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Body Joy – Page 2 – Inspired Medicine Through Movement

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • reckoning & resolve…12-12-23

    Stillness in December has been an acquired taste.  My southern California childhood, a year round adventure land, offered no pause for the cold or inclement.  I’ve lived up north fifty plus years, but vividly recall when winter’s creep beneath my collar set off tendrils of warmth-craving. Prolonged fog would nestle under my skin and push […]

  • happier-ness…..11-29-23

    I kitchen puttered all day Wednesday, making all the things, totally taking pleasure in the comfort, the ritual, the predictability of prepping Thanksgiving dinner.  I’ve done this So Many Times.  For me, time spent in the kitchen like this is time spent in love.  But was I happy?  This question arose as I listened to […]

  • way past time for silence…11-20-23

    I can actually conjure up that buttery smell of hot cinnamon. The smell of fluden wafted into every corner of that green weathered farmhouse. When grandma baked, she was forever low humming and as she pulled steaming pastry from the oven, she always warned me to let it cool.  Me, so anxious to pop that […]

  • turning away, turning toward…11-6-23

    Beyond the boundaries of our own skin, the news ticker from the mundane to the cataclysmic is loud and continual. Each to our own, we titrate the current events that shape our world.  Some of us have only the capacity to be porous to the immediacy of our home base. Maybe absorb happenings in the […]

  • all that wanders is not lost….10-25-23

    Just back from 3,000 miles of road tripping.  Time decelerated, created a gap and, in so doing, shifted me.  Hours of dreaming out the window, quiet canyons for miles, sweeping sky, snow strewn summits.  Aspen in every elevation—green to yellow to bereft.  The sun and leisurely waxing moon constant companions.  Meandering through desert sandscapes.  Strange […]

  • a fall from/to grace…10-4-23

    I love my far-flung wide reach of a newsletter.  Maybe you are a reader.  This when-whimsy-strikes blog spurns me to spout on wide-ranging fancy-tickling topics.  But this is different; sometimes I just want to connect with those of you I’ve personally served as patients and yoga students over the last 20 years.  The deeply embodied […]

  • busy doing less…10-2-23

    Early memory:  I’m at the gas station with mom as she fills up our car.  She grumbles about how this chore is such a waste of time.  This hurry up, no time to waste way of life was a strong undercurrent in my childhood. I learned from a couple of masters.  So much so that, […]

  • a year that remains in the balance…9-18-23

    In the northern hemisphere, autumn waits in the wings.  I’m a big fan of markers that have been tracked by humans for millennia.  They connect to something enduring about the human experience. Throughout time, fascination with the sun’s trajectory has connected us. The elegant way our year seasonally divvies up is a communal observation. Right […]

  • slowing down to the body’s pace…9-6-23

    This morning I set out on my morning walk and, for the first time since my fall 7 weeks ago, I chose the path leading me right to The Spot.  See ominous picture above.  I willed myself to purposefully breathe.  Slowly.  So I could feel.  The cramp in the pit of my belly.  The catch […]

  • my healing: medicine in motion

    The phrase “loose, long and strong” emerged toward the end of my clinic days, a catchy descriptor for teaching patients how to follow through with healing movement at home.  Twenty-five years down the road it still fits for what I’m up to.  In fact, the perfection of it totally guides rehab of my left arm.  […]

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