by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 7, 2017 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
They say if you bang a drum long enough, people start to listen. Imagine my delight when I came across this NY Times article by Thomas Friedman. Ever since I read Antonio Damasio’s seminal book, Descarte’s Error, I’ve been trying to tell people,...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 7, 2016 | Body Language, Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method® |
Learn at first, concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light.From the Magician Card – Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism, AnonymousI was having...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 16, 2016 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
O would some power the gift to give usTo see ourselves as others see us. Robert Burns What gets in the way of our dreams? People often blame outer circumstances for the detours and dead ends on their life path. Certainly...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 9, 2016 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
Enjoy this fun meditation by Houston Feldenkrais Practitioner, Mary Beth SmithThe Mardi Gras season breathes its last gasp today. New Orleans, Galveston, and other cities in the Southern U.S. bid adieu to their revelers and pack away the parade floats until the next...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 4, 2016 | The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
I’ve been working on a play for four years. It sounds crazy when I say it. Even crazier when I tell people it’s a comedy. There are people out there writing comedies that air every week and it’s taken me four years? People say, “You write so much already, why a play?”...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 17, 2016 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
“…rest is the vital principle which recuperates. It regalvanizes the nerve-centres, collects the scattered forces and so reinvigorates the body.” Genevieve Stebbins, Dynamic Breathing and Harmonic Gymnastics ©1892I was in a dance class the other day where we were...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 9, 2016 | The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method® |
“What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity.” Moshe FeldenkraisI’ve always been intrigued by humans’ fascination with transformation. From Clark Kent in the phone booth to the Transformers phenomenon, we harbor a secret desire to be, if not...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 3, 2015 | The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
My husband Ron and I recently had a lively debate on the subject of quality and experience. He’s an artist, with a firm belief that anyone can sense quality when they experience it. I insisted that a person can only discriminate based on previous experience. I...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 10, 2015 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
I’m standing as I write this article. Well, not just standing. I’m also periodically jogging in place, practicing my Zumba moves and throwing in an occasional downward facing dog. You see, I’m preparing myself for a brave new world. It seems that while I was sprawled...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 8, 2015 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
My synesthete friend Gretta once told me that my name is white and green with shades of pink. Two musical synesthetes, from different parts of time and space have sung my name in an identical melody as if they knew a secret language. I have often envied people with...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 10, 2015 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
My husband Ron and I recently had a lively debate on the subject of quality and experience. He’s an artist, with a firm belief that anyone can sense quality when they experience it. I insisted that a person can only discriminate based on previous experience. I...
by Lavinia Plonka | May 26, 2015 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
When we look at sea creatures opening and closing, flowers unfolding from their buds, the pulsing of galaxies millions of light years away, we feel the connection between that perpetual motion and the pulsation in our own bodies. Here’s a free Feldenkrais...
