About 25 years ago I was at a retreat center, participating in a training to become a Zero Balancing teacher. It was a wonderful experience punctuated by a few unusual encounters - here’s one that affects me to this day…
Read MoreOn every metaphor you ride to every truth - Here the words and wordshrines of all being open up before you; here all being wishes to become word…
Read More“A symphony must be like the world – it must contain everything.” - Gustav Mahler. If a symphony must “contain everything”, how much more true is that for the compositions that are our sessions. Our medium - rather than just being notes – is the whole psycho-physical human being…
Read MoreThe hippocampus’ essential role in emotion, learning, motivation and spatial orientation!
Read MoreComing up on the birthday of my dear friend and teacher, Bob King.
Rest in peace, Bob. ..
A heartfelt collection of links to songs and music about love and passion
Read MoreIt 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.
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