The Blog
This is where Buffy Owens muses on the threads of curiosity woven throughout her life. She tugs at the threads of body wisdom, follows the rhythms and seasons of being human, and gathers the dreams that keep calling us toward the human we’re becoming in the second half of life.
Walking Awareness Benefits
You probably already know that walking is a great way to reduce pain, lose weight, and improve or maintain your overall health. But those are just a few of the many benefits that walking offers. I'm not going to go into all of the benefits here. But I'd like to encourage you to read through the two key points below and see if you can notice how the lessons and daily walks affect your personal experience.
Creamy Dreamy Tart Cherry Drink
This dreamy recipe will tantalize your tastebuds and nourish your dream-state.
Tart cherry juice is one of the powerhouse ingredients that live up to the ‘food as medicine’ hype. Research has shown that it can help to improve sleep, reduce muscle soreness & inflammation, and may even reduce belly fat. That’s a lot of goodness packed into these little antioxidant nuggets of juicy joy.
9 TED Talks On Neuroscience That Will Inform, Inspire & Move You
This post on my favorite neuroscience-focused TED talks is consistently one of my most popular posts. It’s an oldie but a goodie. I still love the diversity of these talks and the insights they can offer for living an embodied and well life.
Working With Self-Judgment In Embodied Movement
This audio is part of the Conscious Movements Co-evolution private podcast within The Embodied Well membership. I'm sharing it here because I've seen too many people bypass moments that could nurture deep healing and profound growth.
I can't speak for all Feldenkrais practitioners, but I'm not attached to someone reaching some arbitrary endpoint in a lesson. I'm far more interested in people befriending all of who they are so that they can understand the language of their bodies and expand their capacity to hold space, lead, and thrive.
Foot & Pelvic Floor Connections
I created this short post as part of my Awaken Your Pelvic Floor Program and Pelvis & Sacred Sacrum Program. Although it’s a quick look at some of the anatomical relationships between the pelvic floor and foot, I encourage you to use it as inspiration to explore those connections. Remembering the anatomy isn’t essential. But sensing the relationships and expanding your capacity to embody your anatomy will change everything!
Morning Walks With Awareness
One of my favorite things is taking an early morning walk. I love the quiet stillness, and the way nature sings as the sun rises. I love how the clean, fresh morning air breathes a sense of life into my every movement. And I am inspired to play with my own movement experience.
Falling and Failing
In that falling and failing, I was reminded of some of the wonderful ways that we explore in the Feldenkrais Method.
The power in learning to fall well. To fall well means learning to fall without harming ourselves, so, developing the skills for falling well so that we no longer fear falling.
And failing. Oh, the magic in failing and making mistakes. From a biological standpoint, mistakes are golden — especially when it comes to movement.
A Lifestyle Approach To Chronic Inflammation
A healthy lifestyle can help curb chronic inflammation and be a crucial part of managing chronic pain. But I don’t want you to treat “inflammation” as a four-letter word —it exists to help us. It’s a crucial part of the body’s natural healing system. Unfortunately…
Benefits Of Slow Eating
For me. taking intentional time to slow down and enjoy my meals is one of the ways that I savor my day. But sometimes, we also have to eat fast without hurrying.
Oddly enough, that is often the case on Zen retreats. I remember my first Zen retreat. I assumed that we'd be eating slow and mindfully. So I did. By the time I expanded my awareness enough to notice everyone else in the room, I was stunned (and a little embarrassed) that I was the last one done eating.