People often wonder why their neck and shoulders are so tense.  Here’s one explanation I hope will be useful.  Imagine an animal in nature that senses danger.  Instantly, its fight or flight response mechanism kicks in.  It will bring its shoulders up to its ears to protect its neck.  Very often the neck is the first place attacked because it is vulnerable and will incapacitate the victim.  We are animals and our systems work in a similar way.  For example, a car horn goes off and w...

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned. source: http://www.ted.com ...

Many people say “I can’t meditate!  “I get too antsy” or on the other hand “I fall asleep!”  It is very challenging to sync up our bodies and our minds so we can simply BE and then Feel and Listen.  Once, when I wanted to describe this blissful feeling I felt during a Cranial Sacral therapy session so I could describe it,  the term Dynamic Stillness came to me as a perfect way to describe that feeling.  When we can put words to feelings and emotions ther...

In western culture, there is pressure and also a desire to lose pregnancy weight as fast as possible. It often seems that a woman is somehow more noble and has it all together if she can manage to get back to her pre-pregnancy weight in a month or so! Some women do and that’s good, but there are so many factors to consider such as nursing, hormones, metabolism, diet, exercise…etc. Whether delivery was a c-section or vaginal is also considered to be an important variable. I’m...