Commonly after a bodywork session we feel lighter, but we haven’t lost weight, so why do we feel lighter?
Read MoreThe Zero Balancing Touch Foundation has generously given every one of us free access (until June 30th) to a very special meditation recorded by Dr. Fritz Smith, Zero Balancing’s founder, that has been circulated only in the Zero Balancing community for years.
Read MoreA memory of a trip that inspires me to this day - a visit to a famous photographer of Einstein and other amazing people….
Read MoreYou might not want to hear the thoughts in my head that I woke up with this morning… but then I found this….
Read More“When I had eyes, my fingers used to be stiff, half dead at the ends of my hands, good only for picking up things. But now each one of them started out on its own…”(from Jacques Lusseyran’s “And There Was Light” - blind at 7, this is his astonishing autobiography).
Read MoreBefore 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.
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