Radiance Blog
Caring for Our Legs
Dear Community, I can remember the days of being a dance teacher, performer, and choreographer. Long, grueling hours of rehearsals and performances. The years of repetitive movement definitely took a toll on my legs and for many of those years I wasn’t taking the best...
Creating Sacred Space for Self-Care
I can remember the first intentionally designated meditation space I created. It was in 2002, after returning home from my first ten-day meditation retreat. Having a sacred space devoted to self-reflection helped me to meditate consistently. Since then, this space has...
Self-Myofascial Release: Pectoralis
Beloved Friends, I hope life is delivering all the resources you need to meet the joys and challenges of each day. If this is not so, I hope this self-myofascial release practice provides you some relief, a moment of tender loving self-care. This practice will address...
Self-Myofascial Release for Upslip
Beloved Friends, I am buzzing with excitement after a long weekend spent with other eager Myofascial Release practitioners — learning new techniques for the pelvis and low back… During the seminar, our instructor reminded us of a very simple exercise you can do at...
Upper Trapezius: Part 2
Dear Friends, I am excited to share more resources for you!! It is being delivered at the request of one of my clients, thank you Laura for asking! It is a part 2 to my last upper trapezius release blog – posted back in February. This technique will target a different...
Self-Myofascial Release: Psoas
Beloved Friends, I missed writing a blog last month and therefore am especially eager to share this one! The self-myofascial release practice for the psoas major muscle is one of my FAVORITE self practices; and it is probably one of the more important muscles to...
Self-Myofascial Release
THE UPPER TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE: Dear Friends! I hope life is delivering all the resources you need to feel safe and at home in your body today! If not, no need to worry because… I have a resource for you right hear — sent from my heart to yours! Self-myofascial release...
Surf Medicine
BEING MY OWN BEST THERAPIST: About six years ago I was inspired to take a surf lesson while living in western Massachusetts (where I was born and raised)… so I planned a weekend in cape cod that summer, signed up for a surf lesson, and since – have never looked back....
Tensegrity
In John F Barnes’ (internationally recognized physical therapist, lecturer, author, and a leading authority on Myofascial Release) book Myofascial Release: The Search for Excellence the concept of Tensegrity is introduced early on to help describe the fascial system....
Align vs Hustle
Why is it that so many of us feel that WE the individual self need to DO it all, to MAKE THINGS HAPPEN? To push forward with force, to manipulate, to MAKE IT SO? Often times I do this kind of pushing without realizing it, and certainly there have been times in my life...
Ragged to Radiant
How My Mess Became a Message: I grew up in an itty bitty town in western Massachusetts to an alcoholic, mostly absent, father and downright amazing, steadfast, rock solid, mother. By the time I was 13 years old, I had heard and witnessed enough violence and chaos to...