“It helps me to remember that full aliveness, full embodiment is about connection - with ourselves, with the world of wildness and spirit, and with our kin.” Susan Raffo Where is health in you today? Where do you feel vibrant, vital, more alive? Common questions preceding a biodynamic craniosacral session. When I as the practitioner, ask this question I invite the person to tune in and connect with their body as an expression of Health and notice where their ‘resources’ are, or what feels...

I remember fondly the title of my first essay during my biodynamic craniosacral studies with Body Intelligence: “Where is health?” It’s a pivotal question in our field of work because practitioners orient around health rather than disease, what feels vibrant or simply okay as opposed to what pains and aches, so this first question helped us shift from the dominant medical dualist ‘fix-it’ model to a non dual approach encompassing the dynamics of life and reorganisation. The fact that our...

Some time ago I heard myself saying to a client “The tenderness of fluids is always there”. These words flowed out of my inner well like water and it’s when I was speaking them that I sensed the scope of their meaning. Like a call and response chant I noticed my fluid body dwell in the soft, trusting leaning of these words. I held this client’s settling into their tender wrapping of the fluids. I use the word tender here for kind and soft but also for the exquisitely intricate mesh of our...