Grounding Your Self
Finding ground is the essential first step in living a mindful life. Here are 10 things to experiment with, each designed to connect you firmly to the ground.
No-Body Home
Many religions/wisdom traditions have indicated that there is but one path to freedom, and it is achieved through centering. Now, this centering might be described as praying, meditating, directing our energy, dancing (thinking of Sufis here) or chanting. It might be reached through massage, manipulation of the chakras, through Qi Gong, yoga, Kundalini work, but the goal is the same.
The NU Project
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The NU Project
Many of you know I spent my time in Chicago working as a commercial photographer. I still take photos, and most of what you see on the site’s Bodywork section are my photographs.
Today I found the [...]
Why We Use Touch
To experience the knots release from the muscles is to experience a release of emotions (blocked emotions, emotions that for some reason were stopped dead in their tracks.) The knots can represent anger joy or sorrow - but they need not have a label - they are just there. How much better our body functions when the knots are gone. Our energy, our chi, can flow through our bodies from head to toe, fluidly through the chakras, grounding us to the earth, yet reaching to the universe. How much easier we flow through our lives, how much easier we communicate, how much easier we can understand ourselves after Bodywork.
A Healing Commitment
Over the years, I’ve noticed that clients seem hell bent on taking short cuts, or finding ways to delay dealing with issues. Typically, clients make themselves both uncomfortable and sick.I’m lately working at helping my clients to notice “a little sick” and “a little distressed” as good points to do something different. This, as opposed [...]
Zen Based, Present Living
