Somebody asked me today - when I was talking about my happy marriage of 35 years – what was my secret?
Read MoreA poem inspired by the humerus and the role it plays in love
Read MoreNotes on how time flows within a session. What’s different about therapeutic time?
Read MoreTo my knowledge this is the first translation of anything I’ve written into Spanish. It’s a great honor and pleasure to have received this translation from Julio Vicente Perez Infante - “Vitamina T.”
Read MoreA fascinating, subtle, and super important aspect of Zero Balancing is that you “evaluate” a bone or joint before you choose to place a fulcrum in it. So, first, there is the commitment to deep curiosity, compassion, and care involved in getting to know a place in a person before you choose to “do” anything.
Read MoreThis is a paper I wrote for “The Art of Confessional Poetry” at Texas State University taught by Cyrus Cassells. I am reprinting it here since someone requested to see it. It is a long essay on some selected 20th century “confessional” poets.
Read MoreIn August 2024 I will be returning to the UK to teach Deep Massage, both basic and advanced< at the Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork. These are dependably some of the most profound students I’ve ever taught due to their collective level of education, intelligence and sensitivity.
Read MoreA poem on the tragic mysteries of war and the many compartments of the human heart.
Read MoreAt the Lauterstein-Conway School we have just been thrilled with 23 participants in the “Geometry of Healing” course. For most of them – 17 - this is the culmination of their 100 hours in our Intensive Certification Program that began last May.
Read MoreA story from an early “initiation” at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo.
Read More"Without religion life becomes like a machine without oil, it runs hot, even if its functions, some part of it is always burning out." - Guardini. I don’t believe “religion” but some belief, some hope, is central to our lives feeling meaningful.
Read More“Frogs don't usually swallow water like we do. Instead they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin.”
Read More“Frogs don't usually swallow water like we do. Instead they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin.”
Read MoreThis is not a reflection upon the Stone’ new album
Read Morea poem I’ve written in memoriam to Louise Glück, one of the great and most courageous modern American poets
Read More“Tibetans say the greatest hunger is for space.” - Ida Smith
Read MoreWhen I was 16 and Bob Dylan 23, he played a concert with my guitar.
Read MoreEach thought, feeling and touch is the gateway to the bright unknown.
Read More“I need a medical doctor, who also knows Chinese medicine, understands the inextricable connection between body, mind and spirit and who will listen to someone who isn’t a medical doctor. Now where on this earth could I find that person?”
Read MoreIn 1972 I lived in Munich, Germany for a year studying music composition with a composer, Wolf Rosenberg. I rented a room in an apartment on Hohenzollern Strasse, where soon a very “bad guy” moved in.
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