In 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 MoreAt the Lauterstein-Conway School we have just been thrilled with 23 participants in the “Geometry of Healing” course. For most of them – 17 - this is the culmination of their 100 hours in our Intensive Certification Program that began last May.
Read More"Without religion life becomes like a machine without oil, it runs hot, even if its functions, some part of it is always burning out." - Guardini. I don’t believe “religion” but some belief, some hope, is central to our lives feeling meaningful.
Read More“Tibetans say the greatest hunger is for space.” - Ida Smith
Read MoreEach thought, feeling and touch is the gateway to the bright unknown.
Read More“I need a medical doctor, who also knows Chinese medicine, understands the inextricable connection between body, mind and spirit and who will listen to someone who isn’t a medical doctor. Now where on this earth could I find that person?”
Read MoreThe blues are a direct form of emotion turned into poetry and song. Most poetry comes from the same place as the blues, it’s a condition of being human, all-to-human in this glorious and troubling world.
Read More“Many hands make light work.” - John Heywood. May we all join our hands in the important work ahead - to nourish each other and our precious planet.
Read MoreHuman Potential is not a movement; it is an evolutionary obligation. We are the only animal that can evolve itself in one lifetime.
Read MoreThe hand is not only the organ of labour, it is also the product of labour. Only by labour, by adaptation to ever new operations, through the inheritance of muscles, ligaments, and, over longer periods of time, bones that had undergone special development and the ever-renewed employment of this inherited finesse in new, more and more complicated operations, have given the human hand the high degree of perfection required to conjure into being the pictures of a Raphael, the music of a Paganini.
Read MoreThe line, “That phraseless Melody—The Wind does—working like a Hand,” inspired this August newsletter. How can our hands doing bodywork, playing instruments, touching loved ones, in all our gestures embody the graceful spirit that Emily Dickinson evokes here?
Read MoreThe pelvis is the very center of balance, the central inner city of our body, through which our energy flows. Arguably the pelvis is the sexiest place in the body.
Read MoreSo much time is experienced kind of “chronologically” with one day succeeding another, one hour another hour. But in a sustained context of exploring new existential territory, time changes.
Read MoreGOD DOESN’T MESS UP!
Read MoreEvery great class is an experience of oneness that becomes a transformational fulcrum in our lives.
Read MoreThe ribs take their long and winding roads around our hearts and lungs. In 24 ways, they embrace the history of our loves, our griefs, joys, our furies and so much more. The history of the human heart is the emotional history of each one and every one of us.
Read More“.Love is the medicine for the sickness of the world” – Karl Menninger
Read MorePianos strings are “mis-tuned” slightly - on purpose! Why?
Read MoreBone flutes are among the oldest known artifacts of human technological ingenuity.
Read MoreEvery part of your physical body contributes to the biochemistry of your emotional body.
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