A biodynamic session is usually experienced as deeply relaxing.
The introductory dialogue leads to bringing my client into contact with his/her personal resources before he/she makes him/herself comfortable (fully clothed and warmly covered) on a treatment table. All efforts are made to create a feeling of security and trust, signalling to the body that it is allowed to tell its story and that it is being listened to.
In deep listening, we listen with the sole purpose of helping the other person feel heard and accepted.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The entire session is like listening with the hands to support the healing and transformative process in various parts of the body. The touch is very gentle with no manipulation or massage involved. The more unintentional the contact, the safer it feels for the client. They are then ready to open up on a deep level and come into contact with the healthy parts of themselves.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
C.G.Jung
In the unfolding stillness, many people immerse themselves in their fascinating nner worlds. Dense or painful areas can be relaxed; releasing micro-movements often last for several days as the body reorganises itself on a subtle level.
As a rule, psychological traumas reintegrate themselves without having to be relived with much drama. In this way, the consequences of trauma held in the body have the chance to heal without the affected person having to consciously address them and be confronted with unpleasant memories. Healing takes place on a deep level and is not to be understood as a short-term fixing of symptoms.
Trauma is primarily physiological, it’s something that happens to our bodies first, and then its effects spread to our mind, emotions, spirits. As we resolve our traumas we discover missing parts of our beings, those that make us feel whole and complete.
Peter Levine
The closing dialogue helps to integrate what client and practitioner have experienced in the session.
I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
C.G. Jung