383 Touching the Invisible • Chris McAlister
Bodywork There’s something about the act of touch that goes beyond the physical, isn’t there? It’s like we’re not just meeting someone at their skin but somehow dipping into the unseen—into emotions, memories, and layers that words can’t quite reach. What happens when we...
373 Softening Our Gaze: Shiatsu and the Inner Landscape • Joyce Vlaarkamp
Bodywork How we engage the mind can have an effect on our wellbeing in profound ways. What is even more interesting is how the mind and body interact. We are all familiar how the emotions can be the source of internally generated illness, and we are all familiar with how...
368 Extraordinary Vessels- Archetype and Symbol • Yvonne Farrell & Luke Adler
Acupuncture Not only is acupuncture strange, with its twelve invisible watersheds of flow and influence. But we have the qi jing ba mai. The strange flows… usually translated as the extraordinary vessels. Some say these are the blueprint that give structure to the embryo as they...
348 The Strange Flows • Daniel Atchison-Nevel
Acupuncture Change happens through time, it unfolds within the rhythmic inhale and exhale, it expresses through lunar and solar cycles, it follows the arc of development, fruition, and decline. There are recognizable pathways and markers that arise within what is mostly a...