Body Dynamics

Body Dynamics & Interfaith Interface of AIWP

Body Dynamics and Interfaith Interface is an integrated wellness ministry and practice, approached through Third Force Presencing and Pastoral Counseling, Restorative Touchwork and body based reflex, psychological and developmental learning. Here you will have access to:

Personal Coaching and Life Skills Training, Restorative Touchwork, Pre and Post-Surgical Preparation, Body Based Trauma Resolution, End-of-life Transitional Counseling, and Pastoral Counseling.

Each of these unique skill sets has developed and matured through many years of training and practice.

Body Dynamics &
Interfaith Interface of AIWP

Interfaith Interface of AIWP is Coquelicot ("co-cle-co") Gilland's pastoral counseling practice. Body Dynamics is her Personal Coaching, Restorative Touchwork and Life Skills practice. She employs a unique and engaging discovery process that combines Third force awareness (The Overarching Presence that guides our work), body-oriented developmental psychosomology, Trauma resolution, restorative touchwork, yoga mentoring, and body sensing through mutual connection.

The Association for the integration of the Whole Person was founded so that spiritual persons, prepared to serve their communities, can do so in ways that assure the blessings of self impowerment, psychologically and educationally, leading to peace for persons of goodwill. AIWP is a nondenominational church that is cross-cultural, cross gender and race, and inclusive of multiple pathways to God.

Bodynamics is a developmental body cognitive approach that began over 40 years ago in Denmark. It offers a sophisticated and effective way of looking at mind, body, and emotions, integrating psychological insight with corresponding muscle-informed body structure and carriage. This approach provides a rich framework for understanding the relationship between psychological events and the way we physically hold our bodies, a model for how these patterns develop over time, and gentle, effective ways to introduce positive changes in the way we hold our body and how we make meaning of what we see and experience.

A third focus is on the practice of deep listening and being deeply aware of your current experience -- noticing what you are thinking, what emotions you are having, what impulses are arising, what your body feels like, what you are wanting or not wanting -- while at the same time maintaining deep connection with another person and the Universal Field. Sessions with Coquelicot are opportunities to explore that dance of self-awareness and other-connection in a safe and honoring way.

Another fundamental element of this practice is an awareness of the positive benefits that can come from rewiring and "re-scripting" old body stories through interventions like The Compassion Matrix™, Brain Gym, and Reflex Repatterning., When appropriate, the power of simple touch by another person can be particularly useful when people are feeling emotionally charged or stressed due to present or past trauma.

Coquelicot Gilland is a Bodynamics Analyst, a Minister and Pastoral Counselor, and a Certified Massage Therapist (CMT). She holds her ministerial accreditation with the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person, a non-denominational organization.

She is not an MFT, MSW, psychologist, or psychiatrist.

"After a while you learn
The subtle difference between
Holding a hand and chaining a soul
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't always mean security.

And you begin to learn
That kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head held up and your eyes ahead
With the grace of a woman
Not the grief of a child.

And you learn
To build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is
Too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way
Of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much
So you plant your own garden
And decorate your own soul
Instead of waiting
For someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn
That you really can endure
That you are really strong
And you really do have worth
And you learn and you learn
With every goodbye you learn. "
- Veronica A. Shoffstall

Inspirations

"I am going somewhere and that somewhere is everywhere, and it is important to be exactly on time at every instant. Because if I am not on time here, I shall never be on time anywhere."
- Satprem, By The Body Of The Earth
"The most visible creators I know are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible -- without brush, hammer, clay or guitar. They neither paint nor sculpt -- their medium is Being. Whatever their presence touches has increased life. They see and don't have to draw. They are the artists of being alive."
- Jay Scott
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake
"And bit by bit I was overcome by a strange impression that was almost an emotion. Did it emanate from those high walls or the sand carpeting the street? No, it was subtler than that: it was linked to something in the air, a familiar resonance, almost an odor. Then I closed my eyes; feeling the small warm hand in mine, and searched, prodded that wall of memory, groping my way through an obscure fragrance peopled by presences; it was there, just on the other side; I could feel it, smell it still--a rare emotion which I had known many times in many different lands."
- Satprem, By the Body of the Earth
"With great love, sensitivity, and a profound capacity to elicit and model intimacy, Coquelicot provides a safe and conscious environment for me to explore and practice open-hearted communion."
- U.F., artist
"By finding pathways to 'rewrite the body script,' we can -- with kindness, mindfulness, perseverance, and patience -- learn to embrace and embody more of our potential as human beings."
Coquelicot
"The clear bead at the center changes everything. There are no edges to my loving now."
- Rumi
"The direct route is the sum of a million indirections."
- Satprem, By The Body Of The Earth
"I will not live an unfulfilled life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blosson goes on as fruit."
- Dawna Markova, The Open Mind
"It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, as the ore lies alone. I am such a long way in. I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face, and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You be the master. Make yourself fierce, break in. Then your great transforming will happen to me, and my great grief cry will happen to you."
- R.M. Rilke
"I enormously appreciate your integrity. I benefit a lot from the importance you place on slowing down, or walking (experience) in small steps/increments, and on identifying the most subtle beginnings of experience, sensation, and emotional reaction."
- M.S., obstetrical nurse in San Francisco
"But you are something very old.... Listen, my child, destiny is not an enemy, there are no 'enemies' in the world. Everything is here to help us find the way. There is no 'misfortune,' everything leads us exactly where we must go, by all the necessary detours. When one opens one's heart, every moment is a miracle...."
- Satprem, By the Body of the Earth
"All sickness is homesickness."
- Rumi
Coquelicot teaches didactically, experientially and by example. She brings to each session a lifetime's worth of tools, exercises and practices that I use at home to further my own development. Her genius combines intuition, sensing and a comprehensive knowledge of human emotional and biological development. What I've learned from her has not only given me a deeper understanding of my own patterns, dynamics and behaviors, it's also enhanced my understanding of others. I am a far more compassionate person thanks Coquelicot. In fact to the degree that I am a more evolved being in any regard, Coquelicot was instrumental in my transformation.
-L. M. Artist and wellness ally