by Virginia Yao | Oct 4, 2025 | Feldenkrais, Healing
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM®) lessons help students nurture an inner dialog with their bodies. Understandably, students struggle with “doing less” and “slowing down”. Yet, slowing down allows the nervous system to pay attention to the body’s...
by Virginia Yao | Jun 28, 2025 | Feldenkrais, Healing
Our advanced medical technologies, vaccines, and diagnostic tools are necessary to save and prolong lives. We are taught only medical professionals have the ability to heal us and don’t believe that healing requires our participation. Despite witnessing how...
by Virginia Yao | May 16, 2025 | Feldenkrais, Healing
I was introduced to the Feldenkrais Method® more than five years after a cycling collision with a car. Three and half years were spent in physical therapy (PT), where I was informed that my body’s ability to heal was limited to five years. Traditional PT didn’t work...
by Virginia Yao | Apr 26, 2025 | Feldenkrais, Healing, Healing Touch
Spring is a time of renewal and new beginnings. Nature can’t resist the pull of rebirth as each day fills with new colors and longer, brighter days. Thanks to an unfortunate toenail injury in December, I stopped running and I switched to swimming. My approach to...
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...
