Years ago I saw a colorfully painted wooden sculpture that struck and delighted me. The vision and memory of the sculpture has become indelible over the years. It was sculpture of two great figures: Muddy Waters and Georges Balanchine.
Read MoreIn a world dominated by virtual reality there are two competing hungers. One is for more and more virtual reality - ultimately an unfulfilling inner momentum for escape. The other is the hunger for more and more actual reality. As a massage therapist, everyday I see and help fulfill the hunger for actual reality.
Read MoreEarly reviews of “The Deep Massage Book” convey a sense of the uniqueness of what one learns by studying Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method.
Read MoreThere are special places of awe and power where we can rest and be rejuvenated. The book reminds us that we can do this within ourselves. We already know this in our bones.
Read MoreBecause “stress is the condition of living in constant and unsettling change,” it is a form of unremitting grief, what Hegel called, “the highway of despair.”
Read MoreMay our sadness and depressions be transformed into a special kind of tenderness.
Read MoreIn Zero Balancing, we cultivate our ability to sense and to see as equally important as the touch techniques we apply.
Read MoreA link to the cover article from the Massage Therapy Journal - from about 30 years ago!
Read MoreIn Zero Balancing one of the ways of seeing the person's inner response is through observing the breath and its trajectories. So much of our core structure and energy is connected to the breath, its intimate relationship to T12, where the facets suddenly change direction, the nearby psoas, lumbar plexus, etc.
Read MoreI have been contemplating for some years now the provocative words of Swami Paramahansa Yogananda, “An educational system that does not present Spirit as the central Fact of our existence is offering “avidya,” false knowledge.” And I find this so intriguing because I don’t know precisely how to do it!
Read MoreThe structure and energy of the evolved skeletal system is something we have inherited that embodies the wisdom, the solutions of countless ancestors in the biological and existential world. When we experience what a sacred gift our life is – that’s when healing is most possible.
Read MoreI asked, “Can anyone tell me what is the opposite of trauma?” And, not to my surprise, not a hand went up.
Read MoreOur work aligns and connects us to the vastness of inner and outer space and time itself.
Read MoreThese days aggression is too highly regarded or viewed as acceptable. This holds true in the realm of our culture, our politics, and even in our treatment rooms. How many clients and therapists claim “the deeper the better,” some even weirdly saying, “You can’t hurt me!”
Read MoreWith my older and more “flexible” mind these days, I enjoy mis-readings of certain words I encounter in magazines and newspapers. Just the other day, I misread “micro-dosing” and thought it was “micro-dancing.”
Read More“Balloon pilots have no way of steering; they can change direction only by going up or down, to inhabit different winds.”
Read MoreI proposed to my associates at our school that we offer an Intensive version of the ZB Certification Program through which the participants, upon successful completion, could become Certified Zero Balancing Practitioners - in under one year…
Read MoreThe more I work with Zero Balancing the more I contemplate deeply about one’s structural form with the energetic body and the relationship between the two.
Read MoreTHE WORLD WITH AND WITHOUT GRIEF - To me it’s astonishing how the newscasters do not burst out weeping while telling the stories they do.
Read MoreTo touch a stone, to touch it with the fullness of sense / With the knowing mind alive in the fingertips Is to go deep back where all belongings were / To feel the flames and the floods that wrought the earth / And know this hand is one with all that was…
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