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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This post is more like a mini e-book. Please don't be scared. Many words, but trust me, it could potentially lead you to many more words in the form of books. Yes books. Remember books? Do you still read books? This post is a compilation of books, mostly non-fiction [...]
This article was originally written for a magazine that focuses on outdoor sports and mountain life. We never ended up using it. But I like it and a few others have too. So thought I'd repurpose for my own site! * * * In the spring of 2010 I [...]
“The traditional role of the librarian and curator – to select what is to be preserved and ruthlessly weed out everything else - suddenly is obsolete.” I read the above sentence in a book titled "Clock on the Long Now: Time and Responsibility. The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest [...]
Biomimicry. Ever heard of it? (a free exercise below - keep scrolling) "Biomimicry, as described (and popularized) by Janine Benyus, is the practice of using nature as a model to develop sustainable designs and processes." Taken from Wikipedia, they define it as: "The examination of nature, its models, systems, [...]
(“Smitten-With” will be a feature on The Human Groove that will speak of funky things that I come across – people, places, spaces, books, articles – basically stuff I am “smitten-with”.) I was in Sausalito back in August. These lovely mailboxes seemed a little lonely. So I took their [...]
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