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Athens Newsletter Remix
Tenth House Health started with self-reflection on how I could be more of service in my decades-long practices of Craniosacral Therapy/Integrative Manual Therapy and yoga.
Acceptance is the New Optimism
Optimism and yoga hinge on the idea that the potential for positive change is always possible. It's been a challenge to espouse optimism right now when so many systems, institutions and situations are going inexorably wrong. But I believe it is still possible to do so.
Reflections on Old-school Hatha Yoga
In a sea of yoga styles, I continuously return to Hatha yoga. The poses are a decades long narrative that becomes evermore nuanced as time hurries my body onward. Sometimes I see my reflection. My alignment feels blissfully internalized, and I can feel life force flooding my limbs. Other times I am adrift with frustration disrupted only occasionally by surprising fractals of awe.
The Crown Chakra: Ideal or Idyll
I’ve been reflecting on the Crown Chakra—the symbolism, the idealism, and my love/hate relationship with notions of spiritual attainment.
Intuition, Ajna, and Intelligence
While enlightenment is endlessly fascinating to medittators, intuition is a vast subject that turns out to have a lot of resonance in the business and gaming communities which has prompted much brain-based study.
A Yogi’s View of Peak Performance
Working with the notions and neuroscience of peak performance in Yoga.
Your Body is a Yoga Body
The assumptions of what a yogi should look like are so ingrained culturally that it's hard not to go there…
A Dancer’s Double Death
We have this wish when we enter into a period of hardship that our life should right itself without any kind of loss or sacrifice — that good times should resume with no scars to show for it. Or if we must have scars, they can, at the very least, have the decency to be resolved with botox. But nature is not like this. So much has to die and decay and desiccate before the floods of spring runoff coax the dormant seedlings to renew.