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We are trained away from our rage and yet rage brings not only heat, but light. Rage when exposed as the fierce love it is, illuminates all that we hold dear. To trust our body as the sacred vessel for transmitting all that makes us human and holy, we transform what’s been rejected in ourselves […]
The signal in the noise of this moment in our world comes from our undivided knowing hearts and expresses itself loudly. Rage, grief, helplessness, exhaustion, and cynicism, when allowed their due, follow their transformative journey from the heart and back again. It is a regenerative process that allows us to engage skillfully. Rage, when it burns […]
For some months now, I’ve been thinking about a woman named Elsa Gindler. She’s not a household name but she is an important person in the lineage of somatic education. Somatic education offers self awareness practices of exploratory movement and self-observation that offers clarity, responsiveness, and authenticity to our lives. Somatic education has been around […]
“There’s respecting first your own boundless heart, its wish to connect and a respect for your own limits and the limits of others. It’s tender work that with time brings ease. I know this from my own experience.” Here’s an audio version of this blog post. There’s a premium placed on healthy boundaries. Boundaries are […]
“If you are open to fine distinctions, you can observe that something in you knows the way home, slow as it may be, it returns you to the center of itself.” An audio version of this blog post can be found here. This quote above from Ruthy Alon, a late and great Feldenkrais somatic movement […]
An audio version of this blog post is here. “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” Rumi’s quote offers a […]
As we move through each of the days that make up our lives, it’s essential to make time to pause. It’s good to check in with yourself and see how you are faring. Is it easy for you to relocate your center…has empathic distress gotten the better of you? There’s plenty to be concerned about […]
An audio version of this blog post is here. “Self help books (or videos) are like car repair manuals: you can read them all day but doing so doesn’t repair anything. Working on a car means rolling up your sleeves and getting under the hood, and you have to be willing to get dirt on […]
You can listen to an audio version of this blog post here. What is self compassion and what gets in our way of accessing it? It seems like an elusive concept. Most of us have not been raised or educated to appreciate self compassion yet, I’ve found it to be a potent medicine. In conversations […]
Just as the wetlands lie between land and sea, so too our self perception and body meet in the fluidity of our imagination. Somatic psychology is a rich expression of the continuum between body and mind or body and perception. From this perspective, the body is the ground of our experience and psychology becomes the […]