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...

(And why that makes sense). There’s something I hear often from people living with chronic pain: “I just don’t feel like myself anymore.” And usually, it’s followed by frustration… confusion… sometimes even grief. Because it doesn’t just feel like the body has changed. .. it feels like you have changed. Let’s talk about why that happens. Here's the hard truth: The Brain Has a Priority List (And You’re Not at the Top of It) Your brain is not primarily concerned with your personality, your...