Bruce Elliot MEd, LMT
In the process of healing and growing from my own physical and emotional injuries, the approaches that helped me the most were Craniosacral Therapy and Spacial Dynamics. I have since devoted years of study to both of these disciplines. My hope is that I will be able to help others move forward to find greater comfort, ease, sense of wholeness and self awareness just as I was helped when I needed it.
Inspired by the beauty of the world and all living things, I am a life long explorer of questions like “How do I live in/with this body? What have I been ignoring? What will I accept and what will I transform?” and “How does what is outside of me relate to what is inside of me?”
The movement of water and the movements of plants, the ripples, the rhythms, the spirals and eddies are for me sources of fascination and ongoing observational study.
MY TEACHERS
I want to gratefully acknowledge Jaimen McMillan, the founder of Spacial Dynamics®. From the moment I was exposed to this approach to movement back in 1995 I felt like I was home and I have been studying, practicing and exploring it ever since. In 2017 I began training directly with Jaimen at the Spacial Dynamics Institute.
The depth of Jaimen’s insight and mastery is vast. His courses are all top notch and full of humor, wisdom, joy and intense work. He teaches around the world and has brought insights into human movement that I believe have changed the world. I know it has changed my life, and the way I move.
In 2014, I had the good fortune of taking a class with Don Ash. I had been on the look out for an exceptional teacher to take me beyond what I knew as a massage therapist; someone I could trust and was a master of what he taught. After that first class, I knew I had found what I was looking for.
Don is a generous teacher who brings a meticulous knowledge of human anatomy as well as a delightful sense of humor to his classes. Don has written his own text books and made his own illustrations. He has a created a curriculum for training Craniosacral therapists that is thorough, clear and effective. Don teaches and lectures around the world and I am so lucky to have him accessible to me here in New Hampshire.
THE LIGHTEST TOUCH
Good poetry begins with
the lightest touch,
a breeze arriving from nowhere,
a whispered healing arrival,
a word in your ear,
a settling into things,
then like a hand in the dark
it arrests the whole body,
steeling you for revelation.
In the silence that follows
a great line
you can feel Lazarus
deep inside
even the laziest, most deathly afraid
part of you,
lift up his hands and walk toward the light.
-- David Whyte
from Everything is Waiting for You
©2003 Many Rivers Press