Muscle Salon With Muscle Monk.

Muscle Salon with Muscle Monk.

90 minutes of gentle movement meditation once a month. A healing, sensual, and playful excursion into the world of biomechanical enlightenment. A sacred setting with honor and safety, the Muscle Salon is meant to be a place for sensitive reconnection with our bodies. We will be exploring our deepest core anatomy and developing new inner resources. As a Musclemonk, the Muscle Salon is part of my…

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The sacred pinky toe.

I call it the sacred pinky toe. it is sacred because it has a gift that we don’t expect. It is the antithesis of that clearly important and powerful big toe. It is a vulnerable little outpost. The advance guard–a scout for the main party. It seems superfluous and is easy to neglect. And it is the least little part of us, but like life has a special gift, something special, when we nevertheless…

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Why Somatic Experiencing Sucks

Why Somatic Experiencing Sucks I have a professional interest in trauma theory and somatics, but I am also an enthusiast of the new field of somatic psychology. In particular, I have loved the clarity, vision, and heart expressed in the works by Peter Levine. He even narrated his own audiobook, Trauma Healing, available on YouTube, and in it tells you in his own voice that he wrote this book and…

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What is this new embodied Enlightenment?

What is Enlightenment? What is enlightenment? Modern science called itself the age of enlightenment. The enlightenment they spoke of was intellectual not spiritual. It was the creation of scientists and philosophers, who called themselves Natural Philosohers. They repeatedly found tremendous wisdom and power in their use of reason and mathematics, writing book after book and establishing ever…

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The revolution that starts from within:

the importance of understanding our own anatomy. The body is self reproducing, self organizing and self healing. The human body does all of this, but not without self-awareness. If animals are able to renegotiate many forms of even quite dramatic trauma that occur in a natural environment, shouldn’t the same be true for us? Wouldn’t a large part of that necessary somatic self-awareness simply…

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