Rolfing and Yoga
In anticipation of teaching Holistic Anatomy for the Yoga Teacher Training at Akasha Studio on Tuesday, I am reposting an interview I gave last year in Barcelona, Spain for a Continue Reading →
Train of Thought
Intelligent Exercise
As you read these words, are you aware of an experience of “body”? Is there any awareness as you read, of your feet on the floor, your seat in the Continue Reading →
Fundamental patterns of orientation: Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly
The familiar figures of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly provide a fine example of two very different movement styles. In the picture above, a moment frozen in time, Fred Astaire Continue Reading →
Organs, Emotions and the Autonomic Nervous System
Organs and Emotions In Chinese medicine and in Taoist meditation practices, caring for the energy flow through the organs is considered as important as cardiovascular health and muscle tone are Continue Reading →
Sitting practice
Sitting posture. The most important thing is to have the sacrum free to respond to the breath. That’s true in every situation, and more so in meditation practice. One of Continue Reading →
Experiment Results
I was introduced to the basketball pass experiment (see the post “Try this Experiment”) at a lecture by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the Museum of Science. We were carefully instructed to Continue Reading →
Try this experiment
Follow the link to try this experiment. When viewing the video, see if you can count the total number of times that the people wearing white pass the basketball. How Continue Reading →
Meditation and the mind
Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist researching the effect of meditation on the brain*, reports that in the state of open attention, non-directed awareness, there was diminished activity in an area of Continue Reading →
Imagining the body
After seeing the Bodyworlds exhibit and after reading Shigehisa Kuriyama’s book The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine. The Bodyworlds exhibit offers an unusual Continue Reading →
Living with Uncertainty
Anyone suffering with chronic pain is intimately familiar with the problem of living with uncertainty. Each specialist may offer a strong opinion about what is wrong (it’s your back;it’s your Continue Reading →