This is the first of a series of posts titled “Nervous System Cleansing 101″. These posts are an invaluable beginning for learning about the stress response and how to gently navigate out of stressful events in order to bring your focus and your entire body back to the [...]
The ability to “orient” to your immediate surroundings is key in cleansing trauma from the nervous system. This audio session focuses on the practice of orientation. audio file: Level 1: Orientation (10 mins) . What to know about orientation When things like anxiety or a stressful situation threaten to overtake [...]
My story goes something like this In 2001, my kneecap spontaneously broke in half while I was walking down a flight of stairs. Yep, you read right. And 'Ouch' is right too! It was a complication from an ACL (anterior cruciate knee ligament) surgery, and, it was without a [...]
Here’s a great story and testimony from one of my clients about getting rid of tight and cranky hips. “I wanted to ski a few days before letting you know...just to be sure it wasn't just a one time thing. Well I have to say THANK [...]
Stubbing my toe in Berkeley I was walking quite fast through the residential area of Berkeley, California, this past October. I was wearing my open-toed Birkenstock sandals when BAM! “Ouch, #!^*…Oh, that REALLY hurts...” An uneven slab of sidewalk had put an abrupt stop to the forward motion of my second toe [...]
Everyone OBSESSES about their posture. Do you? The trouble is, Western society has some crazy ideas about how to find good posture. It’s a huge problem, actually, because many of those ideas screw us up. In fact, more often than not, they’ll actually make your posture worse, and your functional daily [...]
Imagine This (or better yet, TRY THIS!) Take a chair and start to tip it such that it is only balancing on two of its legs. Now keep tipping. Then, take your hand away. If you don't catch it in time, and bring it back to its other two [...]
Click here to Re-Tweet about Re-Routing My Wiring-Back to Whole-Self Neuroplasticity (and not having to pay for parking) I've been away in Seattle for a few days, doing a few Feldenkrais sessions with my main Feldy mentor Jeff Haller. This last weekend's few lessons were good for a few [...]
Every now and then, I come across a person that I get a smitten with. Their writing, ideas, art, creativity and basically their guts to do what they love, go for it, and never look back. I've met a lot of these people and am blessed to have them [...]
Survival would be the answer to that question. I'm going to look at this survival idea from a very brain-oriented fashion. And rather than write about it extensively, I have a little audio ditty which you can listen to. But, I will write a few words as an intro...... [...]
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