I have a fresh newsletter up today. Lead photo is from last March, taken in Oakland during a fit of sunshowers we were having there for a few weeks. Shot on Kodak Tri-X film with a Pentax 6x7 medium format camera.
Pasting a few excerpts in the replies.
https://wilsonshook.com/newsletter/2025/4/8/spring-offerings
#ManualTherapy #BodyWork #Pasadena #BelieveInFilm
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Folks, I could use a little boost if you don't mind. I recently relocated back to #Pasadena after a couple years in the Bay Area, and am working on getting my #ManualTherapy and #Bodywork practice back into a sustainable rhythm. Learn more, ask questions, and please share! Thank you!
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I am a manual therapist specializing in Visceral Manipulation, Craniosacral Therapy, and integrative therapeutic massage. I use gentle, targeted, osteopathic techniques to relieve restriction within and around the internal organs, brain, nervous system, and vasculature, restoring healthy movement and function. By assisting the body in working through its internalized responses to physical and emotional trauma, I prioritize the often neglected root causes of chronic injury, illness, structural imbalance, and dysfunction. Sessions incorporate a balance of visceral, cranial, and musculoskeletal work, with the goal of restoring your body’s ability to adapt and heal on its own.
Winter Garden Healing Arts
#Brazing equipment from a 1950s book "#Automobile #Workshop practice" - a #hearth fuelled by #towngas (full with CO) - North Sea
#gas hadn't been discovered yet!, a paraffin (kerosene) torch and #asbestos blocks used to prop up the workpieces. Further on in the book there is a whole section on repairing #bodywork with #lead rather than filler (bondo)
Hello, internet! A bit about me:
I play saxophones, making music under my own name and in collaboration with other improvisers. I publish work sporadically via Other Ghosts, a small personal label.
I work in private practice as a manual therapist, specializing in Visceral Manipulation. I am interested in connecting with other radically-oriented healthcare practitioners (alternative or otherwise).
I publish a seasonal newsletter via my manual therapy practice, which is usually about 30% professional, 10% political, and 60% literary commentary. People seem to like it.
Sometimes I make time for street photography (35mm & 6x7) and poetry.
I have contributed to various collective/communal/anti-authoritarian projects over the years, all of which could be considered broadly as oriented toward the flourishing of resilient, autonomous, creative, radical communities.
I live in Oakland, California, with significant bits of my life spent in Los Angeles, Seattle, and the Chicago area.
I tend to post about politics and art. I never had Twitter, so I'm still learning how to engage on here.
Links for all of the above are in my profile.
#Improvisation, #ImprovisedMusic, #ExperimentalMusic, #AvantGarde, #Modernism, #FilmPhotography, #Poetry, #ManualTherapy, #Bodywork, etc.
On the occasion of changing instances, it’s time for an #introduction .
Spent over a decade trying to make my way in graphic design and #illustration but since i suck at selling stuff, including my work, i eventually studied some #philosophy and changed professions.
So now i’m a #physiotherapist educated in Poland, living and working in an azerty country since 2021.
Working with the body since forever, trying not to fall into the spiritual pit while exploring.
