by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 7, 2014 | Body Language, Humor/CosmiComedy, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body |
I’m told that a treadmill affords people the possibility of movement and exercise that would not be available because of weather or other circumstances. Yet every time I see someone walking or running, getting nowhere, I experience a poignant tug, somewhere between...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 1, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
Of course I love my husband Ron. And I know he loves me. But for thirty eight years, we’ve danced around the kitchen trying to reconcile our different relationships to food. As is always the case, it’s more than just about eating. I imagine Freud and Jung sitting in...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 16, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
“Learn at first concentration without effort: Transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light.” Anonymous (From Meditations on the Tarot – The Magician) Many years ago, while performing in France, I was...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 11, 2014 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
As I sit quietly (for a change), I notice my shoulders are not symmetrical. Perhaps it’s not obvious to a casual observer, but suddenly I’m acutely aware that my left shoulder is curled slightly forward, causing my upper torso to rotate slightly to the...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 10, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body |
“The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.” (Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 1963) When you walk through the Northwest Airlines...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 27, 2014 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method® |
“It’s not flexible bodies I’m after, it’s flexible brains.” Moshe Feldenkrais Now there’s proof. All those “brain games” that allege to improve your cognitive skills don’t hold a candle to physical activity. Your friends who claim that programs and websites...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 15, 2014 | Body Language, Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Power Walk – This is a longer article that explores the power in the pelvic/sacrum area With Open Arms – The symbolism of the cross and our gesture of opening the arms A New Year, A New You – Linking Awareness Through Movement to the myth of Isis and...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 15, 2014 | Body Language, The Creative Body
A man once came to see me for Feldenkrais lessons. He had severe pain in his feet and shoulders and had been to countless specialists to no avail. I asked him to walk across the room. He walked like a stick figure, arms and legs stiffly jerking ahead, his torso, head...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 5, 2014 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
The Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris is a reminder to me that for all of human history, the notions of being torn apart and coming back together, of destruction and renewal, of endings and new beginnings are always with us. Osiris is killed by his rival Set, his body...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 22, 2013 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body |
I have fallen in love with a term used in technology: disruptive innovation. According to Wikipedia, it is defined as, “an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few...