Articles & Resources

Blogs, research articles and other interesting stuff!

Listening to Your Inner Dialog

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 sensations and listen to its intelligence. This is difficult because we have trained our minds to automatically dismiss and override our bodies even in the presence of pain…

Optimizing 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 healing requires our participation. Despite witnessing how wounds slowly mend, starting with your first skinned knee, we still don’t think we have an active role in our…

Learning How to Move

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 for me because I didn’t injure a joint or two; my entire body was injured. I had multiple…

Importance of Self-Care

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

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...