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Hand Crafted
As far as theme weeks go, this one was a doozy, and it will certainly bear repeating on a regular basis, as it seems that intimacy is a core issue, perhaps the core issue as we’ll see a bit later, and it also seems to bring stuff up–out of the frying pan and into [...]

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How Time Magazine Got Healthy Wrong

by chas on June 16, 2009

Prevention Doesn’t Healthy Make!
The new Time Magazine is out. It’s the Health Issue and it purports to tell you How to Stay Out of the Hospital. According to Time,
It’s all about Prevention.
I think they got it bassackwards. There is no relationship between Prevention and Health, and while attempting to keep yourself out of the [...]

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Father’s Day Massage Special ‘09

by chas on June 8, 2009

Father’s Day Special from Bodyodyssey
Father, Dad, Papa, Pop, Daddy, Predecessor, Progenitor…Whatever you call them, Fathers are definitely something special. Whether they are serving as the resident Math Expert, assembling a Balance Bike, teaching the finer skills of Trout Fishing, or just taking you out for an Afternoon of Kites and Clouds, there is nothing like [...]

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tax week. i survived.
just barely, tho. it was also my busiest week in memory with lots of very physical hands on bodywork going on. and i had more epiphanies than i can shake a stick at. too bad about the ephemeral >poof< factor there! so that was the week that was. my body is sore. there’s [...]

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downtown
it’s 7:15 am and i’m sitting in the “lower level” of the starbucks outside arlington station, boston. funny thing that i live in boston technically, and spend almost no time here. maybe that’s because roslindale, my community, is off the subway, so it’s either pony up the big bucks and take the commuter rail, deal [...]

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pardon me if you live in the southern hemisphere
here in boston it is cold, snowy, icy, and dark. well, it’s not dark just now…and in 5 hours it will be. yesterday was winter solstice, and the sun is currently as far south as it will be for a whole ‘nother year. that makes for some [...]

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psst…
well i got a secret but can i keep it
i better cross my heart and hope to die
—stacey earle
not a happy secret, i’m sorry to say. and unlike the general theory of secrets (yours are mostly forgotten, never revealed; mine simply the latter), this one has a half life of a couple weeks at most. [...]

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Yoga according to David Williams

by chas on December 10, 2008

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
note: while the non-doc continues to ponder sleep, we’ve dug up this ancient document from his formative years.
If It Hurts, You Are Doing It Wrong
When he first began to teach yoga in the early 70’s, David Williams was told that the “the worst thing is to [...]

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the gift economy

by chas on December 9, 2008

the erotic life of property
how’s that for an attention grabber?
In his brilliant book The Gift: The Erotic Life of Property, Lewis Hyde points to two types of economies. In a commodity (or exchange) economy, status is accorded to those who have the most. In a gift economy, status is accorded to those who give the most to others.
in [...]

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announcement! gift certificates

by chas on December 8, 2008

see? up there at the top of the page?
it says gifts. push that button. i dare you!

Tags: massage, thai yoga bodywork, yoga

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