I’ve been teaching my students to move toward pleasure in their yoga and Feldenkrais® practices for many years. I find it a little awkward to use the word “pleasure”, with its connotations of sex and hedonism, but I’ve stuck with
Principles that Guide my Teaching
You, my student, are self-governing. My job is to guide you to deepen your awareness of yourself and help you to improve your ability to self-govern. I can’t create experience for you. I can only participate in creating the environment
Move Your Booty: Online Feldenkrais Classes for People who Sit
Huh? Move the part I’m sitting on?! We tend to think of our bottom as the bedrock of the building that is our body, but over-stabilizing the pelvis can lead to pelvis pain or discomfort elsewhere. Back pain, neck pain,
Free Your Feet: Online Feldenkrais Classes for the Feet and Legs
Sitting in chairs often leaves us with back pain or neck pain—what do our legs and feet have to do with it? Your lower limbs provide a foundation of support for the rest of you in sitting, with even the
Accessing Your Core Sense of Self: The Autumn In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat
What Happens in an In-Town Feldenkrais® Retreat? The Autumn In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat offers three days of gentle movement, awareness practice, self-care and restoration; a clean, quiet, comfortable space; an experienced teacher … and you don’t even have to travel to enjoy it! Each day
Moving Forward: A Spring In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat
UPDATE! The Spring Retreat is now Saturday ONLY! What Happens in an In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat? The Spring In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat offers three days of gentle movement, awareness practice, self-care and restoration; a clean, quiet, comfortable space; an experienced teacher … and you don’t
Spreading Your Wings: Online Feldenkrais Classes for Arms, Neck and Shoulders
Did you know that your shoulder blades have no skeletal attachment on your back? That your arms attach, via your collarbones, at the top of your breast bone, right under your throat—like a bird’s wings? If you moved your arms
The Pelvis as Foundation: A Feldenkrais Mini-Lesson
The Pelvis as Foundation For better or for worse, we do a lot of sitting. We sit for leisure and for work, alone and with company, on chairs, sofas, car seats, bike seats, rocks, logs, yoga blocks and earth. In
No Wrong Movement
Have you ever heard me in say class, “There is NO WRONG MOVEMENT”? What does that mean? What if that were really true? Without being told what is the “right” movement, how would you know how to move? How would
Lodestones of Sensation: Feldenkrais in the Yoga Classroom
(Lodestones of Sensation: Feldenkrais ® in the Yoga Classroom was originally published in May, 2012. I offer it here as part of a series of favorites pieces I am updating for my new website. For another article on Feldenkrais in