There’ve been many lovely short pieces on the brainpickings site. However, during the pandemic, another essential part of us has been all covered up and deserves to see the light of day - the nose.
Read MoreBones are light constituting only 15% of our weight!….but they have an. enormous amount to do with overall body and brain function….
Read MoreThe scapula, a floating bone? and the roots of wings…
Read MoreAs long as the mind remains the primary focus of education, the heart will remain comparatively barbaric…
Read MoreFeathers - in hope, music, and flight
Read MoreFrom Diocles of Carystus, 4th Century B.C. in Athens - Prescription for One's Morning…
Read MoreThe muscle perhaps most reflecting thought lies on top of the cranium with a central tendon, the galea aponeurotica….
Read MoreIn the trapezius, the vertical energy flowing through the body intersects with a horizontal flow through the arms and the hands, reaching out to the world around us. This may be seen as an axis of love…
Read MoreWhat are your back muscles but living vines climbing up the trellis of your ribs?
Read MoreBring long overdue appreciation to deeper, unsung heroes within who transmit light, life-giving substances and energy through us…
Read MoreHow does sanity really come about? First, we need to appreciate some important physiology: emotions and conscious thinking are “produced” in vastly different areas of the brain….
Read MoreZero Balancing provides answers and fascinating new questions in the search for bodywork’s holy grail, the unified approach to mind\body healing. Its theory reconciles the rigorous demands of Western science with the cosmological radiance of Eastern models of health…
Read MoreCommunity is as important as immunity - we are all part of something much larger than ourselves…
Read MoreThe hippocampus’ essential role in emotion, learning, motivation and spatial orientation!
Read MoreIt is said the way to a man’s heart is through is stomach. This turns out to be more literally true than one might think.
Read MoreIt is common to have clients come for massage or for psychotherapy and basically ask the therapist to take their pain away. But could it be that our pain is our greatest teacher?
Read MoreSpirit derives from (s)peis- "to blow" (source also of Old Church Slavonic pisto "to play on the flute").
Read MoreOne of the most important groups of muscles often ignored by massage therapists is the intercostal muscles. They are core muscles involved more or less in every breath we take…
Read MoreLet us come to understand, and more deeply appreciate what supports our face, cranium, and brain from below – namely the neck. This cervical region is also the passageway for breath, for song, and the expression of heartfelt feeling.
Read MoreThe shoulder girdle and pelvic girdle are both wingèd - take new view of the pelvis!
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