Celebrating 52 Years:
The History of the Dynamic Stillness School
In 1973, I was meditating four hours daily. A fellow meditator introduced me to "cranial work," a term that piqued my curiosity. I booked a session with a recommended doctor, and that single experience transformed my life.
After one biomechanical sutural session from a doctor who studied under one of Sutherland's students, my consciousness expanded infinitely. Dwelling in I AM for 30 days, I lived in constant bliss, enveloped by profound stillness. This state echoed a wholeness I’d felt as a young child, that I lost to early an emotional core erotic wound. That session planted the seed for what, three decades later, became the Dynamic Stillness School & Press.
Beyond inspired by that single cranial session, I studied for 18 years with osteopath Dr. DeJarnette, a student of the renowned cranial founder Dr. Sutherland. For 23 years, I practiced and taught biomechanical and functional cranial until in 1995, during a session, I encountered Sutherland’s biodynamic tides as spontaneous slow waves of expanded consciousness that was far slower than the tempo of the medical cranial approach. This shift led me to abandon the medical model and develop Stillness Touch, a practice focused on evolving consciousness, not treating ailments.
With no prior exposure to biodynamics, these tidal experiences overwhelmed me. I felt inside myself the neutral as a whole-body stillness, fluid tide, long tide, and Dynamic Stillness. Each emerged naturally during sessions and meditations. To process this, during my daily meditation I connected with Sutherland’s essence, and documented everything that occurred in writing. These writings became my books, Stillness: Biodynamic Cranial Practice and the Evolution of Consciousness and Beyond Stillness: Practices for Practitioners which presents meditations inspired by the ancient traditions and modified by modern teachers like Rudolf Steiner and Carl Jung.
A key realization hit me: a true biodynamic practice evolves consciousness. I realized this evolution when I entered Sacred Repose - a continuous state of inner stillness - that expands the biodynamic neutral. Yet, in 1995, this insight wasn’t recognized in the cranial field.
I also noticed immense confusion in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) schools. Despite claiming that thier work is based on Sutherland’s legacy, their curriculum overlays a medical model onto a non-medical biodynamics, that leads to missing the tides’ true potency. In Stillness, I clarified Sutherland’s original osteopathic definitions - biomechanical, functional, and biodynamic - to help practitioners discern the authentic biodynamic practice.
In 2002, during a class, our group transcended the tides and Dynamic Stillness and entered a new realm, Pure Breath of Love. This non-tidal pulse of love emerged after surrendering fully to infinite stillness and letting it inside - marking a post-biodynamic, descending spiritual current journey. Today, the Dynamic Stillness School teaches Stillness Touch as a way to connect with love that is free from efferent techniques. The Stillness Tuch Master Classes guide practitioners on a journey of enfleshment of consciousness and love in the body that becomes a sacred vessel.
This journey demands courage to face inner shadows and surrender to love. For those who answer the call, it’s a path to realizing the body as love itself.
