By Carolyn Palmer, GCFPCM, Ph.D. One day I could walk without much thought. Then one day I couldn’t, even with thought. It started with what felt like a pulled muscle in my back. Tense over my dog’s emergency surgery, I attributed the pain to those very anxious few days. But [...]
By Carol Montgomery, GCFP CM Move a foot forward. Move the other foot forward. Repeat until you reach your destination…the bathroom, the kitchen, the mailbox, up a hill, the grocery store. Oh, if only walking were only that simple. The joyful feeling of freedom in movement is often appreciated only when [...]
By Lavinia Plonka, GCFP CM I did it again. You’d think at my age, after gardening for most of my adult life, as an experienced Feldenkrais® practitioner, I’d know better. But the lure of the dirt is not based on logic. Its siren call seduces me to claw, dig, pitch, [...]
By Elinor Silverstein, GCFP CM In Feldenkrais' thinking we have a way of considering how to see things. The gentle challenge is to be able to see with our eyes and mind, and might I say, our hearts and spirits, up close and far away. And sometimes both at the same [...]
By Margot Schaal, GCFP CM The gardening habit is a healthy one: tending the soil, cultivating patience, nurturing seedlings as they appear and plants as they develop stems, leaves, flowers and seeds, and acknowledging their decay. We are inspired to keep coming back to the garden each year, to care [...]
By Margot Schaal, GCFP Do you ever wonder why the same Awareness Through Movement® lesson helps people with myriad difficulties? We individually process the movements and discover the easiest or most optimal route for our own system to proceed. People come to this work with chronic pain in so [...]
By Anita Schnee, GCFP CM Imagine body, mind, and soul in a healthy, vibrant biome, each element at home in its fitting habitat. Then imagine a biome desiccated by salts of old anguish, every green thing devoured by battalions of locusts. This is the chronic-pain biome at its worst. An [...]
By Al Wadleigh, GCFP CM My wife, Sarah, and I are out for a Sunday drive. Our two dogs, Fred and Pliny, are in the back seat, napping away. I suddenly swerve to the left! I somehow realized the car next to me was drifting into my lane! [...]
By Erin Finkelstein, M.M., GCFP CM “Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.” - Rumi* What is your relationship with your eyes like, away from your computer or smartphone? Most of us take our eyes for [...]
By Darcia Dexter, GCFP CM “Mom, I can see you!” “Really? The eye doctor said you would only see out of your left eye if your right eye was covered up.” “I know, but I can SEE you!” “Okay, how many fingers am I holding up?” “Two.” “That’s a [...]