Author Archives: mcallister
Tachiba and Relationships
Even though I don’t have much occasion to the use the Japanese I learned when living in Japan, certain words will cycle up in my thoughts because they are particularly appropriate to express something I’m experiencing. Tachiba means literally a … Continue reading
Love and Fear
I once spent a summer hanging out at a friend’s house where they had a nice pool. I used to like to sit under the water, where it was quite and still. Sometimes I would hold my breath waiting for … Continue reading
Initiations
by Alan McAllister, CCHt PhD-phys Many years ago I was living in the Bay Area. There was a yoga teacher who had been cropping up in my life for a while. Friends had talked about him. I had read his … Continue reading
Spirit as Tour Guide
by Alan McAllister, CCHt PhD-phys When I was still in college I started doing massage on my friends. I hadn’t studied anything so it was purely intuitive, but it seemed to work fairly well. I would use my fingers to … Continue reading