healing tree
osteopathy
Book a Biodynamic appointment
This clinic embraces the principles of Biodynamic Osteopathy, a holistic approach to healthcare that considers body, soul and spirit. A divergent spiritual approach to treatment maybe unfamilar to you. If you are a new patient therefore, it is recommended that you read the information below before making an appointment.
If you are seeking treatment for yourself and baby, please choose a paediatric booking and ensure you arrange a helper to accompany you to your appointment.
Osteopathic Medicine involves the re-integration of structure and function, for the purpose of restoring nature's self-healing capacity.
Biodynamic Osteopathy seeks what is right within you, not what is wrong. Well-being and healing occurs through wholeness - a re-integration of body (structure), mind (instinctive awareness) and spirit (higher function). This cannot be achieved through an act of personal will - it requires the capacity to surrender, let go or become neutral. Health itself then becomes the guiding and transformative force behind therapeutic change.
When a biodynamic osteopath lays hands upon a person's body, they are feeling for the 'Health' - the outside presence and mystery that initiated life within the embryo, and guides growth, development and healing throughout life. Health exists within us and beyond the boundary of our skin - we are all integrated into nature and the mystery beyond. Self-healing must incorporate all elements of human nature.
We are like a house under the sea with all our doors and windows open. Health passes through and around us like an ocean, and when receptive to its influence, we are inspired and moved by the Tide.
The forces that created us, are the same ones that heals us.
-4.png)
Biodynamic Osteopathy is a holistic treatment method. Clinical outcomes are achieved with no physical force being applied.
This video shows the gel-like protoplasm of a frog embryo, and an awakening blueprint of a tadpole (before any genetic influence or cellular/tissue organisation has occured). This is the deeper function and mystery of life at work.
A blueprint and spark of life emerges out of life's great mystery (beyond human awareness). This embryo encapsulates the perfect potential of a future life (like an acorn of an oak tree). Cell division then begins, and the structural tissues expand and are guided into the form of the blueprint. This interrelationship between structure and function continues to unfold throughout life. Dr. Blechschmitt (embryologist) discovered this same mystery of awakening life, growth and development within the human embryo, and coined the term "Biodynamic". Osteopathic Medicine incorporated this term, because it explains the Health that we feel with our hands.
From 6 weeks of gestation onwards, the genetic memory of generations past start to influence growth and development, and an accumulation of environmental influence and trauma deviate every human being away from their path of greatest potential. This original embryo is always present within us however. Life (and healing) continues to our last living breath, and involves a gradual realisation of our original potential or embryo within. A future healing process occurs when a practitioner and patient find the Health (rather than problems to fix). To have this amount of trust is easier said than done, especially when we live in a problem oriented world.
Biodynamic training involves a re-orientation of perception towards the Health. Just remember to trust and let go, you are in safe hands.
The time around pregnancy provides a unique opportunity - not only in terms of preventative healthcare for the generation, but to be even closer to the Health ourselves and its healing potential.
"The objective of the doctor is to find health, anyone can find disease"
~ Dr. Andrew Taylor Still (MD, surgeon and founder of Osteopath 1874)
During treatment a patient relaxes into deep rest, and begins to feel the Health also. Healing is a return to wholeness - a unity of body, soul and spirit. Treatment involves letting go into a depth you didn't think possible, with the Health providing a central place of stability, organisation and transformative capacity.
"Normal requires a point of rest. It is through this point of rest, or neutral, that the organism maintains its integrity as a whole. It is through the point of rest that the indwelling healing forces restore and regenerate function and form."
~ Dr. James Jealous DO (Founder of Biodynamic Osteopathy)
Why Biodynamic Osteopathy?
Biodynamic treatment is suited to preconception care, pregnancy, babies and family inter-generational health. Wholistic healthcare for adults. Complex trauma history. Seeking relief from painful symptoms - whether they be of a physical, emotional or spiritual origin. Preventative healthcare - preparing your body for the challenges of life. Head, jaw, neck, thoracic, lumbar, pelvic, arms and legs symptoms. Mood, stress, breathing, circulation, digestive and reproductive health etc.
Dr. James Jealous DO was an osteopathic physician, obstetrician and the founder of Biodynamic Osteopathy. He characterised Traditional Osteopathy as a science based on anatomy, and Biodynamic Osteopathy as a science based on embryology.
The term "Biodynamic" arose through the work of German embryologist Erich Blechshmidt. His research demonstrated how dynamic metabolic fluid movements within the protoplasm of a developing human embryo, lay down an initial blueprint or 3D matrix before genetics begin to influence growth and development. Osteopathy and Embryology both describe "a force outside the embryo creating internal events and healing. This almost unbelievable reality is present throughout life and dictates much of the beauty seen in treatments" ~ Dr James Jealous DO
Adapted versions of cranial and biodynamic osteopathy have been taken outside the osteopathic medical profession and taught to the general public; these are called 'craniosacral therapy' and 'biodynamic craniosacral therapy'. Even though they share the same name, Biodynamic Osteopathy has no connection to the Biodynamic farming principles of Rudolph Steiner.
Osteopathic Medicine works with the inherent forces of Nature
Through the gentle laying on of hands, Biodynamic Osteopathy involves feeling the Health (blueprint, embryo, perfect potential, silence, spiritual light & mystery) within every human being. This Health is hidden and often forgotten beneath complex layers of intergenerational, family and personal trauma, cultural and educational imprinting, metabolic, chemical or emotional stress and protective compensations - all of which deviate an individual from their originality, natural calmness, inner organisation and self-healing capacity.
The active phase of Biodynamic treatment is typically performed in silence, however an osteopath may ask questions or share information about an unfolding treatment process (for the purpose of deepening a pathway to the Health within). For those patients unfamiliar with holistic treatment principles, this type of self-enquiry may feel a little too close for comfort. It is worth keeping in mind that you are not your personal or family history - you are the silence, the spiritual light, perfect potential, embryo, and the Health emerging from within. This is what a biodynamic osteopath is seeking to find within you.
When considering treatment outcomes, the Health will typically generate deeper therapeutic change with longer-term outcomes in mind. If you are seeking a quick fix, then Biodynamic Osteopathy may not be for you. When treatment gets closer to the Health, silence and nothingness begin to envelope our senses. We fall into a twilight sleep as our perception of time disappears. This is the place where the deepest work of Biodynamic Osteopathy occurs, in the depths of the mystery and unknown - until we awaken on the other side, in a closer relationship to the Health and our self-healing capacity.
Osteopathic Medicine originated almost 150 years ago in the United States. American Osteopathic Physicians are registered medical doctors and receive university training with internship, and the option of specialist training within Osteopathic hospitals. Unfortunately today, many in the US use Osteopathy as a pathway to becoming a general physician or specialist, with little interest in the profession's original foundations. Osteopath's utilise their understanding of body structure and function, and the application of manual therapy to improve the expression of health and self-healing capacity of the human body. Australian Osteopaths have 5 years of university training, and work in private practice - and unlike their American cousins, do not prescribe drug therapy or perform surgery. The Australian Osteopathic profession remains committed to Osteopathy's original foundations of manual medicine; of treating the human body as an integrated whole, and seeking people's greatest potential through preventative healthcare.
Healing Tree Osteopathy has designed a posture cushion, which supports the lower back and opens the chest for an elongated spine when driving your car. Please get in touch HERE.
%20(24%20%C3%97%2014%20cm)%20(24%20x%2024%20cm).png)
About your appointment
NEW PATIENTS: please note that Biodynamic Osteopathy is NOT a mechanical treatment method with spinal manipulation. You will be fully clothed, and get to relax on the treatment table during your session. Treatment times can vary, so please allow 60 minutes for your initial and subsequent appointments. Please also ensure you have completed your online health survey at least 24 hours before your appointment (this can be found in your initial booking confirmation and reminder emails).
If your appointment is for your BABY, please be sure to bring either your partner, grandma or trusted helper along with you. Through treating mum, it is common to achieve more significant change for baby - and this works best when mum is able to take a break, and deeply relax.
To CANCEL an appointment, please select the link in your confirmation or reminder emails. Please note that at least 24 hours notice is required - a 50% cancellation fee will apply if your appointment time cannot be filled.
EPTPOS and Private Health Fund HICAPS payment facilities are available. Sorry, this practice does NOT offer government subsidised Medicare Chronic Disease Management Plans.
My Wembley rooms are on the first floor with stair access only.
