When I used to live in the USA, I always appreciated the reminder at Thanksgiving of the potential to be thankful in any moment, in any situation. In my home country of Canada, Thanksgiving was not as big a holiday. It also more clearly related to the abundance apparent at the time of harvest. Unfortunately, […]
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Meeting The Little One Within
We have all been little. We began our lives that way. Little. Dependent. Vulnerable. Intelligent. Sentient. Vast beings entering into little bodies. Over time our bodies grow. We not only become larger but also more complex, more independent individuals. In the process, the little one that we were is often forgotten. Whatever wounding we experienced […]
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Prenatal Roots of Indigestion
How do we digest the unpalatable? In these challenging days of the 21st century, we are bombarded not only by chemically tainted food, water and air, but also by the ever-present threat of climate change, greedy businessmen and irresponsible politicians. How do we assimilate all of this without becoming ill or overwhelmingly stressed? There is […]
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A Moment in Time Beyond Time: Embodying our Original Embryological Potential
“If a system was not bound in time, would it be susceptible to the impact of the environment?” – Emilie Conrad It was a moment in time. A moment, but outside of time, beyond that ever-present ticking of time. Tissues melted, soft expanse of wholeness that is me and more than me. I return to […]
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Solstice: A Time of Stopping
In Latin the word solstice means sun (sol) stopping (sistere).At this solstice time the sun appears to stop moving in the sky. It is a time of stillness. Stillness is a major key to healing. In Craniosacral Biodynamics, we perceive that this is where change happens. Rollin Becker, an osteopath who laid the ground for […]
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