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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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Asheville Update
For today, just an informational update rather than anything too in depth. Besides, we’re coming up on the shortest, darkest day of the year, and while I know there are still 24 hours in every day, I don’t know about you, but my days feel really …
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Keeping Fire
4I grew up in a house that was heated by wood fires, one upstairs and one downstairs. My dad was the keeper of those fires until I became old enough to gradually take over that role. I’ve tended, literally, thousands of fires as I was …
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Into the Darkness
With apologies to all of you who have traumatic associations with this period of holidays, this is my absolute favorite time of year. The period from the winter solstice to the New Year has always been full of big ritual dinners with my enormous extended …
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