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The first time I have the opportunity to work with a client, I want to create a context for the work we are about to engage in. I start by explaining that what I do is “holistic”, meaning that I am paying attention to the “whole” of their being. We describe ourselves in parts, but in actuality there is no separation between the mental, emotional, physical, spiritual or social s...
In the realm of bodywork, the marriage of Eastern and Western techniques holds transformative potential. As a practitioner with over 25 years of experience, I, Krystal Stone, have developed a unique style that weaves Shiatsu meridians and points into my Western orthopedic massage practice. This blend allows me to harness both the ancient wisdom of Eastern traditions and the scie...
What might be termed the psyche-soma, aka: “the body-mind problem” (Sella, 2018, p.18), poses a challenging paradox facing anyone committed to therapeutic interaction in whatever form. How can we genuinely empathize with a patient’s suffering, enter their experience as it were and truly “be” with them in that place, yet strive to be effective in our attempts to analyze and inter...
In this day and age filled with the firehose of information, misinformation, and disinformation, of frequent alarm and too often a sense of a world in disarray, how do we make our way to find the foundational truth of our own existence, the absolute truth of the light that we are right now in this moment? How do we take that first step of a thousand mile journey, a narrative tha...
What if when we are born, we are asked to make a vow with our bodies. “Do you take this body, for better or for worse,” the pledge would go, “in sickness and in health, till death do us part?” Pledging ourselves to our bodies may sound absurd but our bodies are what define our lives more concretely than anything else. Without them, we’re dead. There’s a teaching in Chinese Medi...
