Someone asked me this question last night. And I loved it, not just because it gave me a chance to teach, but because it is exactly the kind of question your body wants you to ask. The keyword in ankle pain is STOP. Most of us are so accustomed to being in motion that we… continue reading »
Try something right now. Stand up and walk a few steps with your knees completely locked, stiff, rigid, unbending. Feel what that does to your whole body. Feel how it travels upward. How it changes the way you carry yourself, the way you land, the way you move through space. Now soften them. Just slightly…. continue reading »
Let’s talk about your back. Not just the mechanics of it, though, we will get there, but what it might actually be trying to tell you. Because if you have been living with back pain, there is a good chance your body has been sending you a message for a while now. And pain is… continue reading »
Your neck does more than hold your head up. It is a two-way bridge between your body and your mind, the place where thought becomes feeling, and feeling becomes action. Every emotion you have ever experienced, love, joy, fear, anger, grief, passes through this bridge. Every idea you have ever had about speaking up, or… continue reading »
What Do Your Hands Say About You? I cannot even begin to count how many loaves of bread my mother has made in her lifetime. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. As a child, I would sit at our long wooden kitchen table on the bench built into the wall, just being with her. I would watch her… continue reading »