Before every question and before every doubt, one thing is so obvious we rarely notice it. The fundamental need of humans, perhaps all animals, for contact is so deep….
Read MoreCommunity is as important as immunity - we are all part of something much larger than ourselves…
Read MoreGod doesn’t mess up, he said…
Read MoreAbout 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 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 MoreComing up on the birthday of my dear friend and teacher, Bob King.
Rest in peace, Bob. ..
Heart-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 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 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 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 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?
Read MoreMay this wrestle and dance we do with dis-ease, with dis-position, and with destiny help people smile with joy at the music they can make of their lives. Having been an artist, working first in music, then in bodywork, for now for over 50 years, I have met many wrestlers – clients wrestling with their lives, students, teachers, and therapists.
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