Your Feminist Chakras One of the interesting things about the chakra system is the way its rendering reflects culture – both its origin culture and our own. Like all of the best systems for understanding the self, it’s a flexible, open system with many interpretations. This is a feminist interpretation, one with great implications for […]
Practitioner Blog
Cultivation
This isn’t about why you should take my six-week class on exercise, stretch, imagery, and strategy for desk-sitters and computer users. You already know. Well-being isn’t automatic. Health requires self-cultivation. A significant proportion of injuries in our culture have to do with sitting specifically, and an even more significant proportion with not moving in general. […]
The Iliopsoas
The psoas connects into bone at the bottom of the thoracic spine, all lumbar vertebral bodies, and transverse processes and discs. The iliacus attaches via direct muscle into bone (no tendon) to the entire inner table of the ilium. The psoas fascia connects, directly or indirectly, to the diaphragm and the QL, and many other […]
Put Your Practice On Solid Ground
How Are You Doing In Practice? Are you Realizing your vision? Improving your technique? Expanding the range of clients and conditions you can help? Sharing experience, strength, and hope with strong, trustworthy colleagues? Deepening your relationship with yourself and your work? Are you getting excellent continuing education tailored to your style and needs? “George’s supervision […]
Low Back Pain: The Big Picture
Back pain has many causes. Among them are mood and attitude, formative experiences of pain in self and others, and the state of a person’s spirit. When people with low back pain think about going to a chiropractor, most are expecting an adjustment to put the spine back in place. The first thing I look […]