by Virginia Yao | Mar 26, 2025 | Feldenkrais, Healing
What we think we can or cannot do reinforces how our minds restrict our potential to ourselves. In one of the Awareness Through Movement (ATM®) lessons taught at the Amherst training in 1981, Dr. Feldenkrais introduced a movement in a lesson that seemed impossible to...
by Virginia Yao | Feb 19, 2025 | Feldenkrais, Healing
In movement, the word “habit” connotes a sense of familiarity that may or may not be useful. For example, if my shoulder hurts every time I pick up my coffee cup to take a sip, that’s not good. But pain is an opportunity to explore a habitual movement pattern that can...
by Virginia Yao | Dec 28, 2024 | Feldenkrais
Less than two weeks before a Feldenkrais training segment in my 4th year, I was hit by a car while walking across a street in Vienna. The x-ray of my knee taken the night of the accident indicated my knee joint was not injured. An MRI taken after I returned home...
by Virginia Yao | Dec 7, 2024 | Feldenkrais
Unlike other mammals, human movement is not hardwired; humans do not stand up and start walking hours or a few weeks after birth. Although movement begins shortly after birth, we teach ourselves how to move little by little by actively engaging our brains to learn how...
by Virginia Yao | Sep 9, 2024 | Feldenkrais, Healing Touch
The last solar eclipse on 4/8/2024 was highly anticipated because the next bicoastal North American total solar eclipse will be on 8/12/2045. What is about light that draws our immediate attention? Although humans can only see 0.0035% of the entire electromagnetic...
