To be truly sincere, in whatever we are doing, we need these capacities – to slow down, to pay attention, and the willingness to see the many sides of anything important – like the many facets of a gem. To be good therapists we need to practice that kind of sincerity.
Read MoreWhen you lay your hand on a body, please don’t think you know it already and just get to work doing massage. This person is like a whole new planet you are landing on…
Read MoreNew thoughts about boats and bones came to me recently, especially through the name and shape of the navicular bone in the foot…
Read MoreNavajo blankets often have a faint imperfection designed to let the creation breathe - a thin line that originates from the center and extends all the way to the edge, sometimes with a single thread dangling from its border; tellingly, the Navajos call this intentional flaw the “spirit outlet”.
Read MoreJoin, if you like, in a 6-week book club exploring “Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve.”
Read MoreThe spider “tunes” its web. Could we tune our clients through their connective tissues? And how does this relate both to music and to medicine?
Read MoreWhen I first taught in England, I was a little taken aback that over there what we call a massage table here in the U.S., they call a “couch”. Over time, however, I am more and more intrigued by the couch, one reason is its early, crucial role in psychiatry.
Read MoreWhat happens when a massage “table” turns into an altar upon which the client rests.
Read MoreEvery morning first thing, I go outside and I look up at the sky. No matter what awfulness is being reported in the world, whatever challenges in my life, I look up and am grateful to see the sky.
Read MoreMay the warmth and relaxation of summer help gestate new origins.
Read MoreThe Fire Element, following the hopes, plans and work of spring, is rather that of the future becoming real, the stage of the cycle of creation which sees our hopes and dreams fulfilled.
Read MoreIn 1993 I read a brilliant article in Parabola Magazine. It was by Kat Duff and was an excerpt from her then forthcoming book, “The Alchemy of Illness”…
Read MoreThe idea that massage therapy can be effectively taught through pre-recorded lectures and hands-on work done at Massage Envy’s, etc. would result in an incredible dumbing down and de-professionalization of our profession!
Read More“…At the heart of the action is a mystery, which is gradually brought to light. But is there a greater mystery than the truth?”
Read MoreIt turns out evolution doesn’t happen only gradually. Various simultaneous evolutions happen at different tempi – just like many-voiced music can have one instrument playing slower chords while another simultaneously plays faster notes of a melody…
Read MoreHome is where the head is. Or is that how it goes? "I think, therefore, I am." To which I say, "Oh, yeah?" It seems to me unbelievable that Descartes, who uttered the above quote, was completely serious. For instance, I find the statement, "I feel, therefore, I am." much more appealing and just as true…
Read More“I have decided to include the ten oxherding pictures, a well-known Zen representation of training of the mind, so basic that it could be considered fundamental to all schools of Buddhism…” - Chögyam Trungpa
Read MoreThe only mind you can ordinarily read is your own.
Read MoreThe old testament is certainly wrong with its the contention that “In the beginning is the word.” Feet certainly are older than any words. So more accurately we could say, “In the beginning are the feet.”
Read MoreThe downside of the separation of church and state is the separation of spiritual integrity from political action. What is more important than regaining our integrity in body, mind and spirit?….
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