From the Kinēsa Newsletter
The Treadmill of Existence
I’m told that a treadmill affords people the possibility of movement and exercise that would not be available because of weather or other circumstances. Yet every time I see someone walking or running, getting nowhere, I experience a poignant tug, somewhere between...
Brain Food
Of course I love my husband Ron. And I know he loves me. But for thirty eight years, we’ve danced around the kitchen trying to reconcile our different relationships to food. As is always the case, it’s more than just about eating. I imagine Freud and Jung sitting in...
Workin’ It
So why do we work? My mini-retirement was enough to show me that it provides me an anchor of meaning. A recent article in the NY Times examined retirement vs. working into old age. “In 2000, after a long career at the helm of a commercial printing firm, Arline Tarte, now 71, left the industry for good. For two years, she played bridge, went to the theater and ballet, saw jazz concerts. But she says she found it uninspiring at best. ‘I was used to doing all that and running a company that was very involved,’ she said. ‘It was boring.’
The Whole Story
As I sit quietly (for a change), I notice my shoulders are not symmetrical. Perhaps it’s not obvious to a casual observer, but suddenly I’m acutely aware that my left shoulder is curled slightly forward, causing my upper torso to rotate slightly to the...
Going Nowhere
“The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.” (Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 1963) When you walk through the Northwest Airlines...
How’s Your Brain?
“It’s not flexible bodies I’m after, it’s flexible brains.” Moshe Feldenkrais Now there’s proof. All those “brain games” that allege to improve your cognitive skills don’t hold a candle to physical activity. Your friends who claim that programs and websites...
