BSI - BodySpirit Integration
25 years ago, I was studying advanced levels of Cranial-Sacral Therapy and Somato Emotional Release. During that time, I was gifted to see a video of Vietnam veterans both before and after individual multi-hands sessions that were intended to move the deeply stored energies in their bodies related to their horrific experiences of war. This project of multi-hands sessions, conceived by the Upledger Institute in Florida, were intended to help heal and restore these veterans to lives of joy. Several Vietnam vets and one nurse who had served there took part. These individuals had seen and experienced the worst of atrocities overseas. On their return home to the USA, they did not experience a hero’s welcome from the general populace. After years of feeling lost and dejected, out of work, addicted and hopeless, they were invited to an opportunity for hands-on healing. A life-changing experience.
After several days of such potent yet non-invasive engagement, these veterans were changed. They were healed, happy and forward looking. They no longer looked the same, sounded the same or felt the same. They were free of the internal constraints and the emotional charges that had held them captive to hopelessness and despair. I was so moved to see the remarkable changes in these veterans that I wept in gratitude.
I never forgot the hope I felt when I watched that video 25 years ago. It changed my perspective about what is possible when compassion and empathy intersect with skill and talent. When these elements are intentionally held as the fulcrum of transformation, despair is dissolved and desire is restored. Faith finds new traction. The space for healing unfolds in quantum leaps, evidence of the body’s great capacity to heal when trust and safety are restored.
I always wondered about creating such a multi-day intensive program for my clients, providing the ultimate experience of one-to-one hands-on healing within a higher order context for thinking about who we can become and what our bodies really are as quantum, biological processors of energy and information, not the mechanical devices we think they are. The allopathic model has its place within the greater panorama of the quantum, no doubt. It is not wrong; however, it is incomplete.
To that end, I have taken taken BSI (my creative approach that is BodySpirit Integration) from individual sessions repeated bi-weekly or so into five consecutive day experiences. This initiative unfolded in the spring of 2023 because one client wanted consecutive sessions but lived hours away from my practice. To help her heal and build momentum, I suggested that she engage in five days straight. She did.
What she could not access as the roots of her long-term distress in words, she was able to bring into awareness though allowing the body to speak for itself, to unwind itself, to unearth, free and raise into consciousness all that had been hidden and stored in tissue.
Her results have been spectacular, moving forward. Her fear and her rage have disapated, no longer holding her hostage to a life she did not want. Her physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health now know a new happiness. What I loved about this 5-day process was seeing the momentum she created in her willingness to face into the abyss of her own shame, so that she could touch her own joy on the other side of it. Long days indeed. Yet, long and sacred days passing by in a flash, as time became irrelevant in each moment of the healing process.
While the modalities used in BSI are often signified as therapies, therapy is not the intention, here; education is. There is no abnormal to normalize; there is no broken to fix. There is simply the wave of energy in motion to let move. There is nothing to do, but to acknowledge and honour the body’s intelligence playing out in each moment.
So a change in my practice is underway. While I will continue to see clients for individual BSI sessions if that is their preference, I am encouraging the 5-day consecutive sessions for deep momentum. I am already engaging clients from different parts of Canada and the USA. I am loving the experience and so are they.
It matters not what your presenting ‘issue’ is, because what is presenting is never about what is presenting. Thoughts do become things. The body is the final frontier of our thought process, so what shows up in physical tissue has lived a time of unconscious gestation. For so many of us, information has been pre-verbally stored for so long in the body without language to express it.
The only way to decode anything is through the body. It is not the ‘thing’ (the outcome as a diagnosis) that counts, it is the process of unwinding its supporting internal narrative that makes the difference. And THAT demands a new context for thinking about thinking… and thinking about energy as keys to structuring our own internal and external realities. BSI is facilitated within the body of knowledge known as WEL-Systems®.
If you would like to know more, I invite you to connect with me for a complimentary conversation about can be possible for you in your own unique healing journey.