and a breathing rhythm, there’s an even subtler rhythm of the cerebral spinal fluid that Dr Sutherland referred to as the “Tide” or the “Breath of Life. “ CSF bathes, protects and nourishes the brain and spinal cord held within the meningeal layers surrounding the central nervous system.
In this work, the therapist sits quietly, similar to the quality of presence in meditation, and applies simple contacts with gentle touch while allowing this subtle rhythm and its enfoldments to express their optimising healing power. It is altogether the most sacred and the most ordinary and natural thing one human being can do with another – to sit together in the power of Love’s presence and allow its healing power to come forth and ‘make the corrections.
For more information or to drill down on BCA, please visit Giorgia’s website www.touchofpresence.com.