Short musings on living and writing

• On Facing Imperfection. Introductory post.

• Pausing. A starting place. An indication of ending. An intermission.

• Sensation by Sensation. Repetition builds form into the flesh.

• Repetition. Weaving builds whole cloth out of separate threads.

• Tides. The rising and the ebbing in breath and weight.

• Sitting. The practice of attention regulation.

• Writing on the Couch. Talking here warms the words.

• What Movement Now? Discovering who I am must be an embodied question.

• The Writer’s Body Must Be Moved. And that is to say nothing about keeping the soul alive.

• Blissful Present. Once again fall in love with my body.

• Dawn Concerto. The world, like my body, is now full of richness and radiant glow.

• Doing Research for the Memoir. Digging into my dancing past, interragating somatic therapies, and chronicling the transforming power of intimate relationships.

• Sunday Morning Dance. For a moment I'm flying, suspended, soaring upside down.

• Manifesto. Everything I know I learned through my body.

• Skin Time. Skin time has always been at the heart of my loving.

Articles about Trager

• Stepping Out. Clinical report. My work with a client with multiple joint operations and balance problems.

• A Walk in the Park. Clinical report. From isolated and in pain, to writing with ease and walking with comfort, her new beau on her arm.

• Workout Principles for Fluid Strength. Take this with you when you go to the gym.

• The Trager Approach: Movement as a way to Agelessness. Leading a large group of massage therapists through an introduction to the principles of the Approach.

• Trager Mentastics: Coming At Life From a Question. When we let everything be open for inquiry, a new world of feeling emerges.

Movement Education – Student and Practitioner Support

• Script from the video: Moving into Agelessness. A four part series. Notes for inspiration.

• Script from the video: This Feeling. Simple notes on the essence of the work.

• Transcript of the Level I Review video. Introduction and all chapters transcribed for you.

• Script for the opening of the Level II video. Opening comments. Suggestions for personal practice.

• Walking toward Springy Vitality. When I walk, for exercise outdoors or as part of daily activities, I explore the interconnected principles of this theory.

• The above document in German, Zu lebendigem Schwung kommen

• Music to use for Movement Exploration. A subjective list.

• Music for Mentastics Classes. Examines how to choose music for classes, and details descriptions of 24 selections.

Article about Surrogate Partner Therapy

• He Was My First, Too. Training for the work, and working with my first client, a “mid-life virgin”. From frozen to frothy.

Memoir Stories

• Coming Out Story. The winding road from virginity to sex, to therapy, to girlfriend, to gay bars. 1970-1975

• First Dance. Peaks of love, depths of grief, and learning to translate emotional intensity into artistic strength. 1975

• The Road to New York. Developing dancing discipline. Learning to communicate openly. A smart boyfriend. A hand-written agreement. A risky move to Manhattan. 1976-1978

• Casting About #1. From avant-guard Body Voice Theater to period Baroque Dance. 1978-1980

• Casting About #2. Discovering my dancing twin at the Limon Audition.

• Casting About #3. Leaving Warren and the Upper West Side. Starving artist in Fort Greene. Dancing as (paying) work. Producing my own choreography.

• First Collaboration. A love named Drew. A piece called “Sequenza III.” 1980

• Intimate Voices. Blending love and art. Weaving song and dance and a life together. 1981-1982

• Photo Choice. Three finalists, one poster. 1982

• Performance Shots. Drew, Drew, Drew. 1980-1986

• Reckoning with Change. A golden review. A change of direction. 1983

• Snapshot of Scott. Our chosen family, our dissolving partnership. 1985

• Lemony Memories of Tim Sweet, tart, refreshing. 1985

• Consulting a Psychic. A lesson of love from the center of my being. 1985

• The Most Beautiful Version of Me. Fortune smiles on those who flirt. 1987

• Elf Effect. Delight, mischief, sweetness, and nimble humor meet the deadly virus. 1987-1988

• My Body As Evidence. A wind-swept beach cottage. A cabin in the woods. Where else to go to put my life back together. 2002

• Boyfriends for a Day. An experiment in sacred intimacy training. 2003