Movement and Creativity Podcast #2: Audio collage weaving together the philosophy of the Feldenkrais Method®, Organic Intelligence® + life as art and art as life with Stephen Nachmanovitch, Moshe Feldenkrais, Steve Hoskinson.
Podcast Birth!
Movement and Creativity Podcast: Nervous system love and inspiration exploring the intersection of Feldenkrais®, Organic Intelligence®, Authentic Movement and creative process. Audio collages, interviews and guided practices with Tiffany Sankary and guests.
Movement from pain, stress, anxiety, and disconnection towards ease, pleasure, creativity and community.
Flexible Spine/ Flexible Mind
Right now, in this crazy world we're living in I'm feeling the importance of having a flexible mind—the ability to change plans, to see bigger pictures that include paradox, complexity, confusion, questions, puzzles, patterns...
I’m diving directly into this territory in creating Feldenkrais Mixtape, my fall live and online series.
Why do Feldenkrais?
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…
The importance of doing ATM in a consistent way at home
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.
Everything Changes
“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
Many ways to rest
Involve Your Entire Being
Structure and Freedom
Improve chronic pain though improving the functioning of your nervous system
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
Curiosity, Compassion 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
Intention, Action and Awareness
"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
