From the Kinēsa Newsletter
If you know what you’re doing….
I bought a new office chair. On sale. Good deal. It arrived in a box. Weighed a ton. When I opened the box, and saw the pieces, it seemed like a no brainer. The illustrated instructions had no words at all, just a bunch of letters and arrows pointing to parts. I began...
Who’s Complaining?
I wasn’t allowed to complain as a child. Each time I whined because I wanted a parka like Kathy H’s or a Barbie like Mary J’s or at least pizza, I was admonished. “You have no right to complain. You have not been captured and tortured by Nazis. You have not had your...
Movement Alchemy
While I love how the Feldenkrais Method helps improve the way we move; improving balance, flexibility, and resilience, I’ve always been much more impressed with how it has improved my inner balance, my mental flexibility and my emotional resilience. The simple and...
What Was I Thinking?
Last night, one of the raccoons that have taken up residence under my shed discovered the cat door. What had previously been a lovable pack of rascals had now become a potentially harmful intruder. I try to live in harmony with nature’s insistence on introducing...
Artificial vs. Movement Intelligence
About 15 years ago, I was out to dinner with a friend at a trendy nouvelle cuisine restaurant. There was a dish boasting dasheen wraps. I asked the waiter what that was. “That’s what they make the tortilla from,” was his answer. In other words, he was clueless. But...
Head and Shoulders Above the Crowd
I never thought I’d live to see this again. No. Not the Grand Canyon. Not the Aurora Borealis. Shoulder pads. They’re back. Everywhere all at once - from Balenciaga to H&M - as if we’ve been dropped into an alternate reality channeling the 80’s. The biologist...
