A couple years ago I met Sara Willerson at a conference in Europe. It was like meeting a soul sister. Since then we’ve kept in touch about her work in equine therapy in the brave and wonderful state of Texas. To see a video of her work click here. Here’s a blog post she [...]
This guest blog was written by Bret Lyon who will be presenting a workshop on Healing Shame in the Boston area May 19 & 20, 2012. Click here for more information. Anatomy of a Freeze – or Dorsal Vagal Shutdown (Drawn from Steven Porges and Peter Levine) In order to sustain life, [...]
It’s often hard to chart the path forward into the unknown. We might not like the past — but we know how to do it. It seems easier to do what we already know to do – even when we don’t like what we’re doing or like the outcome. When we’re faced with a crossroads [...]
One of the most painful possibilities for trauma survivors is to be triggered — to go from living in this body, in this experience, in this present moment, to suddenly finding yourself catapulted into fear, terror, numbness, or panic. What might have felt steady now feels enormously disruptive. It can seem like being thrown into [...]
A couple weeks ago I sat in front of 100+ people at the Sivananda Yoga Retreat. They sat there, respectfully, waiting for me to say something wise or important. Gulp. Every night while I was there would give a talk on the subject of the retreat, which this year was, “Cultivating Love.” That night [...]
Practice. Not always something we like to deal with. Discipline. It sounds so harsh, and rigid, and confining. For many of us adding a practice into our lives feels like one more thing we just can’t do. Instead we bemoan our fates, argue that we just can’t change [...]
If you had asked me so many years ago would I want to celebrate my dad’s 90th birthday I would have to think twice. Yet, celebrate it we did this past weekend with a full force of aunts and uncles and cousins and loved ones. I certainly didn’t think all these people would [...]
Transformation is one of those words that sounds good but definitely has its downsides. We all like the idea of being transformed but getting there can knock all the stuffing out of us. I know-having been through many iterations of transformation. It helps me as a walk that journey, again and again, with my clients [...]
Have you ever wondered which turn to take as you walk through life? You know, those times when you get to a crossroads and don’t know which way to go. Those are the times when there doesn’t seem to be any inner guidance or if there is you have no idea how to excavate it, [...]
These are the photos documented in Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa that Hans Silvester has taken over numerous trips visiting the Surma and Mursi tribes in the Omo Valley of southern Ethiopia. Every day these tribes find natural elements and paint their bodies, spending hours of the day assembling these incredible ornamentations. “A small piece of ocher crushed with [...]