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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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Aged to Perfection
6I have done individual Touch Practice with men ranging in age from 19 to 82. I have noticed in my own personal practice, as well as during workshops, that there are sometimes powerful forces that exist in all Touch Practice that are exaggerated or amplified …
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That was great! Can we have sex now?
It does not happen often anymore, but it does still happen from time to time that I will finish a session with someone, go through the closing process (which is a bit like the shavasana period in yoga) and conclude our practice. Then, despite all …
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Holding the Kid
I want to write today about my experiences in Touch Practice where I have sensed that somehow, instead of holding the adult man I sat down with at the beginning of the hour, I have suddenly accessed a younger, earlier part of that person. I …
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Me and My Kid
The practice of sitting with other men in many hours of Touch Practice has sharpened my awareness of seemingly opposite characteristics within myself. There is a part of me that loves to hold other people and take care of them. But there is another side …
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