Helping your body catch up to change

The latest issue of Ode Magazine offers an interesting article called This is Your Brain on Change. Here’s the problem in a nutshell: Our culture sets us up to have to change but also makes us into people who don’t know how to change. So what’s the...

Pains of pregnancy? Read this.

I met up with former student who is now in week 26 of pregnancy and starting to feel it. She wanted to offset the changes in her abdominal muscles (they’re starting to split apart!) and wasn’t sure if she could do the same strengthening exercises she did...

How to get unstuck

I’ve been sitting here for about almost an hour, and I can feel it in my ribs.  Not breathing fully, not feeling any spinal undulation.  In short, I’m stuck. So if I’m going to spend time at the computer, I may as well post about how to get unstuck!...

DIY trigger points

Looking for another way to feel better in between deep-tissue sessions? Try out Clare Davies’s Trigger Point Therapy Workbook.  It’s meant for the layperson (vs. the massage therapist), so it offers easy-to-follow instructions on extinguishing hot spots...