Music arises out of silence, like form from emptiness. And the best music, just like the best of poetry and visual art - takes us deeper than words, deeper than its own images and melodies, to a quieter place in the heart.
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 MoreWe all have dark nights of the soul during which our former self is dis-integrated. Then we need to go inside. With introspection, insight and inner resolve – we slowly, with help from inside and sometimes from outside, re-emerge, reconfigured in new phases of life in which our latent qualities can take their rightful place in fulfilling our destiny
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 MoreIn his day as famous as Salvador Dali - Pavel Tchelitchew was a visionary Russian emigré artist who deeply influenced Alex Grey and other people who explore the beautiful form and energy of the human body.
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 MoreDECEMBER 4th I turned 75. It is science-fiction: a “scientific” fact that I am 75 and a fiction- I don’t experience myself as 75! Please indulge me in reminiscing a bit through a few pictures.
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 More80+% of the vagus nerve fibers are sensory!! You think your “doing” is important - your body tells us your sensing is even more important.
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 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…
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