The relationship between chocolate and Feldenkrais.

I have always been very heart warmed at the feeling of community among students attending our Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® classes. Students talk to each other, share stories of how they have incorporated movements into their daily lives, share resources and connections and help each other enter and leave classes. Several years ago, a tradition […]

Keep your favourite Feldenkrais lessons

I have often been asked by students for tricks on how to remember parts of, or a complete lesson. So a few years ago I started making audio recordings of classes as I taught them for anyone to listen to in order to redo their favourite lessons or explore new ones. I now have an extensive […]

Managing pandemic weariness

We are all getting a little weary. I “googled” the word weary and one of the definitions offered was “reluctance to see or experience any more of something.” That is a good description of how many of us feel. We are “done” with the pandemic and the resulting restrictions imposed on our lives. Everyone wants […]

Now more than ever it is important to take care of yourself

It has been 10 weeks since the WHO declared a world pandemic on March 11 and a few days less since British Columbia proclaimed, on March 17, a public health emergency and then the next day, a provincial health emergency. We have been living in an altered world for two and a half months. Gatherings over […]

Using your imagination in Feldenkrais classes

Now there is more evidence to support what we teach regularly in Feldenkrais classes:  using your imagination to do parts of, or entire movements. I know when I first heard of imagining a movement I thought it was crazy. But there is support for the benefits of thinking, feeling and visualizing movements before doing them […]

Summer Feldenkrais Challenge

Summer is vacation time; many of us wait all year for our summer​ vacation. I personally prefer to stay in Vancouver in the summer when the weather is finally nice.  However this year we are making a special late Spring/early Summer trip. On June 7 my  husband and I leave for Montreal to visit family and […]

Getting back on skis

Last year I fractured my wrist at the end of January, effectively ending my skiing season for 2016.   So it was with some trepidation that I went back on skis and the slopes during the holiday season in December. My first run out was a disaster. When I stopped for the first time, I […]

The Feldenkrais Method® and Chocolate

Are you surprised at the title, wondering what chocolate has to do with the Feldenkrais Method? Chocolate and regularly practicing the Feldenkrais Method have much in common. They both help us to take care of our body and sweeten our lives. The dictionary defines chocolate as: – A food that is made from cacao beans and that […]

Finding Support

As the beautiful BC summer winds down, I am preparing to start an 18 month graduate program for Feldenkrais practitioners with my teacher in Seattle. The first segment is Labour Day weekend so no goofing off for me the last long summer weekend! The theme of the training is “ideal organization and profound strength.” Many people don’t attend classes like Feldenkrais, […]

Maintaining flexibility – of mind and body

Last week I wrote of finding balance during the frenetic holiday season and provided a short movement exploration to sense yourself in sitting. The movements helped you to discover how to sit more comfortably and also to gave you the opportunity for a few minutes of quiet time alone. As we approach the end of the year, many […]