beginning biodynamic massage
May 14-17, 2026

Location: Opening to Life - Portland, OR
24 CEU's | Maximum 12 students
$800 ($150 deposit holds your space)
$750 when you register by March 1, 2026
30% discount when repeating the course (any teacher in Todd Jackson’s lineage)

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


To register, please send me a message with your full name, email, and phone number.
Then, pay your deposit of $200 or pay in full by:
Check - make check out to Embodied Wellness and mail to 2177 SW Main St PDX 97205
Venmo - @embodied-wellness (2% fee - $204 deposit, $765 early registration, $816 after March 1)
Credit (3.5% fee - $207 deposit, $776 early registration, $828 after March 1) 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.

high teacher to student ratio with ample hands-on guidance
read reviews  |  listen to interviews
“Why I Love Biodynamic Massage” by Monica Rudestam, LAc., MSOM

* This class was updated in 2025, so it’s the perfect time to repeat this course. *

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.


    Recommended:     Receive a biodynamic massage session from a lineage-endorsed bodyworker. This is not a requirement, but it will bolster your learning experience.

Instructor

Angie Ringwald Williams, LMT Angie Ringwald Williams, LMT helps clients and students by creating a supportive and nurturing space where healing naturally unfolds. Through her attuned presence, she brings her full attention and care to each session and workshop, enabling clients and students to relax and reconnect with their innate health and vitality.  She’s completed advanced coursework in biodynamic cranial and massage in addition to a mentorship in biodynamic cranial therapy with Todd Jackson, LMT in 2018. Now she teaches level 1 Biodynamic Massage and Craniosacral workshops and is a teacher assistant at Todd’s workshops.