Being in a beautiful place does not mean I feel beautiful. Sometimes the saturated world seems to stop at my flat edges. I was depressed in Baxter State Park last summer. Depression, I have learned, usually implies I am blocking up an experience rather than letting it flow. Usually this…

Written by Shaina Cantino, edited by Adam Brady https://www.tendbodyworks.com/ As a bodywork practitioner, I enter as an advocate for any parts holding uncomfortable experiences that need to surface in order to get folded back into a present-time alignment. …

Written by Shaina Cantino, edited by Adam Brady. https://www.tendbodyworks.com For many of us, our first impulse when feeling a tension in our bodies is to try to push it away. Rejectionary messaging — ‘You need to go away’ — may be motivating our efforts to stretch or relax. Tension is…

No one in the house heard the crash, but the tree certainly fell. My car caught it. When everything started shutting down for Covid-19, I hastily bought a one way-ticket to be with my partner and I left my loyal Honda Civic parked at a friend’s house. Last week, when…

I was forced to take a long break from everything normal last spring. Before the two concussions that knocked me out for five months, I had never truly felt my brain as a muscle. As a bodyworker and dancer, I have studied the nervous system. I learned about it on…