August 8, 2011 – 11:27 pm
This is a clip from a microscopic movie made by a French hand surgeon who was curious about the mobility and adaptability of the fascia of the wrist. This is live tissue, in all of its moist, adaptable glory!
Movement is life. All bodywork is about movement. Energy workers (reiki, acupuncture, Shiatsu) seek to move blockage or stagnation in your energetic lines or fields. Swedish massage is about increasing blood and lymphatic circulation on a cellular, tissue, and then systemic level. Structural Integration focuses on fascial freedom, restoring glide to the relationships between fascial [...]
January 19, 2011 – 11:45 am
I finally started reading this book a client gave me 10 years ago (I can’t believe it took me this long, but there it is) called Healers on Healing last night. One of the writers, Serge Kahili King, has a really lovely way of describing health. A couple of passages you might find interesting: “…Let’s [...]
October 18, 2010 – 10:27 pm
I have to add a professional nod in the website somewhere, but until I can get my web-geek friend to help me do it right, I want to give credit to Ellen Forney for all of the wonderful illustrations on my promotional materials. They have helped give my brand a very personal touch over the [...]
October 8, 2010 – 3:29 pm
This article in the New York Times goes out of its way to stress the reputation of Rolfing® as being painful. It’s sort of a shame, since it seems like they only spoke with one practitioner, and I’ve watched a lot of excellent Rolfers do their work without any discomfort for the client at all. [...]
September 23, 2010 – 10:28 pm
The New York Times has this article about how massage is being scientifically validated. ‘Nuff said.
September 20, 2010 – 11:28 pm
One of the things I was taught in both massage school and my Structural Integration training was that when emotions come up for people during bodywork, the best thing that you can do for them is just to be with them, without judgment. This sounds so simple, but for the longest time I just had [...]
September 4, 2010 – 6:56 pm
I have just arrived home from a lovely family camping trip out on the Olympic Peninsula, cut slightly short by the urgent need to have my appendix surgically removed. A midnight trip to the Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles, WA, determined this, and after a quick and clean laproscopic surgery, I spent about 30 [...]
“A great massage goes to the core of who we are. Not only does it feel good, but massage teaches us the art of being without doing– the secret of contentment. In the right hands, massage releases much more than our muscular tension. It allows us to relinquish our fears, let go of pent-up emotions, [...]
My friend Christina told me this idea comes from the Koran, though it appears to be a universal teaching from everywhere– from all of the religions, just like the Golden Rule. I love me some universal teachings, so I’m putting some in the blog to keep them close at hand. Here it is: Think before [...]
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