Yoga Through The Lens Of Organic Intelligence
Yoga is often talked about as both the means and the end. It refers to both a scientific system of practices and to a state that is the result of these practices. Steveโs Organic Intelligenceยฎ model (OI) has helped clarify some things that I have noticed in my 20+ years of experience with yoga, about […]
Finding Resources In Working With Adolescents
I remember my teenage years as unbelievably fun, adventurous, traumatic, disorienting, scary, exciting, disappointing; basically an emotional roller-coaster which in retrospect appears to highlight the polarity and pendulation concepts Iโve come to understand through Somatic Experiencingยฎ (SEโข) and Organic Intelligenceยฎ (OI). Adolescents: Emerging Nervous Systems As a clinician at an adolescent inpatient/outpatient treatment program in […]
Using Organic Intelligence To Help Pediatric Hospital Patients
My work with children using an Organic Intelligenceยฎ approach began in a pediatric hospital setting. While the child’s journey toward healing didnโt end with our time together, the hope I held, and continue to hold, is that their system received what it needed in those first moments to allow for processing and integration with greater […]
Orientation: A Way To Come Back
โTo come into the present is to stop the war.โ โ Jack Kornfield This is a personal account of my direct experiences with Orientation, as an incredible gift to ourselves, and to those who come to us seeking relief and solace from their inner storms. When I was in my last year of training with […]
