Biodynamic Cranial Approach
A Meditation Practice and Form of Healing Through Touch

Biodynamic Cranial Approach is a non-doing practice of being in connection and wholeness. As Giorgia Milne says, “Wholeness is health, Wholeness is holiness, Wholeness is love.” Wholeness includes.

Giorgia Milne’s Touch of Presence, a Biodynamic Cranial Approach, is a formal practice in both meditation and healing touch, where the hands rest on another’s body in stillness, with the mind in orientation to wholeness. As a graduate, repeated participant, and teacher’s assistant, my passion is being in this group field*. So my first recommendation is to attend the retreats! As a certified practitioner, I offer this formal practice of hands on touch upon request. This practice also informs my way of being and my approach to reading star charts.

*group field is the energy and space that is created when a group of people get together in person and practice the principles of the practice, even more impactful is when the teacher is present and holding space. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

More About This Practice

What is this practice engaging? 

The practice of being still, listening and observing in stillness, is an incredible opportunity to explore our awareness, mind, body, and states of being. In this practice, we often partner up and use massage tables. One person sitting up at the table, the other lying down on the table. The room is quiet and we are letting ourselves settle. Sensing into what is, being with what is as it is. Making sure we are comfortable to be here for awhile. The person sitting up may receive the impulse to rest their hands on the other person lying down on the table. The quality of touch is meant to be gentle and have a tonal resonance with the greater whole. The hands rest on the body in stillness. Maybe the hands never leave that one place for the entire meditation. 

How does this practice support our meditation practice? 

The formal practice of sitting with another, (sitting with our selves and one another), laying down next to another, observing the difference between being the one lying down vs the one sitting up, touching another in stillness, being touched by another in stillness, feeling the connection, loosing the connection, being awake, feeling restful, dropping in, being both asleep and awake, being in these states with an observer, with another in physical connection, with another in connection in ways that are other than physical, noticing when the stillness feels like movement, when the everyday mundane becomes psychedelic, when the boundaries soften, when both opposing realities exist as one... these observations are all supporting our ability to be more and more present, aware, and receptive as we traverse different states of consciousness and interconnectedness and also separateness. This practice of observation is a becoming more and more sensitive to the subtle changes that are occurring in and around us all the time. Stillness supports building our observational skills by giving us more time and space to observe the changes in and around us and our response/reaction to these changes.

Touch and interconnection are very powerful tools for holding awareness. Touch is such an intimate and meaningful experience, and our bodies are capable of so much awareness and sensitivity when we are really listening. Doing this practice with another person holds us accountable to ourselves. We actually have to ask ourselves, is this movement I feel in this space of stillness coming from me or the person who is touching me? Is this feeling I am feeling coming from me or the person next to me or are we both cocreating? Do I feel empowered to say when it doesn't feel right and do I feel safe enough to explore when I am not yet sure or when I am in the unknown? We can begin to see how important it is to be able to have a space to ask these questions and a practice that gives us experiential terrain to explore the answers. 

What makes this practice healing? How does it support our overall health?

To be continued…

Mystic Poets Can
Express What They Have Fully And Completely Become

Kabir translations by Vipul Rikhi:

When I saw the play of the universe 

Within this body

All delusions about the world 

Dropped away. 

Outside and within 

The same unbroken space

I reversed the central thread

And it pointed upwards. 

If you look for me, you'll find me 

In a second's search, in an instant

Kabir says, listen fellow seekers

I reside in the quality of trust. 

The mind has many turns 

As there are waves in the ocean

The pearl forms naturally, spontaneously

When the mind is stilled.