Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Volume One The Breath of Life and Fundamental Skills

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is commonly seen as the spiritual approach to craniosacral therapy (CST); in fact, BCST as taught by Franklyn Sills, the pioneer in the field, is quite different from conventional CST. Biodynamic work is based on the development of perceptual skills where the practitioner learns to become sensitive to subtle respiratory motions called primary respiration and also to the power of spontaneous healing. Through the Breath of Life, which, Sills asserts, echoes the Holy Spirit in the Judeo-Christian tradition,bodhicittain Buddhism, and the Tai Chi in Taoism, students of BCST learn to enter a state of presence oriented to the clientrs"s inherent ability to heal. InFoundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Sills offers students and practitioners an in-depth, step-by-step guide to the development of perceptual and clinical skills with specific clinical exercises and explorations to help students and practitioners learn the essentials of a biodynamic approach. Individual chapters cover such topics as holism and biodynamics; mid-tide, Long Tide, Dynamic Stillness and stillpoint process; the motility of tissues and the central nervous system; transference and the shadow; shamanistic resonances; and more.

Franklyn Sills is the co-director of the Karuna Institute, a retreat and teaching center that offers trainings in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy as well as a master's degree in Core Process Psychotherapy. The author of four books published by North Atlantic Books, he lives in Devon, UK.

Cherionna Menzam, PhD, contributed a chapter to Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics. She lives in Santa Monica, CA.