Meditation and Healing Touch - A Biodynamic Approach

Healing Touch is hands-on healing using primarily light, gentle, and in this case, stillness touch (long holds with minimal movement), to enter a state of relaxed connection.

I study and assist Healing Touch with Giorgia Milne through her Touch of Presence School for Biodynamic Studies. Her teachings emphasize orientation to wholeness and the biodynamic non-doing practice of being in connection and wholeness. As Giorgia Milne says, “Wholeness is health, Wholeness is holiness, Wholeness is love.” Wholeness includes.

I am a graduate, repeated participant, and teacher’s assistant. My passion is being in this group field*. So my first recommendation is to attend the group intensives! As a certified practitioner, I offer this formal practice of Biodynamic Healing Touch Sessions.

*group field is the energy and space that is created when a group of people get together in person and practice the principles of the practice, even more impactful is when the teacher is present, embodying the practice and the principles. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

  • 2026
    Giorgia Milne, Touch of Presence, Year Long Group Intensive, 120HR - Assistant (Current)

    2025
    Mary Reis, Touch of Presence, Initiatory Course, 3 Day - Assistant

    2024
    Giorgia Milne, Touch of Presence, Initiatory Course, 3 Day - Assistant
    Giorgia Milne, Touch of Presence, Year Long Group Intensive, 120HR - Assistant

    2023
    Giorgia Milne, Touch of Presence, Year Long Group Intensive, 120HR

    2022
    Giorgia Milne, Touch of Presence, Embryology ~ Spirit & Essence, 3 Day
    Giorgia Milne, Touch of Presence, Fulcrum of Being, 3 Day
    Zen Shiatsu Chicago, Massage Therapy Diploma Program 715HR

    2021
    Giorgia Milne, Touch of Presence, Year Long Group Intensive, 120HR

    2020
    Misha & David Sol, Craniosacral 1, Zen Shiatsu Chicago, 2 Day 
    Alice Whieldon and René Fix, Katsugen, 6 Week Live Virtual 

    2019
    Paul Fowler, Blue Lotus Thai Healing Studies, 50HR - Apprentice 
    Michael Morgan, Upledger CranioSacral Therapy CS1, 4 Day 
    Ginger Crisenbery, 3rd Coast Biodynamic Craniosacral Intro, 3 Day
    Giorgia Milne, Biodynamic Cranial Touch Initiatory Course, 3 Day

    2018 
    Paul Fowler, Blue Lotus Thai Healing Studies, 50HR - Apprentice
    Randy Cummins, Thai Blossom Employee Monthly Classes 
    Randy Cummins, Stretching the Emotions, Zen Shiatsu Chicago, 1 Day
    Nephyr Jacobsen, Naga School Thai Abdominal Massage & Scraping, 2 Day 
    Takashi Yoshizawa, Thai Massage and Reflexology, 6 Day

    2017 
    Paul Fowler, Blue Lotus Thai Healing Studies, 200HR Graduate
    Takashi Yoshizawa, Thai Massage and Reflexology, 2 Day

    So much appreciation to all my teachers, peers, and organizers.
    Such deep gratitude for the opportunity to participate in each class.
    Through these bodywork classes, I have had the opportunity to heal.

  • “Feeling what it feels like to be feeling what you’re feeling” - Giorgia Milne

    The formal practice of sitting with another, (sitting with our selves and one another), laying down next to another, observing the difference between being the one lying down vs the one sitting up, touching another in stillness, being touched by another in stillness, feeling the connection, loosing the connection, being awake, feeling restful, dropping in, being both asleep and awake, being in these states with an observer, with another in physical connection, with another in connection in ways that are other than physical, noticing when the stillness feels like movement, when the everyday mundane becomes psychedelic, when the boundaries soften, when both opposing realities exist as one... these observations are all supporting our ability to be more and more present, aware, and receptive as we traverse different states of consciousness and interconnectedness and also separateness. This practice of observation is a becoming more and more sensitive to the subtle changes that are occurring in and around us all the time. Stillness supports building our observational skills by giving us more time and space to observe the changes in and around us and our response/reaction to these changes.

    Touch and interconnection are very powerful tools for holding awareness. Touch is such an intimate and meaningful experience, and our bodies are capable of so much awareness and sensitivity when we are really listening. Doing this practice with another person holds us accountable to ourselves. We actually have to ask ourselves, is this movement I feel in this space of stillness coming from me or the person who is touching me? Is this feeling I am feeling coming from me or the person next to me or are we both cocreating? Do I feel empowered to say when it doesn't feel right and do I feel safe enough to explore when I am not yet sure or when I am in the unknown? We can begin to see how important it is to be able to have a space to ask these questions and a practice that gives us experiential terrain to explore the answers. 

  • To be continued…
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  • To be continued…
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  • To be continued…
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Photo of me with Giorgia and the assistant team during 2025 Gainesville Intensive

A drawing from memory. I was participating this exchange between assistants meeting the day before retreat intensive.