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...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 28, 2018 | The Creative Body
Moshe Feldenkrais said, “I don’t teach movement, I teach learning.” His classes are called Awareness Through Movement. Not “of movement”, not “movement awareness.” I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Stephen...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 14, 2018 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
80% is the alarming number of Americans who will suffer from back pain at some point in their lives. Besides the huge economic cost of lost work hours, medical treatment and drugs (as high as $240 billion a year!), it means there is an awful lot of unhappiness in our...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 14, 2018 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
My TEDX talk is finally live! In celebration, I thought I’d re-post something I wrote last month after it was over. For the last two months, I’d been rehearsing my upcoming TEDX talk. I needed to know these 18 minutes like my own name. I rehearsed in my...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 8, 2018 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
When I was a little girl, my father, a small man, would brag about his strength. “Hit me, here!” he’d pound his belly, which felt hard as a rock to me. Like most Westerners, I learned to define strength with a “hard core,” abs of steel, a...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 23, 2018 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
The truth is out. There is no quick fix for your back pain. Not in the way you have been conditioned to think of it. Back surgery has been shown to be ineffective most of the time, and often makes things worse. And by now, everyone knows what happens when painkillers...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 11, 2018 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
I’m not a fan of what I call “Hallmark holidays” where industry has either manufactured a sentimental responsibility like Mother’s Day or hijacked a tradition. I’m speaking of Valentine’s Day. You can’t get a restaurant reservation. Flowers quadruple in price....
