by David Schlussel | Nov 18, 2017 | blog
It’s 4am. I just woke up from an intense dream, where I leaving an enormous shopping mall, and when I got back to my parking spot, I found the huge 1980’s station wagon that I had borrowed from a friend, swinging 7 feet in the air, suspended from some kind...
by David Schlussel | Oct 4, 2017 | blog, featured
Fall – The time of letting go – Releasing the leaves it’s been creating since Spring, trees let all that work go, and rest back into their essence. “But I worked hard on that,” said no tree ever. The leaves were there for a reason, two...
by David Schlussel | Sep 8, 2017 | blog
Trigger warning: this is all about triggers. It was one of the hardest things I’d tried to teach. To teach a class for a popular teacher is hard enough. The students don’t already know me, and people are rarely totally open to a teacher that is new to...
by David Schlussel | Aug 11, 2017 | blog
I attended a beautiful meditation gathering last Friday, and after we sat, they posed a question to the group about what ways pain had been transformative for us. I don’t think they knew that the previous weeks had been one of the most painful periods of my...
by David Schlussel | Jun 8, 2017 | blog
The lifeguards had already left, and I was ready to leave the beach, too. I was sitting in the last bit of sun, waiting for my wife and our bestie to finish packing their stuff in the shade that had engulfed our blanket, when we’d heard the commotion. “Do...
by David Schlussel | Jun 8, 2017 | blog
If you take a rubberband with a knot in it and pull on each end, what happens? It gets longer from end to end, but the knot in the middle gets tighter. The typical body is filled with tension. The act of forcing bodies into exaggerated shapes not only drives the...
