Manage Pain While Healing (Proximal/Distal principle)
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 ...
“Get Loose at Lunch” Discontinued: will be Private Lessons
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 ...
Quick Changes Coming to Irving Feldenkrais
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 ...
Booking A First Lesson
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 ...
Sistine Chapel and its Live Models
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. ...
Form Grants (pain-free!) Function
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 ...
Building Blocks
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 ...
Moving forwards, post-Covid
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 ...
Awareness Through Movement starts February in Irving!
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 ...
In Person Awareness Through Movement coming Soon!
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 ...
Regaining Capacity
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 ...
How to get past trauma
(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 ...
The Fundamental Insight
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 ...
Learning to See Another Way
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 ...
Flexibility: It’s more than your hamstrings
Photo by Tamba Budiarsana from Pexels Let's talk about flexibility again in a deeper way. Particularly for people who find themselves ...
POISE at RBR Muzik
Photo by Ivandrei Pretorius from Pexels 6 Fridays, 6-7 pm, March 13 through April 17 - $100 Poise: Balance. Grace under Pressure.Get it, ...
Stance and Stool
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 ...
How the Feldenkrais Method helps with injury-prevention in athletes and “movers.”
(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. ...
Stretching and Yoga: Stretching doesn’t work?
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 ...
Remote Sensing is Real
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 ...
Getting Out Of Our Own Way
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 ...
The Cash Register vs The Word Processor
"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 ...
Are you on LOCKDOWN?
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 ...
Effortless (ly Powerful)
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 ...
Making U-Turns
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 ...