I’ve not been a viewer of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, though I understand it is a very popular show. And frankly, meeting my first cross-dressing friend was not on the radar for what I expected to experience at this International Conference of neurologists, doctors, physical therapists, research scientists, somatic therapists, and other practitioners in one of the world’s preeminent universities - La Sorbonne.
Read MoreWHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU THAT THEY FEEL HURT, THAT YOU HAVE HURT THEM, THAT THEY ARE IN PAIN….
Read MoreI viscerally remembered reacting to this woman’s menacing approach to pinch my cheek.
Read MoreI’d like to make a case for mindfulness in the parking lots of the world. I believe that mindfulness in parking lots (throw in a little kindness, while you’re at it) could greatly enhance public harmony and improve safety in these under-monitored driving locales.
Read MoreEven just living one day in these kinds of terrors is dramatically disabling, but most forms of abuse or war don’t just take place in one day, they take place over a period of time. The nervous system becomes habituated, patterned to the situation in order to do its job of survival.
Read MoreAnger is defined as a strong feeling of annoyance that is hostile, displeasing or negative in nature. And in the nervous system, it is a state which is demonstrated by the activation of the SNS.
Read MoreThe therapeutic process named “somatics” was so called by Thomas Hanna, PhD (1928-1990) to recognize any therapy that uses “movement” as part of its mechanism.
Read MoreIt happens first by approaching with a new mindset, preferably what the Zen Buddhists call “Beginner’s Mind” or something that I refer to as presence.
Read More… This sequence of gestion, ingestion, and digestion happens not only with food, but with every single operation that we engage in….
Read MoreI wonder if I can take greater comfort in the slowness and let go of the urgent desire for straight lines and neatly tied bows?
Read MoreI’d probably be as happy as a lark if I just did my practices and didn’t have to face my karma through the mirror of relationship.
Read MoreYou know that feeling when you are traveling on the turnpike, you’re in the fast lane? You’re zooming along. You’re going faster than you want because there is someone on your tail that is pushing.
Read More…far greater beings than I have chosen the path of sadhana and met the challenges and demons, lurking in the deep waters of their own unconscious minds.
Read MoreWe all have hurdles to overcome in this life. The challenges that are the toughest offer us the most meaningful opportunities to overcome karma.
Read MoreIf you engage completely with your Somatic Practitioner, the results you will get from the work will astound you! If you want to create notable change in yourself, in your body, in your life from the yoga you do, from the work you receive while on the table, to the somatic education and movement practices, learn the art of being present.
Read MoreBack in 2008 when the aliens visited me in the middle of the night and spoke their strange language in my bedroom when I was completing my early morning meditation, I was petrified.
Read MoreThere is the “buzz” of tea and the “buzz” of coffee. There is the “buzz” of beer and the “buzz” of wine and the altogether different and distinct “buzz” of liquor like tequila or bourbon or a good, dirty martini made with vodka or gin.
Read MoreLast week I stumbled on a frightening but inspiring article which many of you may have already heard about or even read.
Read MoreThis time of year, if I haven’t already done my seasonal cleanse, I get ready and start to plan it.
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