#biodynamicmeditation

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Waiting. Patience. Yesterday I wrote about finding a place in my abdomen that felt cool in my Biodynamic Meditation. It condensed into a round shape maybe 2 inches in diameter. It felt like old, stagnant, stuck fear, an iciness from who-knows-which young experience. I wondered if this was a place in my system that the healing energy would return to, helping it heal. In today’s meditation, I felt radiance at my face, Tide, and healing energy slowly moving in my abdomen. I felt the condensed energy again. It wasn’t as cold as it was yesterday. The healing energy stayed there for a while, like it was settling in with its attention. Healing always happens in the present, no matter when the energy became stuck. Healing cannot be forced. It happens when it’s ready to happen. We can help it be ready, with our awareness and by simply allowing it to be as it is, with kindness and patience. Some of our stuck energies have been with us for a long, long time, protecting the rest of our systems from chaos. They serve us until they are no longer needed. Photo: Copied from somewhere online, honoring our tree brothers and sisters so many of whom were reshaped by the recent ice storm in Austin. The canopies that remain intact will fill in the empty spaces. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #stuckfear #healingenergy #healing #radianceatmyface #tide #settling #present #protection (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoPwCYwuyOD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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My dear friend Sunny posted this on Facebook. I’d gotten some news that was slightly disturbing. Nothing I could do anything about… This got me back into a positive state, along with the mockingbirds singing and woodpecker pecking and other birds chirping right outside my windows. Spring is on its way, here in Austin, TX, and today is being well-lived. Finishing my Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath training, meditating, learning, taking stuff to Goodwill, shopping for sandals…and I get to work with an amazing client later! (They’re all amazing, and I feel so blessed to get to be doing the work that I do.) #happinessdancing #love #lifeisgood #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #biodynamics #bcst #meditation #biodynamicmeditation #coherence #HeartMath (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpNi-EMuvoM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This is my 100th post on Biodynamic Meditation! Just back from 4 days in Big Bend National Park, with the big sky, desert, mountains, river, hot springs, ravens, Mexican jays, javelinas, and numerous trails. And most of all, quality time spent with my beloved 22-year-old granddaughter, Hannah. And…it’s great to be back home, in my own bed, with comfort, solitude, and time to sit. After over 3 months of daily meditations, when I start sitting, things start happening…perceptions of radiance at my face, the motions of the Tide, the vitality of my life force swirling within. I remember when I started doing yoga (asanas) 40 years ago. At some point after my practice became habit, I realized I didn’t just DO yoga, I WAS (and still AM) yoga. It was in me. Same now. I AM the radiance, the Tide, the swirliness, the health. So…I will continue my practice but won’t be posting so much about it. I will be reviewing my posts (I started on 11/11/22), exploring ways of teaching it, as one-to-one private sessions, for small groups, as a guided meditation/yoga nidra, and whatever else emerges from my exploration. Thank you for checking out my posts on this inquiry. Please stay in touch! Links are in my bio. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #bcst #radianceatmyface #tide #swirliness #perception #love #vitality #lifeforce #teaching #practice https://www.instagram.com/p/Co43MwJutr8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Busy day ahead, three sessions in two locations and a yoga class, so this post will be short and sweet. Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone who loves, is loving, lovable, who cares about others. The heart chakra is the most powerful chakra of all, extending at least 3 feet out. I’m taking a class, The Resilient Heart: Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Training and Certification. To become more heart centered, breathe as if your heart is doing the breathing, breathing in and out with your heart center. It really activates that chakra. #biodynamicmeditation #HeartMath #heartchakra #heartfocusedbreathing (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CopXC3PObuG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I did something different in my Biodynamic Meditation this morning. I stayed with whole body awareness during my 45-minute session. I didn’t put much effort into labeling what was happening. I just felt my life force moving within my body and field, and it felt great. And wow! So much life force moving within me! I noticed how pleasurable it was to simply be aware of my life force energy for that entire period of time. I clipped my HeartMath sensor to my earlobe and set up the Inner Balance app for a session again. I was in high coherence 88 percent of the time today. I could see on the report that HeartMath displays after completing a session how my coherence fluctuated. It’s never a straight line. It is always changing. I just signed up for a HeartMath training called The Resilient Heart: Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Certification. I so love learning how we can influence the autonomic nervous system since there’s just so much unhealthy stress in most of our lives. Let’s change that. Change that, change the world. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #bcst #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #wholebodyawareness #lifeforce #heartmath #coherence #heartratevariability (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/Com3NeGOXXT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I dreamed that I was pregnant, and that I was preparing to go into labor with lots of support, even from people far away whom I didn’t know. My Biodynamic Meditation this morning started with my posture, then breathing physiological sighs (sniff sniff ahhhh) until I yawned. Radiance at my face. Then sensing the Tide ascending and descending my central energy channel. Spacing out (heard the first mockingbird of the year singing outside — joy!). Noticing the Tide had gotten swirly and was investigating various areas: abdomen, sacrum, throat… I decided to pose a question to the healing energy: If you could find the most optimal place for healing in my system today, the place that’s most ready to heal, where would you go? It settled in my spine in the mid-thoracic region and stayed there. It was still there when my timer went off after 45 minutes, but it didn’t feel “done” so I waited 5 more minutes until it felt done. Sometimes “done” is clearly done, and sometimes it’s “done for today”. I will find out which as the day progresses. I have a slight reverse S curve in my spine, and this is a place where the vertebrae shift directions. I’ve been doing PT exercises for months to straighten my spine… Yes, you can communicate with the healing energy. In my experience, it takes time to build energetic rapport with it, to develop trust and familiarity. Even now, when I ask it a question, sometimes it doesn’t answer, and sometimes it consents…by simply doing. It doesn’t speak English, but it understands intent. It’s mysterious! So much more to learn! This communication comes after a lot of listening. It might be Biodynamic Meditation 201 or 301. I’m focusing more on preparing to teach 101 now. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #bcst #dream #pregnant #teaching #posture #physiologicalsigh #radianceatmyface #tide #centralenergychannel #swirliness #investigating #healingenergy #selfhealing #communication #intent #rapport #trust #familiarity (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coh0dBHOU-R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today almost got away from me! Early phone call, early client, then lunch and shopping with my granddaughter, and heavy traffic on the way home. Some days are like that! I notice that my morning energy is so much stronger than my late afternoon energy. I had a few cranial nods in this session. Tide, radiance, a bit of swirliness. Dancing tonight…gonna take a little nap! Oh! I got my first 1:1 teaching session scheduled!!! More to come. Photo by Linda Hunnicut. I’m liking this lichen! #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #BCST #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #meditation #energycycles #diurnalrhythms #cranialnod #nap #teaching (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cof-RRzpIbB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Coherence. Resilience. The unified field. Today I’m going to a silent retreat for women where I will work in silence on writing an outline for teaching Biodynamic Meditation. This will be the first writing, outside a few random notes, that I’ve done on Biodynamic Meditation outside of these daily posts about my personal experience. I’ve learned a lot over the past 92 days of this project, and of course I’ve been in training in Craniosacral Biodynamics off and on since 2013 and practicing since then as well. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #bcst #coherence #unifiedfield #resilience #writing #teaching #silentretreat (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoZ47BPO9rX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I woke early and watched an old video of Franklyn Sills, founder of Craniosacral Biodynamics, state that this modality is ��grounded in the perception of the forces at work in the human system” and that we “work with the field, in direct relationship.” That is what Biodynamic Meditation is about: cultivating harmony within our personal biological fields and with the larger fields we exist in: our relational fields and the spaces we inhabit, including our planetary field. In one of my previous n=1 investigations of life and well-being, I explored HeartMath, using a sensor when I meditated to measure my heart rate variability and coherence. Coherence is defined as the quality of forming a unified whole. I got out my dusty HeartMath sensor this morning and clipped it to my earlobe, started a HeartMath session with sounds and vibrations off — and also started an Insight Timer session. I wanted to get some biofeedback about coherence during Biodynamic Meditation. Results: Over the 40-minute session, I was in high coherence 84 percent of the time. I’ll keep doing it, but it certainly indicates that Biodynamic Meditation increases coherence. Oh, and today’s my birthday! #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #franklynsills #cranialsacraltherapy #craniosacral #bcst #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #perception #field #harmony #investigations #heartmath #coherence #heartratevariability #hrv #meditation #unifiedfield #biofeedback (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXfj8FuWJQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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What’s going right in your body-mind system? Many of us, myself included, have a bias toward noticing what’s wrong, what hurts, is tense, stiff, sluggish, numb, dysfunctional. We may even make up stories about what’s wrong, feeling ourselves deficient, flawed, less than, unworthy. I’m motivated to get over that! You know, if you’re not on life support in a hospital, there’s a lot that’s going right. A LOT. You’re breathing. Your heart is beating. You’re viewing this post and reading these words. You very likely are hearing sounds, if you direct your attention there. The many sensations of body awareness… Your weight pressing down into whatever you’re sitting or standing or leaning on. The sense of where you are in space, how your body is arranged, your posture. Warmth or coolness. Balance. Your many systems that keep you organized and alive: cardiovascular, pulmonary, nervous, lymphatic, digestive, immune, etc. Also, your mind. Your memories and imaginations, beliefs, motivations, identity, skills, preferences and avoidances, etc. Underlying all is your life force. Yogis call it prana. Daoists call it qi (chi, ki). I feel it when I do Biodynamic Meditation, after doing yoga or qi gong, walking in nature, having a great conversation with someone, hugging a friend, practicing Craniosacral Biodynamics, and at random times. I feel grateful for being alive. That’s what this is all about. This comes even before sensing the Tide in the central energy channel. This is Day 90 of these posts. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #bcst #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #lifeforce #prana #qi #chi #ki #awareness #sensation #gratitude (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVA0n8papd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Wow! Today’s Biodynamic Meditation was mostly swirliness! I had again awakened early and listened to a Yoga Nidra recording on YouTube. I’ve been sampling them. Still like Liam Gillen and also now Kristyn Rose Yoga who has one with some focus on the heart chakra. I also gave 5 mini-sessions at last night’s Community Healing Circle after being unable to work this past week. Power outage at my office due to ice storm. (It’s back on now.) I was primed for a really good meditation. I breathed a few physiological sighs until I yawned (parasympathetic sign). Felt radiance at my face and then my entire head. Tide. No stillpoint unless it was brief. I wonder if the healing energy, after 3 months of daily meditations, doesn’t need stillpoints any more because it knows my system well by now. When I work on others, a stillpoint seems like a pause when the healing energy is assessing their system and gathering resources before it starts swirling. Swirliness happens when the healing energy of the Tide changes its action from regulation (ascending and descending the central energy channel) or stillpoints (gathering resources) to healing whatever is ready to be healed (swirling where it’s needed), as best I understand it experientially. Swirliness is so mysterious and magical! It has its own agenda for healing that is extremely intelligent! I believe it’s way more intelligent than any of us could possibly be. After all, it has known us deeply and intimately, from the inside out, since shortly after our conception. Sometimes it moves really fast, zipping around. Sometimes it slows down and lingers in an area. Today it touched on all my chakras and did some more realigning of my cranial bones. Usually it feels really good! Sometimes, like today with my frontal bone, there was a brief, slight sense of discomfort until the bone was aligned with its neighbors. Photo: wave receding from lava tube, with whispering stones, at Wai’anapanapa State Park, Hana, Maui. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #bcst #swirliness #tide #stillpoints #centralenergychannel #radianceatmyface #healingenergy (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoSZ4mbJr_o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This morning’s Biodynamic Meditation was about radiance at my face, and then Tide and swirliness alternating at various places in my body. Oh, and radiance in my hands. It’s been happening in sessions with clients and I wondered if it would happen in meditation. It did. Photo: Icy branches, taken yesterday outside my trailer. It’s melting today but a lot of branches broke all over this area, and some are still without electricity. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #meditation #tide #swirliness #radianceatmyface #radianceinmyhands (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoKl4e9OPRp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today I heard a cardinal chirping when I first awoke, a sign that spring is coming. They nest here every year. I love hearing and seeing them. I went to work on my business website, editing and updating my offerings, before I even remembered to meditate. Staying at home during this Texas ice storm has thrown my rhythms off. Radiance came first, then third eye, solar plexus, heart, and root chakras, followed by a little bit of tide and a lot of swirliness. Swirliness moved through my upper back, shoulders, and neck, reminding me to use better posture, because when I get into a writing trance, I can easily forget I have a body until it reminds me. Swirliness also addressed issues in my upper abdomen, in the middle where stomach and liver abut. It could have been my omentum, too, the layer of adipose tissue that moves to cuddle needy abdominal organs, bringing them extra resources. We are simply fascinating! Every single one of us is a walking miracle. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #cranialsacraltherapy #craniosacral #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #meditation #radianceatmyface #tide #chakras #swirliness #youareawalkingmiracle (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIQL50J2bK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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My Biodynamic Meditation this morning: Set Insight Timer for 40 minutes. Physiological sighs. Radiance at my face. It felt strong today and kept my attention the whole rest of the time, except for a few check-ins of my central energy channel, where I felt the Tide ascending and descending. This radiance is different from a stillpoint at the cranial end of the central channel. It’s different from sensing cranial chakras, although they may also be open while my face feels radiant. Today they were open but not strong. The radiance involves my whole face. When I first began to sense it, it was only across the middle of my face. Over time the radiance has spread. Discerning sensations is part of knowing thyself. Then, the age-old human question is, “But what does it mean?” I don’t really know, except that it feels life-affirming. It is also a sign of healing for me. Because of an early trauma, I wanted to hide, to be invisible. This radiance has found my face and put a shine on it. Cold spell in much of the U.S. No snow so far in Austin, Texas. I love the stillness in this random online photo. May you be warm and safe. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #radianceatmyface #discernment (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFWjq6uFQd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Yesterday I shared the 12 states of attention … useful tools in Biodynamic Meditation and in life. It helps to notice your own patterns of awareness and expand beyond them, as well as appreciate them. You may notice that some people are primarily visual. Some are primarily externally oriented. Some are drawn more to details. You can cultivate the states you are not so familiar with, and you will have more attentional flexibility … a key factor in appreciating life. And … there’s always more. This morning I’m focusing on another aspect of attention that’s important in meditation and in life, and that is … waiting. When you bring your attention to your central energy channel, in order to sense the Tide ascending and descending, you will usually need to wait for the sensation of internal motion to make itself known. Then you may sense something, but it isn’t clear, and you wait some more for it to clarify. It’s a process of inquiry…of being curious and deciding to investigate by bringing your attention there…and waiting for indications of the Tide to be felt. This is patience. This is allowing. This is staying with. This is life, unfolding for your awareness. Photo taken by Louise Thayer, Happy Dog Ranch. (Thanks, Louise!) #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #cranio #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #waiting #12statesofattention #patternsofawareness #attentionalflexibility #centralenergychannel #tide #sensation #clarifying #inquiring #investigating #patience #lifeunfolding (at Littleton, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoCusQHONgN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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One of my influential teachers, Nelson Zink, investigated the 12 states of attention, which I first learned of in 2010. We have three primary ways through which we perceive: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. We have locations in which to place our attention, internal and external. The skin is the boundary. Our attention has range, narrow to broad. We come to favor a few of these states. Practicing the ones less used gives us more attentional flexibility. Since the quality of our attention is important, I thought I would share this here. When I settle my body into my sitting posture, I am using Kinesthetic, Internal, moderately Broad attention, K I B — moderately broad because I’m attending to my whole body and biofield. I tune into my central energy channel, K I N. When I feel radiance at my face, it’s K I/E B, because I’m attending to sensations at my face and the field around it. Stillpoints are K I N. Monkey mind/internal chatter is A I N. I don’t often get visual input when I’m meditating or receiving a Craniosacral Biodynamics session, but a few people who have received sessions from me have had elaborate visions, such as being showered with golden light (V/K I B). When I give sessions, I open my eyes, looking out the window into the woods and sky outside. That would be V E B. If you are curious about this, Google “navaching” and “12 states of attention” to find Nelson’s archived website and some blog posts I wrote. If you are challenged trying to sense the Tide, stillpoints, or other features in Biodynamic Meditation, you may find it helpful to access states of attention you don’t usually use. This can be very powerful! Today’s sit: breathing, posture, central energy channel, Tide, radiance at my face, cranial stillpoint, swirliness in upper abdomen, Tide. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #12statesofattention #nelsonzink #perception #visual #auditory #kinesthetic #internal #external #narrow #broad #centralenergychannel #radianceatmyface #tide #stillpoint #swirliness (at Manchaca, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoATT1ZJ74U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=