by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 24, 2014 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
For millenniums society revered the warrior. The protector, the hero, the soldier battled for territory, for freedom, for an ideal. We all carry a piece of the warrior in our DNA, but most of us have no desire to go into battle. What are the qualities of the warrior...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 17, 2014 | The Creative Body
Shakespeare has been called the world’s greatest playwright. Yet most of his plots were actually borrowed from ancient plays, myths and stories that had been told for thousands of years. What Shakespeare did was bring the archetypes to our human experience, so that we...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 4, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy
Years ago, I went to Hayden Planetarium for their sky show, which was a trip through the universe, and a lesson on scale. For the finale, the camera began to pull back from our conveniently located position at the center of the universe, to its furthest edges, and...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 21, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
California Style Magazine stares up at me from the coffee table in my hotel room. It features a parade of impossibly tall, thin women with sculpted faces and futuristic Barbie hairdos. Like the almost human androids in the movie Blade Runner, these women seem...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 16, 2014 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
I was pondering the connection of the month of August, keeping august company and the Auguste Clown. Was the clown born in August? Did the Auguste act like a clown version of “respected and impressive?” (Oxford Dictionary). After much research, OK, a half hour on...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 13, 2014 | Body Language, The Creative Body
Put your hands on your hips. Now, cross your arms across your chest. Now extend your arms straight out in front of you with your palms up as if pushing. Repeat each of these, and hang out for a while in each position. Does your stance change? Your breathing? Did you...
by Lavinia Plonka | May 17, 2014 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Having a little fun with my head, the Feldenkrais way.
by Lavinia Plonka | May 1, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body |
I ran away for the first time in Kindergarten. Standing in line after school with all the other kids waiting for the stupid bus, I had the existential realization that life is too short to wait for a bus and decided I needed to explore the world. When the nun turned...
by Lavinia Plonka | May 1, 2014 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Enjoy this free companion audio lesson! Putting Your Head in Its Place- A free audio lesson from Lavinia Plonka’s book Walking Your Talk. More information on Walking Your Walk can be found here.
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 14, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body |
I am having lunch with an old friend. Just as he is bemoaning all the goings on of his collapsing marriage, the phone rings. His cell phone that is. “Excuse me,” he purses his lips in that embarrassed “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I left my cellphone on”...
