Somatics Education is finding its place around the country. This practice of slow, conscious movement is one of the truest practices to experiment with the concept of “less is more”. Somatics Education has invited me to re-think relaxation. For most of us, relaxation is the opposite of what we do the rest of the day. […]
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Our solar plexus and belly sit at the site of the 3rd chakra, our place of individual power and strength. This is also the place that houses our fear, anxiety, anger, rage, jealousy, and pain. These emotions all tighten our “middles”, causing our thoughts, words, and actions to come from a place of constriction. When
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I looked “balance” up in the dictionary and noticed the words that followed. There is balance beam, balance control, balanced diet, balanced fund, balanced line, balanced rudder, balanced sentence, balanced step, balanced ticket, balanced valve, balance lug, balance of nature, balance of payments, balance of power, balance of terror, and balance of trade. This afternoon
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If you are going to follow your bliss, you will also wind up following your blisters. –Michael Meade I love the sound of the word bliss. It makes me think of clouds and playfulness and being happy and carefree and oh, so contented. Blisters, however, is something I like to avoid. But I know from
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I recently heard a story about a teacher who was instructing on laziness. He proceeded to tell his students that there are 2 kinds of lazy. One is the kind where a person just sits around doing nothing. The other, more serious form of laziness, is the kind where one moves at a frantic pace
I recently heard Bill Plotkin say, “Traditions that don’t want us to grow make hell a bad place.” He wasn’t trashing religion, on the contrary, he was inviting us to think about the value of those hard times that come in our life. What is hell then? Certainly we can say it is a place
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I have just returned from a conference in which I heard Bill Plotkin say something profound about the ego and the soul. He reported that it was his belief that during the first half of a person’s life, the soul served the ego; in the second half of life, the ego was to serve the
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In the middle of winter my thoughts are turning to seeds and what is sitting just below view, ready to burst into its essence with the coming of warmth and sun. Seeds are powerful because they sit “underground” in a state of potentiality, waiting for the right opportunity to sprout. In the beloved text of
