The Cooperative Shift

As a competitive athlete for twenty years, my sole focus was working to be better than other people. Then my body broke down and my mind and identity soon followed. Lost in the abyss of post-competitve depression and unable to find the help I needed, I set out to fix myself, both physically and mentally. The start was a mindshift to cooperation, and a mission to share what I once would have greedily hoarded for myself. This site is a living document to what I’ve figured out, with hopes that it makes for a little less hurt in the world.

– Christine Ruffolo

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Feeling for the Sake of Feeling

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Every breakthrough I have ever made in teaching has come from a life-shifting chapter in my own experience.  To be honest, these chapters might be better described as ‘ordeals’ — something long and hard and painful.  Joy never quite registers… Read more ›

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Reversing Excessive Torsion

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It has been established that there are two halves of the body, and each organizes relative to where the perceived center is — either shifted right or left of actual.  (There is also a front to back component, but that’s… Read more ›

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