Where does your hutzpah come from? Dr. Ruth made a documentary about her story last year. Here’s my short-story! Years of childhood trauma taught me to be tough, and tension was its cohort. I believed strength was the capacity to endure hardship and pain––physical and emotional. And if I was tough enough the tension would […]
Long summer treks out of city congestion balance my need for the open road. I’ve lived on a motorcycle in NYC traffic for 25-years. How unusual to have open road around me when riding through midtown Manhattan. A summer trek right here on Broadway! CoronaVirus has completely changed the landscape. It’s an infectious landscape of […]
But, it just as suddenly can change. My first weeks in isolation were uncharacteristic and dark. I mean, typically I’ve liked alone time. Thoughts about how long it would be before being touched, or touching another human being, cut like a knife. Hopeless loneliness creeped into every moment. My body was, and continues to be, […]
Doubts, about our future, tug at everyone’s nerves. But there is no room for self-doubt when so many of us need to create new avenues of income, and new avenues for connection. Some of you may feel no purpose to guide you; some of you live with no human, animal or plant that affirms your […]
The heart expresses its emotions through the characteristics of your chest muscles. Like a looking glass, everything from your joy to sorrow is visible through this physical transparency. When you cry sad tears your chest muscles collapse inward into the protection of your back. But when you cry tears of joy your chest muscles […]
7AM fitness clients are high achievers! We’re warming up in the dark and seeing our day take shape before the sun comes up. Holiday socializing may have overflowed into the work week and made these early workouts painful. One of my high achiever’s responded to feeling over-done by over-doing some more! Did she believe that […]
While learning posture’s subtle balance between surrendering and aligning, a student questioned, “shouldn’t good posture be natural––balancing attention between tension and strength is hard?!” I felt that his sentiment should be true, but my experience working with bodies showed otherwise. So I slept on it. (My go-to place when stumped!) As I laid down that […]
I sat on the arm of a client’s couch while she took a phone call. The call was extensive; long enough to change my training plan for her. Rather than getting agitated, I aligned my body with gravity and relaxed into a deeper experience of Self. With each breath I could feel my emotional tension […]
You workout, yet you still feel worn out by life. Every demand, expectation and responsibility adds weight to the gravity of your day. What carries your workout vitality into your life? Proper posture is the energy conductor that plugs you into your strength. Posture that is relaxed and aligned wakes up your mind and […]
I was told that telling a story while you’re still bleeding from it puts the audience in the seat of the therapist, or at least, not the receiver. And while I fully hear that and can’t disagree, I was determined to tell the story that prompted my book: The Art of Strength. After many practice […]