Underlying so much of the last two plus years are unconscious and conscious reactions to death – the deaths of people around us and our own death. The expression “I feel it down to my bones,” captures much of implication that our reactions to death go immediately deeper than our muscles.
Read MoreThe etymology of lungs is “light.” We don't necessarily think “light” when we think about the lungs. So this naturally is an exciting suggestion…
Read More'Roughly forty-three thousand years ago a young cave bear died in the rolling hills on the northwest border of modern-day Slovenia. A thousand miles away and a thousand years later, a mammoth died in the forests above the river Blau near the southern edge of modern-day Germany. Within a few years of the mammoth's demise, a griffon vulture also perished in the same vicinity. Five thousand years after that a swan and another mammoth died nearby.
…These different creatures, lost across time and space, did share one remarkable posthumous fate. After their flesh had been consumed by carnivores or bacteria, a bone from each of their skeletons was meticulously crafted by human hands into a flute.
…touch me…remind me who I am….
I’m not just being cynical or self-serving when I say Zero Balancing may be the next big thing in bodywork. It’s something I’ve been feeling and thinking for a while, without really knowing why. This morning, in that twilight state between sleep and wake, I suddenly knew some of the reasons why….
The facial muscles are the most conspicuous place in the body where the muscles don’t attach to bones, they insert into each other’s connective tissues. That’s why the face has the most varied capacity for expression and movement.
We can always find and feel that living axis and access to heaven and earth - through sky, land and water - that we share with all beings.
Pectoralis major is, in many respects for therapists, our first and most important encounter with spirit and structure of the heart area.
Read MorePalpate – how can you love if you don’t know what’s there?
Read Moreinspired by a provocative on-line talk by psychoanalyst, Peter Merritt Dobey, I explore the idea that people who become artists have a positive characteristic, but resembling a psychosis, in a way, a special kind of attachment disorder.
Read MoreHow 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 MoreThis time we’re in calls for a world-wide upwelling of compassion.
Read MoreWe know why the caged bird sings and the uncaged as well. It’s in our nature. Without it is a life without soul.
Read MoreShe came back. There were rumors as to what had happened…
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 MoreGod created the child, that is , your wanting, so that it might cry out, so that milk might come…
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