by Lavinia Plonka | May 11, 2017 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
The other day in class, we were doing a lesson that involved tilting your legs one way, bending the chest the other way, rolling the head and whistling Dixie. OK, just kidding about the whistling. At one point a student exclaimed, “Wait! Wait! My brain is...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 21, 2017 | The Creative Body
A couple of years ago, I was privileged to write a short article for Parabola Magazine about the experience of an Awareness Through Movement class. I just learned that they have recorded my article for a podcast – which I am happy to share. My story begins...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 9, 2017 | The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
The other day, I was teaching a lesson that put the hand into what some people call “backbend” position, a term which is unfamiliar for many. So I suggested that people place the hand on the floor with the fingers pointing toward the shoulder. One woman...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 10, 2017 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Now that Ringling Bros. have announced their final season, I find myself reflecting on the word circus. What will happen to it, if there is no more circus? Will it re-boot itself to mean something new? After all, the original “circus” was simply the arena...
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 10, 2016 | Humor/CosmiComedy
When asked what surprised him about humanity the most, the Dalai Lama replied: “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. “ Nothing is more important than your health….except for your money –...
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, Anonymous I was having...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 19, 2016 | The Creative Body
Yesterday, I saw a groundhog actually dive into his burrow. The hole in the ground was on the side of the road where I have walked for years about three times a week. I think I know this road; every tree, the rusty, abandoned trailer with the vinyl siding flapping in...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 16, 2016 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
O would some power the gift to give us To 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....
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 9, 2016 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
Enjoy this fun meditation by Houston Feldenkrais Practitioner, Mary Beth Smith The 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...
