referrals

These recommended bodyworkers have completed advanced coursework and a 6 month mentorship with Todd. Some practice only biodynamic cranial work, some only biodynamic massage work, and some provide both. Several are now teaching this work to other health care providers. Scroll down for referrals to other types of practitioners.

Alison Punton, LMT

Alison completed a biodynamic massage mentorship in which she showed strong skills in following movements through fascia accompanied by moderate to deep pressure. I have opted to receive from her several times when in acute low back pain, and she has calmed my nerves, helped me recover functionality, and reduced my pain appreciably. Alison’s strong hands and fearless following of biodynamic movements through fascia will leave you feeling more grounded yet spacious.

Angela Severson, LMT

Angela assists me when I train others in biodynamic massage. She has a gracious bedside manner and can follow the body’s connective tissues while they unwind, leading to deeper releasing and integration. Angela completed a biodynamic massage mentorship and has sought out additional advanced training in her pursuit to be optimally equipped to meet the emerging needs of clients. Her dedication to following the source of health bubbling up from within the client during biodynamic massage is uncommon and refreshing.

Angie Ringwald Williams, LMT

Angie completed a biodynamic cranial mentorship in addition advanced coursework in biodynamic massage. She now assists at trainings, guiding others to experience the success she’s embodied. Angie’s cranial interface with clients is unreserved and balanced, a difficult combination to deliver and uncommon to find in a practitioner. Her lack of insistence and her willingness to meet your system where its at will leave you feeling met, accepted and at ease.

April Straus, LMT, LAc, MAcOM

April completed a mentorship in biodynamic cranial therapy, all advanced coursework in biodynamic massage trainings, assists at trainings, and teaches my beginning and intermediate level biodynamic cranial courses. She generously volunteers to help others studying this work, in addition to giving herself fully to the present moment when treating clients. April’s acupuncture practice, combined with her massage and cranial skills, provide a concentrated catalyst to bring clients deeply into the space that remains when all of life’s superficialities and catharsis resolve.

Carly Budhram, LMT

Carly has thoroughly immersed herself in biodynamic bodywork studies. Attending beginning, intermediate and advanced trainings multiple times, with an unflagging, earnest pursuit of embodied understanding, she delivers biodynamic cranial and massage without the conceit of mastery. Her openness to being present, going beyond herself, and letting biodynamic quietude lead her to the health within clients, makes her an easy and reliable choice for treatment. Carly shows up and connects.

Deborah Merkle, CRS

Deborah has completed all my cranial courses as well as a biodynamic cranial mentorship. Deborah is fantastically easy to be around while listening with playful presence and an open mind. She is passionate about going deeply into quietude during biodynamic cranial work and is now teaching her own current development of biodynamic work.

Donna Pongetti, LMT

Donna completed one of the first biodynamic massage mentorships and assisted at many cranial and massage trainings. An exceptionally talented dancer, choreographer and instructor, her ability to recognize healthy movement through physical expression lends an adept maturity to Donna’s bodywork. Her touch is often gentle, unassuming and fearless while going deep inside the inner-body to address the more substantive issues.

Laura Anderson, LMT

Laura completed a biodynamic massage mentorship in addition to advanced coursework in biodynamic cranial therapy. Her ability to allow the healing resources within a client to direct the treatment process, without applying her own motives, delivers clients a genuine and deep biodynamic experience. This readiness and willingness to set aside practitioner directives, the vulnerability required to personally embody and follow the tides of quietude during the treatment process, Laura provides easily where others find challenge.

Lynn Morrison, LMT

Lynn completed a biodynamic massage mentorship, bringing another layer of depth to her already well established deep tissue and cranial sacral practice. Her focus upon moving at the exact moment a client’s system moves, and remaining still, yet buoyant, when the system is quiet, helps clients feel they are being listened to at a deep physiological level. As a yoga teacher and long time practitioner, Lynn has a well cultivated three dimensional sense of the inner body and how it relates to muscle, bone, nerve and organ.

Molly McMullen, LMT

Molly completed a biodynamic massage mentorship in addition to advanced biodynamic cranial coursework. She provides a swaddling contact during treatment to help soothe the central nervous system, while delivering upon what the client asked to be treated. Her willingness to meet people’s system where it is, and follow the resourcing that develops from this interface, lets people receive what their system has been needing to feel at peace.

Monica Rudestam, LAc

Monica is a licensed acupuncturist and yoga instructor who provides craniosacral care to infants, children and adults. She completed a biodynamic massage mentorship, all advanced coursework in biodynamic cranial trainings, and now teaches my beginning level cranial and massage courses. Monica’s years of qigong and yoga practice shine in her work. Her touch is infused with a dynamic potency which easily entreats the health in clients to step forward and address issues. Whether seeing her for massage or cranial work, you’ll feel the difference her personal cultivation makes.

Sarah Hall, LMT

Sarah completed a biodynamic massage mentorship and assists at biodynamic massage and biodynamic cranial trainings, applying her keen sensitivity to discern where and how to help others connect to the source of health within. As an exceptional artist and long-time yoga practitioner, Sarah’s affinity for developing beauty through patient, detailed presence saturates her touch. Her hands transmit a loving heart, exquisitely listening.

Stacy Darby, LMT, LAc

Stacy completed a mentorship in biodynamic cranial, in addition to completing advanced workshops in biodynamic massage. She impeccably applies the principle of palpating quietude within the system and letting it guide the hands during treatment whether providing massage or cranial work. Stacy’s acute sense of integrity shines as she sets aside goal-oriented motives during treatment, taking the time to patiently work with the quietude building within. Her lack of applied motive during treatment yields more enduring, beneficial outcomes. Stacy is now developing and teaching her own understanding of biodynamic work.

Venecia Battaglia, LMT

Venecia completed a biodynamic massage mentorship in addition to advanced biodynamic cranial coursework. She excels at physically connecting to the health within clients and allowing that health to animate the massage experience. Her ability to let go of herself and be with the unknown brings presence and resourcing to parts of clients other practitioners may miss. Venecia works in Portland and San Juan Island.

referrals

Alison Punton, LMT

Angela Severson, LMT

Angie Ringwald Williams, LMT

April Straus, LMT, LAc, MAcOM

Carly Budhram, LMT

Deborah Merkle, CRS

Donna Pongetti, LMT

Laura Anderson, LMT

Lynn Morrison, LMT

Molly McMullen, LMT

Monica Rudestam, LAc

Sarah Hall, LMT

Stacy Darby, LMT, LAc

Venecia Battaglia, LMT

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