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Manage Pain While Healing (Proximal/Distal principle)

March 14, 2023
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I have a student right now who's working to get past a really NASTY case of tennis elbow that has completely put her out of business for months on end. Physica ...

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“Get Loose at Lunch” Discontinued: will be Private Lessons

March 14, 2023
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An odd thing has happened recently post-Covid(tm), and that is that interest in group (Awareness Through Movement) classes has gotten really odd. I am still te ...

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Quick Changes Coming to Irving Feldenkrais

February 9, 2023
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Our rates are going to have to go up. I am deadly serious about making the Feldenkrais Method accessible to everyone, not just the well-heeled, and because of ...

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Booking A First Lesson

August 12, 2022
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Hi folks! Some important things for people booking their first lesson.1. "Fit" matters. The first lesson is half consultation, and half "getting to know you" t ...

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Sistine Chapel and its Live Models

March 16, 2022
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It was a pleasure this morning to see the Sistine Chapel exhibit in Irving Mall, and also to notice some true-to-life details not really visible at a distance. ...

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Form Grants (pain-free!) Function

March 9, 2022
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Just spent a good chunk of the morning with a professional artist, and I have to say, I want to (kindly, gently, figuratively) punch "well known local art-educ ...

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Building Blocks

March 4, 2022
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Helped a gent improve his judo roll/somersault this morning by helping him feel how on one side he's able to flex forwards while rotating his shoulders, and on ...

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Moving forwards, post-Covid

February 22, 2022
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So Covid-19 did a wrecking-ball job on a lot of local studios. We've lost four different locations over the past year. Currently I'm working from a home studio ...

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Awareness Through Movement starts February in Irving!

January 26, 2021
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Thanks to a partnership with Elite Dance Company of Texas, I am proud to announce that we once again have live, in-person Awareness Through Movement classes in ...

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In Person Awareness Through Movement coming Soon!

January 12, 2021
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Covid19 has upended so MANY things, and Irving Feldenkrais is no stranger to that. Most Awareness through Movement instructors have shifted to purely online c ...

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Regaining Capacity

June 7, 2020
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So on a personal note, I did a headstand this Friday, for the first time in a decade.  It was easy and effortless, and I could have stayed up in the ...

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How to get past trauma

May 15, 2020
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(without having to re-live it!) There was a nice little article in Psychology Today last week titled "Why you can't think your way out of trauma." It's a p ...

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The Fundamental Insight

April 17, 2020
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I have a client who, when hearing that I'm offering classes to people, will regularly chime in on Facebook to say some version of "his hoodoo works."  He calls ...

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Learning to See Another Way

March 18, 2020
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Moshe Feldenkrais once said that he wasn't after flexible bodies, but flexible minds. I had a recent experience of that you might enjoy hearing about that has ...

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Flexibility: It’s more than your hamstrings

February 11, 2020
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Photo by Tamba Budiarsana from Pexels Let's talk about flexibility again in a deeper way.  Particularly for people who find themselves ...

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POISE at RBR Muzik

February 11, 2020
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Photo by Ivandrei Pretorius from Pexels 6 Fridays, 6-7 pm, March 13 through April 17 - $100 Poise: Balance. Grace under Pressure.Get it, ...

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Stance and Stool

February 11, 2020
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A three-credit CEU course for Massage Therapists (for only $100!)Monday, March 9, 2020 at 12 PM – 3 PM Held at: Warlord Combat Academy, 1915 Peters Rd., Ste. 1 ...

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How the Feldenkrais Method helps with injury-prevention in athletes and “movers.”

January 19, 2020
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(Or, why "fast twitch and slow twitch" might not mean what you think they do.) I work with a lot of people who have strain injuries of one sort or another. ...

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Stretching and Yoga: Stretching doesn’t work?

January 10, 2020
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Stumbled onto a great little article about stretching and yoga, entitled "Stretching doesn't work (the way you think it does)." One of the "money quotes" I'd ...

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Remote Sensing is Real

January 7, 2020
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No, not the CIA thing where people imagined themselves drawing pictures of enemy infrastructure. It would be a very different world if we could imagine what o ...

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Getting Out Of Our Own Way

November 17, 2019
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As I get into middle age, I find that I'm not afraid of the usual stuff. Death? Been (almost) there, (almost) done that. Everybody's story has a beginning, a ...

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The Cash Register vs The Word Processor

October 11, 2019
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"When you know what you're doing, you can do what you want."-Moshe Feldenkrais I'm sitting on my bench at my table this morning, writing a blog post. I've n ...

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Are you on LOCKDOWN?

February 6, 2019
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Got stiff legs that feel like they're in prison, no matter how much you stretch? A dramatic re-enactment of what my legs felt like -- and what they did to my ...

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Effortless (ly Powerful)

February 6, 2019
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We don't always want to be relaxed. In fact, MOST of the time, we don't want to be relaxed. Because "relaxed" doesn't get things done. What we usually mean whe ...

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Making U-Turns

February 6, 2019
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When you're stiff, sometimes stretching is the solution.  But it's not always the solution. In many cases, stiffness is a case of "muscle's busy doing one ...

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