Create a Relationship with your Breath
“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold ...
What Am I Feeling? What Does It mean?
Our movement signals what we mean. And, the way we move informs the way we think and feel. Conversely, how we activate our energetic output, is often governed by our ...
A Practice to Help You Connect With Yourself
My teacher Peter Madden was fond of saying “Awareness is the first step to change.” He also pointed out, only we can make the connections for the change to occur. ...
More Movement for Back Pain
Most of us in this confused and brutal world try to carve out a private life of our own, a life in which we can be happy and peaceful and ...
Back Pain? Discover your Spine
“The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.” Lao Tzu (c.604 – 531 B.C.) In the somatic explorations I do ...
Trouble Moving? Get in Touch With Your Feet
In my latest explorations with balls, I have been combining elements of Bartenieff Fundamentals™ with elements of Body Mind Centering ℠. I use ideokinesis to make connections to them and ...
Somatics: How to be Conscious In Your Body. Part II
Embodying Movement: 3 Explorations of Weight Flow “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” Kahlil Gibran In ...
A Breathing Practice for Everyone
In my last newsletter I introduced the concept of a developmental perspective to breath work, Shape Flow breathing. Awareness of the impact of the growing and shrinking process of breath ...
FAQ: Somatics & Movement Therapy
What does somatic mean? Soma means body. Somatic practices bring awareness to the body mind connection, by bringing consciousness to your physical sensation. What is body-mind or mind-body? Our physical ...