Movement & Creativity Podcast #3: Tiffany Sankary interviews Stephen Nachmanovitch, author of Free Play and The Art of Is. They talk about improvising as a way of life in teaching, learning, parenting, creative process and the balance of play, chaos, receptivity, self discovery, imperfection and connection."

Your nervous system is all the way outside your body and all the way inside and you're perceiving through every medium that you're present in." -Stephen Nachmanovitch

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.

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.

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.

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