Writing
Much of my writing grew out of conversations with the people I work with.
Over the years, I’ve often shared stories, metaphors, and parables to help explore ideas or experiences that can be difficult to put into words. Sometimes approaching something from another angle helps us understand or recognize something we hadn’t before.
Eventually, I began writing some of these reflections down, hoping they might be useful to others as well. Over time, my writing has also become a way of engaging with the broader professional community—exploring ideas, questioning established assumptions, and contributing to conversations that help shape the fields of somatics, bodywork, and therapeutic practice.
My writing moves between embodiment, perception, consciousness, psychology, philosophy, contemplative traditions, and everyday life. Much of it comes from questions arising through my work, my own experiences, and my ongoing curiosity about what it means to be human.
Here you’ll find my published books and collections, professional articles and interviews, and links to my ongoing essays.
Books & Collections
Collections of essays exploring embodiment, consciousness, perception, and the many ways we experience and make sense of being human.
Touching Into Presence II: The Body Before the Story
Essays on Embodiment, Consciousness, and the Stories We Live By
Twenty-four essays exploring embodiment, consciousness, healing, perception, and direct experience.
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Touching Into Presence I
Essays on Embodiment, Perception, and the Paradox of Being
Short essays on perception, presence, and the intelligence of the body.
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Articles and conversations published in professional journals and newsletters, exploring structural integration, somatic practice, philosophy, embodied experience, and the wider questions that arise through therapeutic work.
Returning to the Roots of Somatic Practice
Journal of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute
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How Wittgenstein Can Enhance Somatic Therapies
Journal of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute
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A Voyage of Discovery: Interview with Mark Johnson
Journal of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute
A conversation with philosopher Mark Johnson exploring embodiment and related questions.
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Touching Into Presence — Substack
My ongoing essays are published primarily on Substack, where I explore questions arising through my work, reading, conversations, and everyday life.
Some pieces are personal reflections. Others engage more directly with philosophy, somatics, meditation, therapeutic practice, and the ways we come to understand our own experience.
You’re welcome to browse, read what interests you, and subscribe if you’d like to receive new writing.
Explore My SubstackEarlier Writing on Medium
I also have an archive of essays on Medium, including some pieces that haven’t made their way to Substack. You’re welcome to explore those as well.
Curiosity is often where the writing begins.
I hope something here offers a useful question, a different perspective, or another way of approaching something familiar.
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