By Lavinia | Published:
July 15, 2010
The morning of my birthday, I dreamt I worked in a Parisian parfumerie as a clerk. All the women were delicate, formerly lovely creatures who still dolled up every morning as if to meet a beau. There was a distinctive Umbrellas of Cherbourg vibe to their cheery, twittery chatter as they compared new kinds of [...]
Also posted in Emotions, laughter | Tagged ALS, Birthday, breakthrough, chicken mushroom, emotional breakdown, failure, happiness, learning, manifest, meaning, prosperity, self image, success, wish |
By Lavinia | Published:
February 28, 2010
This past December after one of the many North Carolina snowstorms, we had no power for four days. No phone, no water, no light. No computer, no TV. It was hard to read by candlelight. So I decided to do something I’d been avoiding since the New Age Movement began. I was going to make [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
November 25, 2009
Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you still have a computer, you’re not sitting out on the street, and more than likely, you will eat at least one meal today. Somehow, in spite of Bernard Madoff, Goldman Sachs, Washington Mutual, AIG, all the doom and gloom, all the betrayals and disappointments, we’re still standing (and sitting, [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
October 26, 2009
Here is an interesting post by Bruce Zeines from the Brooklyn Free School on body language.
Posted in Brooklyn Free School by bzeines on October 23, 2009
We do not have a legitimate television in our home. That is not to say that media does not get to us here—it does. But it reaches us through Netflix or [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
October 7, 2009
For a month, I kept banging my head. Unintentionally, or so it seemed. Suddenly everywhere I turned, I encountered a barrier. Obstacles leapt in to connect with my forehead, my temple, the top of my skull.
Cursing, but pushing on, I walked into more doors. I hit my head on the car door frame more [...]
Also posted in Emotions, Movement, Sensation, Uncategorized, laughter | Tagged change, choice, feldenkrais, happiness, happy, learning, mobility, Robert Pirsig |
By Lavinia | Published:
September 1, 2009
Marcie showed up for a workshop the other day. I was surprised, because she had come to see me the other day after being diagnosed with a herniated disc. Her doctor had recommended a cortisone shot and/or surgery. I’m always really careful when someone shows up in my office with a “diagnosis.” Moshe Feldenkrais often [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
August 19, 2009
Enjoy this new article in WNC Woman.
http://wncwoman.com/august09/page8.html
By Lavinia | Published:
August 17, 2009
Everyone from Oprah to AARP are singing the praises of walking, as if it was the latest, greatest invention, instead of one of the major components of being human. For millennia, humans have walked everywhere, visiting friends, going to the fields, finding new homes. In the last century, our love affair with sitting has done [...]
Also posted in Movement | Tagged walking |
By Lavinia | Published:
December 27, 2008
I was having a conversation with a psychotherapist friend today who exclaimed, “It’s all in the body after all, isn’t it?” Our thoughts, emotions, dreams, fears, injuries, aspirations, opinions reside in our bodies, not outside of us. As a Feldenkrais teacher for all these years, I’ve long agreed with Moshe Feldenkrais who believed “The body [...]
