Good Posture. This is not a static thing. It is not always the same (e.g. "keep your back straight"). In real life, it IS the posture from which you can readily and easily DO things. This is how Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the originator of the Feldenkrais® work, viewed posture. Good posture is the place from [...]
Practical. Embodied. Woowoo. - Do you like learning about traditions and ancient knowledge related to the Medicine Wheel, archetypes, animal helpers, and more? - Do you like learning by DOING things? - Are you attracted to learning about how your light AND your shadow help you and guide you? - Do you like learning about [...]
Our feet are built to be dextrous. They are designed to be able to sense the ground, and make shapes on the ground that give you a good base of support in whatever you are doing, and whatever surface you are on. However, we often don't give our feet much attention. And it seems we [...]
A picture can be worth a thousand words... and to your body, this is ohhh soooooo true! Working with an image can harness the intelligence of your nervous system to "make it so" without the analytical brain getting too involved in dissecting it into bits and pieces. Here is another "image" I work with for [...]
We can be very clever at learning something new, if we kind of "stay out of the way" with our sometimes over-analytical brains, and instead let our smart bodies "just do it". That's what happens any time you start to mirror something you just saw. Your body someone takes that in, and starts to do [...]
How timely! I just got clearance to take off my air cast, after foot surgery in September. Yahoooooo! So, this is a perfect time to explore with you how to help yourself return to GOOD function, after an injury or surgery :-) Your whole body is wired to keep you safe, and keep you going. [...]
What does a teeter totter have to do with your knees feeling happy rather than feeling pain, tightness, pressure??? Biomechanically - LOTS! :-) When you squat or sit in a way where your body is evenly counterbalanced over your knees - the weight of your body feels lighter in your knees. And the "work" moves [...]
A spiral is A Beautiful Thing :-) And in walking and running - it is a very powerful and effective thing. I've been on crutches due to a foot surgery, and this took me through the experience of "learning to walk" again. Which, for a movement geek like me, has been Oh So Interesting. So [...]
When I learned about THIS, some things I had seen in animals, and in people, suddenly made a whole lotta sense. In particular, this explains why shaking sometimes happens after a big shock or accident or very high stress event. And why this kind of shaking may show up long (like even years) after such [...]
Today's video is about something VERY practical and useful to know about - that most people don't know about. Most of us are familiar with the idea that our body responds to the world with a "fight or flight" kind of response, if we run into a challenge. And you may have learned that fight-or-flight [...]
