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 legs [...]
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 reasons: [...]
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 in [...]
Survival would be the answer to that question. If you are joining for the first time, this is a series I am plugging away at titled "Creating Your Own Personal Instruction Manual" . I'm going to look at this survival idea from a very brain-oriented fashion. And rather than write [...]
This is the beginning of a series that I am plugging away at titled "Creating Your Own Personal Instruction Manual" . The breadcrumb trail to go with these series of post are here ("what stands between you & that more effortless version of you") & here ("reverse engineer your health: become [...]
I want to cultivate a tribe of folk who are truly interested in becoming 'curators' of their own bodies. I've written more about this idea here, but in essence, here's the shortened version: When we actually understand how our body works, what its default states & grooves are, how to listen [...]
It’s likely that sometime soon you’ll encounter some stress that will rev up your body’s physiology. It’s also possible that you’ve got some stress that’s still sitting in your system from yesterday, last week, last year, or a decade ago. Here’s the thing, our body getting hit with stress is [...]
A little while back, I was having some troubles sleeping. You know. Tossing, turning, worrying. And - because I am the luckiest girl in the world - my sweetie (Seth) recorded this guided meditation to help me drift into some much needed slumber. I loved the imagery so much that I [...]
I ended Part 1: Refining the Somatic Practices: The Story of Jenny and Susan, with this question: "How can we evolve our somatic practices to meet the changing needs of people, not to mention the diversity of people coming to us, especially in a class format?" First of all, a [...]
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 [...]
