In this article published in the Guardian, Elle Hunt considers some of the causes and effects of chronic stress, and what steps we may be able to take to support ourselves. Read the full article here.

Deepak Chopra discusses 'brain sync', the shared consciousness we experience when two or more minds come into alignment. Read the full article on Medium here.

There’s growing evidence that signals sent from our internal organs to the brain play a major role in regulating emotions and fending off anxiety and depression. This article by David Robson, published by the Guardian, considers the relationship between interoception and wellbeing. Read more

What are the ramifications of the lack of human contact as a result of the pandemic? There may be a tsunami of need for touch, with an increase in cases of depression by as much as three-fold, or even seven-fold according to one study. This article by Douglas Nelson, published in Massage Magazine, explores how [...]

An article by Joe Moran, published in the Guardian, notes that we have become 'skin-hungry' through social distancing, and explores the crucial role touch plays in our wellbeing. You can read the full article here (first click Read More to activate the link).

When Jacques Lusseyran was eight, he was blinded in an accident. In Nazi-occupied France in 1941, aged 17, Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty two boys, using his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually he was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He [...]

“When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that Force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.” Martin Luther King, Jr.   INTRODUCTION [...]

The dream of this Journal is exciting. Touch has tutored me since childhood. The Journal will provide a creative platform for a conversation and investigation of touch: its experiential transformational, therapeutic and life-essential nature on the one hand and its scientific, objective, documented effect on the other. This journal holds the promise of allowing the [...]

Part of my passion in writing this is to let more people know of the possibilities of Zero Balancing as a personal growth and transformational tool. Zero Balancing is a type of body work, done with clothes on, founded by Dr. Fritz Smith, an osteopathic MD in California. ZB focuses on aligning the structural body [...]