Collin Yeo

Arthur Janov’s primal therapy method of sounding out repressed trauma through raw emotional output is one of those ideas that gathered most of its steam through championing by famous musicians. And like a lot of those fads, it sounds like a bunch of hogwash to me with perhaps a pearl (amongst the swine) of wisdom. […]

The binge and purge method of partying and spiritual redemption was a favorite method of maintaining a healthy chi in my more elastic 20s. Blame it on living in New Orleans but I actually think indulgence followed by abstention can benefit the body electric. Phatsy Kline’s Parlor Lounge has its own (albeit weekly and decidedly […]

Ataraxia, that tranquil state of lucid calm and health so highly valued by the Stoics and other ancient Greek thinkers, seems like one of those ideas that is difficult to articulate but universally obvious when in practice. The often misunderstood philosopher Epicurus seemed to believe that a very clear route to the nirvana-junior state of […]

Moving from Medieval European madness — Saint Vitus dance, anyone? — to a thread that stretches both backward and forward, dance has been an ecstatic ritual from pre-historical times to the post-truth period in which we unfortunately now live (you know what you’ve done, Right Wing Media). Uniting the sacred and the profane, the soul […]

Medieval European wellness habits were fairly terrible and might seem, to modern readers, antithetical to the promotion of actual health and well-being. From bloodletting and trepanning to medicines taken from the animal kingdom — dung compresses for festering wounds and boar bile enemas for general upkeep (shout out to Dr. Kellogg) — the ancient Greek-obsessed […]

Your heart beats roughly 40,000,000 times in one year. More if you are stressed out, have emotional malfunctions or health issues, or drug problems. It beats fewer times if you exercise regularly and keep in peak athletic shape, and much less if you are dead. So every anniversary isn’t just another year of time notched […]

Here’s a health tip: Avoid corporate compost and favor the homegrown, backyard variety. It’s easy to quality control the ingredients when they come out of your own kitchen and the process can even be fun. In fact, it might save your life. According to a 2015 study at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow, more than […]

Berkeley’s Mike Silverman is an enigmatic fellow. A man who invented a bizarre instrument called the Magic Pipe and then mastered it. And then he learned how to make a living playing fantastic music with it. Imagine that sort of thing happening in any other magisteria in the creative world. He’s a unique guy — […]

Phatsy Kline’s Parlor Lounge presents local singer and songwriter Chris Parreira at 7 p.m. Noted for his guitar playing, which is very Americana while exhibiting a jazzy and classical polish that belies his many years of scholastic musical study, Chris is a cut above most pickers and singers and is a bit of a local […]