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Bodywork: The Transformation of Spirit

Have you ever asked yourself when you are doing a bodywork session, regardless of the discipline, why the outcomes are often different? I have posed this question to my students of both disciplines, “What would it be like if you didn’t have to know the answers to the needs of the system you are palpating, but to just be deeply present with what is happening at that moment?” That quality of consciousness flies in direct opposition to how so many of us have been educated! But, fascinatingly enough our outcomes are often quite good. Go figure. Actually please don’t!

I think by now many of you realize that the value of our work is oftentimes our ability to reflect for the patient’s system, so that their homeostatic response is powerful enough to create a level of healing. Two different practitioners, same basic techniques, two different outcomes. What is truly important beyond the obvious of being able to be a part of a positive outcome, is how we transform ourselves deeper and deeper into the Stillness and Lightness of Being, and the joy of that essence permeating our daily lives. [Read more…]

Lateral Fluctuations

Lateral fluctuations are in the fluid body and can express a lesion in the fluids, or the potential for the system to be creating a treatment manifestation. We know that the fluid body is in reality one organism connected by billions of cells and there are different rates of fluctuations that can be happening simultaneously. The fluid field is a breathing organism that is responding to forces from outside of itself. It is primary respiration and it is intelligent. These fluctuations occur often times in the mid-tide. It is perceived as a transverse wave or motion. But, there is also a vertical movement because the field is literally a 3 dimensional liquid crystalline matrix. [Read more…]

The Central Channel – Anchoring the Practitioner Fulcrum: Part 2

This is maybe the most important practice I will share. It reflects back to the original technique I taught in the cranial sacral foundational work. It’s the Practitioner Fulcrum, but we are going to add a second name that has been used in Eastern medicine and arts, the Central Channel. The gateway to the Primordial Field. It is in every tradition of meditation in the East. OK, maybe not every one, but it’s an ancient practice.

We have arrived now to this practice on the foundation that has been built by our previous practices. I know there can be the impulse to jump right into this. Unless you have had some previous training in other disciplines, you are making a mistake. Some people can jam successfully on the guitar without knowing any scales, but if one has practiced the scales of their musical instrument it gives you them lot more flexibility, and I dare say more acumen. Enough said.

This is the last technique, and maybe the most important and powerful. You can anchor this strongly into the ground when you feel it clearly and merge with your client’s midline, creating a very safe relational field for the work to unfold in. [Read more…]

The Central Channel – Anchoring the Practitioner Fulcrum: Part 1

I was told once that doing bodywork is not the same as meditation. I disagree. I think we are walking on this path of realization by dropping any notions of a differentiation between our spiritual lives and our “normal” life journey. To me they are one and the same. The more attention we can bring to our everyday lives, the more powerful the transformation of reality. The more we can open, the more sensitive we become to our environment. We begin to truly realize the total connection to everything. There are many forms to experience the depths of Stillness that lie within us. And to me they are the “keys to the kingdom”. My belief after 30 years of practice is that the deeper the state we can achieve, the more profound our ability to sense the underlying patterns that are causing imbalances, both physically and emotionally, in our patients’ systems. Or in plain speak, the reason they are lying on our tables. Let’s explore the next step in creating a template to use as your portal. [Read more…]

Tools of the Trade: Integration of Tension Technique

Now that you have practiced releasing your own tension into the Earth everyday for a week or two, you are now ready to put this first new skillset into a practical form to catapult you to the next level in your ability to help others. The whole concept will be to do two things at once, like right and and left hand in playing a musical instrument. This technique can be applied to any modality you practice. If you haven’t practiced the first technique, I encourage you to do that now and then come back to this. Foundational teachings are very important and without a solid foundation there is a tendency for everything to crumble. In the case of practitioners of bodywork disciplines and massage, you will really being doing yourself a great disservice. There is no timeline with this teaching and no schedules or exams. If you practice the methodology I am teaching, you will see how wonderfully this begins to impact your ability to help your clients. I promise! No pressure! Buddha said that it didn’t matter if you fell off the path a thousand times as long as you got back on it a thousand times. Be Nike about this!

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