The Blog
This is where Buffy Owens muses on the threads of curiosity woven throughout her life. She tugs at the threads of body wisdom, follows the rhythms and seasons of being human, and gathers the dreams that keep calling us toward the human we’re becoming in the second half of life.
The Lives That Came Before
On a walk through Oakwood Cemetery, I looked up to find the moon hanging in a brilliant blue October sky. Surrounded by autumn trees and the lives of people who came before me, I felt a wave of awe and gratitude. I began thinking about all the people whose lives made mine possible. Even those I’ll never meet.
Who would be on your list?
The Fertile Darkness
There was a movement I just couldn’t do during my Feldenkrais training. Two weeks later, it suddenly felt easy. I hadn’t ben practicing it. Something has been shifting in the background. That got me thinking about the fertile darkness, the seasons and times in life when change is growing below our threshold of awareness.
What seeds of possibility are growing within you?
The Tuning Fork Effect
Strike on tuning fork and the one beside it starts to hum. I’ve come to believe similar happens between people. The way you feel in your own body can change how others feel around you, often without anyone realizing it.
I started wondering: What if taking care of yourself has a much bigger impact than you’ve imagined?
Worth Wounds Silence Your Inner Knowing
Have you ever known exactly what you need, but ignore it?
I did that for nearly thirty years. I told myself I was too busy, that other things mattered more, that I’d get to it soon. Turning fifty shifted something within me. I began to understand how deeply our sense of worth can shape what we do.
Why We Heal in Relationship
Have you ever noticed that you feel different around certain people?
A person sits on a meditation cushion next to you and your whole practice shifts. Or how the presence of some people seem to help your system settle. I’ve experienced this in ways I couldn’t fully explain. So I started exploring the science of co-regulation. What I found helped me understand why our capacity to heal and evolve is so deeply connected to the people around us.
The Day I Realized the Body Is the Mind
I thought I understood the mind-body connection. I’d studied physiology, neuroscience, and psychology. Heck, I’d even spent a whole semester studying it in college. Then, halfway through my Feldenkrais training, during a meditation retreat, I experienced something I hadn’t expected.
Here’s what happened…
When Forgotten Dreams Start Coming True
I recently stumbled across a dream I'd completely forgotten, one that described something that had just come to life a year later. That moment got me wondering about the bigger dreams we let fade away, and the ones we don’t even allow ourselves image.
Who’s Your Saboteur?
Ever let thoughts of knowing know enough or not being ready stop you from taking action?
I’ve got those inner voices too. I them my Itty Bitty Shitty Committee. Let’s get to know them. And let’s explore how curiosity, a little humor, and a whole lotta love can help disrupt those familiar patterns of thinking.
Feldenkrais Is So Much More Than Movement
For years, I thought personal growth meant finding what was wrong with me and figuring out how to fix it. Then a few slow, attentive movements on the floor turned that idea upside down.
What if the way forward isn’t through fixing ourselves? Studying the Feldenkrais Method introduced me to a completely different understanding or what it means to learn, to heal, and to age.