Entries by Mary Bai

Aunt Tobi Loves You

Ann teaches students with Emotional Impairments. Many come from rough home lives. Her role is mom, aunt and hard ass, all rolled into a teacher who they know loves them for who they are. One student had recently reported her mom had relapsed with her addiction to drugs, and she lost her only aunt two […]

Pound Sand or Palpate Muscles

Imagine you are at the beach. Pound your heel into the wet sand. What happens? Nothing. The sand resists. Now, gently wiggle your heel into the sand, slowly, little by little, moving bits of sand side to side. A whole new world of life appears. The same is true in the body, Approach a muscle […]

Chronic Pain and Blocked Space

Chronic pain is real. If movement helps to reduce the intensity of your chronic pain, the underlying cause might be a muscular restriction blocking space in your body. Accidents, injuries, repetitive motion, and other external forces hitting the body can push muscles into unnatural spaces in the body. That obstruction can change natural movement for […]

Scar Tissue and Cement

Client: Describe your work to me. Me: I manipulate scar tissue along the lines of misplaced muscles that cause nerve pain and loss of function. Client: But I’ve heard it’s impossible to remove scar tissue without surgery. Me: Nope. Let me explain. A close friend has a PhD in cement. He wrote a paper on […]

Writing point of view

East Meets West: Healing with Science Much of eastern medicine can be described in scientific terms – if you accept that 5000 years of empirical evidence counts for something. Eastern ideas tend to be more wholistic and individualistic vs the western medicine idea of looking for evidence under a microscope. Eastern and Western ideas are […]