by Lavinia Plonka | Nov 25, 2012 | The Creative Body |
Casperia, Italy offered the perfect backdrop for a week of learning and retreat. We were like time travelers dropped into a medieval village of quaint buildings and narrow cobblestone streets. No cars, church bells ringing, vistas of olive groves surrounding us. Yet a...
by Lavinia Plonka | Nov 7, 2012 | The Creative Body
People often debate whether our emotions affect our body language, or our body language affects our emotions, an therefore our health. Is it possible that both are true?
by Lavinia Plonka | Nov 4, 2012 | The Creative Body
“As you reach with your right arm could one of your legs help lengthen your arm? Which one? The right? The left? Both? Neither? Do you begin your reach with your arm? Your shoulder? Your foot?” Someone once left my class saying, “I can’t stand it. You offer too...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 21, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
I know better as I balance precariously on the log buried under the honeysuckle and rambling rose. But the really good blackberries will be just outside my reach if I remain on the lawn. I can balance, I’m a dancer. I’m a martial artist – sure footed and in touch with...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 11, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
“If music be the food of love, play on.” Shakespeare – Twelfth Night “Remember, as the dodo said Feed your head! Feed your head! Grace Slick I wake up in the morning and lie in bed, mentally surveying the contents of my refrigerator. The meal possibilities of the...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 6, 2012 | Body Language, The Creative Body
Just Google “politicians lying body language”, and you will come up with a plethora of “expert” articles that tell you open palms mean sincerity, but open palms from a politician mean he’s pretending to be sincere, but Al Gore’s open palms are real, or all politicians...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 23, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down You can’t let go and you can’t hold on You can’t go back and you can’t stand still If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will Jerry Garcia The other night, there was a power...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 27, 2012 | The Creative Body
The way you wear your hat The way you sip your tea The memory of all that No, no they can’t take that away from me George and Ira Gershwin Moshe Feldenkrais once said that you could recognize someone from 100 kilometers away (with the right binoculars :-))...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 17, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy
I was eating breakfast, looking out my window at the familiar landscape of my backyard. Something had changed. I felt like a kid, looking at Highlights Magazine, trying to find what “doesn’t fit in”, the hidden picture, the mystery image. My vista was disturbed, but...
by Lavinia Plonka | May 28, 2012 | The Creative Body
A common reaction after a Feldenkrais lesson is, “Whoa! I’m walking with a wiggle!” or “I don’t think my hips should move this much.” Or even “Uh oh. This walk is going to get me into trouble.” But what I see as that person is walking is a beautiful, elegant, smooth...
