I move with my 36 week-old baby in my belly– a delicate dance of reversibility, balance, ground and breath... There is a story that pregnant women can’t move freely or comfortably. I want to transform that. I want to help people know what is possible...

"...willpower and intelligence are merely superficial expressions of the mind whereas their deeper manifestations are imagination and instinct...Educating the imagination is more important than educating the will. Man fulfills in his life what his imagination directs him to do. Each of us contains his life's image within himself. The course of our lives expresses and fulfills this image…

I am moved by this powerful talk by Gabor Mate. He talks about the importance of the drive for attachment in our early years and it's relationship to authenticity as an equally powerful survival need.

The first video of our daughter Adia in a series of daily videos her first year of life where we observe her developing movement explorations.

"When a person continues to use a stereotyped pattern of behavior instead of one suitable to the present reality, the learning process has come to a standstill." -Moshe Feldenkrais, Body and Mature Behavior, p 205.

I found the Feldenkrais Method during a confusing search for how to have a more loving relationship with my body after growing up in a family and society that taught me to hate it. The invitations the Method offered were liberating: feel without judgement, move without comparing myself to others, and sense internally instead of looking to others to validate if what I was doing was correct. Through permission and encouragement to imperfectly cultivate my own inner sense of knowing, I found grace in a clunky un-embodied body. I found presence where I had been absent for so long. This coming home to myself was a creative, dynamic process...

5 daily invitations to tune into your sensation and imagination

All the times I’ve taken big risks to be in alignment with my evolving path, I’ve never had regrets.

I play with this experiment before and after Feldenkrais and Authentic movement lessons.  It is a way for me to track my experience of the transformations that occur through entering embodied experiences/explorations. 

These videos continue to be an inspiration again and again. This is a montage of a little baby named Liv doing what babies do during their first year of life. It is these first beginnings that form the initial pieces that someone would learn while doing a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Lesson.

How much does your head weigh? When your head sits on top of your spine it weighs 10-12lbs. As you lower your head forward, it's weight increases. It no longer has the support of your spine beneath it. Where do you need to work in your back to keep your head from falling off?