Did you know that ~93% of psychotherapy patients report lying at least once to their therapist? Couple that with meta-emotions such as shame and fear of judgment that often sit on top of the very issue the client wants to resolve, and a direct, head-on approach can become outright futile. Insisting on such a strategy may, at best, lead clients to sabotage their own healing process—and in some cases, even re-traumatize them.

So here we arrive at a therapist’s great dilemma: how do we help the client who feels reluctant to be helped?

Over the years of practice, I have developed a number of indirect strategies that address these resistant cases and deliver outstanding clinical results—without making the client feel like they have to take the bull by the horns.

If you want to discover what these are, and how to move the needle forward in complex or resistant cases, watch the workshop below

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But what if the body could not only experience what is happening, but also speak about it?

Let’s explore this further. If we can not only experience what is happening, but also describe it, we tap into the body’s innate wisdom. It’s at the intersection of language and sensing that this magic happens.

Its beauty lies in its simplicity. Anyone who can sense and speak is capable of tapping into this process, and it works equally well for a complete rookie client as it does for an advanced practitioner.

But it doesn’t stop there. Felt sense is not just an embodiment tool — it is also excellent for working with resistant clients and difficult issues, precisely because it introduces an impersonal quality that makes it much easier to face what is happening.

In this workshop I share the principles, applications, and many benefits of this powerful tool for facilitating embodiment in your clients.

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Biodynamic craniosacral work is not based on a diagnose-and-fix medical model. And yet, the moment a client goes horizontal on the table, something quietly shifts.

Without a word being spoken,…

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The deeper answer is: posture is not a technical choice — it is a conversation with the nervous system, a ritualized agreement with the field, and a silent declaration of intention.

In craniosacral work, nothing is neutral — and yet neutrality is everything.

The Client’s Posture: Where the Field Opens

Lying Down

This is the classic and most familiar position — and for good reason.

Lying down is:

• Receptive

• Passive

• Restful

• A posture of allowing rather than doing

It is also the only bodily position in which the adrenal system fully rests.

In a world saturated with vigilance, urgency, and depletion, this matters more than ever.

Let’s be honest: most people arrive exhausted.

Even when they don’t name it — the tissues do.

For clients who are even slightly tired, lying down is often the most intelligent choice. It signals to the system: “You may stop holding.”

However, clinical discernment asks us to be precise here.

Contraindications for lying down include:

• Histories of physical abuse, where supine positioning may invite traumatic memory or body flashbacks

• Deep dissociative tendencies, especially when paired with a passive, collapsing attitude toward the process

In these cases, lying down can amplify disappearance rather than presence.

The body may rest — but the being may leave.

Sitting Up

Sitting is a different doorway entirely.

It is:

• More active

• More participatory

• A posture that says: “I am here. I am meeting the work.”

Sitting invites the client into co-authorship.

It often supports orientation, agency, and conscious engagement with intention.

For some nervous systems, sitting is not a compromise — it is the correct medicine.

Intelligent Adjustments: Listening to the Body’s Needs

There is no “one right position,” only right relationship.

Consider:

• Back injuries → side-lying may offer safety and comfort

• Pregnancy → side-lying supports the lumbar spine, creates space, and honors physiological reality

Side-lying is not secondary.

It is often deeply intelligent — especially when we are listening beyond habit.

The Practitioner’s Posture: The Unspoken Transmission

Now let us turn the lens inward.

The practitioner’s posture is not cosmetic.

It is instructional.

• Leaning slightly forward can unconsciously imply intention, doing, or directing

• Leaning back may convey receptivity — but also disengagement if overdone

Neutrality is key. It means availability without agenda.

Yes — I have treated clients at a distance while lying down myself.

And yes — it absolutely changes perception.

It makes me more invisible, more receptive, more dissolved into the field.

It allows a different kind of listening.

And yet — for me — this remains the exception, not the rule.

Clinical discernment knows when a technique is appropriate.

Deeper listening knows when to return to what is reliable.

In Closing

There is more happening in posture than meets the eye.

Posture is:

• Nervous system language

• A cue to the adrenal field

• A silent agreement about participation, rest, and agency

• A co-created ritual between client, practitioner, and the larger intelligence at work

So yes — posture does matter.

Choose wisely.

The Tide will tell.

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Here are two subtle yet powerful nuances you can bring into those first moments.

These are the most recent additions to my-ever evolving ritual of contact.

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But clarity does not always come with ease.

✨ Some intentions drift like mist: “I want to feel balance… I want to feel calm”

✨ Others point away from the heart’s center: “I want harmony in my relationship,” when what is really whispered beneath is: “I want clarity about what I need in love.”

To uncover the true intention is to set a vessel upon the right course — one that will determine where healing eventually arrives.

This is where your presence matters. The client’s will is sovereign, yet your listening is sacred service. When you listen your whole being, you attend to not only to what is said, but to what lies beneath the words. Your body becomes like a living pendulum sending you signals about the sincerity of what is spoken.

💫 This training explores:

• How the tide responds to intention as a session guide.

• The art of hearing both the explicit and the hidden, implicit longing.

• How to help clients refine their true desire, so the tide can organize around it.

• Clarity in your role as a practitioner — standing between what is spoken and what is waiting to unfold.

🌀 When the practitioner listens with the whole of their being, the unspoken becomes known, and the session begins to sail on its true tidal direction.

The workshop culminates with my group session on clarity. Click below to watch

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What do you do in situations like this?

Do you downgrade the intention to make it more realistic?

My answer is no. Instead, we must approach these “impossible” intentions in a way that makes them believable—not by forcing them into reality but by preparing the foundation. This involves “priming” the client (or yourself!) and addressing the limiting mental conditioning that often blocks progress.

That’s where biodynamic principles truly shine. By orienting to universal forces rather than limiting beliefs, we create the conditions for transformation to unfold naturally.

In this workshop I show you:

• How to shift clients from doubting their intentions to actively co-creating their manifestation.

• The preparatory steps needed to turn impossibility into possibility.

• How to apply these principles to your own practice and personal goals.

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How do you know if you’ve encountered a deeper territory, or just an unfamiliar place, or both?

What to do when it feels like you’re stumbling through darkness?

If you’re working biodynamically through the tide, the relational field acquires its own intelligence and depth that could be greater than your existing level of perception.

Couple that with an occasional client whose depth of perception surpasses yours, and it feels quite unsettling to navigate such a session.

Is there a way to manage this and still be effective to your client? The answer is yes.

In this workshop I offer you the DO’s and DONT’s of managing such challenging sessions with grace and efficacy.

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- How do you know if you’ve done enough? Or too much?

- What signals the end of session?

- Who decides when the session is over - therapist or client?

- Can I safely end a session even if a client still in the midst of her process?

Ending sessions is one of the most debated topics in the mind of every craniosacral practitioner

There are many conscious and subconscious factors that signal for the practitioner to complete.

If you’d like a fresh perspective and suggestions on session endings, here is the workshop on this subject.

You’ll discover what point makes it both safe and effective to end a session, so that the client can enjoy its benefits well past the table time.

You will also leave with better handle on ending of life’s processes in general and ways to face them.

The workshop offers self-reflection, meditation and… surprises. Click below to access.

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- The tide’s roots are energetic

- We perceive tides first and foremost with our consciousness, and only then with our hands

- Tidal perception in our hands is just an extension of what we can perceive with our consciousness

- If we remember how to connect to the Tide without the use of our hands, it’s possible to conduct full self-sessions by following the activity of the Tide using only our consciousness.

I call this inner cranio because it relies on our internal perception of the tide, rather than external palpation with hands.

And yes, you can expect palpable physical shifts from it as well

This way of working is an excellent training ground for deepening your relationship with the Tide and your perception of it

In this workshop you will learn how to connect to the tide with your consciousness to practice inner cranio on yourself. I will guide you through a live session so that you leave the workshop knowing how to practice it on your own.

Guess what, between feeling the Tide and actually supporting it is a world of (well-intentioned) non-biodynamic corrective interventions.

Even if one thinks she’s following the tide, one must actually know what the Tide is doing so that it becomes therapeutically effective.

Over the years I’ve observed practitioners fall into several typical traps of interfering with the tide’s process.

Becoming aware of it has given them an entirely new perspective on what it means to truly support the Tide and yield significantly better client outcomes.

Do you want to hear what these traps are? So that you can orchestrate phenomenal clinical results for your clients in a short amount of time?

This is the power of the tide.

In this workshop I share with you these patterns of corrective interventions and offer you an alternative approach that can move you directly to the Health that is never lost.

No guessing, meandering, or detours. Direct access to Health.

Isn’t this the very core of biodynamics to begin with?

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Working with a patient’s mind is crucial, but can hit a limit if the ideas don’t get eventually embodied.

That’s when your patients journey tends to hit a plateau. And where BCST comes in to help all these important concepts land in your patient’s body and be lived.

Yes, it’s a touch therapy although it doesn’t have to be done through touch. You can skyrocket your clinical results by adding BCST to your repertoire.

How does it work and what will it do for your clients?

Find out in a this masterclass.

• Not be affected by the clients’ traumatic material that comes up in sessions
  

• Move beyond our personal judgement of the client’s difficult character, unwillingness to go deeper, or participate in their healing process
  

• Leave sessions feeling light and free of the client’s material
  

• Bypass “whose stuff is this - mine or the client’s?” and not let that interfere with the session work

In this training I am sharing with you how to addresses all of these issues through one powerful frequency.

Those of you who have studied with me in the advanced training on are familiar with frequency work. It’s one of the most direct, precise, and efficient ways of bringing a client towards their desired outcome.

My practice is always evolving, and here I’m transmitting to you my latest frequency that dates back to the Vedic period.

It’s the frequency of Namaha, which translated from Sanskrit means “not me”.

All Sanskrit words contain sacred vibration, and this particular one is added at the end of all Vedic prayers to signify that in the end it’s the Tide that will orchestrate our requests.

As BCST’s we know that our work is centered upon being-to-being connection with a client. Working from the space of Namaha gives us embodied access to this way of connecting.

Whenever I approach sessions from this frequency, I invariably go right to the core of the issue, things resolve faster, and I leave the session feeling that I have just received deep biodynamic work myself.

I’m delighted to share this approach with you so you can come out of sessions feeling light, energized by your work, and unburdened by your client’s material.

You will also be able to go much deeper to the core of your client’s issue, to the place beyond their pathology that holds their true Health.

I am sharing with you this frequency both through lecture and direct energetic transmission, so you can embody it in your practice.

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Yet when it comes down to session work, most of us still do therapeutic interventions, albeit educated, gentle and subtle, fully believing we were just supporting the Tide.

Hint: working through the Long Tide does not automatically render the work Stillness.

In my opinion therapy and stillness sessions are worlds apart. 

In this workshop I’ll clarify what in my opinion makes the Stillness approach unique and dispel the confusion about the concept of Tides, Stillness, non-interference, etc. So that you become crystal-clear about what is YOUR authentic way of working.

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Besides just the general concept of letting the Tide guide the session, we want to have practical handy methods of how to do that using 2 methods that are always at-hand no matter where you are in session work

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This kind of questioning brought me to Stillness Work whose beauty is in orientation to Health. While we can walk an endless path of picking apart, analyzing and resolving what is “wrong”, it’s the inherent Health within us that is the ultimate healer.

Why not work directly with Health then? Here is what happens when we do.

I recently had a wave of addicted clients. No, not to me... Although the feeling of the Tide to which we connect in Stillness work is frequently reported as addictive. In my practice I cultivate the love of Health. But these clients were just in the beginning of that path – they came with destructive addictions: binging on junk food, emotional addiction to an unavailable partner, and dependency on a light drug. Each of these had a different quality and intensity, but they were built on one common foundation that resembled prison. No one was crackling jailer’s keys, but something was obvious: these people experienced little freedom of choice. I’ll start from the end, and a happy one at that. Food binging disappeared and continued to be in absence from the very first session, or the first contact with the Tide. Addiction to the married man lost its grip from the first tuned-in, Tide-inclusive phone conversation. And the drug addiction turned into a free, conscious and controlled choice after about a half-hour session.

Let’s look through the microscope at each of these. In one case, the woman depended on food to make her feel cozy and inside her body. Another lady was addicted to her relationship with a married man, and found her thoughts and energy constantly flowing towards him. In his relationship with the light drug, the man couldn’t quite feel as his creative self without the “hit”. The object of the addition became the master, and the person in question lost the neutrality of choice which is: “Ok with it (him/her, object of addiction), and ok without”.

This loss of freedom is at the heart of any addiction, even a mild one. In its seed form, addiction is an exaggerated attachment. If we feel through the layers of attachment, they contain leaves and branches of the infamous Tree of Ego: neediness, emptiness, pride, affirmation of oneself as a woman/man, etc. It’s a quick ride to calm the brain waves, relax the body, or get a creative kick.

By Ego, I mean here not the usual sense we put into it, like pride or arrogance. I’m referring to anything that is not our essence. For example, guilt or shame are siblings of arrogance and pride. We can be addicted not just to a substance or a person, but often to a feeling. In fact, it’s a particular feeling the addicted person is after the object of the addiction is just a delivery man.

Sometimes, addiction itself could be an addiction. My root teacher in India always said that pleasure in life does not equal happiness. Addiction loans us short-term pleasure that in the end never yields happiness, but gets paid off with destruction, or weakness at best.

When we interact with subtle energies, such as in Stillness Work, making a conscious connection between what happens on the table during sessions and the improvements in health afterwards is very supportive of the therapeutic process.

The Tide links us with our essence, that which is beyond conditioning, that which doesn’t change in the ever-changing flow of life. This essence is revealed through Stillness Work, where the Tide takes you beyond ego waves, to the place that is free by design. It is pure Health.

From this place that is vibrant and full, we don’t need to draw from outside, like in an addiction-attachment, we instead radiate and give without any conscious effort. And like any fire that is no fed by fuel, the flames of addiction fade on their own.

Once she got in touch with that place of Health, the woman with the food addiction saw food as a neutral substance that was there to nourish her body instead of filling her sense of emptiness. Binging on junk food lost its charge. “He came up to my table at a restaurant and greeted me. Not a muscle twitched on my face, not a single skip of a heartbeat. He was a man like any other”, said the woman previously addicted to a married guy. And the light drug addict was served an opportunity for a long gap without the drug, which he sustained without even thinking about it. After that, it became a conscious infrequent choice, just like his intention for our work stated: “ok with it, and equally ok without it”.

Stillness work can be a form of spiritual practice. In the process of letting go of addiction and attachment, or anything else that doesn’t serve us in life, we touch that place in us that is freedom… moksha… liberation. Life shapes that pull us away from our center remain as just that – shapes, but the energetic charge behind them dissipated.

This is an invitation to explore this beautiful place in yourself – on the table or energetically on distance...

In my case, both mine and my client’s bodies started embodying a snake. Go figure if that’s a success story or an experiment in mutation. The first sighting of a snake occurred when I was still learning to tune into my own Tide, early on in the training. As I was lying on the floor, and the feeling of the tide came full-on, some force started to awaken inside me, and the body launched into physical movement. At first it was producing undulations in the chest area, then the hips followed with wave-like movements, upper back and neck began to arch, lifting the head and tilting it back. I knew with all my being that it was not my brain in action. Meanwhile, I watched in amazement how the body grew a brain of its own and started to move without any conscious command of my intellect. Some undulations acquired so much amplitude, they would lift my hips in the air, and roll my torso in spirals as the arms and legs followed along. I felt something between fear of exorcism and joy of no longer needing to invest in belly-dancing classes!

Having written this experience off to the body’s need to “unwind”, I put it on the shelf until… it happened in the very next palpation of my Tide, and then again, and again, and again. Each time the undulations were different, but always felt organic, liberating and coming from a place far beyond the “frontal lobe”. Not having found references to any serpents or their undulations in any craniosacral or related texts, I, with the naïveté of a 5-yearold ran to Mom-and-Dad tutors with the: “Look what happened to me! What is that?” This was met with a deep voice of Buddhist wisdom to just Drop Underneath that. The more I was trying to dive down there, the less the snake wanted to have anything to do with that, as if saying to me “You are trying to Drop Underneath what? Where do you think I came from?”.

As this unwinding was not something that was taught or even encouraged in the foundation training, I was very conscious about keeping it as my own craniosacral miracle to explore. However… “Strange Things” have a tendency to survive and persist, and as I stayed with this Snake phenomenon, I began to see it happen in my practice sessions with clients. One of these clients - a longtime yoga practitioner, came for her first craniosacral session. Fluid and communicative, her system easily gave itself to the Tide. A few minutes of Tidal how-are-you’s, handshakes, energetic mutual adjustments, a fulcrum resolved, and then it came …a moment of stillness, just pure awareness without any object associated with it, not even curiosity about what might be transpiring. Inside me there was a sense that something was about to happen, and there it was – such a surprise, and not at the same time. Yael’s body began embodying a snake.

My secret was busted the Snake was no longer just my personal idiosyncrasy it turned out to be a common human phenomenon. I was watching Yael as she was both perplexed and pleasantly entertained by the beautifully-elegant undulations of her body. Not only did she not seem to mind, but was thoroughly enjoying the serpentine workout on the couch. The next moment, Yael’s abdomen got literally sucked back in towards the spine. The muscular contraction was so intense, it left her holding her breath. As she forcefully exhaled, the body continued to undulate yet stronger. I was observing how throughout this experience, Yael’s breath was gradually changing into soft aspirant throat restricted inhales and exhales. At some point, she began to take long expansive inhalations, and expel short forceful exhalations. All of this started to look a little too familiar. As a long-time yoga practitioner, my awareness of Kundalini Shakti force was more than theoretical. This powerful creative serpent force lies dormant at the root of our spine at the pelvic floor. When time is ripe, something prompts this energy to rise up the central channel, and travel along the automatically-shifting fulcra (chakras) until it finally exits through the crown of the head somewhere along the saggital suture to unite with the Universal force above.

The rising of Kundalini is documented to take many manifestations, as this force climbs up the midline and helps resolve any indigested current- or past-life experiences. This rising of Kundalini is known to bring about great spiritual insight and awakening. The suction of the belly towards the spine looked like none other than Uddiana Bandha – a “flying upward energy lock” that draws energy up to the heart and into the central channel. As to the aspirant throat breathing, it was likely a naturally-occurring Ujjayi (glorious) yogic breath, and the forceful exhalations were a spontaneous KapAlabhAti – a well-known yogic breathing exercise. It would be logical to assume that these phenomena occurred on a craniosacral table only to those privy to yogic practices, but experience proved otherwise. The snakes, the flying locks, and “Picasso faces” (my name for facial muscles involuntarily morphing into grimaces) were happening to those who would have trouble spelling yoga in English. Cranio-yogis began to include my long-distance CST clients. Without me being present in the room with them, many would afterwards recount the undulations and unusual breathing.

Let’s travel to the roots of yoga. Not literally, although a trip to the Himalayas is always nice. How did yogic practices emerge? As Indian sages sat in deep meditation, they began to tap into various energies inside their bodies. These internal energies would at some point begin to manifest physically, and the body would start to move. These movements would take various shapes that later became known as postures or asanas. The same happened with the energy locks and breath-control exercises (pranayama). This is what the world practices today – perceptual and physical experiences of those who touched stillness in their mind… and stillness resonated back.

So where did these experiences leave the clients who by no intention of their own became yogis (whatever that means)? The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. The physical movement would almost always leave the client somewhat tired, as if after a real workout, but at the same time liberated and refreshed, with a significant improvement in any physical symptoms they may have had. Clients cite that the movements continue far past the sessions, sometimes for weeks on end. They rarely interrupt the daily flow of their lives, but clients seem to easily bring them back whenever their brain waves slow down – before sleeping, right after waking, at times even while cooking. Those clients who regularly meditate, experience deeper connection to themselves and opening to new perceptual horizons. Perhaps it’s possible to say that in his own way Dr. Sutherland was also a yogi, who in a state of deep meditation touched The Tide with his hands. Or perhaps the ancient yogis were wonderful craniosacral practitioners?