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Dr. Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing explains how the human system can heal and self-regulate from traumatic events.

Click here to re-tweet "Dr. Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing explains how the human system can heal and self-regulate from traumatic events." Why Do We Humans Get "Stuck" in our Traumatic Events While Animals in the Wild Don't? There is much to be learned from our fuzzy [...]

The Simplicity of Feldenkrais: Baby Liv shows you some simple movements to start you out.

Want to understand the simplicity of a Feldenkrais Movement Lesson? Just go to the simple foundations of human development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ko7U1pLlg Ready for your first class? This is a montage of a little baby named Liv doing what babies do during their first year of life. It is these first [...]

My research with higher intensity strength training, why high intensity exercise is essential and introducing “The Healthy Skeptic”

One of the things I am really excited about is bringing in other bloggers and highlighting them on The Human Groove. It seems my generation (those born somewheres between 1975/73ish to 1982/85ish) are seeing the importance of sharing, collaborating and not being afraid to trade our secrets. Openly. I [...]

Feldenkrais Teachings and Being a Ninja: Can you see the difference – Hands forward or backwards?

(This post will be one of many to come that will fit into the “All Things Feldenkrais: The Amherst Diaries” feature which you see on the right side of the page. Here you will find writings, ideas, practical application, video, audio and 'all things Feldenkrais'. Moshe Feldenkrais' theories and [...]

Reverse Engineer Your Health: Becoming your best own curator

“The traditional role of the librarian and curator – to select what is to be preserved and ruthlessly weed out everything else - suddenly is obsolete.” I read the above sentence in a book titled "Clock on the Long Now: Time and Responsibility. The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest [...]

Biomimicry: How easy it is to forget the simple things in life.

Biomimicry. Ever heard of it?  (a free exercise below - keep scrolling) "Biomimicry, as described (and popularized) by Janine Benyus, is the practice of using nature as a model to develop sustainable designs and processes." Taken from Wikipedia, they define it as: "The examination of nature, its models, systems, [...]