It Is Important To Remember

It is important to remember

It is important to remember The body is self healing, self balancing, self directed, and self reproducing. It does all of this but not without self-awareness. If the body is like this then all of life is like this and so is the Earth. The body cannot heal itself from overwhelming trauma and perhaps neither can Earth. But our ability to heal the ability to heal is something that we should not…

Change begins from within—a e radical new argument.

Change begins from within. Not from without. Change that begins from within includes change from without. The opposite is not true. What I am trying to say at least is a bit new and is anatomical. There is not one without the other. Both are necessary. It isn’t such a complex argument but there are a couple of steps to it. Unlike animals we are at the very heart of both the environment and…

A Handful of Bones

I teach a handful of bones along the axial line, part of the myofascial synergy called the deep core by Thomas Myers. It’s our postural center. The bones are central, prominent coordination centers facilitating interoception, stability and balance. They are shaped like grips and levers and are practically speaking bony servomechanisms for co-operating or conscious participation in our deeper…

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Postural Collapse

A post on thread in Deep Adaptation Forum about “What is Collapse?”My very serious focus is on what I call postural collapse. This means the collapse of our structure. In the fight flight and play dead spectrum the defense cascade when we are overwhelmed we collapse. Even a small amount of trauma can induce collapse in our structure. This is one way to look at it but if you think about it…

Come to your senses!

One of the questions we have to ask ourselves in the current context is whether our best judgments and decisions might not be fundamentally and seriously affected -and even undermined- by our own unconscious and internalized disassociation, delusion, and denial. We consider ourselves to be highly educated and authoritative experts on the nature of reality at the same time as we are killing…

Come to your senses!

The Paradigm Shift and the Body: Change Happens From Within

A response the Chip Hauss concerning the paradigm shift and my unique positioning in efforts for positive change. I am in a pretty unusual position. I am an historian and a somatic social theorist with an anatomically specific focus on the role that the body plays in psychology, culture and history. I did my undergraduate work at Columbia and doctoral research at UCLA in East Asian Studies, but…