“A Symphony must be like the world – it must contain everything”. – Gustav Mahler   Mahler, the great composer, in his Symphony #3 gave titles to the various movements: ·  “What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me” ·  “What the Animals in the Forest Tell Me” ·  “What Man Tells Me” ·  “What…

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I was raised Jewish.  Now I say I’m a “touchist”, maybe a member of the Church of the Living Hand! In any case, these days my church is along the walk I take each morning with my golden retriever, Phoebe.  We walk west down my street, 39 ½ Street, to Shoal Creek, a boulevard named…

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OK, here’s  the link to my Vlog #3 – In Your Face! Thank you “September” class, Saturday section at Lauterstein-Conway Massage School for your participation! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S6uZEfcJyc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Capturing the imagination and the bodymindspirit of a client or a class, let it be said, is not always easy.  It is a large part of the art and the mystery of what we do. What words will enlighten, what gestures muscle-to-muscle, bone-to-bone will make a needed or long-for difference in their pain, posture, psychological…

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I’m coming to Maine to teach Deep Massage on September 28-30 at the Downeast School of Massage. http://www.downeastschoolofmassage.net/cont-ed/lauterstein-deepmassage.htm I was just thinking about what is it that I find so exciting about teaching – especially in the intensity of workshops. Well it is just like a massage. I try to get a sense of the…

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“Even anatomically, every client we work with is fully unique.  The muscle and bone and every inch of skin has its own individual form and history.  If they could converse, the organs, tissues, bones and skin would tell us a compelling and unique story. When fully grasped and understood, every person’s life holds the fascination…

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  “We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered,  the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”  —  Ludwing Wittgenstein   Just kidding.  Of course it is.  However, the second biggest secret about massage is – it is equally an art. Yet the art unfortunately of late has gotten…

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I was doing a session on a radiologist and couldn’t resist asking him about the many wondrous things he’d seen through MRI’s, etc. I asked him, of everything he’d seen, what had he found most fascinating? He said it was the first time he’d seen a spinal cord inside a living human being. Now I’ve…

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I once had a person come to see me who calmly told me, “I don’t like to be touched.” Of course I told her maybe she had come to the wrong place! – since that’s what I did. But she said she was aware of it as a problem, had seen my face on my…

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