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. Steve’s Organic Intelligence® model (OI) has helped clarify some things that I have noticed in my 20+ years of experience with yoga, about Read More…
Archives for May 2016
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 I’ve come to understand through Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) and Organic Intelligence® (OI). Adolescents: Emerging Nervous Systems As a clinician at an adolescent inpatient/outpatient treatment program in Read More…
Using Organic Intelligence To Help Pediatric Hospital Patients
My work with children using an Organic Intelligence® approach began in a pediatric hospital setting. While the child’s journey toward healing didn’t 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 Read More…
Orientation: A Way To Come Back
“To come into the present is to stop the war.” — 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 Read More…