Sprinting through airports
In the last weeks before the Omicron virus started shutting things down, Philip and I toured five workshops in three countries in Europe and started a Facilitators training . It was our first live teaching experience since our return from Melbourne back in March 2020. It felt risky, crazy and …
Being and breathing
The last time I offered a Whole Body Breath workshop, Philip nearly broke his leg. Really. I was offering the workshop in our house and he had gone to play tennis nearby. When the game was over he hopped on his bicycle to ride off to a meeting. That’s when …
Post-concussion syndrome and the breath
Post-concussion syndrome can knock you out It seems like people all over the place are hitting their heads and taking ages to recover from the blows. Most people know someone who is having a helluva time getting better from a concussion. My daughter’s friend has been struggling for several years …
thewayisee
There’s a popular YouTube video (see below) of a baby named Piper squirming as her parents fit her first pair of glasses onto her face. Initially struggling, she settles, and Piper’s head swivels back and forth between her off-screen mother and father, mouth gaping in sweet and silent surprise. Watching …
Because it scares the shit out of me
In June 2016 I had the good fortune to be at a retreat centre in California, perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Pacific. Early one morning I dragged myself out of bed to “Morning Dance Awake”.
Listening is Healing (and feeling)
“Real listening is the willingness to be changed by the other person.” – Actor Alan Alda ‘Deep listening’, or ‘tuning meditations’ first came into my awareness while studying film and sociology at Simon Fraser University in the late 1980s. I took a music appreciation class given by Donna Zapf-open to anyone in the university. I …
Why, in the Body
Our heads sit atop these magnificent bodies. And we think that we do all our thinking high up in the cranium. But what I’m tuning into more and more (and what neuroscience is discovering and what my partner Philip writes and teaches about) is the degree to which knowledge and …
Han Dang (Director, WEWorld Network Leadership Circle Toronto)
On behalf of the women from WEWorld Network Leadership Circle and myself, I would like to thank Allyson for facilitating a beautiful workshop on Vulnerability and Breath. Allyson guided us on breathing practices that allowed us to develop greater awareness between the empowerment of our body and conscious mind. We …
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I need to stop…
That little thought drifted up in my mind this morning. “I need to stop…” And I contracted a little bit. As I thought the thought, I stopped in my thoughtful tracks and wondered how many times a day a sneaky little voice like that informs my psyche of things I …
