When is the best time of day to practice mindbody arts? I get that question a lot, [and] there are two answers to the question...

In our culture, how did self-care get a strange reputation of getting facials, buying nice clothes, taking bubble baths, getting massages and manicures and neat haircuts?...Sure, all those things can be a kind of self-care, but whole-person self-care is way bigger than that...Life is complex and so are you.

Ugh. I got that end-of-summer cold that is going around, and here are some energetic remedies.

There is a gap between stereotypes about aging and the scientific facts about healthy aging, and the exciting possibility is to open up to a new narrative about life and what it means to age. Valuing every age and every person is truly worth it.

A strong emotion can take over and silence every thought in the moment so that all there is is emotion. Grief is very stressful, and the grieving body can hurt (and have trouble breathing and sleeping and eating). The family makes sense of what is happening, because, suddenly, life, the universe, everything has become completely different.

The Rejuvenation Flow sequence helps you make contact with the back of the head, the shoulder, the forehead, chest and heart. This calms the nervous system and protects the heart for a moment of calm contact and self-regulation.

Stress is a bear! For stress to be beneficial, you may need to change your mindset about it….Stress awareness does not mean getting rid of stress and never ever again being stressed out. Accepting that stress happens is a big step in mastering it.

There are mindbody themes in the sport of cycling, because it is about paying attention and cultivating situational awareness, knowing what is going on on multiple levels…. Mind and body must work together at all times.

When you are traveling and moving al lot, you may encounter periods of spontaneous rest: It can be brief, brief, brief. But maybe long enough for you to breathe and stay calm and for solutions to come.

The Gongfu Tea Ceremony means making tea with skill. This means slowing down and bringing awareness to the water, the tea, and the people.

On a personal and human level signs of scattered energy include feelings of losing power or feelings of impatience, overwhelm, anger and frustration, or anxiety and helplessness. The eyes can feel glazed over, and the body can feel weak while the mind may complain. The remedy is to gather the scattered energy back, what I call reinstalling yourself.

The sense of vision is energetically connected to attention and understanding. It is a matter of what you see and how you see. In Chinese Medicine, the energy channels are information networks in the body, and almost all of them have branches that go to or through the eyes. Our personal energy can be expressed through the eyes, and what we do with the eyes, where we look and how the eyes change in shape and appearance when we experience emotions. …There is a lot of life in the eyes.

Thanks to mind-body training, I have become an optimist.… So, optimism really is a way of seeing things that also helps you make your way toward a possible future that you actively take part in. It is a looking forward rather than back, and it can organize your energy so that you know what to do.