beginning biodynamic massage
May 14-17, 2026

Location: Opening to Life - Portland, OR
24 CEU's | Maximum 12 students | 5 spots remaining
$800

Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 1pm

30% discount when repeating the course (any teacher in Todd Jackson’s lineage)
* This class was updated in 2025, so it’s the perfect time to repeat this course.
high teacher to student ratio with ample hands-on guidance

TO REGISTER: please send me a message with your full name, email, and phone number.
I strongly encourage you to receive a biodynamic massage session from a lineage-endorsed bodyworker before the workshop. This is not a requirement, but it will bolster your learning experience.

Payment Options:
1. Deposit $200 to hold your space, then remaining balance April 14, 2026
2. Full Payment

Payment Methods:
Check - make check out to Embodied Wellness and mail to 2177 SW Main St PDX 97205
Venmo - @embodied-wellness (2% fee - $204 deposit, $816 full payment)
Credit (3.5% fee - $207 deposit, $828 full payment) Call 503-320-1400 and I will process your payment over the phone.


What does massage look like when I connect to the most still, quiet place within a client? Can I feel this place move my body around the table, my hands over the clients skin? What does the client experience when the massage is conducted by their own inner resources, instead of the practitioner’s agenda?

Biodynamic Massage grows bodyworkers’ skills beyond treatment protocols and routines. Meet your clients fully in the present moment. Connect with quietude in the tissues as it shows you where to work, how long to stay, and when to move on. Give your clients the deeply felt experience of being touched, listened to at a profound new level. Bring a freshness and spontaneity to your practice that increases client retention and new referrals.

Biodynamic Massage allows the client’s own self-healing resources to guide the massage session. The practitioner feels the connection relating themselves to the client’s skin layer and inner body. This unity of connection allows the biodynamic forces to guide the practitioner in space, delivering what is needed most. It directs the practitioner’s hand placement and activity, delivering changes in pressure, contact and stroking pathway. The massage becomes guided by biodynamic quietude.


What is the difference between Biodynamic Massage and Biodynamic Cranial work?
“Why I Love Biodynamic Massage” by Monica Rudestam, LAc., MSOM

course highlights

  • biodynamic basics – learn to connect the wholeness of your being to the wholeness of the client. be grounded, centered, heart connected, and available to be positioned where the system takes you.

  • density scanning – how to locate hypertonicities relevant to your clients’ requests. these access points allow us to build a bridge connecting biodynamic quietude to the physical tissues during massage. particularly helpful for clients seeking relief from musculo-skeletal issues.

  • fascial following – feel how motility in fascia can guide repetitive strokes in addition accessing biodynamic quietude. helpful for clients who are more interested in a relaxing massage experience or improved integration between body, mind and emotions

  • spatial placement – feel how motility literally physically moves the practitioner in space to the right place. this is the beginning of a long term process of the practitioner letting themselves be physically guided when providing biodynamic massage

  • treatment cycles – how to catalyze healing by facilitating the transition from motility to neutral to motility again in the tissues. treatment cycles deepen the access to biodynamic quietude, allowing us to witness the client’s own system healing itself

  • standing evaluation – when the client is standing, before treatment begins, learn how to assess where resources are already gathered and working on their behalf, so you know where to massage to address their issues.

  • quietude terminology – explore and understand the vocabulary used to convey how to sense and follow biodynamic quietude

  • skill progression overview – learn how biodynamic massage looks and feels different as practitioner skill levels shift from beginning to intermediate to advanced.

About the Instructor

Angie Ringwald Williams has been a licensed massage therapist for 20 years and has studied and practiced biodynamic massage and cranial therapy within Todd Jackson’s lineage for the past decade. She completed a mentorship in biodynamic cranial therapy in 2017 and has been part of Todd’s teaching team since 2021, serving as lead instructor since 2025.

Prior to her biodynamic studies, Angie practiced Hawaiian Lomilomi massage and Neuromuscular Therapy for ten years, experience that continues to inform her sensitivity to structure, flow, and the body’s innate intelligence. In her classes, she emphasizes presence, listening, subtlety, and attunement to each student’s needs while cultivating a welcoming and supportive learning environment.