I am continually exploring the notion and concept of zero and that of “being” present;, all my work has a common theme, that of letting go of all unnecessary tension so we can experience the power of just being, embodied and present…
Read MoreIn 1977, I attended a workshop led by the writer, Sam Keen. Halfway through the workshop, he had us all lie down. Then he asked us to visualize how we felt in our bodies from the inside – not how they looked - it opened up a new world for me….
Read MoreZero Balancing is a bodywork practice and theory grounded in Western anatomy and Eastern philosophy and therapeutics. It addresses the musculo-skeletal system and the whole person from the vantage point of the structure and energy of the bones underlying all we do.
Read MoreAs a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man…
Read MoreWe know that touch can be meaningful, just like music. Yet can we say we “understand” touch? - let’s explore that question.
Read MoreThe pyramid meditation is one of the most effective ways I’ve found to become centered in body, mind and spirit - here is a text and video version of this meditation (which I learned within the Zero Balancing community).
Read MoreOne day in winter many years ago I was sitting, feeling depressed, on a cold rough step in front of the New York Public Library, when I had a memorable encounter….
Read MoreThese days it seems everyone has good reasons to go “crazy”. If you’re not at least a little crazy these days, then you must be nuts. “Normal” is just a consensus trance. We don’t need a new normal – we need to awaken from our trances…
Read MoreWalking makes your brain better along with your body, and your emotions…
Read MoreSukha Yoga in Austin is one of the many vast resources for meditation, yoga and psycho-spiritual support that we luckily have available to us today….
Read More“May all beings enjoy happiness and the causes of happiness…”
Read Morequotes and images about the fall TO grace
Read More“Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity” - Simone Weil
Read More“Tenderness has an enormous amount to do with liberty.” - John Berger….
Read MoreIf you want to feel good, maybe don’t read this….but pessimism these days is as natural as optimism….
Read MoreAnything without wings always comes down again in the end…
Read MoreAs long as the mind remains the primary focus of education, the heart will remain comparatively barbaric…
Read MoreWhether you’re an artist, massage therapist, yoga practitioner, writer, or whatever, it helps to have a studio and altar, even if it’s just on a desk in a corner of a room.
Read MoreTherapists begin a partnership during which the living landscape - each of us being just an elaborate form of earth life - reveals itself to itself.
Read MoreThe word “apocalypse” comes from the Greek - from apo "off, away from" + kalyptein "to cover, conceal.” So it originally means “to uncover." We may see the many challenges in our world today as so many uncoverings…
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