Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a subtle, profound healing art which uses the therapeutic potential of presence, a safe and respectful relational field and the hands’ receptive touch to listen and attune at a deep level to the whole of a person. In the therapeutic context and field of sensitive support of this skilled kind of listening, the inherent intelligence of the vital potential within the client can initiate and promote healing processes and allow for a reclaiming of and reorientation to the deep ground and original health of our being. This form of therapy can support healing of very early (pre-/peri- and post-natal) and subsequent traumatic imprints and patterns, physical and emotional forms of pain, a wide range of forms of suffering, imbalances, disorientations and systemic dysfunctions (nervous, endocrine and digestive) which can afflict us. The work is deep and subtle and unfolds in relation to and in deep respect for the intelligence of the client’s own inner vital force in the timing that that intelligence determines to be safest and most conducive to true healing. (Note: 1st session must be 90-min).

Throughout life, I have dedicated myself to exploring pathways that help us remember and revive our native continuity with and home in the mysterious source and ground of being. The process of such remembering is ever layered, profound and subtle and leads us towards a healing recognition of and alignment with our innate continuity with the sacred source and continuum of life. In practicing BCST, I feel graced to witness and support others in this healing process of embodied remembering. I draw on the ancient and living wisdom of teachers, including that of Franklyn Sills and Cherionna Menzam-Sills in BCST; my study, practice and teaching of kundalini, hatha and shamanic yoga and vipassana meditation. I am inspired by the presence of nature, the gifts of love, poetry, language, music, dance and our human search for justice and truth. I write poetry and am a wildlife/environmental justice advocate. I hold degrees (B.A., M.A. and M.Phil.) in philosophy and literature from Yale University.

Please contact Marya directly to schedule sessions or for inquiries:

mabstream@gmail.com or 610.256.4464.

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Yoga: a journey into presence

3 Thursday evenings 6:00-8:00 pm, December 1, 8, 15 with Marya

$25/class or $66 for the sequence.

You are invited to join yoga instructor and biodynamic cranio-sacral therapist, Marya Bradley in a sequence of 3 yoga classes in which she will guide the practice of yoga as the subtle and potent instrument and vehicle it is for exploring and entering into an embodied remembering of the deeper nature of our self -- a journey into the experience of being present. As for so many of us, perhaps for all of us on some level in this time of enormous uncertainty and disorienting change, being present in our body is not easy. Indeed, for most of us, our body likely is the locus of the legacy of many kinds of trauma: our own, that of our family of origin, our ancestors, and of the culture, histories and environment in which we are embedded.

All this has powerful resonance in our bodies and makes being at home in the body—being present-- difficult if not at times unbearable. Yet if we can practice with appropriate awareness and support, we can gradually cultivate an awareness of and relationship to the deeper resources of our being. These resources serve to reconnect us to our resilience and vitality and can support us in gradually healing layers of unintegrated history and releasing reactive/defensive patterns and beliefs that obscure from ourselves who we are; our innate vitality and irreducible self, rooted and at home in the deep source of all being.

Our practice will involve exploring the resources of breath, awareness, attention, gravity, and vital energy’s expansion using various techniques developed in the Hatha yoga/Kundalini Tantra traditions and the insights of more recent understandings of trauma. Some prior experience of yoga or similar mind/body discipline is highly recommended.

Please register with Marya directly via email (mabstream@gmail.com) or text at 610.256.4464.