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Achy Back and Knees? Why getting more flexibility and “smartness” in those ankles will help ease the ache (trust me on this one!)

2024-04-26T22:46:40-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Movement. Awareness., Pain & Chronic Illness|

Click here to re-tweet Achy Back and Knees? Why getting more flexibility and "smartness" in those ankles will help ease the ache (trust me on this one!) If anyone knows about achy knees it's me. Most chronic aches and pains, especially in the knees and lower back, [...]

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

2024-04-26T22:57:30-07:00Irene's Musings, Nervous System Resiliency, Trauma & Survival Physiology, Unabriged Musings: Anecdotes from personal life|

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 [...]

Melt away chronic tension by finding your perfect posture in only 10 minutes! An audio exercise to start you out.

2024-04-26T23:00:02-07:00Free Stuff, Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Movement. Awareness.|

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 [...]

Re-Routing My Wiring: Back to Whole-Self Neuroplasticity (and not having to pay for parking…)

2024-04-26T23:01:39-07:00Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Movement. Awareness., Unabriged Musings: Anecdotes from personal life|

Click here to Re-Tweet about Re-Routing My Wiring-Back to Whole-Self Neuroplasticity (and not having to pay for parking) I've been away in Seattle for a few days, doing a few Feldenkrais sessions with my main Feldy mentor Jeff Haller. This last weekend's few lessons were good for a few [...]