One of my amazing mentors of The Feldenkrais Method, Jeff Haller, taught me many years ago what the concept of grounding actually means - from a martial arts perspective - and I'd love to share it with you. First of all, most people say to themselves, "I need to [...]
Today my hubby and I went for a hike in our lovely backyard of Whistler, BC. The alpine wildflowers are in FULL bloom (as you can see above and below) and when they are in full bloom you want to be there. A little info about my past first [...]
New Space On March 1st I will be entering into a very new, exciting and "holy shit this is really happening!" phase of my life. I've got a brand spanking new space in downtown Vancouver in the Duncan Building. Suite 313, 119 West Pender Street to be exact. Here's a visual. [...]
Click here to re-tweet "How to be Comfortable Sitting on The Ground. Step 1 - Lengthen Those Tight Hamstrings." This morning I taught a Feldenkrais Movement Class (aka: "ATM", or Awareness Through Movement) at a local bistro, Alta Bistro. One of the managers loves ATM, and he really wanted [...]
Everyone OBSESSES about their posture. Do you? The trouble is, Western society has some crazy ideas about how to find good posture. It’s a huge problem, actually, because many of those ideas screw us up. In fact, more often than not, they’ll actually make your posture worse, and your functional daily [...]
Imagine This (or better yet, TRY THIS!) Take a chair and start to tip it such that it is only balancing on two of its legs. Now keep tipping. Then, take your hand away. If you don't catch it in time, and bring it back to its other two [...]
Every now and then, I come across a person that I get a smitten with. Their writing, ideas, art, creativity and basically their guts to do what they love, go for it, and never look back. I've met a lot of these people and am blessed to have them [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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