by Virginia Yao | May 14, 2026 | Feldenkrais, Healing, Healing Touch
A few days ago, someone said to me, “Let me know when you’re going to teach a lesson on knees.” This innocent request made me think how our culture trains us to apply a simple reductionist model to understand how our bodies work. Is it valid? After all, if we...
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...
