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First contact… and, sound therapy for cancer survivorship
Hold back, dear one Hold fast For just a moment more And a moment beyond that. Etched in Zazen A beauty of mind Unencountered First contact I am light… A spark in the sensorimotor cortex A downshifting...
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The proprioceptive run
“Get a hair cut, stupid hippy!” I didn’t have the heart to bother with the young hoodlum of admirably limited cognition hanging outside the AM/PM mini-mart. Just kept running. Breath pattern was...
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Bringing massage to cancer survivorship
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Richard Buckminster Fuller Before I met Tracy Webb, I had no...
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Eights years and bone broth update
Eight years ago, this morning, I was awoken in the darkest of nightfall. The phone rang. My father. Crying. I roused myself. It was a forty five minute drive from Sellwood to Gresham. My mother was...
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Compassion, brainwaves and haptic perception, plus September’s Taking Care...
Ya know what got me into massage school? I was rear-ended in Oly…. That’s Olympia, Washington. I began seeing a physical therapist. He had me remove my upper garment and lay prone on a table. He...
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Minimalist running and the sensate massage therapist
“Everyone begins life with an open mind… a driving curiosity… a sense of wonder” -Carl Sagan A late Autumn morning in Oregon. All the world is new. On the rocks, above the Willamette. Soaking in the...
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A massage therapist’s top forty two of 2012
I’m an introspective bloke. Living more and more in the hear and now, it’s still quite useful to take a breath or two and stroll back into memory, to see how far one’s personal journey has come. To...
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A massage therapist goes to NCNM
In January, Taking Care Portland was invited to speak at the National College of Natural Medicine’s 2013 Integrative Oncology Conference in Portland, Oregon. Of course we said, yes! Steve Frost, fellow...
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Chemotherapy and music
One of my massage clients recently asked me about the music I listen to that has influenced my own. Golly, it’s a big question. Music has been such an influence in my life, my healing, my profession,...
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Oncology Touch from a Myofascial Perspective, starting in June!
A new, four week learning series by Hamid Shibata Bennett LMT, CAMT: Oncology Touch from a Myofascial Perspective. Monday evenings at SomaSpace in Portland, Oregon, beginning June 24th. Pre-register...
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To the moon… Robots, bodywork and proprioception
For but a moment, I faced the eyes Of a fox Running down a tree lined avenue Under a super moon. The coyote She trotted 20 yards behind And on the other side Of the street. A skunk and two deer were...
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Compassion Arts PDX, LLC launches in Portland, Oregon!
Dear friends, My bodywork practice is in such lovely transition, as I continue to sculpt my craft in the healing arts. I started up my first massage therapy website, Transcending Touch back in 2004....
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A massage therapist goes to Md Anderson Cancer Center
I really dig how they have a swooshy red strike-through on “Cancer” as part of their logo. I ponder the thumb drive in my hand. And, I realize that storage capacity has come a long ways from the 8″...
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Win a free app code for Pocket Anatomy!
First of Nine and Compassion Arts PDX, LLC is giving away a free iOS app code for Pocket Anatomy app, available on the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch! Download from the Apple App Store! How do you win a...
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Pocket Anatomy free app code winner!
Last week, First of Nine was once again giving away free iPhone and iPad app codes for one of our favorite quick reference anatomy apps, Pocket Anatomy! This is a great quick reference app for massage...
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Let it shape our bodywork
Music, inspiration… Let it shape our bodywork. Let our sessions build and sway, dancing with the always newfound. Let the work be an epic poem, let it be an album that takes it’s listener on a journey...
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Taking Care Portland at TaborSpace: Sunday, August 11th, 2013!
Born out of a Portlandia episode? Taking Care Portland is bringing group acupuncture, community bodywork and live, improvised sound therapy in the same room! So, there’s a Portlandia skit, where a...
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With thanks… Taking Care Portland, August, 2013
Sunday morning. August in Portlandia. Light filters through the window, soft and golden. Hydrate. Stretch. Move. Dance. Run. Down to the river with the dogs to stand atop the old lighthouse platform,...
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and happy new year! Thanks for reading First of Nine: Tensegrity Blog! We’ll be returning soon with all new goodness! Articles on massage therapy, sound therapy and music, properly...
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The Taking Care Sound Tribe goes to the recording studio
For a spell, I worked the admin desk in the massage clinic at my old massage therapy college in Portland, Oregon. The music was piped in from closet a level below, played on an antiquated carousel...
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