body awareness

Nervous System Cleansing 101. Step 2: More Orientation + Body Awareness

2019-11-22T18:28:58-08:00

If you haven't checked out Step 1: Nervous System Cleansing 101: Step 1 - Orientation, be sure to do so. If you don't, this won't make that much sense. I'm going to keep this post shorter so you can catch up with the first step of orientation. Part 3 is [...]

Nervous System Cleansing 101. Step 2: More Orientation + Body Awareness2019-11-22T18:28:58-08:00

Lessons from a Stubbed Toe: “Accident-Trauma-First Aid”

2024-03-11T10:55:42-07:00

Stubbing my toe in Berkeley I was walking quite fast through the residential area of Berkeley, California, this past October. I was wearing my open-toed Birkenstock sandals when BAM! “Ouch, #!^*…Oh, that REALLY hurts...” An uneven slab of sidewalk had put an abrupt stop to the forward motion of my second toe [...]

Lessons from a Stubbed Toe: “Accident-Trauma-First Aid”2024-03-11T10:55:42-07:00

Part 1. Refining the Somatic Practices: The Story of Jenny and Susan

2019-04-30T13:06:44-07:00

I think it might have been in June last year when one of my teachers said: "The somatic practices need to be more refined." These seven words really, REALLY, got me thinking. In 7 months of thinking and asking other people - my clients, colleagues, teachers - it seems unanimous: Yep. Refinement [...]

Part 1. Refining the Somatic Practices: The Story of Jenny and Susan2019-04-30T13:06:44-07:00

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

2019-04-30T13:06:48-07:00

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. This [...]

Feldenkrais and Musical Performance: Andrew Gibbons talks about finding skeletal support for better piano playing.2019-04-30T13:06:48-07:00

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

2019-04-30T13:06:54-07:00

(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 principles [...]

Feldenkrais Teachings and Being a Ninja: Can you see the difference – Hands forward or backwards?2019-04-30T13:06:54-07:00