Charles Ridley founded two schools for the evolution of consciousness: Sacred Body Rites, and Dynamic Stillness, which is an international school that offers professional trainings in Stillness Touch to health practitioners.
Charles on Sacred Body Rites: “My Sacred Body Rites biography ran concurrently with my cranial impulse. In 1977, I began studying organ work, adhesion work, lymphatic work, and internal pelvic work with Dr. Lawerence DeMann in Davenport Iowa. After I moved to Manhattan in 1981, I continued training with Dr. DeMann, working in his office for 3 years. In 1982, I deepened my internal pelvic studies with Dr. Ralph Failor in Manhattan. I studied Barral’s Urogenital work and Rudolf Steiner’s approach to healing, that included rhythmic massage (RM) with essential oils. I incorporated RM with organ and intra-pelvic work and developed a Steiner-based four-fold organ anointment. I was the first and only non-physician to be invited to present my original organ work at the Annual International Anthroposophical Physician Conference in 1995 in Seattle, Washington.
By 2005, the impulse that moved me to create Sacred Body Rites was ignited due a chance encounter with what I can only characterize as an outer manifestation of my inner divine feminine. Experiences with this unique being sparked a deep longing to bring transpersonal love back into our personal lives through touch as Sacred Body Rites. The inner impulse has clarified and refined itself over the last 20 years as a dedication to serve, validate, and support anyone immersed in the realization of an utter embodied union with love as Enfleshment, which is also known as the Completion Stage of spiritual development in Tibetan Buddhism. I have also visited Mary Magdalene’s Temple, Gethsemane, and Golgatha in Jerusalem, a well as Mary Magdalene’s cave in France – these experiences continue to percolate from within, which informs my work.
I’ve written supportive material on the SBR site about the power of abiding in inner Stillness (pratyahara) while offering Stillness Touch and Sacred Body Rite as anointment in your intimate relationships for the enfleshment of love. My most recent book, Stillness Touch Union of Body & Love contains meditations and foundational principles of Stillness Touch that form the basis for offering Sacred Body Rites.
Private Intensives are available to those who want to restore their bodies by receiving Sacred Body Rites. A Sacred Body Rites Training is available for those who want to offer Sacred Body Rites to their partners or to others. Sacred Body Rites is open to anyone who is prepared to Know Thyself.“
Sacred Body Rites Email: SacredBodyRites@gmail.com