Now, in my 60’s, I can say that I have gravitated to approximately exactly what Gary suggested. And, in my opinion and experience, these are the best parts of Yoga.

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Now, as I see myself in those with whom I work, I get more clear about the ways that our relationship can improve. When I see others expecting their bodies to perform for them without understanding the depth of that “ask,” I recall my own early expectations.

People want to know what we will do in this “Somatic Touch” work? What is the experience like? What will happen in a session together? I want to say: It’s all about relationship. What kind of relationship do you have with your body? Can it be better?

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When ACE—abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and trauma—rob our energy, our bodies become vulnerable. Mind and emotions destabilize.

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I’ve not been a viewer of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, though I understand it is a very popular show. And frankly, meeting my first cross-dressing friend was not on the radar for what I expected to experience at this International Conference of neurologists, doctors, physical therapists, research scientists, somatic therapists, and other practitioners in one of the world’s preeminent universities - La Sorbonne.

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WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU THAT THEY FEEL HURT, THAT YOU HAVE HURT THEM, THAT THEY ARE IN PAIN….

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I viscerally remembered reacting to this woman’s menacing approach to pinch my cheek.

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I’d like to make a case for mindfulness in the parking lots of the world. I believe that mindfulness in parking lots (throw in a little kindness, while you’re at it) could greatly enhance public harmony and improve safety in these under-monitored driving locales.

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Even just living one day in these kinds of terrors is dramatically disabling, but most forms of abuse or war don’t just take place in one day, they take place over a period of time. The nervous system becomes habituated, patterned to the situation in order to do its job of survival.

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Anger is defined as a strong feeling of annoyance that is hostile, displeasing or negative in nature. And in the nervous system, it is a state which is demonstrated by the activation of the SNS.

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The therapeutic process named “somatics” was so called by Thomas Hanna, PhD (1928-1990) to recognize any therapy that uses “movement” as part of its mechanism.

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It happens first by approaching with a new mindset, preferably what the Zen Buddhists call “Beginner’s Mind” or something that I refer to as presence.

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… This sequence of gestion, ingestion, and digestion happens not only with food, but with every single operation that we engage in….

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I wonder if I can take greater comfort in the slowness and let go of the urgent desire for straight lines and neatly tied bows?

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You know that feeling when you are traveling on the turnpike, you’re in the fast lane? You’re zooming along. You’re going faster than you want because there is someone on your tail that is pushing.

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