“Stability increases the feeling of safety. Instability means risk but easy mobility. Both are biologically important. Becoming addicted to one of them makes one unsafe for lack of choice.” Moshe Feldenkrais How do find a good...
“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.” Japanese author Shusaku Endo spent a lot of time around doctors and nurses. Before publishing his award-winning work of historical fiction, Silence, he spent the greater part of...
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Nobel prize winning novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, he tells of a priest who levitates every time he drinks hot chocolate. The author said once that originally he had the priest levitating when he drank...
Love is scary. Love challenges our identity. These statements are true in a sense, but not all the time in all ways. Our culture has a lot of sad, angry, and bitter stories about loving. Try on this idea: Loving is easy. Specifically, loving you...
When my great aunt Hildegard died, I headed off to the general store for some fixings for Jello molds and funeral potatoes. I got out the wagon, and hitched up my favorite team of oxen. When I had procured my comestibles, I set off again. I was...
I’ve taught yoga, Feldenkrais, Contact Improvisation and seminars for massage therapists- teaching in both private classes and university settings. The rules and expectations vary in each sub-culture. Teaching is a great privilege, a...
I got hit once. I could see the driver’s eyes, and I knew he did not see me. He was looking for cars, not for a bike. By accelerating quickly, I avoided getting hit on my body, but the car still hit my back wheel, launching me into the road...
We are living under time pressure. Many of us are chronically late. We hurry from task to deadline to appointment to date. Where’s the joy, the contentment, the romance? The concept of being on time assumes we are able to agree on what we should...
“We talk to hear ourselves.”- Byron Katie. Everyone has had the experience of thinking out loud. We speak, and as we hear ourselves, our thoughts are played aloud for review. It’s useful and probably natural. It definitely helps...
Recently after Feldenkrais class a student told me that the biggest insight was in her sense of her body. She said standing and lying down were not the same, that she was shaped differently. She called it “lopsided different”. She...
Sinus pain and infection are frustrating and sap energy. For some people, sinus problems are an obvious health issue. For some others, sinus issues are a hidden drain on their immune systems. An infection can be quietly lurking in the background...
We walk, at least most of us do. We take thousands of steps a day. Each step put tremendous pressure on our big toe. Problems can occur. Bunions, arthritis, gout, nail problems. For some folks, it becomes hard to put any weight at all on that...