Today’s video falls into the category of most frequently asked questions. It revolves around a question that goes something like this: “Irene, does **insert your mind-body practice of choice** help with healing trauma and nervous system regulation?” Gosh, folks, I wish it were easy enough to just say [...]
One of my first entry points into neuroplastic learning, and the capacity for the human system to rewire, change and evolve past “usual” standards of human potential, was via the work of Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais vis-à-vis the body of work called, The Feldenkrais Method. I began this quest [...]
I remember one of my earlier professors' lectures about how many humans never experience full vigour and aliveness - she loved the word ‘rigour’ - from intense physical activity and exercise as a result of chronic illness or her field of study, metabolic syndrome. She stressed (to us [...]
Do you, or someone you know, find it impossible to sleep soundly? I get a lot of questions around: Why you can’t sleep even though you’re exhausted and have the “head bob thing” going on while reading a book in bed, but as soon as you turn off [...]
I just wanted to write this post to remind you of the many free resources you have access to via my website and YouTube Channel, and all of them, as you may have guessed, are geared towards helping you become more educated and regulated when it comes [...]
The other day someone asked me how I stay in a good ‘head space’ and on top of things given the sheer number of people I manage in my company, the content I create on a weekly and often daily basis, the social media ‘pings’, not to mention [...]
Today’s video and the two that preceded it were inspired by comments and questions from my students who have been participating in my online drop-in classes. What I hope you understand after this week’s video is there is no such thing as a strange sensation, a weird feeling, [...]
I’m writing this blog post from a quaint café within the seaside town of Brighton, UK. It has been a full three weeks since landing in Stockholm earlier this month and I just finished teaching the third of our four Up & Down workshops with my teaching partner, [...]
A long while back I had a chat with one of my Somatic Experiencing mentors, Steve Hoskinson, around the importance of mind-body practices being refined (you can check that out here) and this week’s new video is a long overdue follow-up to that conversation. I’m going to keep [...]
Participant in an Up & Down Movement Workshop exploring a Feldenkraisian neurosensory lesson. Touch is an important part of life, in fact we need it to survive! Yet if it is not done well to us and for us when we are developing as infants, toddlers, children, and even [...]
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