Paul Chek's Blog

Peace — a freedom from disturbance and feeling of quiet and tranquility — is a very elusive place for so many people to inhabit, including me. Based on my observations and experiences with thousands of people and dealing with my […]

You may find this week’s vlog on food is a familiar one to some of you, but some of the things I’m talking about here (and my upcoming Earth Wire series) can never be restated enough. The most important thing […]

This week’s vlog is a topic some of you have probably heard me discuss on recent podcasts. And if you haven’t, then I recommend you check out my recent one with Alison Pelot and Maja Gottlieb, two very skilled Holistic […]

This week, I’d like to talk about something I’ve touched on, maybe once or twice in the past few years on my blog. It’s a concept I learned from Jerry Telle, an exercise scientist I worked with years ago. In […]

CHEK Faculty Member Matt Wallden and I recently published a paper — The ghost in the machine: Is musculoskeletal medicine lacking soul? — in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. This is a very important article, especially in the […]

Last week, in part one of this short series on gym time, I talked about how much time you should ideally be spending in the gym, in order to best handle the stress of exercise, and also discusses the yin […]