Soul's Code

The California retreat, Harbin Hot Springs, invented a powerful form of deep trance work variously called watsu and water dance
BY PAUL KAIHLA — I first heard of watsu when I went to Harbin Hot Springs with an ex because of its rep for having the best mineral baths north of San Francisco. We were surprised [...]

A motorcycle accident; a ruptured disk; Lyme disease: How a female mystic healed herself

AN ADVANCED EXCERPT FROM RASHANI RÉA'S NEW BOOK, Beyond Brokenness
Suffering is by no means a prerequisite for anything. It's a part of life. We suffer until we understand the root cause of pain. This is simply how the mystery moved through [...]

Loss, Trauma and Somatic Therapy
On the opening page of Love in the Time of Cholera, Nobel-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez set down one of literary fiction's most arresting images of death: He writes that a character who commits suicide "had escaped the torments of memory."
The flip-side is that when the person who dies is one [...]

TRAUMA, the FIGHT/FLIGHT RESPONSE and ALCOHOL
A couple of things occur when people get hit by a trauma like a car accident, natural disaster, major surgery, job loss, bankruptcy, divorce, the death of a parent, rape or other violent crime. The object constancy that D. W. Winnicott suggests is installed in our psyches around the age [...]

A NEW TREATMENT CALLED SOMATIC EXPERIENCING

After a trauma jolts you into a state of high activation, one of the simplest ways to discharge the intense energy trapped in your nervous system is by doing vigorous workouts like biking, kickboxing, or heck, chopping wood. But if Howard Hughes were alive today, we would advise him to [...]