Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle

Practical guidance, neurosensory exercises, movement & exercise, somatic experiencing, circadian health, sleep

Feldenkrais and Musical Performance: Andrew Gibbons talks about finding skeletal support for better piano playing.

2024-04-26T23:13:57-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Movement. Awareness.|

For Pianists and ANYONE who sits and uses their arms and hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UohDzxnEqHc Andrew Gibbons, Classical Pianist and Feldenkrais Practitioner in New York City, describes the process of discovering whole body awareness from a Feldenkrais perspective and how to produce better musical sound by finding greater skeletal support in sitting. [...]

Feldenkrais and Kids With Motor Disorders: Sheryl Field and The Field Center

2024-04-26T23:14:44-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Movement. Awareness., Parenting & Child Development|

Sheryl Field is the founder of The Field Center: For Children’s Integrated Development. What she does and the remarkable impact she has made on the lives of many families who were given very little hope for their children’s disabilities must be shared with other families in similar situations. Video Clip [...]

Power Cleans (the exercise) and Feldenkrais (the method and the man).

2024-04-26T23:15:25-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Movement. Awareness.|

Lifting Real Weight Intelligently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNmrPcZ1mg Many don't realize that Moshe Feldenkrais, the founder of the Feldenkrais Method was at one point a very talented athlete, laborer and martial arts expert. He understood what it meant to lift weight. REAL WEIGHT. Proportional distribution of muscular tone, optional transmission of force [...]

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

2024-04-30T15:34:42-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Movement. Awareness.|

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”

2024-04-30T15:39:19-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, I'm Smitten-With...|

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?

2024-04-26T23:25:00-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Movement. Awareness.|

(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 [...]

Smitten-with Sausalito and Spontaneity: What makes a ’30-something’ girl glow

2024-04-26T23:29:31-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, I'm Smitten-With..., Unabriged Musings: Anecdotes from personal life|

(“Smitten-With” will be a feature on The Human Groove that will speak of funky things that I come across – people, places, spaces, books, articles – basically stuff I am “smitten-with”.) I was in Sausalito back in August. These lovely mailboxes seemed a little lonely. So I took their [...]