Announcing the April "Dance Away Your Pain" class series teaching the Dancing with Pain® method, at Anisa's School of Dance, in Sherman Oaks, CA! Visit the Dancing with Pain® schedule page for details.

In Overeaters Anonymous, they talk about “trigger foods” – foods that bring on that bottomless pit, must-have-now, at-all-costs, inhale-kitchen insanity. I thought I didn’t have a trigger food. Food was my trigger food – salmon, brown rice, salad, ice cream, apples, you name it, I could go to town. But then last week I decided to cut out all sugar, kick cheese out of my house, and all but totally stop eating ...

Yesterday I went to a day-long workshop with Adam, also known as DreamHealer. I spent some time talking with his dad after the program, discussing our mutual frustrations in raising awareness of energy healing. Certain assumptions, prejudices, and systems are getting in the way of sharing what is perhaps the most extraordinary scientific discovery ever – the power of the mind and spirit to heal the body.  As Adam’s dad shared with me, a number of scientists who have worked with DreamHealer have ...

I am meeting with the owner of a dance studio in Studio City, CA tomorrow evening, to discuss scheduling a Dancing with Pain class series. If you live in the greater Los Angeles area and would like to attend, let me know what days and times work for you, and I'll take it into consideration! You can reach me at loolwa@dancingwithpain.com

Harvard University. The Mayo Clinic. Oprah Winfrey. Mercedes Benz. The New York Times. These brand names inspire in us a sense of confidence and trust. We assume that anything going through their ranks must be high quality.  Must be effective and reliable. The idea is good: Create institutions with standards that spare us from individually pre-screening each and every single study, doctor, book, car, or news item. ...