06/03/2026
What if the body is only the smallest part of who we are?
We speak often of body, mind, and spirit.
In therapeutic and healing spaces, we acknowledge their connection. We sense that it matters. And yet… when we say spirit, what are we actually pointing to?
It can remain a beautiful but relatively unexplored word.
Many years ago, my own spiritual teacher, Paramahansa Yogananda, offered a symbolic image to describe the Soul.
He spoke of an inverted cone — or an inverted pyramid — with its smallest point touching the earth.
That point represents the body,
along with the mind, the emotions.
The personal self.
The part of us that is tangible, measurable, and human.
But the cone widens, expanding infinitely representing the Being —
Just as we have a body and mind but are also - ultimately - vast at the subtle level - and one with pure, boundless Divine Consciousness.
You may think of this in your own words.
You might call that the Soul.
You might call it essence.
Consciousness.
Higher self.
Being.
In craniosacral practice — and in other therapeutic arenas — we are clearly working with the body. We are listening to tissues, rhythms, fluid tides.
We are meeting mind and emotion as they arise and reorganize.
And we are also in relationship with that wider field of Being — the Stillpoint — the spacious ground of awareness from which everything arises and to which everything returns.
For those who feel resonant with this aspect of the work, meditation can become an essential part of our practitioner’s grounding.
Either as a deeply transformational personal practice, or simply as a way of going inward — a way of becoming more consciously familiar and aware of that most subtle and precious dimension of ourselves: the Soul, the deeper awareness that is far beyond our body, our personal story, mind and emotions, or egoic personality.
As we become more attuned to that within ourselves, something shifts in how we hold space.
Our intuitive perceptual field expands boundlessly, we no longer approach the work as something we do as a technique or intervention.
But we show up as with a skilled, trained vibrational presence that we have learned to embody — and bring into our way of being.
A steady, spacious awareness that quietly, deeply knows: the person in front of us is more than their history, more than their nervous system, more than their symptoms.
They are also - boundless.
Infinite.
And so are we.
At this level - Craniosacral is practiced as Sacred Art ~ a meeting with Body Mind & Soul ~
How do you understand — or experience — the connection between body, mind, and the deeper essence of who we are in your own work?
