~One Person’s Story of Healing and Recovery
By Jeannie Kelley
I have studied several forms of craniosacral work over the years and can truly appreciate the various perspectives that have evolved out of the osteopathic lineage. Prior to fully exploring the Biodynamic realm in a formal class, I had experienced its nature multiple times when receiving sessions. On every single occasion – whether subtle (like energetic synchronicities) or profound (like when a part of my essence returned to my body in a way that made healing and recovery from an accident much more rapid in the time that followed) – there was something about “it”.
And whatever “IT” was, I wanted more of it! Between my impressions of Giorgia Milne as a teacher, and the depth of my experience in that first Initiatory Course, it was obvious that embarking on the year-long Mentor training was the next right choice.
After about a third of the way in, Giorgia asked me something to the effect of, “What’s ‘keeping’ you here”? Perhaps she was suggesting that what “brought” me here was one thing, and that maybe there is something else emerging. All I could think of at the time was that what brought me was intrigue and curiosity about this “force” or “presence” (sometimes referred to in Biodynamic language as “Breath of Life” or “Primary Respiration”.) That was true for me, and then there was the undeniable fact that bathing in this form of meditation/practice as work on one’s self was deeply healing for me as well as the people around who noticed. In fact, they joined the course too – based on their observations of my changes.
I can’t say it’s been easy, but I can say that it’s been gentle and kind. And I have learned so much from this. How many times can we say that we’ve had a non-confrontational loving experience of authentically bringing our traumas, wounds and “darkness” through awareness into the light? This amazing process of “transmutation” is a different kind of evolving all together. And now I cannot imagine living or working any other way.
What keeps me here now? On a personal level, it’s the study of consciousness. As a practitioner, I’m profoundly in awe of this path. And on a transpersonal/collective level there now resides a kind of social commitment to help rebalance how we orient and live our lives on this planet. Whether or not I end up doing straight “Biodynamic” cranial work or not remains to be seen. The fact is that this work has informed my being to the core and seems to have found a channel throughout all aspects of my life.
Giorgia Milne returns to Gainesville this summer to teach a series of classes:
- Biodynamic Cranial Touch Initiatory Course is the introduction to this unique approach to cranial work as a path of self-exploration.
- Embryology: Essence & Experience will deepen one’s experience with, and understanding of, the developing and healing forces innate within us all via study of the initial 4 weeks of the embryo’s development.
Contact Mary Reis at (352)246-6280 to register.
Jeannie Kelley is a current student in the year-long mentor course training. She is also the owner of Island Soma Therapy in Hilton Head, SC, is advanced certified in the Rolf Method of Structural Integration, and has been in practice since 1986.
