About Me

Hi! I’m Dylan. Since I can remember I have lived with an awareness of a struggle in me between my fear and my potential. I felt so much desire in me for genuine human experience—connection, laughter, creativity, play, intimacy— but I felt unable to access it. I know now that is because we don’t live in a culture that fosters these aspects of human potential and I was struggling with the patterns I had created at a young age to keep me safe from disconnection by preventing me from daring to connect in a world that could not embrace me as I was. I learned how to be “good” and to take care of others’ comfort at the expense of my own needs. I learned this throughout my whole self: my perceptions and beliefs, my posture and physicality, the way I experience my emotions, how I act and the decisions I make. While part of me yearned to be big, expressive, and deeply intimate the fearful parts kept me hiding from what I wanted.

I believe that we are all already in a healing process using the tools available to us. I have been in a process for years, consistently honing and expanding my tools. Finding The Grinberg Method has been one of the biggest gifts in that process. I had reached a point where I was no longer getting value from the stories I was making about my pain, compassionate as they were. I needed to feel my pain and get in touch with what the fear was really afraid of. I knew from years of embodied practice that the only way to do that was through my body. The Grinberg Method taught me that there is a deeper level of trust and confidence available to us through our bodies than our minds will ever know. I am experiencing that trust more and more as I continue with the process. I’m learning to be with pain and fear and discovering all the hundreds of stories I make about the world in order to not feel what I need to feel. The more I do the more my body shows me how it was built to process emotions and flow with the shifting nature of reality. My mind no longer does so much to keep me “safe” and I am becoming present and available to the world around me. It is such a relief to finally feel the space in myself to let this beautiful and painful world touch me, understanding as I do that I can feel it all and be okay, better than okay, fully alive.

I do this work to support others in finding this basic, infallible trust in themselves so that they might also dare to be who they are. We live in a time where our diseased culture feeds on our fear, lack of energy and lack of attention. When we wake up to our power and to our capacity to be with pain and fear, we wake up to the reality of choice. We do not have to live in a state of victimization. Our bodies are the way back to our power, our wellness, our freedom.