firststonehealth.com
First Stone Health
An organization focused on making exercise accessible, enjoyable, and effective for people with chronic illnesses.
Reconnect to the body and renew our health.
I’m the founder of First Stone Health, author of Intuitive Fitness, and host of the On Renewal Podcast.
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Thoughts
Now: Jan 2025
Family: Watching our almost one-year-old discover movement, reading and running around with our toddler, and building cozy winter fires.
Writing:
Dancing with Stress
One of the surprising things about becoming a parent is how much disagreement there is about, well, pretty much everything.
Discovering Joy Through Embodied Exercise
What words come to mind when you hear exercise? For many, it’s things like should, grind, and even hate
Now: April 2024:
Family: Savoring the early days with our newborn son. Playing outside with our 2-year-old daughter.
Writing: Publishing The Ripple and
Work Highlights
Inspiration
Men who believe in nothing change nothing for the better. They renew nothing and heal no one, least of all themselves. We are in little danger of failing through lack of material strength. If we falter, it will be a failure of heart and spirit.
Full engagement requires cultivating a dynamic balance between the expenditure of energy (stress) and the renewal of energy (recovery) in all dimensions. We call this rhythmic wave oscillation, and it represents the fundamental pulse of life.
The more living patterns there are in a place- a room, a building, or a town, the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.