It is a part of life that it takes some work to be able to rest. In nature, for example, animals need to hunt for food, to be nurtured so that their bodies can stay alive as they rest and recharge for the next hunt. In urban modern societies, even those who do not need to work to keep living, if they do not dedicate to some activity - mental and physical - during the day, at night they may have a hard time falling asleep, and may feel restless. When we have been in stress dri

A challenging and highly effective bodymind collaborative approach Starting around the 1980's, the psychoanalyst and physician Habib Davanloo at Mcgill University in Montreal, frustrated with the slowness of the psychoanalytic method, dedicated decades of minutious study of thousands of hours of video tape of his own therapy sessions with his clients. From there he was able to develop a model of therapy that goes straight to the point. Within the session the idea is that you

Have you ever had a child or a pet who fell asleep on your lap? Remember how they became heavier? Where was that weight before? Their muscles were working to hold them up. when they fell asleep the muscles relaxed and surrendered the weight of the bones to you. This can happen within ourselves too, even without falling asleep. Here is a practice where you can feel that in yourself. https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/f1a4cb_ecacb86d95584dfc928ac953c7a568f9.m4a

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