YES!!! Our feet and our hands have vital importance for integrative vital movement. From a neuroscience perspective, the homunculus of the somatosensory cortex, the map of the motor and sensory fields in our brains, illustrate this occupancy of high functional capacities for the feet and hands. The only other areas that get this much “attention” are Read More…
Lessons from the Trail
The Fallen Log Puzzle – Removing the Obstacle on the Path An experience of removing a fallen log on a classic Southern Oregon’s (“my wilderness backyard”) Osgood Ditch Trail with the Siskiyou Mountain Club (a non-profit organization “We do the hard work it takes to keep the backcountry experience alive in the region we work”) Read More…
Steady and Alive: The Bones as your Foundation
How do you consistently remain alive during life’s demands? How do you adapt? Are the adaptations you currently incorporate helping you live in harmony? Being alive is being fluid in response. Being alive is being in balance from the foundational support that your bones give. Establish balance from a sustainable resource, the bones, and discover Read More…
Symptoms and My Potential
Pain, Dysfunction, Degeneration, and Dis-ease have origins in anatomy and subtle anatomy, physiology, and progressive deviations, mal-adaptative responses to adverse tensions and pressures. This produces stress, limiting all biological movements and physiological rhythms. Within all of us exists a wisdom, an intelligence, that knows how to adapt, repair, restore, and resolve. This intelligence is in Read More…
The Need for Strength and Conditioning
What is behind the desire to participate in an exercise program for building strength and conditioning your body? What do you define as strength? If there is a notion of needing to build strength, this implies that you are not feeling strong enough. For what are you not strong enough to be able to do in Read More…