by Virginia Yao | Dec 28, 2024 | Feldenkrais
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...
by Virginia Yao | Dec 7, 2024 | Feldenkrais
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...
by Virginia Yao | Sep 9, 2024 | Feldenkrais, Healing Touch
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 electromagnetic...
by Virginia Yao | Jun 27, 2024 | Feldenkrais, Healing Touch
The term “self-care” is becoming so commonplace that it is beginning to sound like a “catch-all” phrase that is meaningless. What exactly does self-care mean? During my Healing Touch apprenticeship, I found self-care is to purposefully make time to take care of my...
by Virginia Yao | Jun 19, 2024 | Feldenkrais, Healing Touch
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...
