What I’m Reading, What I’m Thinking

When I ask a client to think about something (their posture, a habit, their week), they open up. They lean in. They engage. When I ask them to feel something (the weight of their pelvis, how their right ribs move differently than their left, the temperature in their hands), something often tightens....

If you've had bodywork of almost any kind, you've heard some version of it: we're going to "release" your fascia. It's the default phrase in the field. As it's usually meant, an immediate, lasting reshaping of dense connective tissue under the hands, it doesn't hold up well. The difference matters f...

There are two languages for what the breath does: the measurable one and the traditional one. I want to spend this post on why I keep both — because it's the heart of how I teach, and it's not a compromise. It's the actual point.

Here's the situation qigong puts you in. On one side you have the trad...

I often call the breath the link — the thing that ties movement, structure, and the nervous system together. Here I want to actually open that up, because it's the part most people have backwards.

Most of us never think about breathing. It's autonomic — it runs on its own, in the background, whether...

Qigong turned out to be the missing piece in nearly 30 years of clinical work. Here I want to show exactly where it fits — and to do that I have to start with a word Ida Rolf used constantly: the Line.

In Rolfing® Structural Integration, the Line is the reference point. It's the vertical axis the wh...

I've studied martial arts most of my life. Alongside that, for nearly thirty years, I've gone deep into the clinical side of the body — Rolfing®, corrective exercise, breath mechanics. That clinical work is precise and it works. But precision has a blind spot, and it took losing something to see it....