The class here in Guangzhou is made up of 21 Chinese women from all walks of life. Each day I look out from the front of the class on this group of demure, polite, intelligent women – all of them beautiful, each in their own unique way.

Most of them younger than me.
Most of them making a career change to engage in CranioSacral therapy.
Most of them carrying heavy cultural trauma about being a woman in a deeply patriarchal system. In recent Chinese history a woman’s worth has been consistently...