T’ai Chi and MS
I gave a class last week at the Staten Island MS Society. For those of you unfamiliar with Multiple Sclerosis, it is a particularly insidious disease that destroys the myelin sheathing around nerve...
View ArticleNew! Finding You in a World of It by Rick Barrett
This is really exciting, people! You know that book I’ve been working on for a couple of years now? Well…it’s is out and available on Amazon! I’ll get my first load of the little darlings by next...
View Article“Finding You” Book Tour Kicks off in Killingworth
Connecticut, that is. Renee Rhodes, sculptor and clinical psychologist, is the living embodiment of Finding You in a World of it. She meets EVERYONE! What an absolute joy! Check out her amazing...
View ArticleUnhitched and Untethered
I watched a lot of westerns when I was a kid. Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, Wild Bill Hickok, Have Gun Will Travel...the list goes on. It was a staple of our meager television diet when there were only...
View ArticleAlways Look on the Bright Side of Life
I have been accused by some friends as being annoyingly positive. They will be complaining about how the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and I’ll ask, “So what was the better time and place to...
View ArticleThe Roots of Pointing
A question I often get when showing people how to enhance energetic coherence by pointing is, “Why is it the index finger?” The short answer is, “Because it works.” I’ve tested using other fingers with...
View ArticleTaijiquan Immersion at Kripalu, December 9-11
I’m very excited about a weekend course I’ll be giving next month at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Fitness in Lenox, MA next month. It’s called Taijiquan Immersion and it’s for anyone who would like to...
View ArticleTaijiquan at Kripalu
Many thanks to the wonderful Kripalu folks for sponsoring last weekend’s “Taijiqan Immersion.” It was an intensive introduction to both taijiquan and to my particular teaching methods and language, and...
View ArticleExporting Coherence in the New Year
Many of our New Year’s resolutions are quickly left by the wayside for one reason: lack of immediate gratification. We just don’t see results soon enough to encourage our participation for very long....
View ArticleInstant Meditation? What Does That Even Mean?
I’ve gotten some pushback lately about my use of the term “Instant Meditation.” It was felt that calling it “instant” trivializes the long hours that experienced meditators spend in their own...
View ArticleCoherence and the Human Microbiome
“Human microbiome”? This was a term that was not really on my radar until very recently. Sure, I had encountered in the past and had some vague ideas about its relationship to health, but it was pretty...
View ArticleSociety for Consciousness Studies Conference 2017
I will be appearing at The Society for Consciousness Studies Conference 4pm on June 3 at The Graduate Institute in New Haven. Here is Part One of my address at the Conference in 2015. And here is...
View ArticleTaijiquan Immersion with Rick at Eastover, July 21-23
Eastover Estate and Retreat is a stunningly beautiful holistic retreat center and 600 acre natural sanctuary, located in the heart of the Berkshire mountains. Eastover is the vision of founder Yingxing...
View ArticleThe Force…Now Appearing in a Galaxy Near You
Check out the current edition of Connecticut’s prestigious INK magazine (“a guide to finer living in Connecticut and abroad”) for an article I wrote: “The Force…Now Appearing in a Galaxy Near You.” The...
View ArticleSetting the Knee (Part One)
I have long advised taijiquan practitioners to consciously “Set the Knee” before loading the substantial leg. Meaning, you make sure that your structure is in place before you put weight on it. The...
View ArticleSetting the Knee (Part Two)
“Correct Knee Position” is not a topic that exactly quickens the pulse. For most of us it sounds like a real snoozer. We don’t really care. That is, until there is PAIN. For the first fifty years of my...
View ArticleMeditation in Action-Part Two
Let’s pick up from where we left off in Meditation in Action-Part One. If we can agree that meditation is any practice designed to bring the mind temporarily into non-conceptual awareness, the gap...
View Article24th Annual Tai Chi Alchemy in Sedona, September 21-23
It’s August and I’m really getting pumped for next month’s 24th Annual Tai Chi Alchemy in Sedona. It’s such a wonderful opportunity to spend some concentrated time with the most delightful people...
View ArticleZhong Ding- Central Equilibrium (It’s not just about balance.)
If you have read my recent posts (Setting the Knee, Parts 1-4) and Meditation in Action (Parts 1-3), you will already know how crucial the principle of central equilibrium is to my practice and my...
View ArticleAnxiety and Non-coherence: What Me Worry?
Anxiety can be crippling. And persistent. Here’s how Wikipedia describes it: Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as...
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