Bruce Elliot MEd, LMT, CSTA-CP
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by the ways we experience the world through awareness and attention. Listening has been a lifelong practice for me—listening to people’s stories, learning to be present with others through peer support, listening to music and its rhythms, and noticing how sound moves through different spaces. This practice of listening has shaped the way I relate to people and the world around me.
Over time, this way of listening expanded into a deeper curiosity about the human body and movement. My own journey of healing and growth led me to Craniosacral Therapy and Spacial Dynamics®, practices that helped me discover greater comfort, ease, wholeness, and self-awareness. I have since devoted years of study to these disciplines, with the intention of creating a space where people feel truly seen, heard, and supported as they explore greater connection with themselves.
MY TEACHERS
I want to gratefully acknowledgeJaimen 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 nearby 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