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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is the beginning of a series that I am plugging away at titled "Creating Your Own Personal Instruction Manual" . The breadcrumb trail to go with these series of post are here ("what stands between you & that more effortless version of you") & here ("reverse engineer your health: [...]
A little while back, I was having some troubles sleeping. You know. Tossing, turning, worrying. And - because I am the luckiest girl in the world - my sweetie (Seth) recorded this guided meditation to help me drift into some much needed slumber. I loved the imagery so much that [...]
I ended Part 1: Refining the Somatic Practices: The Story of Jenny and Susan, with this question: "How can we evolve our somatic practices to meet the changing needs of people, not to mention the diversity of people coming to us, especially in a class format?" First of all, [...]
In my life, two major (health-related) events have catalyzed my quest for learning very detailed ‘stuff’ about my own body and various healing modalities and medicines. The first were a handful of pretty bad knee injuries that weren’t getting better with conventional therapies (actually the knee pieces got fixed [...]
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