• To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

    - Buddha

The Heart of Summer

Summer Is In Full Gear, So Let’s Take Advantage of What Chinese Medicine Has To Say About These Long Summer Days! For me, six words come to mind when thinking of the invigorating and enlivening experiences of summertime, they are: The Sheer Joy Of Being Alive! I feel totally imbued with the human spirit on [...]

Finding Inner Assurance

Confidence and the lack thereof is a hot topic in my classroom. Some have it. Many are working on it. But everyone agrees that confidence is an essential ingredient for their continued success. Luckily, for those who find it elusive, there are countless ways to cultivate belief in your abilities but only one true way to [...]

Understanding The Messages of Your Body

It is a common joke that the body’s messages, in the form of physical aches and anxieties, are often ignored, or go unnoticed, by the average man. Can you imagine having to learn to operate based on feedback from your body if the dialogue between the mind and the body was muted? Why was the [...]

Zen and The Way of The Motorcycle

Life’s Turning Points Require the Balance of Yin and Yang. That is the Balance of Heart and Head. Imagine yourself on a motorcycle racing at the breakneck speed of 200 mph and out of nowhere an abrupt left turn appears on the racetrack called LIFE. Adrenaline is coursing throughout your body; your attention, reflexes and [...]

Restoring Balance To The Body And The Mind

Life Energy Instinctively Strives For Balance In Shiatsu terminology, pressure points that feel painful to the touch are considered too full of Ki-energy, bodily fluids and toxins; the excess is causing a blockage in the muscle, in the meridian channel and in the pressure point. Shizuto Masunaga, founder of Zen Shiatsu, referred to fullness of [...]

How to Develop Power and Focus in Your Hara

Cultivating Energy in the Hara Shiatsu and Reiki healers use this meditation technique. I first learned it while on retreat at the Dai Bosatsu Zen Monastery.    There are two basic sitting postures for harnessing powerful energy through your vital center. The two sitting postures are either performed crossed leg on the floor or sitting on [...]

Eros Heals

It is easy to understand how physical and energetic blockages can occur anywhere in the body as a result of injury, infection, disease, abuse and unexpressed or overly expressed emotions. Removing the blockage is the obvious first step in restoring balance to the human system. An open system with freely moving energy offers everyone the best [...]

Awakening The “Clay” Body

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman Recently, I stumbled upon an argument on whether it is true that God made man out of clay. Are you serious? I thought to myself… And it dawned on me that perhaps not everyone can see the wisdom hidden inside the [...]

“Un-Train” The Back Pain Cycle-Part 2

Healing Back Pain begins with a Two-Prong Approach that Targets the Pain both Mechanically and Mindfully. Today’s blog post will cover the mechanical… Healing back pain mechanically begins with eliminating the contributing physical problem and ineffective postural habit. You and your family depend on a daily sequence of repetitive activities that you do all of [...]

“Un-Train” The Back Pain Cycle-Part 1

Why does a successful treatment or postural exercise program work for some back pain sufferers but not everyone? For most, it’s due to the partnership between the Mind and the Body. Your mindset and your individual emotional landscape shows through your physical structure.  The cause of the pain may be unknown, or perhaps you’re sure [...]