The scope of bodywork includes not only individuals but, in the largest sense, our whole community - i.e. the “body politic.” The news media and the internet lead us to believe that kindness and rationality are in decline. This is not true - the majority of U.S. population holds positions that are thoughtful and kind….What to do?
Read More“The Memory Palace of Bones” (with the subtitle “exploring embodiment through the skeletal system.”) Why “The Memory Palace of Bones?” How could understanding the title of this book be in itself illuminating? Here is the story of how and why we came up with, and were inspired by, this title and the book that flowed from it…
Read MoreI’ve been planning my first out-of-the-U.S. workshop in 2022, in Costa Rica, and for this one, I prepared for travel and the class with more anxiety than usual…
Read More“THE THING THAT BRINGS HUMAN VALUE BACK TO EXPERIENCE IS THE TOUCHING OF IT WITH HUMAN PRESENCE.” ~ Steve Gilligan
Read MoreFor better and for worse, we can see and feel that our body, on the level of the nervous system and therefore on all that our nervous system touches, is being shaped and transformed by the “media” surrounding us…
Read MorePolyvagal theory and related practices give us valuable neuro-physiological and psychological information for our lives and can help specifically with bodymind therapy applications.
Read MoreThe thymus gland, “budding” underneath the sternum, also comes from the ancient word for “smoke!”
Read MoreCan 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.
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