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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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That was great! Can we have sex now?
3It 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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Love it, Hate it, Meh: Spiritual Practice and Reactive Engagement, part two
In my last blog, I talked about the predictable phases of almost any spiritual practice, and how the mature phase of spiritual practice often is acquired only after traversing the mountain of fanaticism as well as the valley of profound disenchantment. In response to that …
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Spiritual Practice and Reactive Engagement
I’m spending the weekend at one of my spiritual homes, a place where I have deep roots, a place which has fed and nourished me over the years. I’ve been thinking about my other spiritual homes along the way–the Catholic church, into which I was …
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Leadership, Power, and Touch
All of us have met someone we perceive as a “powerful” person. And each of us at one time or another has felt “powerful” in a situation. While there are many different ways to define and describe what we’re talking about here, one of my …
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News from TouchPractice.com!
Hello friends! These past months have been a whirlwind for me. I’ve been taking a break from the more educational or topical style of blogs that I typically write, enjoying some good summer weather (a bit early!) and even having a real, solid vacation. Life …
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Fear, Part Two: Feeling it
I want to follow up today on two recent blog topics–one about bullying, the other about fear–by reporting one of the most interesting and useful spiritual journeys I have taken in perhaps the past five years. The very simple exercise that I engaged was, “what …
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All things are connected
This blog follows from an exquisite Touch Practice last Friday where, after only a few minutes had passed, I had the sense that I was with a close friend that I had not seen for a very long time. My partner reported a similar experience, …
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LOCKDOWN!
Living in Boston this week was…. Let’s just say it provided some material for reflection. What was particularly interesting, stressful, anxiety-making, for me, was yesterday. Yesterday, Boston was locked-down, with a stay-in-place order. Everything that could close down, was closed down. Mass transit. Taxi service. …
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Fallow Ground
Those of you who follow me closely may have noticed a drop-off in the frequency of my blog posts as of late. There’s a lot of my life energy being redirected into a new home, new location, new job, all of it requiring a certain …
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From Lust to Love
A new friend and brother asked me a question this week which serves as the fuel for today’s blog. He asked, in essence, “what first motivated you to meet and hug total strangers; what drove that, what were you seeking? And, as your “fetish” turned …
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