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Rolfing® SI Mentioned During Thursday Night Football
During the November 7, Thursday Night Football game between the Redskins and the Vikings the announcers casually mentioned they had spoken with Adrian Peterson before the game and he told them he was ready to play because of the Rolfing® SI he received from Wayne and Sandy Henningsgaard. Turns out the Henningsgaards have been working with […]
More Connections Between Emanuel Swedenborg, Ida Rolf & William Sutherland, DO
It turns out there is more to this story about Ida Rolf, William Garner Sutherland and Emanuel Swedenborg. Since the publication of the first piece I have run across two transcripts of Rolf speaking about Sutherland and Swedenborg. One from 1970 and the other from 1973. The 1973 transcript is from the Advanced Training in […]
Practitioner Focus: Coquelicot Gilland, Bodynamic Analyst and Pastoral Counselor
Every once in a great while a practitioner comes along who is so uniquely gifted that one must share with others information about that individual. Such a gifted practitioner is Coquelicot Gilland. For more than two decades Coquelicot (coke-lee-co) has been actively practicing in the field of spiritually based, body-oriented, developmental counseling and restorative touch […]
Conscious Connection, The Ego & Embodied Presence: A Tribute for Elena Avila, Curandera
A while ago I had an interesting conversation with David Rickey over at www.SoulsCode.com. You can read our conversation about “A History of Consciousness, and How to Live in Presence” here. The next day, as I was riding my bike immersed in the beauty of the intense yellow, wild, blooming mustard juxtaposed against the spring […]
How Swedenborg’s Mysticism Influenced Osteopathy, Rolfing SI and The Psychological Lineage of The Fledgling Esalen Institute
I recently spent some time at Esalen® Institute and while there picked up a copy of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion by Jeffrey J. Kripal. This book recounts the fascinating formation and history of Esalen Institute, the 1960s epicenter of the human potential movement. Many people are familiar with the deep connections […]
Sullenberger’s “Highest Duty” To Maintain Ego Capacity in High Intensity Emergency Landing
Just as US Airways Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III skillfully landed his jet in the Hudson River on January 15th, 2009, there is an art to landing from peak experiences. Everyone on board the jet that day survived, so everyone is OK, right? Well, maybe. Everyone on board the jet that day experienced a high […]
5Rhythms® Movement Practice Helps Me Get My Flow On
I went to a Sweat Your Prayers: Silent Practice last Sunday hosted by The Moving Center School. I had not been to a Sweat Your Prayers in quite some time and the practice got me back in touch with a profound quality of being I have been wanting to write about for many months now. […]
Bodywork as Meditation Part 4 of 4
Final installment of the article by my friend Raymond Bishop, Certified Advanced Rolfer. Another dimension of this subtle and global sensing is a phenomenon called entrainment.¹? Entrainment is the tendency of objects in close proximity to become interlocked and move in synchronicity. One reason that this occurs is that “nature seeks the most efficient energy […]
Bodywork as Meditation Part 3 of 4
Continuation of the article by my friend Raymond Bishop, Certified Advanced Rolfer. The ideas of Tolle have a strong resonance with a much earlier esoteric philosopher, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff who integrated Eastern tenets with his uniquely confrontational approach to enlightenment. In his hagiographic study of Gurdjieff and his philosphy, John Shirley frequently affirms this mystic’s […]