Age gracefully I’m so inspired by my Feldenkrais teachers in their 80s. They continue to improve their movement habits even as they age – just as others their age seem to keep declining…

Feel More. Update your habits. Learn to slow down. Improve your brain’s map of your body. Discover the gifts inside pain. Grow your attentional flexibility. Be mindful and spontaneous. Become yourself…

Learn to respect your physical sensations as intelligent signals. By doing Awareness Through Movement, you will begin to learn to identify the sensations that precede your pain or discomfort. Then, you will be able to take the radical, proactive step of stopping whatever you are doing, and with a few minutes of ATM, interrupt the cycle of habitual stress and pain. This is what learning to take care of yourself means.

“The first principle of life is that everything changes. Every millisecond, and in every direction, we are surrounded by changes, and often the changes come not an abrupt binary switches but in gradient spectral shifts, slowly morphing, with the infinite variability of widened eyes." -Stephen Nachmanovitch, The Art of Is

I'm appreciating that rest is embedded in the nature of my work (yay!) and I’m exploring ways that I can deepen these qualities of rest in my creative projects, in my parenting and in the transitions between work and parenting.

“When it’s clear how I involve myself into the action, with myself, the whole thing falls together, it’s just pleasant to do. And if it’s not pleasant to do, it’s not worth doing anyway.” -Moshe Feldenkrais

Want more creative focus?

STRUCTURE AND FREEDOM: 10 Mini Feldenkrais & Organic Intelligence audio lessons

Create new metaphors to counter the "war on pain"→ movement towards curiosity as an approach, rather than self-violence. Deborah Bowes shares her thinking behind her self-paced Feldenkrais Series: Curiosity, Self Image and Pain

Feldenkrais Podcast #4 with Deborah Bowes

We talk about:
• How Feldenkrais reassures the limbic system
• The relationship between pain and self image
• The phenomena of pain
• Feldenkrais is a bio-psycho-social model and pain is a bio-psycho-social experience
• The importance of empathy and compassion in changing neural pathways

"It is possible to sense the action before you actually do it. There is a tiny gap of time there where you can intervene and change the action. For Feldenkrais, that was called awareness. That's what happens in the tiny gap between intention and execution, or intention and action, where you can sense and do or not do, and do it differently." - Aliza Stewart

Feldenkrais Podcast #3 with Aliza Stewart

We talk about:

• How the movement of self is similar to the movement of sound

• How the nervous system makes order out of chaos

• How the Feldenkrais Method® influences the experience of anxiety

• What it means to have a good life

• Orientation, creativity, improvement, independence

• There is always a choice

Free Feldenkrais ATM lessons are sprinkled throughout my website and here are links to all of them on one page

In this Awareness Through Movement® lesson we explore unwinding what Moshe Feldenkrais called the “Body Pattern of Anxiety”. It is a beginner friendly lesson and a great one to come back to again and again.