by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 11, 2020 | Body Language, Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
I go outside and look up at the stars in the winter night, imagining that the light is coming to me from millions, even billions of years ago. I think of myself, a speck on this piece of rock hurling through space, and I imagine someone 1000 years ago, looking up,...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 21, 2020 | The Creative Body
I heard that some people don’t know what to do with all the time on their hands during this “stay home, stay safe” period. Others have begun amazing new hobbies or are running around with their hair on fire juggling work from home, homeschooling,...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 10, 2020 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
I bought what I thought would be a cool, new circular hairbrush that I could use with a blowdryer to volumize my hair (just a few decades late to the party.) After a few curls, my hairbrush got stuck. I tugged. I tried to reverse my way out of the tangle, which merely...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 29, 2020 | The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
A brilliant Feldenkrais mentor once told me that we must learn to “follow the yes,” to sense where there is resistance and look for what is willing to yield. In his less than successful comedy, The Yes Man, Jim Carrey portrays a man who makes a covenant to...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 26, 2019 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
I got in the car and reached for the key in the ignition. Except there was no key. This car, which I’ve had over three years, has a keyless remote. You simply push the bright blue button on the dash and voila! you are engaged. But my hand had decided to enact an...
by Lavinia Plonka | Nov 12, 2019 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
In the first dream, I find myself onstage in a jazz club. The other musicians are taking their places and I am frozen. I don’t belong here. I’m not a jazz musician. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be playing. I look at the only unoccupied instrument, which looks...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 8, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy, Movement and The Spirit, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Photo by Ron Morecraft of an installation by Tomas Saracéno from a work by an anonymous spider. For weeks my carport was Charlotte’s lair. The classic orb spider had spun a glorious, monumental web that sometimes verged on over-ambition, attaching silken threads...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 28, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy
We are in Gijón, Spain. Ron is carefully (because he’s always careful) hanging laundry on the rack attached to our our third floor window. There are no clothespins in our air bnb and there’s no way we know to the courtyard below. The doorbell rings. Who...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 11, 2019 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
During my tween days, when it seemed like I didn’t have a friend in the world, my mother would say to me, “It doesn’t matter whether people like you. What’s important is that they respect you.” Webster’s defines respect as “a...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 13, 2019 | Movement and The Spirit, The Creative Body |
Over the years, one of the things that consistently calls me to contemplation is the relationship of movement, energy, presence and well-being. As more and more “studies” trumpet the importance of movement ( it seems any movement is better than no movement) I find...
