I spend a lot of time discussing a particular rule of physiology, the SAID principle (Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand).
In a nutshell: if you create certain situations, certain outcomes are more likely to occur.
But it extends beyond muscles and connective tissues.
We see the same idea apply throughout our lives.
Read MoreThere's a strange power dynamic inherent in most movement education and coaching (obviously extending out to therapies as well).
I've been curious about the politics of the relationship between professional and client ever since my first exposure to somatic education.
It was the first time I ever felt like I knew something about my body (and myself) that had a sense of deep truth
So many of us feel trapped by a lack of confidence.
We have so many ideas and aspirations, and they sit on the back-burner. We want to make a change, start a new job, open a new business, share our thoughts with the world...but we don't have the confidence to make the leap.
The good news is: you can create confidence.
This article will show you a simple framework to do so.
Read MoreYou’re bound to the world around you. You’re made of the same stuff as it, and when you die, your stuff will be re-integrated into it in new forms.
Read MoreThe deeper our roots, the less were swayed by external circumstances: the opinions of others, the mundane stressors of modern life, the next flash-in-the-pan sensory stimulation.
But they don’t dig into the earth in fits and spurts. It’s a slow growth, a steady, gradual deepening, a continual process.
Redwoods don’t pop up overnight.
Read MoreIf we rethink our idea of flexibility, we see how fundamental it is for health.
Let’s start with the idea that you’re a complex system embedded within other systems. What this means is that your cells self-organize within a changing environment day in and day out. Everything about you is in flux (when it's working well, that is...)
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