Welcome to my website! For my first blog post I am going to talk about bones. Bones have been on my mind. If you look at the opening page of my website you will see rock deep in the earth carved by nature. Looking at this picture, it reminds me of bones.
Most pictures show bones of a dead organism that are thoroughly dry and brittle. Living bones are flexible, living connective tissue systems filled with collagen and calcium and water and arteries and veins and marrow. Think of it. The connective tissue that runs in and around everything in your body, also connects onto and into your bones. And the vessels? Deep in your bones, flowing through your whole organism and connecting into your heart. And how often do we think of bones when we think of our immune system? Yet that is where most of the immune cells start, deep in the marrow of the bones.
In Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy bones are often felt. It intrigues me. Bones are felt to have subtle patterns of motion that express in a slow rhythm. Sometimes non optimal alignment shows up between bones. But what has really been intriguing me lately is when inertia shows up inside of a bone. When a force vector has been introduced into a bone, be it from birth, a fall, an accident, or blunt force. The body will often hold that force in one spot, as letting it take over the whole body may be too much at the time for the body to handle, too overwhelming. Or it may want to learn from the pattern, holding on to some tension as a way to remember not to do it next time. And as the body acts as a unified whole, this will affect tissue patterns around the site as well. In BCST these places in the body are held, and if and when the body feels safe and resourced enough to let go, it will.
Think about your own bones. How do you see them? How do you feel them? Running today, I noticed that when I land on my heals my bones took up a lot of shock from the impact. However, when I landed on the balls of my feet I felt my bones join my whole body and act like a big spring. When I walked (cause let’s face it, I’m more of a walker) my bones felt deep and solid. Like how I feel when I think of rock, deep in the earth. Solid. Take a minute to just sit and feel your bones. Think of the earth and rock under you as well. What do you feel? There is no right or wrong answer. Just notice.