It 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 MoreHeart-Head Fulcrum - The most dangerous disconnect is that of the heart and head. “The heart’s so far from the head it doesn’t even know there is a head.” - Dr. Elvin Semrad
Read MoreSpirit derives from (s)peis- "to blow" (source also of Old Church Slavonic pisto "to play on the flute").
Read MoreWe recently celebrated the holidays and millions of people opened their boxes. They looked inside with excitement. In a figurative sense I’ve begun to be as interested in “boxes” as in their contents. The box contains the “present.” It holds these treasures that we invest with feelings.
Read MoreIt is not the educational intention but it is the meeting which is educationally fruitful…..
Read MoreA friend remarks to the Prophet, "Why is it I get screwed in business deals?
Read MoreIt all comes down to touch - the need to receive and give it.
Read MoreJohn Berger, simply defined his primary question as “does this work help or encourage people to know and claim their social rights?”…how might that relate to massage?
Read MoreTouch and music connect to the deepest parts of us….
Read MoreJennifer Grant asks on the FB page Massage Therapists "Thoughts on Thixotropy? If Fascia reverts back to its original state are we fighting a losing battle ?" Useful question!….Some of my thoughts
Useful question!
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 MoreWhen we do bodywork, our hands assume various positions. The more highly we regard the miraculous abilities, structure, and even linguistic capacities of the hands, the more meaningful and sacred our hands, their expression, and our work may feel.
Read MoreIt was 1967, the "Summer of Love," I was studying Indian music in Berkeley, California at the American Society for the Eastern Arts. One of my classmates was the obscure, brilliant guitarist, Robbie Basho. One morning I arrived early and Basho was standing on the front porch.
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 MoreThese days I read the massage magazines and I see one ad after another, article after article touting answers - how you resolve neck pain, how such-and-such modality is so powerful, how you can easily be a business success. You know what? I'm sick of answers.
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I’ve heard it said that 60% of healing is the environment. What can we do, as teachers and therapists, to make a learning environment healing?
Read More“Every day we find a new sky and a new earth with which we are trusted like a perfect toy.”
Read MoreThe shoulder girdle and pelvic girdle are both wingèd - take new view of the pelvis!
Read MoreI was doing a session on a radiologist and couldn’t resist asking him about the many wondrous things he’d seen through MRI’s, etc. I asked him, of everything he’d seen, what had he found most fascinating?
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