by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 4, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy
I was going to call this the year of the spider. When we lived in NJ, we had spiders crawl into forgotten corners, spin webs in light fixtures and occasionally venture onto the kitchen floor. But nothing prepared us for North Carolina, where brazen representatives...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 7, 2019 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
I should have been working on the book chapter that was coming due. Or finishing up that talk I have to give in a few days. Or at least doing some free writing to give voice to the thousands of ideas in my head. Instead, I was on my knees in the dirt, battling crown...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 28, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy
My sister and I were recently wondering whether our grasp of the continuously evolving vocabulary of the English language would help us prevent dementia: terabyte, download, netiquette, malware, neuroplasticity, acid-reflux, bromance, bingeable, biohack, microbiome....
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 10, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy
“Rosebud,” Last word of Citizen Kane Long, long ago, in eternally sunny Southern California, (remember when sunny California sounded like heaven instead of a dry and gasping desert?), I was sitting around with some friends with nothing better to do than play with...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 5, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
I’m feeling ridiculous, standing here, holding a sock filled with cornstarch, tied at the top. A new miracle cure, you ask? Perhaps an esoteric facial treatment endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow? A fun way to whack your husband? I know I should throw it away, yet I stand...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 2, 2019 | Movement and The Spirit, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
At the beginning of a year, most of us want to look ahead, resolutions, wishes and a bit of trepidation. Will I move into the unknown, or repeat myself, stuck in a loop? I have often found a good way to move forward is to actually go backward. Several spiritual...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 5, 2018 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Recently someone asked me if I would create a workshop for “creatives.” I was stymied, because for some reason, I think everyone is a “creative.” Each moment, I’m creating my life. People who don’t “think” they are...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 14, 2018 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
So after years of teaching, practicing, writing, and researching, I finally have put together a page dedicated to one of my favorite subjects: Falling. And getting up. You’ll find statistics, stories, products, my Ted Talk and more. And just when I finally...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 2, 2018 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
If At First You Don’t Succeed… “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp Or what’s a heaven for?” Robert Browning How can I realize my dreams without trying? Feldenkrais often exhorted his students, “Try not to...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 10, 2018 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
As I was taking a morning walk, in the distance I spied a mangled bird in the road. As I approached, my mind spun: scenarios of its demise, righteous indignation at the callousness of humans, anticipatory anxiety about my potential responsibility for removing it from...
