beginning biodynamic massage | BIODM1
Septemer 2025 - dates coming soon!


friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
sunday 9am - 5pm
monday 9am - 1pm

Location: White Salmon, WA
Instructors: Angie Ringwald Williams, LMT and Monica Rudestam, LAc
24 CEUs  |  maximum 12 students
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high teacher to student ratio with ample hands-on guidance
“Why I Love Biodynamic Massage” by Monica Rudestam, LAc., MSOM

To register, email Angie Ringwald Williams at embodiedwellnesspdx@gmail.com or call 503-862-3220.

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.

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.

Instructors

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 completed a mentorship in biodynamic cranial work with Todd Jackson, LMT in 2018, assists Biodynamic Massage and Craniosacral workshops, and teaches the beginning courses.

Monica Rudestam, LAc, LMT strives to understand the uniqueness of the individual’s constitution and his or her personal blocks to health. She combines her acupuncture training, herbal and dietary therapy, and hands-on physical and energetic modalities in order to bring awareness to the physical and energetic blocks in the body that inhibit reaching our full potential. Monica completed a Biodynamic Massage mentorship with Todd Jackson in 2012, in addition to completing all advanced coursework in biodynamic cranial therapy. She now provides hands-on assistance at his intermediate and advanced trainings and teaches the beginning courses.