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Restore Health & Vitality through Skilled, Intuitive Bodywork
05/04/2026
Back in September’s eclipse season, I dropped out of highly clouted Osteopathy training to join Miriam in her first round of teaching Liz Gaggini’s Visceral Manipulation work. Four trips to New York, a cocoon of intimate work & sharing in the city that never sleeps, delicious food, reconnecting with a college roommate & seeing her as a wife and mom - it’s all been, so incredibly wonderful. What I see in this photo is four powerhouse women who have grown tremendously. In the touch, sensitivity and how to lay gentle, wise hands on the most animal parts of ourselves.
At K’intu, now offering Visceral Manipulation 5 series.
Body Reading made simple with my girl Barbie.
All that Aries energy these days, such a ripe time take appropriate action. But a reminder to balance that with the ongoing internal questioning, “can I soften in this moment, just a little bit more.”
04/08/2026
Whizzed through this book over the weekend. They did a good job pulling together various studies and personal experiences around how trauma stores itself in our tissues and how movement & manual therapists can be best equipped to support folks with trauma informed care. It’s an approachable book in the sense it serves as a doorway to deeper study - ultimately the place we learn is in the work, in relationship. I’m also so glad to see they included throughout the book the importance of noticing what’s going well. We so often focus on the pain, what’s wrong. Friends there is so much going well, good, great, with your beautiful body. We must frame the container of our work with those resources & gifts. From there, we feed the transformation.
Whenever I see ripples in the sand I’m reminded this is like us, on the inside. Ripples of life, movement, stories moving through us. Debris gathers — some of it ready to shift, some not yet. The tide doesn’t force it. It moves through, around, over. What’s ready releases. What isn’t, stays a little longer.
Like Charlie, we can meet it, make contact, engage, but it’s up to the system to resolve.
This is Craniosacral Therapy. Following the body’s own rhythms. Meeting what’s there without agenda. Trusting that the nervous system knows its own timing — what needs to soften now, what needs to stay protected a little longer.
The ocean doesn’t rush. Neither do we.
Crazy talk here. Isn’t it wild that we feel hamstring tension in the back of the thigh, but most of the hamstrings don’t even attach to the femur (okay, except for the short head of biceps femoris). The rest of the kids bypass the femur entirely, running from pelvis to lower leg. Which means the chronic “tight hamstrings” might actually be telling us something about how the hips and knees are moving ( or not moving).
Structural Integration looks at relationships, and doesn’t chase the pain. The hamstrings may seem like just blob of muscles that either love or hate yoga, but there is more to meet the eye. They play a critical role in our gait & ease of movement.
More anatomy geek’ing to come on our ham friends.
03/27/2026
Every day begins and ends with a meditation & prayer. Over the years I’ve found this essential to maintaining the integrity of my work. Staying grounded amidst the busyness of our lives, remembering why we are here & what matters more than technique or modality is the heart behind the touch. And as my teacher Hugh Milne says; if you want to go deep, be deep.
03/26/2026
Nahla grew up at our little in Peru, so snoozing at K’intu is her favorite place to be. At 12 1/2 years young we keep her feeling good & moving fine with the help of Dr Renee at Twilight Vet. I am incredibly grateful. The Queen approves.
Tootsies on the gram! Between naturally high arches & a love of climbing (hello tiny shoes), I am always in need of a little pronation check in. Thanks to we’ve got the simple pronation cascade to check how everything is moving. Ideally in the weighted foot we’ll see the calcaneous every & foot pronate. My foot? Pronate? Work in progress, always. Tell you what though, if you’re a fellow high arch kid like me, when we take a wee minute to roll the feet out, it does wonder for the arches, breath & brain (she quiets). Now get off the gram & go play around with your footsies!
03/20/2026
“What I loved in my old life - I haven’t forgotten - it lives in my spine.” Leonard Cohen
Your body doesn’t forget what your mind tries to let go of.
Loss, love, longing - they don’t disappear. They organize your posture. The live in the curl of your thoracic spine, the grip of your psoas, the way you brace or collapse without knowing why.
This is why Structural Integration goes deeper than “fixing tension.” We’re reading the story your body has been quietly holding.
The work isn’t erasure. It’s giving that history more room to breathe.
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