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  • Adding Hips to our Self Image

    If  you were to draw yourself as a stick figure, would your figure look more like the left or right person?  Moshe Feldenkrais begins his Awareness through Movement Book saying: Each of us speaks, moves, thinks, and feels in a different way, each according to the image of himself that he has built up over the…

  • Ground, Grounding, Grounded

    Grounded Power, True Reversibility I just spent a wonderful 5 days in Jeff Haller’s advanced training: Ground, Grounding, Grounded, Discovering True Reversibility.  The theme was how to move in a way that we don’t “fall.”  For example, often there is a way that people walk where on either the left or right side, with each step there…

  • How to Make Stress your Friend

    Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., is a health psychologist who teaches at Stanford University. She focuses on how translating neuroscience and modern psychology research into strategies we can use for better health, happiness, personal success, and relationships. She says:  “In the past I’ve made stress the enemy, but I have changed my mind about stress…”  In this…

  • Emphathy

    Check out this wonderful video from Brene Brown: Brene spoke at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts and a part of her talk was animated by Katy Davis. Two of my favorite lines are: Rarely if ever does an empathetic response start with “at least”… For example: “I had a miscarriage,” “Well, at…