Cultivating Capacity

I titled my blog "Cultivating Capacity" because when I was doing my own work in therapy (and I still regularly see my own counselor), it...

When most people think about counseling, "talk therapy" usually comes to mind. Addressing thoughts to make changes in behavior. Typically...

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is one of the core texts associated with yoga. Patanjali was the sage who somewhere between the times of 200 BCE and 200 CE, compiled the oral ancient teachings of yoga into a written form...The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. So many great teachings in this book! There are only a few verses concerned with asanas, the physical poses. The entire rest of the book is a map for awakening...mastering the mind and achieving moksha...liberation! One of the tea

Brainspotting (BSP) is a specialized, brain-body therapy designed to access and release trauma, emotional pain, and physical distress stored deep within the subcortical brain . It is based on the core principle that "where you look affects how you feel," meaning specific eye positions (known as "brainspots") directly correlate with emotional and physiological experiences in the brain. The 2 regions of the brain that are responsible for body-brain regulation are the agranular

I forget that when I first heard the term 'sound bath' I also had images of a bathtub or swimming pools come into my mind. A sound bath refers to the way sound surrounds the participant in a wholly immersive way. The crystal singing bowls, Himalayan metal singing bowls, chimes, gong, tuning forks, tingshas, etc. are played in such a way to create frequencies that are soothing to the nervous system. The goal is to create a deeply calming sensory environment that supports emoti