Late this summer I interviewed science journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa. Her newest book Childhood Disrupted – How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal, unveils a piece of groundbreaking research that’s finally seeing the light of day. FINALLY! If you struggle in any way [...]
Research shows that having abundant social support trumps healthy lifestyle habits. Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this phenomena in his first chapter of Outliers where he tells the tale of The Roseta Effect. The Roseta Effect is named after Italian immigrants (originally from a town in Italy called Roseta Valfotore) [...]
A few days back I had a Skype chat with my dear friend and dance teacher Elia Mrak. It was unrehearsed and REALLY FUN! He and I are gearing up for a weekend workshop in Vancouver, BC, we want to give people an idea about our philosophies, our teaching [...]
If some higher God-like source were to tell me I could only teach one movement lesson for the rest of my life it would be this: Teaching people how to move from standing on two feet to lying on the ground completely flat on their backs and then to [...]
I will admit that this weekend my body has been sore. The good kind of sore. Here's Why I did an intense series of "leg exercises" the other day at the local YMCA. I put leg exercises in quotations because it wasn't a generic squat or machine-driven leg exercise [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Click HERE access the lesson. (I'll encourage you to first read this article before trying this lesson). ~ ~ ~ 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 [...]
Have you flown on a plane before? You know that feeling when they pressurize the cabin? If you pay close attention when they do this you'll actually experience a significant shift in your body physiology. Spaces that aren't very big, like your inner ear canals, feel heavy and might [...]
Postural rules are INSIDIOUS in our western culture and are killing us slowly. I believe we have to put an end to them. It goes without saying that most people can name certain posture rules better than the capitals of most American States or Canadian Provinces. Without fail, when [...]
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