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The Aha! Moment
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 do initially but, by moving slowly and delicately, the impossible became …
Creating Sustainable Habits
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 be improved. Given that perspective, I allow myself the freedom to explore an ache as…
Feldenkrais® Learning Curve
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 indicated a small tear of my anterior medial…
Power of Choice
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 to move. Dr. Feldenkrais reasoned that if human movement is a learned process, movement patterns that cause pain can be unlearned and replaced with…
Light Therapy
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…
Importance of Self-Care
The term “self-care” is becoming so commonplace that it is beginning to sound like a “catch-all” phrase that is meaningless. What…
Preventive vs. Crisis Mindset
My public education didn’t teach me anything about my body other than the mandatory Family Education class, which didn’t focus on how my body worked mechanically, but what it takes to get pregnant and how to avoid it. Given this less than stellar introduction on how...