By Mary Debono Photo by Jay Wennington on Unsplash The white poodle didn’t seem to have much going for her. At 15 years of age, her vision and hearing were dim. This sweet dog, whose name was Buttons, also had extensive arthritis in her neck and back. But those limitations [...]
By Nancy Haller, MA, GCFP, Certified Feldenkrais® Assistant Trainer A common question from my students is “Who works with You?”. My answer is you do, my student. Moshe Feldenkrais connected Functional Integration® teachings to a dance between partners. It is a synchronization of two systems in mirror-like movements, each building [...]
By Carol Lessinger Have you ever been on the floor doing an Awareness Through Movement® lesson when your body responded in a way that was totally new to you? Were you astounded? Every time? That was my experience one morning when I was playing with coordinated movements of my tongue, [...]
By Ralph Strauch As practitioners we engage in two different, but interrelated, types of activities, which I’ll call knowing and doing. Are there different ways of organizing these activities, and the relationships between them? Perhaps there is a different way of thinking about what we do as practitioners, and ways [...]
An Interview with Stacy Barrows In Touch: Stacy, like so many others, your business and practice have been affected by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Can you share how the shift in your business took you deeper into some of the basics of the method? Stacy: I had moved from my former [...]
Shari Lee, MS, GCFP We played to learn. We learned through play; not only how to have fun, but to develop our sense of self, our relationship to others and the world around us. Playfulness stimulated our sense of curiosity, our development of strategies to access what caught our attention [...]
Kate Conroy, MA, GCFP, and Marty Correia, MFA KATE: Ten years ago Marty's was the first head I rolled. As a dedicated spouse she was my first volunteer outside of my training cohort. Marty's absorption of the work and her feedback was profound and encouraging to me. MARTY: At first, [...]