A friend who was at my anatomy workshop asked me to repeat something I had said. Here goes:

"All fascia is connective tissue but not all connective tissue is fascia. Connective tissue is one of the four main tissues of the body. The other are nerve tissue, muscle tissue and epithelial tissue. Tissues are a collection of similar cells with the same functions. Cells are made of organelles.…

Yesterday I taught my three-hour Anatomy workshop. It was a huge success. There were 38 somanauts (*a word coined by my teacher Gil Hedley which means "explorers of the body") at Black Dog Yoga in Sherman Oaks. I had gotten a little (to say the least) obsessive in the last two months, spending about two to five hours every day preparing for this workshop. Literally. Every day I would wake up and…

I've had my blog for many years now and love it. I used to write every single day, without fail. Sometimes twice a day. It's been almost three weeks since my last blog entry and it feels like the longest time that I have not written. I keep asking myself, what is up? Why the silence? And the answer -I think- is this. When I went to Rolfing School in September for my foundational six-week course,…

I started giving people sessions of myofascial release. The sessions last between an hour and fifteen to an hour and thirty minutes. I go to people's homes with my table and work on them. There are no set techniques but rather you feel where the client is tight, where there are restrictions and you work there. You may use stacked palms, soft fist, ulna, or finger pads. You ask them if the pressure…

I'm back from Rolfing School. I've been deeply inspired by the intense learning of six weeks full of anatomy, physiology, therapeutic relationship lectures and of course, learning how to skillfully touch others while performing myofascial release work. I have not been writing on my blog because school took so much time. And now that it's over, I find it challenging to write all that I learned and…

Just finished the second week of Rolfing School. The schedule is pretty intense, as we go to school from 8:30 till 6 every day. We usually learn anatomy and physiology in the morning and then in the afternoons explore through skillful touch whatever part of the body we learned about. Here at RISI (Rolfing Institute of Structural Integration) they really honor all the different kinds of learning.…

I am off to Boulder, Colorado in a few hours. I will begin a new chapter of my life, starting Rolfing School at RISI (Rolfing Instititue for Structural Integration). It will be a six-week course. Afterwards, I willcome home, and continue my life and teaching yoga. I will begin practicing hands-on work, practicing what I learned in Rolfing School. Then next year return two more times to Boulder and…

For the longest time in Anusara Yoga I would hear/read/study/teach that Muscular Energy was the energy that came from the outside in, moving -in one of its currents-  from periphery to core. It was, of course, an energy that was muscular, powerful, supportive and strong. Organic Energy was the complementary energy, reversed in direction from Muscular Energy. In one of its currents, Organic Energy…

In the last few weeks I have been enamored with the area of the floor of the pelvis. Finding the four bony landmarks of the two sitting bones, the pubis, the tailbone has been like reconnecting with an old friend. Locating that diamond shape brings me to a place of deep support. And then with every exhale lifting it slightly up and feeling how it holds my organs, elongates my spine, frees the shoulder…

In these last few weeks I've been exploring the three diaphragms in my classes. Then, I started to pay even more attention to the pelvic diaphragm. All last week and this week, I am continuing exploring this oft neglected and unconscious area. The floor of the pelvis has four bony landmarks: two sitting bones, the pubis and tailbone. As you sit right now feel the two sitting bones, noticing…