wellness | Sheila Collins

The Anatomy of a Massage

by Sheila Collins | Dec 5, 2013 | Health and Wellness, Meditations, Personal Stories, Story-telling

They say you never forget your first, and that’s held true for me. I can still remember in much detail my first massage. Part of its memorable nature involved the striking beauty of the place where it occurred, a hot springs along the shores of the Pacific Ocean in...

Dancing on the Fringe

by Sheila Collins | Sep 4, 2013 | Art & Life, Dances, Gatherings, Improvisation, Personal Stories, Story-telling

The streets of Edinburgh Scotland were filled, as they are every August, with performing artists and the tourists and locals who had come to see them. Rich and I, along with 22 other InterPlayers from around the world were among them. Pushing our way through the...

My Excitement’s Dancing Me

by Sheila Collins | Aug 8, 2013 | Dances, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories

It’s twenty-one days till my book Warrior Mother’s official launch, but there’s plenty to get excited about in the meantime. And excited I am. I can tell because my insides feel like I’ve left my motor running and my body is going faster than my brain. I keep...

The Dance of Flexibility

by Sheila Collins | Apr 27, 2013 | Health and Wellness, Story-telling

Until a month ago, if you’d asked me if I consider myself a flexible person I would have said yes. In face, on some occasions I may have been too flexible, putting up with things longer than I probably should have. But there’s nothing like a construction project in...

Does Dancing Make You Smarter?

by Sheila Collins | Apr 15, 2013 | Art & Life, Dances, Health, Health and Wellness

My friend Jim was a good son. A professor of religion at the university where we both worked, he was in his early 60’s. His mother Margaret was a widow in her early 80’s who loved to dance so Jim took her ballroom dancing twice a month. Jim’s wife was a nurse who...