The word “Somatic” refers to the living body, one’s lived experience, encompassing the dimensions of body, psyche and spirit.

 “Somatic Movement” generally speaking, is one which is performed consciously with the intention of focusing on the internal experience of the movmeent rather than the external appearance or result of the movement. It is exploratory by nature. Mostly it is performed slowly, as our nervous system can learn new things better this way. When we move fast, we reinforce existing learned patterns. It’s not about the quantity but the quality. 

As long as we are in a body, all experience is also a physical experience. Becoming sensetive to this, is an empowering approach to learn more about ourselves and to make better choices.

The client lays fully clothed on a treatment table. The practitioner will with light and gentle touch, make contact with your body and occassionally guide you to explore sensations. Which is deepening presence and the felt sense of being in a body. As you become more aware of resources and habitually held tensions and restrictions, your brain becomes conscious of them, it can then create change. Clients report noticing feelings of release, subtle movements, or adjustments as well as temperature changes and a deepened sense of wholeness, relaxation and relief.

Essentially, work within the Cranial field is the art of intelligent and intuitive listening. Practitioners learn to perceive the body's intrinsic movement dynamics, rhythms, and pulsations through the cells, fluids, and tissue field. They assist the expression of the inherent health of the system and the resolution of its inertial forces and patterns. Biodynamic Practitioners learn to comprehend the nature of the self-healing process and the role of primary respiration in these healing processes. They are able to perceive the tide-like currents flowing through and around the body. These are expressions of our most fundamental resources and healing potency. Dynamic forces at work within the organization of the human system. Which is seen as a unified whole.

Biodynamics does not introduce change through manual interventions. The practitioner is in a state of neutrality, the priorities of the session arise from within the client's health resources and are supported through the right kind of touch, relationship, intention, and background knowledge.