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Article 2: Biodynamic Massage
Biodynamic Massage: dissolve the feelings you've had to swallow.
by Ora Sapir
Ever considered the effect on your body of your mood, thoughts and feelings? For example, when you feel angry your muscles tighten, your jaw clenches and your heart beats fast. Your body wants to express that anger! If you cannot fully express and resolve this feeling, it gets trapped in your body. You literally "swallow your feelings" and their residues remain stuck in your body. These residues of unresolved feelings, which may be recent or stretch as far back to babyhood, accumulate in the body as energy blocks which eventually restrict aliveness, and may manifest as ill health.
Biodynamic massage works to dissolve these energy blocks gently and safely, and return your body to harmony and wellbeing. Biodynamic massage works on body and mind, assisting the body's ability to heal itself.
So how does biodynamic massage work?
It works on the premise that body and mind are closely linked and reflect each other. When emotions are buried deep in our bodies the most direct way to access and release them is through touch.
When we experience traumas, energy can get stuck in bones, muscles, tissue, skin and aura. Biodynamic massage works at these different levels, depending on the location of the blockage. The therapist applies the most appropriate technique at the time, which may range from awakening the energy of the bone, encouraging the flow of tissue fluids, freeing energy from tight muscles, enabling the free flow of energy etc. This encourages deep breathing and balance of functions like digestion, blood circulation and the nervous system, enabling recovery at physical, mental and emotional levels.
So how does the therapist know where to work? The therapist listens to the client, uses intuition combined with a sensitive touch, and the use of a special stethoscope to listen to the body for feedback.
Why use a stethoscope? Gerda Boyesen, the creator of biodynamic massage says that our digestive system digests not only food, but also our emotions. During the massage, when the client is relaxed, the digestive system is stimulated. As trapped energy or emotion gets released from muscles, bones and other tissues, it is digested through our intestines and drains away as excess fluid, ready to leave the body. The stethoscope enables the therapist to hear the sounds of the digestive system and be guided as to what is happening in the client's body as a result of the massage. This can act as guidance as to what is happening to the client's body energetically; where energy is trapped, and whether it is ready to be released or is not yet ripe. Thus the therapist knows where there is need to work further and which parts are best left alone at that particular moment.
Therapy is guided by verbal communication. The client is encouraged to express feelings, sensations, images or insights that may arise during the session.
Biodynamic massage was developed by Gerda Boyesen in Norway, in the 1960's. It is also based on Reichian theories, which maintain that the body and mind are closely linked and reflect each other.
Biodynamic massage can relax, soothe and help to maintain the client's well being. It can give a sense of boundaries, grounding and help gain body awareness. It can help awaken thoughts, memories and feelings, release them and relax tense muscles. On an energetic level, biodynamic massage can awaken the life energy and improve its flow. Spiritually it can help the client get in touch with deep spiritual experiences and his/her own core.
Biodynamic massage can help with stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia, migraine, poor circulation, aches and pains, digestive disorders, give a feeling of general well-being, improve energy flow and increase self-awareness.