I drew this back in 2005'ish during my Feldenkrais training. It was a concept Moshe Feldenkrais was talking about in a lecture; around the fact that our nervous system is the centre of the human universe and how it connects to the entire System...the entire human [...]
We’re wired for play from the day we’re born. As children, it’s how we learn to navigate the world, negotiate our surroundings, get to know ours and others’ bodies and understand our limits. Play therapy works for kids, but it also works for big people too...we just [...]
I’m passionate about stellar learning environments. I’ve written about the importance of creating safe spaces in mind-body classes at length and these concepts are not just theoretical - they’re based on real life experience teaching group classes since 1996! My recent workshop obsession is called Up [...]
I'm a big believer in bodywork and getting help from an array of practitioners (mostly somatic and mind-body: osteopathy, massage, Rolfing, Feldenkrais, Somatic Experiencing, etc.) when need be. Today's video gives you some suggestions for getting the most bang for your buck. Of course, we don't always have the [...]
If you are a yoga, dance, 5 Rhythms, Feldenkrais, meditation, and/or any other kind of teacher that guides groups of people into their body and mind via movement and mindfulness, this is for you! I’ve been a teacher of movement and mind-body awareness since 1997, so I [...]
. Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? (You go to sleep, it’s there. You wake up, still there. Then, you don’t hear it for years... but then there it is in instrumental pan flute form at the dentist office and bam, it's back in your [...]
The term ‘inner game’ was coined in the mid-70’s by tennis athlete and coach, Tim Gallway. Tim’s first book, The Inner Game Of Tennis, was not about technique and figuring out your opponent’s strategy, but rather figuring out how your own internal, or inner game world, works, [...]
Research shows that having abundant social support trumps healthy lifestyle habits. Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this phenomena in his first chapter of Outliers where he tells the tale of The Roseta Effect. The Roseta Effect is named after Italian immigrants (originally from a town in Italy called Roseta Valfotore) [...]
A few days back I had a Skype chat with my dear friend and dance teacher Elia Mrak. It was unrehearsed and REALLY FUN! He and I are gearing up for a weekend workshop in Vancouver, BC, we want to give people an idea about our philosophies, our teaching [...]
If some higher God-like source were to tell me I could only teach one movement lesson for the rest of my life it would be this: Teaching people how to move from standing on two feet to lying on the ground completely flat on their backs and then to [...]
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