From the Kinēsa Newsletter
Are You in the 80%?
80% is the alarming number of Americans who will suffer from back pain at some point in their lives. Besides the huge economic cost of lost work hours, medical treatment and drugs (as high as $240 billion a year!), it means there is an awful lot of unhappiness in our...
The Persistence of Memory(zation)
My TEDX talk is finally live! In celebration, I thought I'd re-post something I wrote last month after it was over. For the last two months, I'd been rehearsing my upcoming TEDX talk. I needed to know these 18 minutes like my own name. I rehearsed in my car, in the...
Core Illusion
When I was a little girl, my father, a small man, would brag about his strength. "Hit me, here!" he'd pound his belly, which felt hard as a rock to me. Like most Westerners, I learned to define strength with a "hard core," abs of steel, a six pack. This same core...
Your Aching Back
Back pain is a mystery. Research has shown that many people with bulging discs, degeneration, structural anomalies, or tears, have no pain and lead active lives. Conversely, many people who have no structural damage suffer from chronic pain. The late Dr. John Sarno, best selling author of Healing Back Pain, stated that most back pain was emotionally based. Pilates people will tell you it’s your core. PTs will say it’s your posture. But what if it’s a little bit of everything, with age and old injuries thrown in?
What’s Love Got to Do With It
I’m not a fan of what I call “Hallmark holidays” where industry has either manufactured a sentimental responsibility like Mother’s Day or hijacked a tradition. I'm speaking of Valentine’s Day. You can’t get a restaurant reservation. Flowers quadruple in price. Spouses...
What Does 8 have to do with Falling?
The first time I wrote 2018, I felt different. All year long, I'd been writing 7, across and down, always descending, never ascending. Then 2018 came around. Literally. Down, around and up, an infinite loop of movement. No matter where I started, it was able to go...
