I just got back from a lakeside vacation and it had me thinking... There is something about being near water that so many of us instinctively seek out. A lake. A river. The shoreline. Even a fountain. We often describe it as "calming," but I wonder if something else is happening? One of your nervous system's most important jobs is prediction. Long before you're consciously aware of your surroundings, your brain is constantly asking, What happens next? Prediction helps us navigate the world....

Image taken at an archaeological mortuary excavation in Poland, 2006. There's a strange silence in a morgue. Not eerie like television makes it seem. It's not dramatic. Just... still. It's a silence that I have always been drawn to. Long before I taught movement, before I spoke about fascia or nervous system regulation or why your balance system affects your anxiety, I worked in forensic medicine assisting with autopsies. This intro to the human body (through the tissues, pathologies, and...

With the spring temperatures here in Alberta, it feels like we should be walking out to spring flowers and plenty of green... but instead (at least in my yard) I have found brown... the deadfall from last year's bounty. The overwhelming amount of brown in my yard had me turning up my nose... until I paused, stepped a little closer to the muck, and saw it. Green shoots popping their heads up through the monotonous brown!!! Glancing at my garden this week had me thinking about what we see in...