In April I spent a total of 14 days immersed in Somatic Experiencing trainings. Six days with Peter Levine in master level training in beautiful Marin County, and eight days assisting in Beginning level trainings here in my hometown of Vancouver, BC.
It was kind of crazy, yet well worth the time away from my practice (and not exercising as much as I like)!
You might think I’d be sick and tired of the material and would want a break…
05/19 2013
The origins of our coping mechanisms when we’re stressed (and why we can blame our parents).
04/20 2013
If you had to run for your life…could you?
Not too long ago a good friend of mine said to me,
“You know, if I had to run for my life, I’d die.”…
At the time she was struggling with knee and hip issues that were causing a lot of pain. The thought of having to run for a bus, let alone run for her life, was inconceivable.
“If I was in the wild, I’d be someone’s dinner!”
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Way back (circa 1994) I remember Tony Leyland, my first
“I awoke in the hospital on August 22, 1998 with no ovaries, uterus or cervix – a 19-year-old gynecological cancer survivor.”…
This is the first sentence on Jennifer Racioppi’s About Page. I met Jenn just over a year ago in Santa Monica California. She was sitting next to me at a 3-day business building intensive event with the lovely Marie Forleo. When she found out Somatic Experiencing (SE) was one of the practices I do she immediately turned to
It might seem like a pretty big stretch to imagine how these two things relate to one another.
But they do.
I was working with a person the other day who has not been able to straighten their knee joint for a few years leaving it difficult to walk without a small limp. This small limp had resulted in some minor arthritis of the same joint (according to the x-rays), as well as knee pain.
After a ~50 minute Feldenkrais…
Click HERE access the lesson. (I’ll encourage you to first read this article before trying this lesson).
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One of the more common complaints I hear from my clients is that their hamstring muscles are super duper tight.
No matter how much stretching and yoga they do that darn muscle remains tight and rigid.
Want to know why this always happens?
Muscle Mechanics 101
Muscles have two main jobs.
They contract and they relax, …and within this synchrony
