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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 have a problem with our foot, heart, or thyroid gland, we expect to be…

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…

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…