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 air for a ...
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 ...