Layers, Fields, and Commons
Once again, I asked a few of my Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) colleagues and teachers in the field to contribute to my...
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Sophie Rieu
- Aug 1
- 8 min
The crucible and the wandering line
I’ve often reflected on and enjoyed the ways in which biodynamic craniosacral therapy is a ‘wandering line’ away from the dominant...
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Sophie Rieu
- Mar 22
- 5 min
Freedom biodynamics
We always place freedom within a very strictly human container in our discourses, don't we? Our freedom of expression is inscribed in...
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Sophie Rieu
- Dec 14, 2022
- 9 min
Once an embryo...
As I begin to write on All Hallows’Day, la Toussaint, the Dia de dos Muertos, the Day of the Dead, in front of a candle lit in memory of...
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Sophie Rieu
- Aug 24, 2022
- 17 min
Trusting the holds
Exploring the role and impact of holds and holding, the very hallmark in many ways of our beautiful craniosacral practice, became a...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jun 22, 2022
- 7 min
Healing as an ancestral elemental ritual
The past lives within us. A universal and undeniable experience whether we abide by the unproven hypothesis that memory is stored in the...
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Sophie Rieu
- May 17, 2022
- 8 min
Returning to water
“The earth has bubbles as the water has and these are of them!” so says Banquo to Macbeth as three witches appear in the mist on their...
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Sophie Rieu
- Feb 28, 2022
- 8 min
How do you inhabit the world?
How do we inhabit the world we live in? We can partly answer that question by another one, more defined in space: what is our...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jan 31, 2022
- 8 min
Of the importance of non verbal sensuousness
I’m sifting through dried Hogweed twigs and rub off their seeds into a new grinding implement. They’ve been sitting on my kitchen counter...
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Sophie Rieu
- Dec 31, 2021
- 9 min
Skate on the river of living
Have you ever noticed that there is a moment, a second, before we glance at something or listen to a sound that orients us over there,...
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Sophie Rieu
- Nov 30, 2021
- 10 min
Of symbiotic tricksters and other monsters
I walked with a trickster dream today. It tempted me to crossover the ordinary path towards the fantastic, the surreal, the unusual and...
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Sophie Rieu
- Oct 31, 2021
- 11 min
The wonder walk of Knowing
I feel some of the physiological and emotional sensations of my clients in my own body during a biodynamic craniosacral (BCS)session. The...
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Sophie Rieu
- Sep 30, 2021
- 8 min
And then there was time
I have returned recently from a journey into the wild deep time of Donegal, in the North West of Ireland. A part of this beautiful island...
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Sophie Rieu
- Aug 31, 2021
- 9 min
Tracking the invisible
Bodies speak to us, biodynamic craniosacral therapists, in the most peculiar language, a vernacular we learn as we steep in the rhythms...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jul 29, 2021
- 9 min
The frontier of the in-between
Imagine your body were a country, how would you rule it? Would you listen to its many ‘citizens’, including its many non-human ones, and...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jun 30, 2021
- 12 min
The winged messenger
I sit down and help my client settle into resource and safety. I place one hand under her shoulder and one hand under her thigh. I sit...
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Sophie Rieu
- May 31, 2021
- 9 min
Landing
I sometimes wonder how much dissociation created me. By automatically freezing ‘unwanted’ material and letting this constant...
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Sophie Rieu
- Apr 30, 2021
- 9 min
The Apprentices
I write in layers, in relationship with the words and their ‘portée', their scope, their fit, their bearing. They are my witnesses in the...
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Sophie Rieu
- Mar 31, 2021
- 8 min
Resurrecting Balance
Words fail me when I’m at the core. When nothing matters quite literally, and a certain undefinable quality of rooted infinity, of the...
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Sophie Rieu
- Feb 28, 2021
- 9 min
The Heart is a Hummingbird
Did you know that Hummingbirds resonate with each flower’s sweetness as they fuse within the same ‘love field’? They will not go near a...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jan 31, 2021
- 9 min
Behind the Curtain
Last night, I asked my dreams for a beginning to this essay but it didn’t ‘work’ in the way I 'thought' it would. For the world of my...
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Sophie Rieu
- Dec 31, 2020
- 9 min
Biospheres and homeostasis
Working as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist leads me to ask this potent question as this year of physical distancing draws to a close:...
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Sophie Rieu
- Nov 30, 2020
- 8 min
Perspective
I am ever so grateful for the humility, the awe I experience each time a client emerges afresh from a session with a new sense of...
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Sophie Rieu
- Oct 31, 2020
- 8 min
Spirit and an embryo
It is two days before the Celtic feast of Samhain when I sit down to write this post, and I have fallen into a well. A metaphorical well....
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Sophie Rieu
- Sep 30, 2020
- 8 min
Ocean mind
Body plan is a word I had never heard until I read it in Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, by...
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Sophie Rieu
- Aug 28, 2020
- 8 min
Enough
I am sitting with vulnerability as I begin to write this. What I am about to reflect and reveal is so intimate, so precious and yet this...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jul 31, 2020
- 10 min
The keystone
Nature doesn’t have a plan. It constantly adapts according to its many relationships. But we have plans for it. The story enacted by most...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jun 24, 2020
- 11 min
Remember, repair, restore
What words run common between the climate emergency, the movement for black and indigenous lives and biodynamic craniosacral therapy?...
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Sophie Rieu
- May 22, 2020
- 6 min
The chalice
I fell in love with the silence of the wild that returned while we stopped doing. It resounded as a permission to be wild for my broken...
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Sophie Rieu
- Apr 10, 2020
- 7 min
Inspiring Inhalation
The way most of our nation states responded to the threat of covid19 gave a whole new meaning to the proverbial saying, “No man is an...
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Sophie Rieu
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Viral
This poem came to me on a recent forest walk, following the imposition of isolation and social distancing measures on most of the...
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Sophie Rieu
- Feb 14, 2020
- 3 min
Health Love
Have you ever fallen in love with your Health? And by Health I mean the greater sense of alive Beingness flowing through you 24/7. I also...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jan 27, 2020
- 4 min
'I' eye
If only “my eyes would see a little better” as sings Nina Simone. I’ve been doing eye exercises inspired by the Bates' method for the...
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Sophie Rieu
- Dec 12, 2019
- 6 min
The spirit of science
I cannot help thinking that as part of our journey away from separation and towards integrated wholeness, spirit and science must agree...
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Sophie Rieu
- Nov 19, 2019
- 4 min
A question of tone
I love listening to stories, always have. As a biodynamic craniosacral therapist I so appreciate that initial contact when clients tell...
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Sophie Rieu
- Nov 6, 2019
- 3 min
Cranial vastness
I went to Spirit Rock last Monday for meditation and dharma talk led by Jack Kornfield. His talk centered around form and emptiness, how...
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Sophie Rieu
- Oct 14, 2019
- 4 min
Swell
As the oceans swell with rising temperatures…I wonder about my body, our bodies whose functions and form are underlain by fluidity. So...
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Sophie Rieu
- Sep 8, 2019
- 4 min
The Síle na Gig and the qi
I may be wrong but I sense that the way we perceive sexual energy, sexual power is undertaking a major cultural shift. One that hopefully...
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Sophie Rieu
- Aug 25, 2019
- 4 min
To do or not to do? That is the question
In the art of non-doing that is biodynamic craniosacral touch, I have sometimes danced to the tune of “should I stay or should I (let)...
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Sophie Rieu
- Aug 16, 2019
- 4 min
The speed of light
In the past few nights, if you were blessed with clear skies and not too bright a Moon, you may have spotted the Perseids meteor showers....
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Sophie Rieu
- Aug 4, 2019
- 4 min
Coherent convergence
It is fascinating how the body remembers what the conscious mind chases away. This mind-body dichotomy is the root of all forms of...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jul 18, 2019
- 4 min
Deep time healing
It is a good measure of my internal (and external) resources that despite being grounded by a hip sprain— due to an overenthusiastic...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jul 9, 2019
- 4 min
Ways of looking
Have you ever found yourself wanting to watch, to contemplate some people, or animals, flowers... for hours just because. I have, many...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jun 24, 2019
- 5 min
The brine and the darkness
The parenchyma, have you heard this beautiful word before? It is the dress and substance of our brain; this mighty gland, this super...
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Sophie Rieu
- Jun 2, 2019
- 4 min
Revelations
I love the idea that we can be observers of life, that it happens to us. Maybe because, in our very Western way, we mostly do to avoid...
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Sophie Rieu
- May 21, 2019
- 3 min
Sensory tensegrity
Is there somewhere in the world that is not owned, not claimed by anyone? I wonder about this as I’m walking through a magnificently...
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Sophie Rieu
- May 13, 2019
- 4 min
The gauze of memory
As I grow older I notice how my memory changes, my short term memory fails me more often and I cannot place or remember some faces the...
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Sophie Rieu
- May 3, 2019
- 5 min
Tipping point
Sometimes I wonder if there is a threshold past which we can no longer integrate past traumas and they forever determine who we are,...
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Sophie Rieu
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
In praise of women
Isn’t it extraordinary to be a woman? Isn’t it a miracle? I recently attended a ‘Womb Surround’ process workshop skilfully facilitated by...
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Sophie Rieu
- Mar 26, 2019
- 4 min
Anxious Skin
How comfortable are you inside your own skin? I ask because anxiety is such a common complaint in my craniosacral practice, that it...
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