Recent research indicates that sitting with your knees lower than your hips makes for less pressure on your spinal discs. This means having your seat high enough so that it is downhill from your hips to your knees, rather than the more common...
As author and spiritual teacher Steven Levine succinctly stated, “Pain sucks.” Some pretty plain speaking! It makes us pay attention. Pain means tissue damage. We are getting injured, and we need to know. Any pain, however tiny, is...
“We ask: where does it hurt and that may be the question that makes life impossible. Why not ask, where is it comfortable? That is the question to train.” Mia Segal Shifting the focus away from symptoms can be useful. Pain matters...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a very interesting writer. He is an economist, and a philosopher. His book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder offers some useful insights into dealing with uncertainty and chaos. I look at most things through a...
The way it is… a common saying, for sure. And it has its uses. Acceptance is good, often wise, and can be a great relief. Resignation is not. Resignation is defeat, a choice to withdraw, to bail out, to endure pain and loss- all without...
I was teaching a movement exploration during an advanced training for massage therapists. They were all successful working practitioners, many extremely intelligent. The material was complex, and some people were intensely challenged. One of the...