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    Squatting

    Perhaps one of the most important movements you can learn is how to squat.  It is important every time you get into and out of a chair.  It is important every time you pick something up — be it from the floor or just a low table. This wonderful, cute, and fun animation shows the…

  • How Feldenkrais® is helping Brian Guenther, a Golf Pro

      This short video gives a nice explanation of how Feldenkrais® works.  Brian Guenther is a Golf Professional on the PGA who was having chronic neck and back pain.  He sought out a Feldenkrais® practitioner and together they were able to relieve the pain.  The key was teaching Brian how to use his whole body and…

  • Some Great Feldenkrais® Videos

    Feldenkrais® and Musicians: This is a wonderful video created as part of the Next 25 Years project. Andrew Gibbons, a classical pianist and Feldenkrais® Practitioner, discusses how the Feldenkrais® Method can improve the playing of a piano. This video will be of interested to anyone wanting to sit comfortably and have their arms move fluidly…

  • Pema Chodron’s Punch Line

    Pema Chodron is a buddhist nun and teacher  who has been a great inspiration to me.  I first started listening to Pema’s teachings in 2007 and had the good fortune to meet Pema in 2009 at Shambhala Mountain Center. This Sunday, I watched a talk Pema gave at Gampo Abbey in 2009.  In the first part of the talk,…

  • Do our bodies change our minds?

    Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist and an associate professor at Harvard Business School.  In this Ted talk, she argues that our non-verbal body language effects not only how others view us, but how we view ourselves.  Even more impressively, she shows that by changing our posture for just 2 minutes changes our mind:  our…

  • Wonderful Quotes

    “We do not work with people’s problems, but with their health. Health as the capacity to recover from shock; the ability to overcome obstacles; the capacity to live one’s dreams. ” — Moshe Feldenkrais “When you know what you’re doing, you can do what you want” – Moshe Feldenkrais. “What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies,…