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A Much Bigger Picture Did you ever try something and not really like it, only to try it again years later and realize it was the best thing ever? Nothing about the thing itself changed — but somehow the way you experienced it was very different. I remember…

What Is a Strong Body? We each have a different idea of what a strong body is and how we get there. For some of us, it feels so far out of reach that we don’t even try. For others, strength means working out very hard — even…

Your Body Dialogue The “Body Dialogue” is something I wrote about in the Miracle Ball Method book. It’s the back-and-forth communication between mind and body. That description sounds simple, but the reality is both deep and complex. This communication happens in milliseconds. It’s open to interpretation, and it…

The directions we use for exercise have been consistent for decades. The number of exercise types has greatly increased, but the way we describe our body remains limited. We usually refer to one part, describe what to do with that part, and then move on to the next.…

Your body is your medium. When you do the Miracle Ball Method, you’re working with your medium. Making that distinction is key to moving freely and avoiding much of the chronic aches and anxieties so many of us live with. Most of us think it’s the “exercise” that…

It has been a passion of mine for many years to bridge the gap between the amazing experiences I get on the ball off the ball, and to develop a class that helps others do the same. I’ve been working toward this for decades and feel like I…

Many of us don’t even think of our body as who we are. We treat it like a mechanical device. We get “service people” to work on it, replace parts, or look for outside solutions to fix our problems. That’s faking it. Feeling the human body—truly tuning into…