Emergence Healing and Expressive Arts Center

06/27/2023

Just a friendly reminder that this Friday, June 30th we will be hosting for a dance concert in T or C. is a dynamic live electronic duo featuring Emily on vocals and keyboard, Zach on saxophone and vocals while they both DJ. The evening will begin with a sound healing by "Fluture Joy" and then a high energy dance concert. There will be a limited number of seats available, but most of the room will be cleared for dancing on our cushiony, bamboo sprung floor. Doors open: 6:30pm Show runs: 7-9pm Tickets available at the door or, to lock in your spot, Venmo or $FutureJoy on Cashapp.
Tickets also available at https://www.futurejoymusic.com/merch/futurejoyemergencenm

06/11/2021

CST post 4

Continuing from CST post 2, imagine your 3-dimensional connective tissue matrix and its core endpoint as a pollywog-shaped membrane surrounding your brain and spinal cord. Upon closer examination, we see the pollywog membrane is actually three layers: a tough mother outer layer, a weblike middle layer and a gentle mother inner layer. Your gentle mother (pia mater) is lovely, transparent, glistening and magically infused with cerebrospinal fluid that passes through it, into and out of the brain and spinal cord. One particularly elegant feature of the phantasmagorical House we live in.

05/19/2021

Dolphin Story Post 4 —
Enchanted by the depth in a dolphin’s eye

We are 100% opposed to dolphin captivity. It is our intention to help eradicate both capture and killing of wild cetaceans. The captive dolphins shown in this post were unable to return to the wild. For six years I traveled back and forth to the Caribbean to visit them and keep them company, until their passing in 2013. We share this story in hopes of bringing awareness and appreciation of dolphins’ magnificent depth of feeling, intelligence and soul. We also point to a sanctuary model for respectful, compassionate care of existing captive dolphins unable to return to the wild.

05/19/2021

05/13/2021

CST post 3
The gentle mother at our core

Continuing from CST post 2, imagine your 3-dimensional connective tissue matrix and its core endpoint as a pollywog-shaped membrane surrounding your brain and spinal cord. Upon closer examination, we see the pollywog membrane is actually three layers: a tough mother outer layer, a weblike middle layer and a gentle mother inner layer. Your gentle mother (pia mater) is lovely, transparent, glistening and magically infused with cerebrospinal fluid that passes through it, into and out of the brain and spinal cord. One particularly elegant feature of the phantasmagorical House we live in.

05/08/2021

Taking a break from my Metallic Hocus Pocus class with at

05/04/2021

“All creative success requires creative failure.”
Julia Cameron

04/28/2021

Dolphin Story Post 3 — Our underwater connection

We are 100% opposed to dolphin captivity. It is our intention to help eradicate both capture and killing of wild cetaceans. The captive dolphins shown in this post were unable to return to the wild. For six years I traveled back and forth to the Caribbean to visit them and keep them company, until their passing in 2013. We share this story in hopes of bringing awareness and appreciation of dolphins’ magnificent depth of feeling, intelligence and soul. We also point to a sanctuary model for respectful, compassionate care of existing captive dolphins unable to return to the wild.

04/25/2021

CST post 2
Our Home: the connective tissue matrix we live in.

Imagine your body, inside your skin, as a complex matrix, a mold or meshwork of connective tissue that includes your bones, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, internal organs and structures down to the cellular level. Imagine this whole-body meshwork to be one entirely interconnected entity. Wiggle a toe and the movement will ripple up into the head. Tighten the gut and it will pull the neck forward and compress the jaw .

This matrix we live in contains relatively hard things like femurs or vertebrae, and super soft things like pleura or the outer lining of the eyeball. Its crazily complex! One might say, miraculously so. And this is the marvelous, interconnected inner world we all inhabit.

Now, imagine this 3D mold-meshwork existing as your entire form, from the skin all the way to your core — to your brain and spinal cord. Here, at the central nervous system, the matrix ends, as it becomes a pollywog-shaped membrane surrounding your brain and spinal cord (see CST post 1).

Or so we thought …
Research has revealed that the matrix continues into the brain and spinal cord by way of Glial cells — Astrocytes to be specific. Their story shall be continued …

04/19/2021

Dolphin Story 2 — Basis of our interactions

We are 100% opposed to dolphin captivity. It is our mission to help eradicate both capture and killing of wild cetaceans. The captive dolphins shown in this post were unable to return to the wild. For six years I traveled back and forth to the Caribbean to visit them and keep them company, until their passing in 2013. We share this story in hopes of bringing awareness and appreciation of dolphins’ magnificent depth of feeling, intelligence and soul.

04/17/2021

Craniosacral System:
The environment of our central nervous system

Imagine your brain and spinal cord as one unit surrounded by a pollywog-shaped membrane. Imagine the brain portion of this membrane surrounded by all the bones of your cranium, and the spinal cord portion surrounded by each of your vertebrae, as it travels through your spinal canal and connects to your sacrum. Consider this a functional unit from cranium to sacrum.

Then add to it cerebrospinal fluid, encased within the membrane, and an intricate system by which the cerebrospinal fluid travels into and out of the brain and spinal cord, cleansing and nourishing our body”s major control center. This is the craniosacral system.