Recently a friend responded to our extended correspondence about life’s complications with one word. She wrote, “Selah.” I never had heard the word before and was intrigued. The deeper I explored the more mysterious and wonderful it became.
Read Morea poem - born, like so many, from wishful thinking…
Read MoreIf we pause there, inside the sensation of the arms and listen - we can discover their messages for us.
Read MoreThe “box” is a simple name for a container. In Zero Balancing and Deep Massage we consciously encourage the person to feel safe and contained through a very high, caring touch quality. Then the touch, when sustained, can, within the box (aka the inner arena, the field), evoke new experiences that may help the client let go of tensions that no longer serve them.
Read MoreFor me - a young beatnik/folkie at the time - the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago was paradise.
Read MoreWhen a person, with pure appreciation and a peaceful mind, tries to compose with stones, grass and water in order to create one unified beauty – the formation is called a “garden.” In this context, the garden is the embodiment of the peaceful coexistence of all the elements of nature.
Read MoreFulcrum is distinct from “technique” because a fulcrum, applied to touch, is a balance point, much like the mid-point of the see-saw. The see-saw moves up and down, but the middle, the pivot point, the fulcrum, is still - the part that doesn’t move. In a therapeutic fulcrum, the clarity in touch is the pivot point for the client’s inner work releasing tensions no longer needed.
Read MoreFulcrum - a point of support on which a lever turns
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Read More· The clavicle is anatomically classified as a “long bone.” As such it is the only long bone in the body that lies horizontally.
· It is the first bone to begin the process of ossification during development of the embryo, during the fifth and sixth weeks of gestation.
· It is one of the last bones to finish ossification, at about 21-25 years of age.
· In birds, the clavicles fuse to form a single Y-shaped bone, the “furcula” or what we call the “wishbone.”
Read MoreDesigning sessions is a high art and science. It is one of the most profound endeavors there is. Because we are trying to determine what interactions through touch assisted by thinking, feeling, observing and talking will make an optimum difference in someone’s life.
Read Morea poem on the (necessary) magic of horizontality
Read MoreMassage therapy, done as the practice of, in Aldous Huxley’s words, a non-verbal humanity reawakens us to our capacity for embodiment. Touch is real, the most “real” sense as it is the only sense that contacts structure as well as energy simultaneously.
Read MoreProgress in both the art and science, both energy and structure, is a precious legacy of modern massage therapy. Of late the scientific perspective has been wonderfully emphasized. It is the purpose of this article to contribute to balancing this emphasis with an understanding of the essential role energy, art, and integration play in our knowledge and therapy.
Read MoreThe world's first shoulder was a wrinkle in an embryo's neck, floating in the oceans of Ordovician Earth, ~480 million years ago.
Read MoreTherapy for individuals is vastly important. Equally needful is work we can do for the larger “body” politic. Ultimately health is a community issue, not only an individual one. VOTE and let’s help make the world a healthier place for all!
Read MoreBlessed are the nourishers -
Read MoreThe imagery of bones in poems and the poetic role of bones in our lives are herein explored in detail!
Read MoreThe vibrations that make sound relate to the “harmonics series” in bodies, musical instruments, and ultimately in all things.
Read MoreNaming things gives us the illusion that something is just “there” - but that’s not true.
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