A couple weeks ago a drop-in student asked me..."Awareness Through Movement (R) lessons - why do them?" She continued..."Can I ask you a really blunt question?" Me: "Sure - of course." Student: "What's the point?!! I mean, where are we going with this? Are there like...10 lessons...like a progression?" It seemed to me that she was frustrated and exasperated. She was having a lot of chronic pain issues. She used to teach exercises classes. Now she couldn't. Her pain was too bad. She was … [Read more...]
Finding Your Genius Potential
Do you think you're genius material? If you're like most people I know (yours truly included), although you'd like to be a genius at something, you probably don't think of yourself as genius material. Why is that? What do you think makes a genius a genius? You'd be surprised what a little time and effort will do Moshe Feldenkrais had this to say about genius: I believe that there is no essential difference between what we call a genius and everybody else except that the so-called … [Read more...]
How to Improve Strength With the Feldenkrais Method
Meg found out the hard way. She found out just how important it is to understand how to improve strength with the Feldenkrais Method after a shocking surprise. No one, least of all Meg, could have imagined how her life would change. Meg walked into surgery more or less fine. But she walked out with a spinal cord injury. Meg had no idea she had anything wrong with her spine. She only discovered the issue when she had to undergo a scan for a completely different reason. It was then that they … [Read more...]
Lionhearted Listening: The Feldenkrais MethodⓇ and Love
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what constitutes strength. Through listening to my own experiences and exploring ways to integrate my history of traumas and my weaknesses these past few months. Through sharing my experiences with my husband Sean and dear friends. Through negotiating a new friendship. Through mindfulness practices and reading wise words from people like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron, Moshe Feldenkrais and others… I’ve been musing… And I’ve come to make … [Read more...]
Jet Fuel for Awareness Through Movement® Lessons: Curiosity
In the last post, Learning Your Way to Wellness: It's Not What You Think, I wrote about the difference between a couple of types of learning (intellectual vs. Immersion/experiential). I shared how my transition from pain to wellness required deep immersion learning about myself as a mover. The distinction between studying a movement and studying myself in movement is HUGE. You see, I wasn’t steeping myself in the development of a skill, like a golf swing, a yoga pose, a t’ai chi set, … [Read more...]
Learning Your Way to Wellness: It’s Not What You Think
In the last blog post, I promised we’d take a deeper look at one of the two elements that contain all the details of how I made the transition from pain to wellness using the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ. Those two elements were: Deeply embracing the fact that life is a process Becoming an awesome learner I think that last blog post made it pretty clear that understanding that life is a process paves the way for becoming a better learner. So let’s take a look at this whole notion of … [Read more...]