Last week I introduced the concept of the Drama Triangle, which I first learned about through the Hendricks Institute. Gay & Katie Hendricks have a mission to assist people in opening to more creativity, love, and vitality through the power of conscious relationship and whole-person learning. I think that massage therapy is a great place to [...]
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What’s one thing you can do to have a more enjoyable, useful, and transformative bodywork session? Stay out of the triangle. The Drama Triangle is a place where people act out one of three roles – Victim, Villain, or Hero. When you’re “in” the triangle, you unconsciously create a dynamic where other people must play [...]
Helping your body catch up to change
Posted in Blog, Body wisdom, Self care on Jun 29th, 2011
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 solution? The author posits two (related) strategies: 1) [...]
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 pre-pregnancy. I recommended a book that my prenatal [...]
How to get unstuck
Posted in Blog, Body wisdom, Self care on Jun 22nd, 2011
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! It’s as simple as: Blowing a [...]
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 and on matching pain patterns to source points. Here are some (inexpensive) tools you may find useful in [...]
Are you looking for a prenatal yoga class to smooth the bumpy road toward birth? Try a few different classes and/or studios out before you settle on one. Some are geared toward women who already have a regular yoga practice, and the instructor puts more emphasis on the postures. Some put more emphasis on “checking [...]
The Wonder Question
Posted in Body wisdom on Jun 15th, 2011
I was working on a business assignment today and got stuck. Kinda like this truck we saw on the side of the Forest Service road last weekend – spinning its wheels in a giant ditch, going nowhere. It wasn’t on the gravel anymore, and it hadn’t made it to the campsite. Normally when I get [...]
Shiny new website!
Posted in Blog on Feb 15th, 2011
I love my new website, as revised by the lovely and talented folks at Enter the Net (Rob Patton et al)! Prepare for updates on a regular basis, now that the ease of WordPress has supplanted the hair-tearing frustration of Me + iWeb. This photo of sunset from the vantage of the Flag Point fire [...]
June 2010 Newsletter
Posted in Blog, Newsletter on Jan 5th, 2011
It’s never too late for Spring cleaning. Time to sort through the massage tools that have piled up at the back of my mental shed and get them sharp and shiny.
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