Bodies, breath, and music – a review of “Ash Land”

I’ve spoken here before about theatre, as well as music and writing, my other two artistic passions.  I find they are important for my readers to know who I am as a practitioner, and that these things also powerfully inform my work as a Rubenfeld Synergist.  Ilana, after all, started her career as a symphonic

Massage Therapy Boosts the Immune System of Cancer Patients – Guest Post

The lovely Melanie Bowen of the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance Blog contacted me not too long ago, wanting to guest post in this space about the power of healing touch to help cancer patients.  While this article is specifically about massage therapy, I have also known patients to get a lot of benefit out of Rubenfeld

Sample RSM and other healing modalities for $20 each – this weekend!

This weekend, the Boston Theosophical Society will be hosting their Weekend of Healing and Insight.  This is a weekend-long event in Arlington, MA, where Reiki folks, reflexologists, massage therapists, energy healers, and other hands-on types will be at hand, volunteering their time and giving 25-minute sessions.  Each session costs you $20, which goes to support

Return from the mountains, and link round-up!

I’ve returned from the wilds of the California Sierra mountains, and am still in re-entry.  I plan to bring you a report on my trip and its lessons on Monday, but for now, here’s a collection of links I’ve had open for a while that I think relate well to my work. By the way,

[Re-run] Moving from habit to choice

Today I came across this very simple and straightforward blog post from Kristen Barton Cuthriell about behaviors and consequences. The post is full of sound advice about what happens when you make particular choices, and how thinking through the consequences can help you make the right ones. A few examples: When you choose to stay

[Re-run] Hack Yourself

Sorting through some old emails yesterday, I found a link that a friend sent to me long ago, that I probably wasn’t ready for around then. Yesterday I clicked that link and, to my delight, it was still there. Or rather, its author – horror and fantasy writer Michael Montoure – had pulled it from

[Re-run] Moving and being moved – Rubenfeld and performing Shakespeare

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at what I can learn about healing from the Royal Shakespeare Company. The other night, I had the pleasure of watching another episode of Playing Shakespeare with my husband. We kept pausing it and excitedly discussing our understandings of what the great John Barton – then head of the

Please join my mailing list!

I’ve recently started a mailing list with Constant Contact, and begun a newsletter series with June.  When you sign up, you’ll begin receiving messages once a week for a month, sharing exercises for listening to your body, opening your heart, and getting in touch with your emotions. Thereafter, you’ll simply receive a newsletter once a

Reminder: Intro to RSM at Omega in two weeks!

The weekend of June 15-17, Joe Weldon and Noel Wight will be presenting Spirit Embodied: An Introduction to Rubenfeld Synergy Method, at the lovely Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.  This is a chance to get together with two masters of this incredible healing craft, watch them work, potentially be worked on, and learn the fundamentals

Today in “well, duh”

A new study looked at how people make financial decisions, and found that people tended to reject offers that their guts told them were unfair, even if they stood to benefit from them. “‘Humans are highly attuned to unfairness and we are sometimes required to weigh up the demands of maintaining justice with preserving our