History Hanna Somatic Education®, or Somatics as it’s commonly called, is a revolutionary system for releasing muscular tension. While relatively new in Canada, Somatics has been gaining recognition in the healthcare community worldwide because of the seemingly miraculous results practitioners are often able to achieve with chronic disorders that are unresponsive to medical or traditional […]
The Therapy of Comedy
An interesting set of circumstances set into motion this column. An accidental email to a group not generally considered funny elicited this response. “Can someone please tell me how to contact Derek Wilken, the writer of the (PWOMWBFY – People Without Money Who Beg For Yours) Toastmaster’s speech? As a publisher of a holistic health magazine, […]
Nothing Succeeds Like Success
[blockquote cite=” -2001, A Space Odyssey” type=”left, center, right”]”There before him, a glittering toy no Star-Child could resist, floated the planet Earth with all its peoples.”[/blockquote] If you say the word “Success” to most people, it conjures up an image of a well dressed, smiling man receiving an award of some kind. But what is success? […]
The Structure of the Spiritual Opening
Spiritual openings can look different, depending on what catalyzes the breakthrough from the ego, to an experience of the Universal love inherent in everything, including ourselves. But the basic structure of what occurs is the same and I’ve noticed in my work as a shaman, that we can hurt ourselves and others if we fail to […]
Going Beyond Motivation to Inspiration
Today, rather than belonging “to” the Human Race, we have found ourselves entered “in” the Human Race. The emphasis on reaching goals, accomplishing objectives and achieving success at any cost has been expensive in terms of our health and quality of life. One key factor contributing to this has been that we have succumbed to “motivation” […]
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