Joseph Heller, creator of Hellerwork Structural Integration passed from this life two weeks ago. His training in 1984 was 1500 hours of Bodywork, Dialogue and Movement education. The school was at Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma California. We were 22 students and 5 or 6 instructors including […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
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Tremendous wealth and tremendous poverty left me with gratitude. A lot of gratitude. We had a driver take us from Delhi(wealthy, modern, air polluted and traffic congested) to the Taj Mahal(crowds, history, craftsmanship, don’t make eye contact with the monkeys, they will steal your hats, glasses and bite you). […]
As Ray and I walk in the early morning in Bellflower the Sun is just beginning to become visible as our world rotates. We talk and create an atmosphere of aliveness in all it’s twists, turns and glory. We don our sunglasses and comment on the beautiful multi-colors from the […]
It’s 7:00 AM Ray and I are walking like two elder statesmen surveying their kingdom. Except now we are in suburban Bellflower California. He has his stand up walker where he can rest his elbows and maintain his kingly stature allowing no hint of the metastasized cancer that is effecting his […]
We all come into life as bubbling, giggling bundles of joy and possibility. Then life happens. That giggly bundle of joy is still us. Just covered over with regrets, disappointments, revenges, hurts and pains. Giggling bundles of joy. You, me and them.
“I think I’ll stop the war” Ray said, as he contemplated his diagnosis of Stage 4 lung cancer that had metastasized to his liver and brain. “I’m making friends with the cancer to see what I can learn from this whole experience.” Ray spoke this as we walked through his […]