Fear is natural - it is like spring hiding beneath winter - water under the earth - anxiety just needs breath to turn into excitement.
Read MoreEVEN GOLD HAS A SILVER LINING!
Read MoreOn May 11, Dr. Fritz Smith will be 95. Gratefully he has spent his whole life exploring the deepest ways to positively affect the human being in body, mind and spirit. The book “Life in the Bones” explains his life and Zero Balancing’s development. “This amazing biography taught me more about the energy body and the origin and evolution of mind/body therapies than I have learned in 30 years of practice and teaching. “ - Paul Sibcy, MA
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Read MoreA provocative handout to inform and inspire you in your work. Sometimes therapists just think we are performing helpful techniques/services. In truth, when we engage our whole self the result is vastly healthier for both the practitioner and client/patient.
Read MoreThe song by Caroline Herring - Tales of the Islander - evokes the work and spirit of the wonderful artist, Walter Inglis Anderson who spent many of his days in nature wondering - and working with watercolors. Caroline and Walter help give us a connection with our home in the larger world of nature.
Read MoreSo-called “protest” songs represent all songs in a way - all songs protest something that stands in the way of human dreams coming true - all our songs summoning and strengthening compassionate response (whether it be for true love or political justice.)
Read MoreThe mysterious universe is our source, the seed of whatever we do, thus all our creations have celestial origins.
Read MoreThe 11th and 12th rib are calling floating ribs, but really all ribs float.
Read MoreHow is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness relevant to massage therapy?
Read MoreI was teaching a workshop recently in Tucson, Arizona and one of the students was one of my least favorite kinds. This led to some revised thinking on my part…
Read More“Let no one enter here who is ignorant of geometry.” - inscription over the door of Plato’s Academy
Read MoreSomebody asked me today - when I was talking about my happy marriage of 35 years – what was my secret?
Read MoreA poem inspired by the humerus and the role it plays in love
Read MoreNotes on how time flows within a session. What’s different about therapeutic time?
Read MoreTo my knowledge this is the first translation of anything I’ve written into Spanish. It’s a great honor and pleasure to have received this translation from Julio Vicente Perez Infante - “Vitamina T.”
Read MoreA fascinating, subtle, and super important aspect of Zero Balancing is that you “evaluate” a bone or joint before you choose to place a fulcrum in it. So, first, there is the commitment to deep curiosity, compassion, and care involved in getting to know a place in a person before you choose to “do” anything.
Read MoreThis is a paper I wrote for “The Art of Confessional Poetry” at Texas State University taught by Cyrus Cassells. I am reprinting it here since someone requested to see it. It is a long essay on some selected 20th century “confessional” poets.
Read MoreIn August 2024 I will be returning to the UK to teach Deep Massage, both basic and advanced< at the Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork. These are dependably some of the most profound students I’ve ever taught due to their collective level of education, intelligence and sensitivity.
Read MoreA poem on the tragic mysteries of war and the many compartments of the human heart.
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