The Power of the Pelvis – 2 CD Set
by Lavinia Plonka

The Power of the Pelvis is a Workshop designed to activate and enliven your vital center. The pelvis can be a source of spontaneity and joy, or the seat of challenge for anyone who has had an injury, illness or trauma that has compromised pelvic mobility. Athletes, martial artists and performing artists rely on its power for peak performance.

The lessons in this workshop have been chosen for their ease, effectiveness and ability to integrate the function of the pelvis into daily activities. This CD set is for anyone desiring greater ease of movement, increased vitality, and a better understanding of the pelvis’ role in a satisfying life.

Tracks

CD – 1 (samples)
Introduction
The Center of Everything
Spinal Chain

CD – 2 (samples)
Activating Your Pelvic Power
Freedom to Move

$26

“These are simple, basic and relaxing sessions that could be an excellent adjunct for home use early in the treatment of the patient with pelvic floor or spinal dysfunction or with pelvic pain syndromes.”
- Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy

Have a Comfortable Flight:
Simple Exercises to Stay Flexible While in an Airplane Seat (CD)

This CD is designed to be played while you're sitting in your airplane seat. Simple, tiny movements that can help prevent stiffness, reduce discomfort and keep circulation moving, even on a long flight. Six different lessons address common travel complaints.

CD Contents:

1) Introduction
2) Freeing The Pelvis and Spine
3) Shoulders and Neck
4) Twists and Turns
5) Hip Joints and Spine
6) Relieving Stress - An Introduction
7) Breathing
8) Calming The Nervous System

The lessons can be done by anyone, even with a seat belt on. An invaluable travel companion.

$15.99

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"This CD saved my trip to London. I listened to it on the long flight across the ocean which made sitting in the sardine can more comfortable and I listened to it once after we got to our hotel. I was so impressed with the lessons. They are simple but so effective. My low back did not freeze up on me, as I have experienced in the past, in spite of the long hours of walking and standing on hard museum floors. I was so grateful to have a great trip with smooth moving hips!"
- Totsie Marine

Playing in the Kitchen:
Recipes, Stories and Explorations to Feed the Whole Self
by Lavinia Plonka

Lavinia Plonka offers a delightful smorgasbord of opportunities for culinary delight, going beyond standard cookbook fare to provide a feast that transcends the five senses. Your sense of taste will be tempted by the delicious recipes. In order to take the stress out of cooking, each recipe contains a Playing With Your Food Section. This provides substitution tips, how to avoid kitchen disasters, ways to rescue mistakes and much more. For your sense of humor, Plonka has included stories; both traditional folk tales as well as humorous essays that explore subjects like cooking with a significant other, fear of an empty refrigerator, and the universe as a cosmic soup. But what makes Playing in the Kitchen completely unique are the movement explorations designed to make everything from chopping to washing the dishes a pleasurable and ergonomic adventure. Lavinia Plonka is an expert teacher of the Feldenkrais Method, and has created innovative sequences based on Feldenkrais’ teaching that awaken your kinesthetic sense. You’ll never cook the same way again!

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Read an excerpt from the book

$14.95

“I am a woman with more cookbooks than years I have spent on the planet, and Lavinia’s is now on top of the stack at my house. And I think that this book has inspired me to start cooking again. And if any of you out there are afflicted with Fear of Cooking, Lavinia has come to the rescue…..There is no other cookbook on your shelf like this, I guarantee.”
- Western North Carolina Woman Magazine

Feldenkrais T Shirt

Do you love the Feldenkrais Method? Then wear it proudly with this cool T Shirt. The eye-catching design has a Moshe Feldenkrais quotation winding through the design: “If you know what you’re doing, you can do what you want.” Men’s cut is green, Women’s deep chocolate brown. The women's T Shirt is cut for a woman's body, a finer neckline, tighter sleeves and a more flattering silhouette. The men's T shirt is a beefy traditional cotton. The back has a tiny Asheville Movement Center Logo.

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Order What Are You Afraid Of?
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What Are You Afraid Of?
by Lavinia Plonka

Fear is not just in our heads - it's also in our bodies.
What Are You Afraid Of? shows how our bodily postures and habits trigger the anxieties that crimp our daily lives and provides simple, eye-opening exercises to free us from fear's grip.

We often think of fear as something based in our minds. But equally true - and rarely understood - is that fear is based in our bodies.

The ordinary manner in which we carry ourselves physically, our automatic gestures, and the accustomed comforts of our bodily habits often perpetuate the grip that fear has on our lives. This is true whether we're thinking of asking our boss for a raise, frightened of diving into a swimming pool, or experiencing sleepless anxiety. The good news is that our fears arise from physical/mental triggers that have been learned over the course of our early lives - and can be unlearned.

In What Are You Afraid Of?, Lavinia Plonka provides step-by-step exercises and informative, engaging lessons to help readers identify the sources of their fears and work with their bodies to move beyond them. Plonka reveals a simple, new paradigm for understanding our fears: they are not intractable psychological demons. Instead, as she demonstrates, they often revolve around repetitive body/mind cues. By teaching the body new habits, the habit of fear can be broken.

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What people are saying about

What Are You Afraid Of?

"This helpful book contains exercises that can provide an antidote to the overwhelming stress which overcomes our bodies. Plonka also takes a hard look at the different types of fear including fear of failure/success, phobias, fear of abandonment, and fear of injury or death."
- Spirituality and Health Magazine

"Her succinct and straightforward survey.....encourage(s) us to begin to notice how our bodies hold and generate emotions."
- Dragonfly Media Review

"Lavinia Plonka says what so many writers and therapists miss: that we hold and generate fear through the habits and postures of our bodies. This simple yet vital truth is the missing link in many of our therapies and efforts at self-help. In What Are You Afraid Of?, Plonka provides practical insights and at-home exercises that help readers discover ways to feel more free from the fears and anxieties that often ocnstrict our lives."
- Frank Lipman, M.D., author of Total Renewal: 7 Key Steps to Resilience, Vitality, and Long Term Health

"Lavinia Plonka takes us step by step through a body/mind journey that frees us from fear. Everyone, no matter how much or how little afraid, will benefit from her clear, effective and potent exercises. Plonka not only reveals how our bodies are part and parcel to our fears, she shows us how our bodies can be one of our greatest allies."
- Alan S. Questel, Feldenkrais Trainer and student of Moshe Feldenkrais

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Walking Your Talk
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Walking Your Talk:
Changing your life through the magic of body language
by Lavinia Plonka

Is your body saying what you think it is?
Every physical movement you make conveys a world of emotions. The raised eyebrow, sharp inhalation, or inadvertent smirk: Each nonverbal expression is tied to neurochemical responses that constantly communicate what cannot be articulated in words. Body language affects everything – your relationships, your career, even your self-image. These in turn affect your happiness, personal power, and ultimately, your health.

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"An invigorating investigation into how the body carries, stores and expresses emotions... "
- Body + Soul Magazine

The Power of the Word - A Threshold Seminar (CD)
Lavinia Plonka, Rev. Mary Marcus

Do our words and thoughts really have the power to shape our lives? The Hebrew Scriptures relate that God spoke and the world came to be. The Christian Scriptures express the presence of Christ like this: "And the word became flesh." The famous Sufi teacher Hazrat Inyat Khan once said that the universe hears every word you say.

What are the words and thoughts that express your life? How can you begin to implement the power of the word to enact change? Through meditation, movement exercises, writing explorations, and much more, this CD will take you on a journey of witnessing your present thoughts and words and moving them into newer, different forms- whether for creating better health, career or relationships. $15.99

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“The Power of the Word is very inspiring to me and my teaching.”
- Mary Lorainne Berúbé, GCFP

Unstress Through Movement (CD) by Lavinia Plonka

Three 25 minute lessons: Free Your Back, The Shoulder / Hip Connection and The Flexible Spine.

This is a wonderful intro to The Feldenkrais Method. Anyone can follow the easy instructions. $15.99

Listen to some samples from the Unstress Through Movement CD:

• Listen to a sample of Track 2
• Listen to a sample of Track 3
• Listen to a sample of Track 4
  

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