Can we really lead healthy lives without religion? Not religion as an institutionalized system,, but considered as a natural human behavior, a natural belief and emotion. Is it as natural to feel religious, as to feel awe, anger, grief, fear, or love?
Read MoreExcerpt from a review by Srikanth Reddy of “How Do You Know Where You Are”: Poems by Dana Levin, in the New York Times Book Review, April 17.…..(Levin variously) attempts to find a way out of her literary PTSD. So it’s quite exhilarating when, toward the book’s end, the poet finds her truest muse in the unlikeliest of places, on a chiropractor’s table:
Read MoreHow do you carry a dream in a broken world?
Read MoreUnderlying so much of the last two plus years are unconscious and conscious reactions to death – the deaths of people around us and our own death. The expression “I feel it down to my bones,” captures much of implication that our reactions to death go immediately deeper than our muscles.
Read MoreI’m not just being cynical or self-serving when I say Zero Balancing may be the next big thing in bodywork. It’s something I’ve been feeling and thinking for a while, without really knowing why. This morning, in that twilight state between sleep and wake, I suddenly knew some of the reasons why….
The facial muscles are the most conspicuous place in the body where the muscles don’t attach to bones, they insert into each other’s connective tissues. That’s why the face has the most varied capacity for expression and movement.
We can always find and feel that living axis and access to heaven and earth - through sky, land and water - that we share with all beings.
inspired by a provocative on-line talk by psychoanalyst, Peter Merritt Dobey, I explore the idea that people who become artists have a positive characteristic, but resembling a psychosis, in a way, a special kind of attachment disorder.
Read MoreHow would education and our world look if Spirit was recognized as the central fact of our existence?
Read MoreThe experience newly born through a fulcrum – perhaps a ‘simple’ touch – can become quite simply an absolute origin, an origin of consciousness. In times of great discoveries, a fulcrum can be the seed of a world.
Read MoreWe all suffer from “reality fatigue”. However, as our dreams show us nightly, we are capable of imagining and, as history has shown, of inhabiting many different realities. It is fatiguing to live just in this one time and space, this waking world of 2021…
Read Moreit seems all we can do is tell ourselves stories about what’s real, hoping our stories carry enough of the truth that we can navigate our ways through life.
Read MoreThe gift that is just consumed is a commodity – giver-to-receiver. The gift that is truly given “moves” and carries spirit along. Giver – receiver – giver – receiver – until it may arrive back at its origin. Ultimately the deepest gifts move in a circle.
Read MoreWe do our work with our hands and almost equally with our eyes. The role of the eyes in massage and bodywork is essential to the presence of thought-fulness in our touch.
Read MoreDuring lockdown, the reassurance of touch with and for animals brought me, and I think many others, hope and a heightened connection to all living things…
Read MoreScreaming, especially with joy, in this temple, on this planetary playground, makes perfect sense!
Read MoreWe can all think back and recall moments in our lives that have had enduring influence in our whole lives. These moments act as magical “fulcrums” which live within our conscious and unconscious forever.
Read MoreFrom the nerve cell, to turbulent particles, to self-growth, to evolution itself, saltation represents a kind of saving grace enabling the transmission of change over chasms in time and space as we move through natural, historical and individual life.
Read More“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words…”
Emily Dickinson
Underneath our skin are second “skins”, deeper layers of body and mind. Underneath the surface of our consciousness there is the subconscious mind. Underneath the first layer of feelings and sensations, live deeper emotions and sensations.
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