How would education and our world look if Spirit was recognized as the central fact of our existence?
Read MoreThe experience newly born through a fulcrum – perhaps a ‘simple’ touch – can become quite simply an absolute origin, an origin of consciousness. In times of great discoveries, a fulcrum can be the seed of a world.
Read MoreWe all suffer from “reality fatigue”. However, as our dreams show us nightly, we are capable of imagining and, as history has shown, of inhabiting many different realities. It is fatiguing to live just in this one time and space, this waking world of 2021…
Read Moreit seems all we can do is tell ourselves stories about what’s real, hoping our stories carry enough of the truth that we can navigate our ways through life.
Read MoreThe gift that is just consumed is a commodity – giver-to-receiver. The gift that is truly given “moves” and carries spirit along. Giver – receiver – giver – receiver – until it may arrive back at its origin. Ultimately the deepest gifts move in a circle.
Read MoreWe do our work with our hands and almost equally with our eyes. The role of the eyes in massage and bodywork is essential to the presence of thought-fulness in our touch.
Read MoreDuring lockdown, the reassurance of touch with and for animals brought me, and I think many others, hope and a heightened connection to all living things…
Read MoreScreaming, especially with joy, in this temple, on this planetary playground, makes perfect sense!
Read MoreWe can all think back and recall moments in our lives that have had enduring influence in our whole lives. These moments act as magical “fulcrums” which live within our conscious and unconscious forever.
Read MoreFrom the nerve cell, to turbulent particles, to self-growth, to evolution itself, saltation represents a kind of saving grace enabling the transmission of change over chasms in time and space as we move through natural, historical and individual life.
Read More“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words…”
Emily Dickinson
Underneath our skin are second “skins”, deeper layers of body and mind. Underneath the surface of our consciousness there is the subconscious mind. Underneath the first layer of feelings and sensations, live deeper emotions and sensations.
Read MoreWhat really is a nerve? We know its basic anatomy and physiology, but how can we see it in a broader context, transmitting information and energy not only within but also between us?
Read More“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”
― Rosa Luxemburg
I have no doubt that virtually everyone now is more or less in a state of confusion re our culture and politics. We are in a more chaotic field nationally, worldwide, and often individually as well. The good news is that being reduced to a kind of zero state is the precondition for transformation.
Read MoreTo 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.”
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