Author Description

"It's hard to feel anxious when you feel relaxed and strong" The approach I describe in this book is the heart of my anxiety and stress management coaching approach. The book guides you through the process of settling; learning to stop holding what you don't need to hold with deep dives into lying, seated and standing positions for meditation, to help you feel more rooted and lighter; expansive. My advance readers - with or without a meditation background - unanimously said that even reading the book was relaxing, inviting a slow down to feel what is happening even as you are reading, you will routinely want to stop and try what I describe in the text. The book is useful for people from no meditation or bodywork background to people with decades of experience, I wrote it to meet you where you are right now and bring you towards more relaxation, gentle strength and awareness. The exercises in the book and how I guide you through them come from 20+ years of training, refined intensively from teaching and working with students and clients the last 10 years. They have helped with anxiety and panic attacks, reduction in chronic stress, and stiffness and aches; one of my students partners said even hearing the phrase "Bearpaw" gave a healing feeling. The soul of my shape is a unique exploration of meditation combining Chinese qigong and "mundane" poses like lying, kneeling and squatting. The book was shaped to guide you towards more relaxation and expansion - the relaxation of a cat as opposed to the collapse we have on the couch.