Social Fascia Keeps the Score By Anna Mercedes Fascia is “the band of thin, fibrous connective tissue that wraps around and supports every structure in your body” (Cleveland Clinic). My favorite kind of massage is myofascial massage. Releasing tension in the fascia can open up amazing mobility in my body. Read more
My Schedule is Full: Boundaries on the Bountiful By Anna Mercedes I first thought my life was entirely too full to write this blog! Then I decided on second thought to write about that initial instinct—because it is significant. It reflects a new spiritual strategy that I’m practicing for social Read more
Poetry for a Polarized People By Anna Mercedes My biggest fears of late have not been of the obvious things. Those are also fears: the earthquakes and the hurricanes and the floods. The upheaval in Afghanistan.The Delta variant. Yet my biggest fear has been of a different instability, one that Read more
Storytelling for Social and Planetary Change – A Pachaysana / Counterpoint Webinar This series of workshops was co-sponsored by The Pachaysana Institute, Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge, The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at Florida International University, the Religious Studies Department at Florida International University, as well as the Department of English at Read more