With 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 More“Do you love a living person absolutely? Tell them now”…..
- read more of this poem by Brenda Hillman
The 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…
Read MoreEvery class that I teach the students and I get a reminder of the wisdom, goodness and beauty that is always within, though sometimes hard to find…
Read MoreIn writing on the role of the heart in massage & bodywork, at first there seems to be little to say, but much to feel and do. The heart appears to simply call for us to truly care and appropriately act in a caring manner with our clients. It is most eloquent on its own terms. But please accept, ideally as food for our hearts, the following reflections…
Read MoreIn 2023, the Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin, TX will offer a unique opportunity for ZB Certification -- the TLC Intensive ZB Certification Program!
Read More“We have to reckon that we may have become very disorientated and dis-articulated from the biological and spiritual underpinning of our existence. Our society may have become out of joint with the cosmic pattern.”
Read MoreSuccess can never be taken for granted. And that is wonderful because it means we maintain an alert humility recognising the importance of responding to what is rather than what we imagine. Just like a massage.
Read More“…If you never wholly give yourself up to the chair you sit in, but always keep your leg- and body-muscles half contracted for a rise; if you breathe eighteen or nineteen instead of sixteen times a minute, and never quite breathe out at that,—what mental mood can you be in but one of inner panting and expectancy, and how can the future and its worries possibly forsake your mind?…”
Read MoreCertain songs and books alter the trajectories of our lives. Here are 21 books that changed mine…
Read MoreI am a bit fascinated with obituaries - as they say, "That's all she wrote." I think the summary of a whole life should be compelling! Here is my favorite obit written about a man I did not know but got real feeling for as I read it - Lyman M. Jones III.
Read MoreHeaven, according to science, is not demonstrable. But we know, both as givers and receivers of high quality bodywork, that heaven often seems to make an appearance within the context of a session….
Read More“Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Read MoreThe scope of bodywork includes not only individuals but, in the largest sense, our whole community - i.e. the “body politic.” The news media and the internet lead us to believe that kindness and rationality are in decline. This is not true - the majority of U.S. population holds positions that are thoughtful and kind….What to do?
Read MoreThe lore of the Chinese lute gives us an unparalleled window into touch technique.The descriptions and imagery of the kinds of touch used for lute-playing show us that we in the West have a highly under-developed vocabulary and imagery for the vast range of gestures, shapes and spirit conveyed through the infinite and different ways we touch.
Read More“Poetry is prayer.” There are a thousand prayers from around the world in these treasured anthologies.
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