I recently took myself on a little surf retreat. I was so excited, planning to spend a couple weeks focusing on my skills, zealous improving beginner that I am. I had a couple of great days and then – thwarted by an ear infection! – was told I would have…

When we orient we arrive, look around, gather facts about where we are. We may always be doing it to one degree or another. Really allowing ourselves to presence the skill of orienting allows us to learn about and regulate the nervous system, and feel it as a resource. Try…

As in flexibility And that means You. How many of you immediately dismissed this blog post, thinking “this isn’t for me. I’m about as flexible as an uncooked piece of spaghetti”? Its for you. Flexibility, according to the OED, is “the quality of bending easily without breaking.”  We can all…

Three little vids to support opening the shoulders: My favourite tool to use, the myo-fascial ball:   For opening up the pecs, you can either lie down on top of it, or do it standing at a wall:   For the lats…   and to get into the fascia around…

    Ahhhhh… the Holidays. Festivities, nostalgic movies, joy and connection, sorrow and loneliness… the seasonal sad-feelies, the ‘Love, Actually’ longings. It doesn’t seem to matter how much therapy I’ve done or how many hours I’ve clocked on the meditation cushion, this time of year brings up a lot. Sometimes, when…

There is a lot for the nervous system to get activated about these days. And those of you engaged in processes of sensitizing yourself even more to the world – bodywork, therapy, mindfulness practices, anything that tenderizes your heart – can feel your own self, and the turmoil of the…

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY! (And may February’s love spill over and over…) Because I didn’t get around to posting about LOVE last month, and because now it’s the month of women, and because these days – EVERY DAY – I am blown away by the astounding women in my life…

HAPPY SOLSTICE     “Right now your heart is beating in utter darkness inside your chest. You were conceived in the dark of your mother’s womb. Everything that is happening aboveground is because of what’s happening below, in the shadows. We have to descend into the dark, yet we are…

So what’s fascia? It is one thing and everything. I love the way Brooke Thomas (of Liberated Body) defines it: …a seamless piece of tissue that Saran wraps you just underneath the skin … it is a richly multi-dimensional tissue that forms your internal soft tissue architecture. From the superficial (“body stocking”)…