Biodynamic massage

{{Quote box|width=25em||align=right|style=padding:8px|quote="During a massage, if I see any sign of movement trying to emerge in the client, I would always try to encourage it, because my conviction is that this is going to liberate and express much more energy than would result from what I'm going to do with my hands."|source = — Think Through the Body - Roz Carroll{{cite web|last1=Carroll|first1=Roz|title=Think Through the Body|url=http://website.lineone.net/~thinkbody/biodynamic_massage/|website=www.thinkbody.co.uk/}}

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In 1969, Boyesen set up the Gerda Boyesen Training School at Acacia House in Acton Park.{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=Cournetay |title=In Memoriam: Gerda Boyesen: 1922 - 2005 |url=http://www.eabp.org/backup/news/gerda.htm}} It is both a psychological and energetic therapy which is concerned with the integration of all aspects of an individual.{{cite book |last1=Staunton|first1=Tree|title=Body Psychotherapy|date=2002|publisher=Runner Routledge|isbn=1-58391-116-2|pages=78}}{{cite web|last1=Malloy|first1=Mary|title=GBII|url=http://www.biodynamic.org/what-is/what-is-biodynamic-massage|website=www.biodynamic.org/|access-date=2014-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916021056/http://www.biodynamic.org/what-is/what-is-biodynamic-massage|archive-date=2014-09-16|url-status=dead}} This includes the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of existence. A key concept in biodynamic massage is the belief in a universal life force that connects all of us.{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237345110|title=Setting up a Biodynamic Massage Practice - Part Two|website=ResearchGate|language=en|access-date=2019-09-09}}

Biodynamic massage is used on its own, as part of body psychotherapy or to support psychotherapy of a different modality. The touch does not attempt to cure, but rather bring the client into relationship with their body.{{cite web|last1=ABMT|title=Association of Biodynamic Massage Therapists|url=http://www.abmt.org.uk/theoretical-principles.html|website=www.abmt.org.uk/theoretical-principles.html}}{{cite book|last1=Nunneley|first1=Peg|title=The biodynamic philosophy and treatment of psychosomatic conditions|date=2000|publisher=Lang|location=Bern|isbn=3-906763-16-1|page=75}}

There are a wide variety of techniques that focuses on skin, bone, muscular, fascia, energy and aura.{{cite book|last1=Staunton|first1=Tree|title=Body Psychotherapy|date=2002|publisher=Runner Routledge|isbn=1-58391-116-2|pages=79}}{{cite book|last1=Hartley|first1=Linda|title=Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach|pages=32}}

According to Biodynamic massage, the digestive tract has a dual function. It is to digest physical nourishment, but also the emotional digestion of stressful situations. Once away from the stressful situation, the experience can be digested in our guts when rest is possible. Biodynamic therapists use a stethoscope during the massage to listen to the peristalsis and use it as feedback to guide the massage.{{cite book |last1=Stauffer |first1=Kathrin |title=Anatomy and Physiology for Psychotherapists |date=2010 |publisher=Norton |location=London |isbn=978-0-393-70604-8 |page=130}}

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