I 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 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 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.
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