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- BlogDear Reader: Welcome to my very first blog! This blog represents the next step of faith in a journey I never could have imagined ten years ago, a path full of unexpected turns, rich discoveries and shared connections—personal connections to some of you who might be reading at this very moment, as well as a larger sense of shared practice, kinship, and brotherhood with many of you whom I will never meet. What I now call “Touch Practice” began as an effort to explore and heal my own body. I thought of it as something I created, something invented or made up, just for me. I slowly realized that while it was profoundly healing for me, it also seemed to have tremendous benefit for others, and so it became something for “we” rather than something just for “me.” I began to think of Touch Practice as a form of partnership. Next, I understood that something I imagined I had created or invented myself actually existed before I found it—Touch Practice is more accurately something I discovered, something I became aware of rather than creating. I came to understand that this aspect of touch has probably existed in an infinite variety…
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The Naked Truth
4One of the common misconceptions about Touch Practice–and perhaps other kinds of bodywork–is that naked practice is somehow more intimate, more engaged, more exciting, more challenging or more interesting than clothed practice. Nothing could be further from the truth. I think I believed this myself, …
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Happy Endings!
As a precaution, this blog was written several days ago and set to auto-post at 12:01 AM Saturday, December 22, 2012. If I should be raptured on 12/21 (surely the result of a clerical error upstairs) then those of you who remain behind can read …
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Appetite and Need
In this weekend’s blog, I want to explore the distance between appetite (what we think we need in order to be well) vs. need (what we actually do need.) These two things are frequently misaligned, sometimes drastically so. Let me give you some examples: Americans …
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Suffering as a bad habit (Part One)
When I was a child, I had a number of rather intense friendships–and I liked intense friendships. There was something about closeness I thrived on, something about emotional intimacy which was meaningful to me. It made me feel fully alive and fully connected. Fairly early …
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Making It Personal
Something that has been inspiring, rewarding and educational for me these past few weeks is hearing from people who have experienced Touch Practice, either individually or in a workshop, who have then gone on to establish their own practice in one form or another. I …
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Show me where it hurts
Mentally rehearse/imagine these situations happening to you, and pay particular attention to what you feel in your physical body even as you just pretend your way through these hypothetical scenarios: 1. You return to the lot where you parked your car before meeting friends for …
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Getting Off (with pictures!)
Yeah, this post is about exactly what you think it’s about. Yes: ejaculation. If you came from another planet and were to carefully observe human behavior, you might think that if a human male becomes aroused to the point of erection, that condition constitutes a medical …
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Unwanted Opposite Sex Attraction
My friend Lisa struggles with what she calls “unwanted opposite-sex attraction,” and man, has it ever caused her problems in her life. Big problems. Serious problems. Lisa got pregnant when she was 16, and then again when she was 18, with different fathers, neither of …
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