I have been contemplating for some years now the provocative words of Swami Paramahansa Yogananda, “An educational system that does not present Spirit as the central Fact of our existence is offering “avidya,” false knowledge.” And I find this so intriguing because I don’t know precisely how to do it!
Read MoreIn his day as famous as Salvador Dali - Pavel Tchelitchew was a visionary Russian emigré artist who deeply influenced Alex Grey and other people who explore the beautiful form and energy of the human body.
Read MoreThe structure and energy of the evolved skeletal system is something we have inherited that embodies the wisdom, the solutions of countless ancestors in the biological and existential world. When we experience what a sacred gift our life is – that’s when healing is most possible.
Read MoreI asked, “Can anyone tell me what is the opposite of trauma?” And, not to my surprise, not a hand went up.
Read MoreDECEMBER 4th I turned 75. It is science-fiction: a “scientific” fact that I am 75 and a fiction- I don’t experience myself as 75! Please indulge me in reminiscing a bit through a few pictures.
Read MoreOur work aligns and connects us to the vastness of inner and outer space and time itself.
Read MoreThese days aggression is too highly regarded or viewed as acceptable. This holds true in the realm of our culture, our politics, and even in our treatment rooms. How many clients and therapists claim “the deeper the better,” some even weirdly saying, “You can’t hurt me!”
Read More80+% of the vagus nerve fibers are sensory!! You think your “doing” is important - your body tells us your sensing is even more important.
Read MoreWith my older and more “flexible” mind these days, I enjoy mis-readings of certain words I encounter in magazines and newspapers. Just the other day, I misread “micro-dosing” and thought it was “micro-dancing.”
Read More“Balloon pilots have no way of steering; they can change direction only by going up or down, to inhabit different winds.”
Read MoreI proposed to my associates at our school that we offer an Intensive version of the ZB Certification Program through which the participants, upon successful completion, could become Certified Zero Balancing Practitioners - in under one year…
Read More“Do you love a living person absolutely? Tell them now”…..
- read more of this poem by Brenda Hillman
The more I work with Zero Balancing the more I contemplate deeply about one’s structural form with the energetic body and the relationship between the two.
Read MoreTHE WORLD WITH AND WITHOUT GRIEF - To me it’s astonishing how the newscasters do not burst out weeping while telling the stories they do.
Read MoreTo touch a stone, to touch it with the fullness of sense / With the knowing mind alive in the fingertips Is to go deep back where all belongings were / To feel the flames and the floods that wrought the earth / And know this hand is one with all that was…
Read MoreEvery class that I teach the students and I get a reminder of the wisdom, goodness and beauty that is always within, though sometimes hard to find…
Read MoreIn writing on the role of the heart in massage & bodywork, at first there seems to be little to say, but much to feel and do. The heart appears to simply call for us to truly care and appropriately act in a caring manner with our clients. It is most eloquent on its own terms. But please accept, ideally as food for our hearts, the following reflections…
Read MoreIn 2023, the Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin, TX will offer a unique opportunity for ZB Certification -- the TLC Intensive ZB Certification Program!
Read More“We have to reckon that we may have become very disorientated and dis-articulated from the biological and spiritual underpinning of our existence. Our society may have become out of joint with the cosmic pattern.”
Read MoreSuccess can never be taken for granted. And that is wonderful because it means we maintain an alert humility recognising the importance of responding to what is rather than what we imagine. Just like a massage.
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