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3: Body, I Love You

October 31st, 2009 · 3 Comments

Nia student Isabelle Alzado wrote me a few days ago and made this request: “I love you and ask you to take your turn to listen to your body – the way Nia  shows us – the way you show us [to say], ‘Body . . .’” So at Isabelle’s request, every night, as I […]

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Tags: Dancing Through Life · Essays on Self-Healing · Lungs · Ongoing Nia Classes

2: Grief and the Lungs of The World

October 30th, 2009 · 9 Comments

It’s weird to be back on all the asthma meds again — high levels of prednisone and doing the nebulizer four times a day — after all these years baruch hashem of feeling so healthy.  But I bless all these drugs which allow me to live.  There are big differences now, compared to when I […]

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Tags: Dancing Through Life · Essays on Self-Healing · Lungs · Poem of the Week

1: Breathe, Pray, Love

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

(First in a series about healing pneumonia and asthma.) Last night, my friends Sharon and Ronen came over to visit.  They brought chicken soup.  Ronen read this poem.           Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles […]

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Tags: Dancing Through Life · Essays on Self-Healing · Etymology · Lungs · Poem of the Week